Your team's
working memory,
externalized.
A planning system that captures where you left off, what's next, and how your time is spent — without asking you to remember any of it. Built for the way real people actually work.
The problem with picking up where you left off
You had six things in progress on Tuesday. A client called, you switched contexts, and by Wednesday morning you couldn't remember which spreadsheet you were editing or why. You spent twenty minutes re-reading your own notes before you could start working again.
Traditional task managers assume you'll update them. Time trackers assume you'll start and stop timers. Project management tools assume your work fits neatly into one platform. None of them were designed for people who move fast, juggle clients, and lose the thread when the phone rings.
Cognitive Scaffolding is different. It watches the natural transitions in your workday — opening a file, switching tasks, closing a document — and quietly builds a map of where you've been and where you're going. When you sit down in the morning, the Planner shows you exactly what you need to know to start working in seconds, not minutes.
What the Planner does
The Planner is your daily launch pad. Open it in the morning, and every active task shows you a memory jogger, a next action, and how long it's been since you touched it. No searching. No guessing. Just start.
Where I Left Off
Each task stores a living "working memory" document. The Planner extracts the most recent context and next steps, so you never waste time reconstructing what you were doing.
Time Intelligence
No start/stop buttons. No timesheets. The system captures timestamps at natural transition points — when you choose a task, switch projects, or close a file. Time data accumulates invisibly.
Nothing Falls Through the Cracks
Tasks that haven't been touched turn from green to gold to red. You see at a glance which projects need attention, which are warm, and which have gone cold.
ADHD-Aware Transitions
When you switch tasks, the previous task auto-pauses. When you close a document, the system asks one simple question: done, switching, or still working? Three clicks, no cognitive overhead.
See Where Your Time Goes
Aggregate time data by client, by project, by week. Understand your work portfolio without ever filling out a timesheet. Export for billing, reporting, or personal insight.
Claude Knows the Context
Every task generates a structured card that gives Claude instant context. When you start a new AI session, Claude already knows the project, the history, and the next steps.
How a typical morning works
From opening the Planner to deep work in under sixty seconds.
Open the Planner
One click from your taskbar. You see every active task, sorted by how recently you touched it. Client names, status badges, and time-since-last-active are visible at a glance.
Review a task
Click any task to see its memory jogger: where you left off, what's next, how much time you've invested, and the files in the task folder. A review timer runs quietly in the background.
Start working
Hit "Start Work" and the system knows you're active on that task. Open your files, start your Claude session, edit your spreadsheet. The work timer runs. You don't think about it.
Get interrupted
The phone rings. A Slack message pulls you to a different project. You open the Planner, pick the new task, and the old one auto-pauses. When you come back, everything is exactly where you left it.
End the day
Close the Planner. All timers stop. Tomorrow, open it again and the cycle continues. Over time, your work investment data builds a picture of how you spend your professional energy.
"The best productivity system is the one you don't have to remember to use."
Built for real workflows
Cognitive Scaffolding works for individuals managing their own chaos, and for employers optimizing team performance with AI.
Consultants and Freelancers
You juggle five clients and twelve active projects. You need to know what you were doing for each client last time, and how much time you've invested this month. The Planner gives you that without any data entry.
Small Teams with ADHD Challenges
Not everyone on your team works the same way. Cognitive Scaffolding meets each person where they are — providing external structure that compensates for executive function differences, not another tool to feel guilty about not updating.
Organizations with Claude Seats
Each employee gets a Claude subscription and a Cognitive Scaffolding instance. You get aggregate work investment data, stale task visibility, and AI-optimized performance insights — without micromanaging how anyone spends their minutes.
Service Businesses
Your employees work across multiple service lines and clients. The system automatically tracks time allocation by client and project type, giving you portfolio-level visibility into how your team's capacity is deployed.
The distillery behind the Planner
Cognitive Scaffolding uses a distillery metaphor to describe the lifecycle of work. The Planner sits at the fermentation stage — where active work lives — and gives you visibility into everything that's brewing.
Raw Intake
Files, ideas, and loose threads land in a zero-friction inbox. Nothing is organized yet. The triage tool scans for duplicates and routes content to the right task.
Active Work
Tasks live here while they're in progress. The Planner watches this stage, tracking what's active, what's warming, and what's gone stale. This is where you spend your day.
Complete and Versioned
Finished work gets "barreled" — pushed to its destination repository, versioned and canonical. The Planner marks the task complete and captures final time investment.
Graceful Cleanup
Outdated files and abandoned tasks are flagged for review before deletion. Nothing disappears without your approval. The system respects the anxiety of letting go.
Get early access
Cognitive Scaffolding is in active development. Leave your email and we'll notify you when the Planner is ready for beta testing.
