What Mai is.

Mai is a workflow productivity tool that runs quietly in the background on your desktop. Mai learns how you work. It tracks your workflow patterns locally on your device. Nothing leaves your machine. When you lose your train of thought, one keystroke or one click shows you exactly what you were doing, where you are now, and what comes next. Then it disappears until you need review your critical path again.

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A digital project management or progress tracking screen showing different stages: Historical, Present, Next Up. The Historical section mentions building the Spring 2026 Mega Thread and researching a role at n8n Labs. The Present section details actively reviewing a job listing for the same role. The Next Up section includes tasks like finishing research on the role, returning to a previous thread, and reviewing a LinkedIn profile of Charles MacMillan.
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What Mai Does

Most tools are designed to keep you on the screen as long as possible. Mai is designed to get you off your screens faster.

Mai reconstructs your work context on demand. You spend less time reorienting and more time actually working.

H/P/F designed framework: Historical, Present, Future

A program designed to answer the common and relatable question of: “What was I just doing?”

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Why Mai Exists

You handed social media your attention. You handed search engines your behavior. You handed your phone your location, your habits, and your daily routine. Most of that for free.

If you are not paying for the software, you are the product.

Mai costs $4.42 a month. That is the price of not being the product. Your data stays on your machine. Mai puts your data to work for you, not the other way around.

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Who Built Mai?

charles macmillan is a systems engineer from Montana. He got tired of losing his train of thought. He got fed up with software that interrupts that was never designed to respect an individuals attention and focus. So he built something different.

Mai is designed to protect and respect our most valuable asset. An asset we all posses that other software treats like a commodity, our ATTENTION

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