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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Pricing
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.
150 open inches across unlimited projects. No card required.
or $100/year — 2 months free
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