Was the week
worth it?
A week is 168 hours. You'll remember six of them. ME+A is a personal chief of staff that watches the other 162 — and on Saturday, answers the question with a number it can defend.
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You already know
what you did.
Your calendar has the receipts. Every tool you own can tell you what you finished. Not one of them can tell you whether it was worth finishing.
Where the week
actually went.
You set a shape for the season — how much of you goes to career, health, the people you love. Then the week happens. ME+A measures the distance between the two across eight domains, and shows you the gap while you can still do something about it. A deterministic engine does the arithmetic. Nothing here is a vibe.
Six scores.
One balance.
Performance, Sustainability, Life ROI, Life Capital, Intentionality, Momentum — and a single running number underneath them. Not what you produced. What it was worth.
MEQ — your ME Quotient, one number on a 0–1000 scale for whether the week compounded, not how busy it was.
Weeks stack
into something.
MEQ moves the way real assets move — slowly, then unmistakably. A strong month nudges it. A strong year moves it a lot. It is deliberately hard to fake.
How MEQ works →ME + Assistant.
One assistant for the whole of your life, built one segment at a time. The scheduler is the segment that exists today — it's also the hardest one, because it's where the evidence comes from. Everything after it inherits the same engine, the same rails, and the same refusal to make a number up.
Scheduler
Plan the week, live it, get it judged. The planning loop, the nightly check-in, the scorecard, MEQ.
Channels
Nightly nudge, voice, installed on your home screen. Meeting you where the sixty seconds actually happens.
Agent studio
Things that act, not just observe — with permission and spend scaffolding built before the first agent, not after.
Signals
Wearables and passive evidence, so the numbers stop depending on what you remember to report.
“Next” and “Planned” mean not shipped. When something ships, the label comes off — that is the entire rule, and it's audited on every change to this page.
Before, and after.
Not a promise about your life. A difference in what you can see.
- You know what you finished.
- A busy week and a good week look identical.
- Dropping the plan feels like failing.
- Rest is what's left over, if anything is.
- You find out you're depleted when you're already depleted.
- Progress is a feeling you argue with on Sunday night.
- You know what it cost.
- Performance 100 and Sustainability 16 are two different facts, said out loud.
- Dropping the plan gets judged on whether it was the right call.
- Rest is an input to the score, not the absence of one.
- The depleting pattern is named while you can still change it.
- Progress is one number with its working shown.
Three moments a week.
One takes sixty seconds.
Big rocks first.
One thing that must survive each day, a cap of one-three-five — one big thing, three medium, five small — and a real when-and-where for the work that matters. An over-loaded week is flagged before you live it.
What happened. What didn't.
Tap it, or just say it. Skip anything you like — it won't assume the worst.
The week, judged.
Six scores, what the week cost, and the one thing that got away. Read it, or have it read to you.
The week gets a
quality score before
you live it.
Most planners take whatever you type. ME+A grades the plan itself: is there one thing that must survive each day? Is Tuesday carrying eleven hours of “deep” work? Did the big rock get a real when-and-where, or just a wish?
- Big rocks first. One per day that must survive contact with the week.
- One-three-five. Volume past the cap contributes nothing — a cap is a debiasing device, not a punishment.
- Commit the rock. A concrete when-and-where, because intentions that never get enacted aren't plans.
- Say it instead. Talk, paste, snap a photo of a whiteboard — it routes to the right place.
What a judged week
actually looks like.
Every screen here is the real product. Every number is real output from the scoring engine on a sample week — labelled as sample, never retouched.
Most tools grade compliance.
ME+A grades the call.
You dropped the plan to firefight a production incident. That isn't a failure to comply — it might have been the best decision you made all week. ME+A judges the deviation on its merits, item by item. When it can't judge one fairly, it says so and scores it zero rather than guess.
Sample week · real engine output · the same seven days
Sample week · the c_burnout archetype, one of eight frozen
fixtures the engine is tested against forever. Every task shipped. Nothing was
left for the person who has to ship next week too.
This is the week every other app celebrates.
You don't have four burners.
You have eight — and a season.
The four-burner story says your life runs on four burners — family, friends, health, work — and that to be successful you must switch one off, and to be really successful, two. It's a sharp piece of folk wisdom. It is not a finding, and we won't dress it up as one. ME+A keeps the useful half and refuses the fatalism.
You don't have to turn a burner off. You do have to know what turning one down costs — in a number, every week, while you can still change your mind.
Career · Growth · Health · Relationships · Finance · Fun · Purpose · Environment. Balance measures the distance between how you said this season should go and how it actually went — never against some universal average of a life.
Which means a lopsided season is not a failure. A launch season is supposed to be lopsided. Deliberately turning a burner down is a decision; forgetting you turned it down is the thing that costs you.
Health and Relationships are above zero in every season profile — not by convention, but because the configuration surface is built so that “stop measuring my wellbeing” is unrepresentable. A rail enforced by copy is a suggestion. A rail enforced by the input domain is a rail.
| Domain | Steady | Launch | Recovery |
|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 0.30 | 0.45 | 0.15 |
| Growth | 0.10 | 0.25 | 0.07 |
| Health | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.25 |
| Relationships | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.18 |
| Finance | 0.10 | 0.02 | 0.05 |
| Fun | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.15 |
| Purpose | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.10 |
| Environment | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.05 |
The real committed vectors, not an illustration. Each column sums to 1.0. Note what Recovery does: health and fun go up, deep-work volume comes down. It never just lowers every bar — that would be a season that expects less of your life, not more of your recovery. Two more profiles ship alongside these: Family-first and Fundraise.
