About
We're building the tool we needed.
Spiralist started as a mindful productivity app. It's becoming something more specific and more useful: a personal execution layer for people who use AI seriously.
What Spiralist Is
Spiralist is a personal execution layer — a persistent knowledge graph that any AI can read from and write to. Tasks, projects, goals, journal entries, decisions, notes, and bookmarks, all connected and accessible via MCP (Model Context Protocol) to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any AI you use.
You spend an hour with Claude working through a strategic decision. Three days later in ChatGPT, you want that context. Today, you copy-paste or start over. Spiralist makes that unnecessary — one data layer, accessible by any AI, owned by you.
The coherence engine is what makes it different from a database. Spiralist's agent continuously evaluates the gap between your goals and your actual daily activity — and surfaces that gap when it matters, without guilt.
Where We Came From
We built MindfulProductivity Lab — a content site and app around evidence-based productivity, mindfulness tools, and research-backed protocols. We learned a lot. We built an audience of people who care about doing meaningful work, not just more work.
The pivot happened when we kept running into the same frustration ourselves: we were using 3+ AI tools daily and losing context constantly. Every session started from zero. The tools for managing that context — Notion, Obsidian, Todoist — weren't built for the AI-native workflow. So we started building what we needed.
The Lab — Still Here
The MindfulProductivity content doesn't go away. The Lab hosts our original tools (Pomodoro, box breathing, deep work timers), self-assessment quizzes, and a research library of mindfulness studies simplified into 5-minute reads.
We still believe in calmer, more intentional work. The focus just shifted from mindfulness as a standalone practice to intentional AI use as a core skill. Those ideas overlap more than they diverge.
Think With AI
Think With AI is our weekly newsletter for knowledge workers who want AI to sharpen their thinking, not replace it. One idea, one framework, one skill per week — on using AI without losing your judgment, creativity, or focus.
No tool roundups. No hype. Just grounded, practical insight from people building in this space.
How We Build
No streaks
Progress isn't a game.
No overdue guilt
The agent surfaces gaps — never shames.
No notification spam
Proactive but not anxious.
Silence is valid
A quiet day isn't a failed day.
Get in Touch
We're a small team building in public. Questions, feedback, or just want to talk about the product — reach out.
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