Visual goal planner

Map everything. Inch forward.

Big goals don’t need a heroic leap — they need a map. Inching breaks the mountain into steps, holds the whole sprawl in order, and hands you the one inch you can actually take today.

The problem

The leap is a lie.

Every big goal arrives all at once. Write the book. Launch the company. You see the whole mountain, and the whole mountain is the problem — too heavy to lift, too vague to start. So you wait: for the burst of energy, the clear week, the version of you who finally leaps.

That version isn’t coming, and motivation is weather. The problem was never that you’re not fast enough. It’s that nobody broke the mountain down. You don’t have a discipline problem. You have a map problem.

How it works

You don’t leap. You inch.

A mountain isn’t one thing — it’s ten thousand small things in an order. Two views of one plan: the map carries the weight of the whole thing, and Today hands you a short trail of steps you can actually start.

First — the map

Get the mountain out of your head

Drop every goal, step, and someday-maybe onto one canvas and draw what unlocks what. Let it sprawl — the map is built to hold a plan this big, and it carries the weight so you don’t have to.

Then — the day

Line up today, then get it done

Inching reads the map and shelves just the steps you could start now — no wall of someday. Pull a few onto today’s trail, and your job shrinks from “conquer the impossible thing” to “just do the next step.” Check one off and the trail advances — and the step it frees lands on the shelf.

The rest of the day

Not everything is a mountain.

Some things repeat, and some things just need remembering — so Today holds them beside your steps. Habits re-arm on their own schedule: stretch, ship, drink your water — one tap each, and the day’s dots fill in. Lists catch the loose stuff (“AA batteries, next Target run”) so errands never clutter the map. And a list quietly learns your rhythm — run low on coffee about every two weeks, and it offers coffee back right on time.

Rituals, errands, and the steps they sit beside — one calm Today, on the free plan too.

Your AI, on the map

Say the goal. Watch it become a map.

Inching speaks MCP, the open standard AI assistants already use — so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any agent you trust plugs straight in. Tell it the goal in one sentence; it breaks the mountain down, wires up what unlocks what, and answers with your next inch. You stay the planner. It does the typing.

Works with any MCP-compatible assistant, on the free plan too. How to connect yours

Do it together

Some mountains you don’t climb alone.

Create a team — your partner, your cofounder, your crew — and share a project with everyone at once. Put a name on any step (assign a milestone and everything under it follows), and Today hands each person their own trail. When a teammate inches, your map moves live. What you don’t share stays private.

Assignments, live updates, and a quiet hourly digest when you’re away — never a status meeting. Teams are part of Pro; everyone you invite joins free.

Why the slow way wins

The tortoise wasn’t slow. The tortoise was unstoppable.

Leaps stall and sprints burn out, but an inch taken today is still there tomorrow — it compounds. Inching keeps the next step visible by design: small enough to always be doable, ordered so momentum never breaks, mapped so nothing gets lost.

The order sorts itself

Every step knows what it unlocks, so the doable rises to the top on its own. You never rank a hundred-item list by hand again.

Still too big? Split it.

When a step won't budge, break it apart right on the map — keep going until something's small enough to finish today. Growing the map is the point, not a problem.

Nothing slips away

Every stray idea gets a home on the map instead of looping in your head at 2am. It's all still there, in order, the moment you're ready for it.

The creed

Anyone can leap once.
Inchers finish.

inchnoun
The smallest step you can actually finish today.
to inchverb
To advance a big goal by its next unlocked step. “I inched the entire launch.”
inchernoun
Someone who maps the mountain, trusts the map, and takes the step that's ready.

Pricing

Start free. Go unlimited when you’re ready.

Map your first goals for free. When you outgrow it, a few dollars a month unlocks everything — pay monthly, or save with a year up front.

Free
$0/forever

150 open inches across unlimited projects. No card required.

  • Unlimited projects — 150 open inches across them all
  • Completing an inch frees its spot, so finished work never counts
  • Both views — the map and the Today trail
  • Daily habits and quick lists, right on Today — never counted against your inches
  • Plug in any AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT & more via MCP)
  • Everything synced across your devices
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Pro
$10/month

or $100/year — 2 months free

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  • Everything in Free, with no limit on open inches
  • Teams — share a map with your whole crew and assign inches
  • Everyone you invite collaborates free on your maps
  • Early-access pricing, locked in for as long as you stay
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