Kael
Kael is a focus management app for iOS and macOS that intercepts users before they open distracting apps, prompting them to type why they need access. Claude AI evaluates the reason against the user's calendar, deadlines, and goals, granting time-limited access for approved requests or requiring a 20-word reflection for denied ones. The app automatically adjusts its strictness across four modes—Night, Ease, Balanced, and Focus—based on time, location, and schedule.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Applications
- Enterprise Software
- AI Agents
- Software Only
Funding
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Product
Problem
Knowledge workers and students lose hours each day to reflexive social media and app use, often reaching for their phones automatically without conscious intent. Existing blocking tools create hard walls that are easy to bypass or feel punitive, while usage-tracking apps only foster guilt without actually changing behavior. This constant distraction undermines deep work, study sessions, and productivity across both personal and professional settings.
Solution
Kael inserts a moment of friction between the impulse to open an app and the action itself, asking users to articulate why they need access. When a user reaches for a distracting app, Kael prompts them to type their reason, which is then evaluated by Claude AI against their schedule, deadlines, goals, and current focus mode. The AI returns a contextual yes or no — approved requests receive time-limited access, while denied requests require a 20-word reflection. Kael operates across iOS and macOS through Apple's Screen Time API, adapting its strictness automatically based on calendar events, location, and time of day. The system uses four modes — Night, Ease, Balanced, and Focus — that switch automatically, with Claude's judgment calibrated to each mode's strictness level.
Target Audience
Primary users are students, knowledge workers, and remote professionals who need to reclaim attention from reflexive phone use, along with companies and schools seeking to improve team and classroom focus through policy-based deployment.
Features
- Pre-scroll interception on iOS and macOS that prompts users to state why they need app access before launch
- Claude AI-driven judgment that weighs user reasoning against calendar data, deadlines, and goals
- Four automatic modes
- Night, Ease, Balanced, and Focus
- that adjust AI strictness based on time, schedule, and context
- Time-boxed access grants for approved requests and 20-word reflection prompts for denied ones
- Dashboard showing daily intercepts, blocked apps, and approval history in a single focus overview
- Calendar integration (Google or Apple) that triggers Focus mode automatically during scheduled deep-work blocks
- Location-aware policies distinguishing office, remote, and on-the-road behavior
- Business features include co-focus rooms for synchronized deep-work sessions, anonymized productivity reports, and SSO/SCIM provisioning via Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, or JumpCloud