Balance isn't a nice-to-have sitting beside the number. It's inside it.
Balance is 30% of Life Capital, and Life Capital is what feeds the ledger that MEQ is drawn from. So a week spent entirely in one domain doesn't just score badly on a chart you can ignore — it moves the one number the product asks you to care about, and it keeps moving it for as long as the pattern holds.
That's why the burnout week reads the way it does. Every task shipped, so Performance landed at 100. But the effort pointed at one burner, so Life Capital landed at 9 — and MEQ barely moved. The week was productive. Almost none of it compounded.
The eight-domain wheel is a coaching tool, and we grade it Heuristic — there is no peer-reviewed validation of the instrument itself. What is better supported is the reason breadth matters at all: that people need more than one source of competence and connection to stay well (self-determination theory; PERMA). The four-burner framing is folk wisdom and is named as such. Neither gets promoted to science because it makes a better slide.
Signature metrics,
not points.
There are no coins, no badges, no leaderboard. What there is: a number that takes four weeks of signal before it will even show itself, and a handful of moments the product treats as genuinely worth marking.
Streaks that don't punish
One missed day a week is bridged quietly. Off-days pause the run rather than break it. There is no buy-back button, because a buy-back button is shame with a price.
Locked until it's honest
Momentum needs two scored weeks. MEQ needs four. A metric that can't be computed honestly shows as locked — it is never estimated to fill a gap.
The boost we didn't take
A 1.6× first-eight-weeks multiplier would have made early progress feel great. It would also have made your number incomparable to your own later self. Declined, permanently.
Research-grounded,
honestly graded.
Every number traces to a deterministic engine — the language model narrates, it never invents a figure. Every scoring decision carries a published row: the choice, the framework, a verified citation, and a grade we don't get to inflate.
Habit consistency & streaks that don't punish
Lally, van Jaarsveld, Potts & Wardle (2010). How are habits formed. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40(6), 998–1009.
ValidatedRest as an input; the burnout read
Sonnentag & Fritz (2007). The Recovery Experience Questionnaire. J. Occupational Health Psychology, 12(3), 204–221. · Maslach & Jackson (1981), J. Occupational Behavior, 2(2), 99–113.
ValidatedLiving the plan you set
Gollwitzer (1999). Implementation intentions. American Psychologist, 54(7), 493–503.
ValidatedThe wellbeing anchor we validate against
Topp, Østergaard, Søndergaard & Bech (2015). The WHO-5 Well-Being Index: a systematic review. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 84(3), 167–176.
ValidatedThe eight life domains
Wheel of Life — a coaching tool with no peer-reviewed validation of the instrument. We say so, on the page and in the map.
HeuristicSplitting non-additive signals across individual tasks — invented precision that would quietly steer real behaviour toward an artefact of the split. And the early-progress multiplier above.
Both are recorded as declined design levers, not omissions.
ME+A does not claim clinical validation. It claims research-grounded components and an instrumented validation program that runs from the first user — WHO-5 and goal progress captured alongside the scores, so the weights answer to evidence instead of taste.
A hole we name is diligence-proof. A hole we hide is not.
How we know →The refusals are the feature.
- No leaderboards. You are never ranked against another person. Not once.
- Rest scores as a win. Recovery is an input to the number, not what's left over after it.
- Sick weeks pause. A declared off-day releases its tasks from both sides of the ratio — and the engine never reads the reason you gave.
- No shame copy. Not in the scorecard, not in a notification, not at 11pm.
- No dark patterns. No countdowns, no manufactured scarcity, no pre-checked boxes, no exit-intent trap.
- No ads, ever. Which is also why there is no tracking pixel on this page.
Where it meets you.
- The web app. Any phone browser. Mobile-first, because that's where the sixty seconds happens.
- Install it. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like an app — including check-ins that queue offline and sync when you land.
- Voice. Say it and it lands in the right place — a task, a note, a change to the plan. No chat window to manage.
- Native iOS & Android apps
- Calendar two-way sync
- Wearables and passive signals
No store links here until there are stores to link to. When something ships, the label comes off — and nothing wears the present tense before it earns it.
Beta. Here's exactly
where it stands.
- Weekly planning with Plan Quality flags
- The sixty-second nightly check-in, nudged on time
- Voice capture, routed to the right surface
- The deterministic engine — eleven signals, six composites, eight frozen archetypes
- The Saturday scorecard, and it reads itself aloud
- MEQ, milestones, seasons, off-days, journal
- Install to home screen, with offline check-in
- Published methodology pages
- Calendar two-way sync
- Fix-my-week — one tap to re-place a broken week
- Native iOS & Android apps
- Agent studio — agents that act, with permission and spend limits
- Wearables and passive signals
This list is the claims ledger's job. Every line marked as existing is re-checked before this page is allowed to change — a stale ledger fails the build.