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Your Next-Step Engine

Unfold It is for anyone who has goals but gets stuck on execution. Students organizing thesis projects, developers planning side projects, entrepreneurs launching startups, creators planning content, career changers mapping transitions — if you've ever felt overwhelmed or didn't know where to start, Unfold It is for you.

A Next-Step Engine is what makes Unfold It different. Instead of just listing tasks, it analyzes your goal, asks clarifying questions, researches unknowns, and tells you exactly what to do next — with confidence scores and dependency tracking. It's like having a thinking partner who always knows the next move.

Unfold It is more than an AI planner — it's a Next-Step Engine and your thinking partner. Traditional AI planners help you organize tasks you already understand. Unfold It helps you figure out what to do when you're stuck, overwhelmed, or don't know where to start. It's the difference between a calendar and a co-pilot.

Most AI planners take your tasks and schedule them. Unfold It does something different: it takes your vague, overwhelming goals and breaks them into clear, confident next steps. We don't just organize — we help you think. That's why we call it a Next-Step Engine, not a planner.

Motion and Reclaim are excellent at scheduling and time blocking — they optimize your calendar. Unfold It's Next-Step Engine does something earlier in the process: it helps you figure out what needs to be on that calendar in the first place. Use Unfold It to break down complex goals into clear steps, then use Motion/Reclaim to schedule them. We're complementary, not competing.

Absolutely. That's exactly what we built it for. When you're overwhelmed or stuck, Unfold It cuts through the brain fog by asking smart questions and breaking down complexity into clear, actionable next steps. You don't need to know where to start — just tell us what you want to achieve.

Unfold It isn't trying to replace your to-do list or calendar. Think of it as the step before your task manager — it turns "I should really do that thing" into a clear, actionable plan you can drop into any tool you already use. We're the thinking partner; your task manager is the execution tracker.

That's our specialty. Drop in something like "I want to switch careers" or "launch my podcast" — vague ideas are welcome. Unfold It's Next-Step Engine asks smart questions about your context, budget, timeline, and constraints to turn that vague idea into a concrete, step-by-step plan.

Yes! Unfold It works for any type of project — personal goals like planning a wedding or training for a marathon, professional work like launching a feature or preparing for interviews, side hustles, learning projects, and more. If it's a goal, we can help you break it down.

Unfold It's AI analyzes your goal from multiple angles, identifies dependencies you might miss, asks questions you haven't thought of, and researches unknowns you'd spend hours Googling. It's like having an expert project manager who's seen thousands of similar projects and knows all the pitfalls.

Yes! We offer a free plan so you can experience how Unfold It's Next-Step Engine works. You can break down tasks, get your next steps, and see the difference a thinking partner makes before upgrading to unlock unlimited projects and advanced features.