Your team's
working memory,
externalized.
A planning system that captures where you left off, what's next, and how your time is spent — without asking you to remember any of it. Built for the way real people actually work.
The problem with picking up where you left off
You had six things in progress on Tuesday. A client called, you switched contexts, and by Wednesday morning you couldn't remember which spreadsheet you were editing or why. You spent twenty minutes re-reading your own notes before you could start working again.
Traditional task managers assume you'll update them. Time trackers assume you'll start and stop timers. Project management tools assume your work fits neatly into one platform. None of them were designed for people who move fast, juggle clients, and lose the thread when the phone rings.
Cognitive Scaffolding is different. It watches the natural transitions in your workday — opening a file, switching tasks, closing a document — and quietly builds a map of where you've been and where you're going. When you sit down in the morning, the Planner shows you exactly what you need to know to start working in seconds, not minutes.
What the Planner does
The Planner is your daily launch pad. Open it in the morning, and every active task shows you a memory jogger, a next action, and how long it's been since you touched it. No searching. No guessing. Just start.
Where I Left Off
Each task stores a living "working memory" document. The Planner extracts the most recent context and next steps, so you never waste time reconstructing what you were doing.
Time Intelligence
No start/stop buttons. No timesheets. The system captures timestamps at natural transition points — when you choose a task, switch projects, or close a file. Time data accumulates invisibly.
Nothing Falls Through the Cracks
Tasks that haven't been touched turn from green to gold to red. You see at a glance which projects need attention, which are warm, and which have gone cold.
ADHD-Aware Transitions
When you switch tasks, the previous task auto-pauses. When you close a document, the system asks one simple question: done, switching, or still working? Three clicks, no cognitive overhead.
See Where Your Time Goes
Aggregate time data by client, by project, by week. Understand your work portfolio without ever filling out a timesheet. Export for billing, reporting, or personal insight.
Claude Knows the Context
Every task generates a structured card that gives Claude instant context. When you start a new AI session, Claude already knows the project, the history, and the next steps.
How a typical morning works
From opening the Planner to deep work in under sixty seconds.
Open the Planner
One click from your taskbar. You see every active task, sorted by how recently you touched it. Client names, status badges, and time-since-last-active are visible at a glance.
Review a task
Click any task to see its memory jogger: where you left off, what's next, how much time you've invested, and the files in the task folder. A review timer runs quietly in the background.
Start working
Hit "Start Work" and the system knows you're active on that task. Open your files, start your Claude session, edit your spreadsheet. The work timer runs. You don't think about it.
Get interrupted
The phone rings. A Slack message pulls you to a different project. You open the Planner, pick the new task, and the old one auto-pauses. When you come back, everything is exactly where you left it.
End the day
Close the Planner. All timers stop. Tomorrow, open it again and the cycle continues. Over time, your work investment data builds a picture of how you spend your professional energy.
"The best productivity system is the one you don't have to remember to use."
Built for real workflows
Cognitive Scaffolding works for individuals managing their own chaos, and for employers optimizing team performance with AI.
Consultants and Freelancers
You juggle five clients and twelve active projects. You need to know what you were doing for each client last time, and how much time you've invested this month. The Planner gives you that without any data entry.
Small Teams with ADHD Challenges
Not everyone on your team works the same way. Cognitive Scaffolding meets each person where they are — providing external structure that compensates for executive function differences, not another tool to feel guilty about not updating.
Organizations with Claude Seats
Each employee gets a Claude subscription and a Cognitive Scaffolding instance. You get aggregate work investment data, stale task visibility, and AI-optimized performance insights — without micromanaging how anyone spends their minutes.
Service Businesses
Your employees work across multiple service lines and clients. The system automatically tracks time allocation by client and project type, giving you portfolio-level visibility into how your team's capacity is deployed.
The distillery behind the Planner
Cognitive Scaffolding uses a distillery metaphor to describe the lifecycle of work. The Planner sits at the fermentation stage — where active work lives — and gives you visibility into everything that's brewing.
Raw Intake
Files, ideas, and loose threads land in a zero-friction inbox. Nothing is organized yet. The triage tool scans for duplicates and routes content to the right task.
Active Work
Tasks live here while they're in progress. The Planner watches this stage, tracking what's active, what's warming, and what's gone stale. This is where you spend your day.
Complete and Versioned
Finished work gets "barreled" — pushed to its destination repository, versioned and canonical. The Planner marks the task complete and captures final time investment.
Graceful Cleanup
Outdated files and abandoned tasks are flagged for review before deletion. Nothing disappears without your approval. The system respects the anxiety of letting go.
Get early access
Cognitive Scaffolding is in active development. Leave your email and we'll notify you when the Planner is ready for beta testing.