join the list october 23 pre-order get an Andy

support

send a screenshot. it’s the fastest way.

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andrew@factoreight.net

Add a line on what you expected to see.

how to cancel

In your Apple account’s subscriptions (Settings, your name, Subscriptions; in the app: preferences, your plan). Cancelling stops the next renewal, and you keep Andy until the period you paid for ends. Deleting your Andy account doesn’t cancel it.

questions

What does Andy read?

The deadlines you already keep, in Apple Calendar and Reminders, and Notion and Obsidian when they openNotion when it opens. She also reads what you hand her: a screenshot, a PDF or a link.

What does Andy cost?

Andy is one plan: US$12.99 a month, or US$99.99 a year (US$79.99 a year until November 30, kept for as long as you stay), with seven days free to start, if you haven’t had them before. It is all of her: the countdown, the start line, today and the week, widgets, the Apple Watch app, her note, her sizing and putting things in your worlds. Without a plan running, the app opens on the plan, and nothing of yours is deleted.

What does she do for me?

She counts down to your next deadline and says when its work has to start. She writes a short note about your day, each morning and again when your list changes. She sizes the work, which is how long it will take. And she reads what you hand her (a screenshot, a PDF or a link) and turns it into deadlines.

Does Andy use AI?

Her note, her sizing, which world a thing goes in and her read of what you hand herHer note, her sizing and which world a thing goes in are done with AI: she asks once, right after your plan starts, and you can turn her off in preferences. Saying not now, or turning her off, keeps the rest of Andy. It runs on Anthropic’s Claude, reached from Andy’s server at Netlify. It is sent the titles and times of the things on your list and of today’s and tomorrow’s calendar, as they are, anything that reads as health or a payment included, how long each thing takes, your worlds’ names and which one each thing is in, and for up to forty more things with no world yet the title alone, never a note, a detail, a place, mail or a page’s text; a link, an email address or a phone number in a title goes only as “a link”, “an address” or “a number”. What she writes shows on your phone and iPad only; the world she picks for a thing is a label on it wherever it shows. When nothing says when a deadline closes, she can look it up on the web from its title and set the time she finds, marked not confirmed, on every device (for now on Factor Eight’s own account only). The privacy page has the rest.

Does she work without an iPhone Duo?

Yes. She works on any iPhone. On iPhone Duo she follows the hinge: closed, open like a book, half open on a table, and closed again in the evening.

Who makes Andy?

Andrew Bennett, under Factor Eight, a one-person studio in Canada.

How do I cancel?

In your Apple account’s subscriptions (Settings, your name, Subscriptions; in the app: preferences, your plan). Cancelling stops the next renewal, and you keep Andy until the period you paid for ends. Deleting your Andy account doesn’t cancel it.

Where is my data kept?

On Andy’s server at Netlify, with its backups, and in Andy’s own list in your Reminders. Once you say yes to her AI, what she is sent also goes to Anthropic. The app can hand you a copy of everything, or delete it all from Andy’s server, from preferences; Andy’s list stays in your Reminders until you delete it there. The privacy page says what is kept and for how long.