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For studio and office managers · Out October 10

Never carry a client promise in your head again.

Octopus is a Mac app for the person who runs a small studio's office. It's built to remember what everyone promised, so you don't have to.

Sign-ups for drop day closed on Sunday 4 October, 12:00 pm PDT.

Drops Saturday 10 October, 10:00 am PDT.

The waitlist

Join, and get two things

  1. Right now

    The Nothing-Slips Checklist

    One printable page: a 5-minute end-of-day sweep to catch promises before they slip. Use it today, no app needed.

  2. October 10

    The test build

    Everyone who signs up by October 4 gets the test build on October 10. Mac with Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later.

Do you use a Mac every day?
So I know whether you’re near enough for an in-person setup.

The checklist opens on the next page.

Out October 10. Sign up by October 4. Free on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan.

Your email is used for your place in line and your setup, and nothing else. It is never sold or shared.

What it does

  • One list. It reads what you and your clients promise in Mail, Slack, Messages and your notes, and keeps one list of what you owe people and what's coming.
  • The dates on your calendar. Each one goes on as a hold that invites nobody.
  • Later: follow-ups ready each morning. Overnight it prepares them. Before one goes out, it tells you what it will send and when, with a Stop button. It's in testing from mid-November, with offices already using the list.

The honest part

  • Out Saturday, October 10. Everyone who signs up by Sunday, October 4 gets it on the 10th. It's free on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan. Installs on your Mac in about 15 minutes.
  • It will catch a lot, not everything. When it misses something, tell me and I'll fix it.
  • Octopus runs on the AI you already pay for. It needs Claude Code or Codex on your Mac.
  • It does the work, and tells you first. Before it sends, pays or deletes anything, or invites anyone, it says what and when, with a Stop button. If you do nothing, it goes ahead. If a date, amount or other number isn't in your own messages, or a value isn't on your screen, it asks instead of guessing. Want to approve every step? Turn that on.
  • It needs a Mac. One you use every day. It doesn't run on Windows or on a phone.
  • It reads your screen. To find promises it reads the text of what you're working on, and sends short pieces to an AI model online to make sense of them.
Octopus: never carry a client promise in your head again