Keel
AI ACCOUNTABILITY, NOT ANOTHER BLOCKLIST

Tell it your goals.
It does the rest.

Keel watches your screen the way a focused friend would. The moment you drift toward something you swore off, it quietly closes the tab, or quits the app entirely. No rule lists, no loopholes, just the boundaries you actually meant.

See how it works

For people who've tried Cold Turkey, Freedom, and sheer willpower, and want something that finally adapts.

Keel — Deep Work
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Chapter 3 — Methods
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RESPONSE STYLE
HOW IT WORKS

Three steps. Then you forget it's there.

01

Set your course

Tell Keel what you're working toward and what tends to pull you away, in plain sentences rather than rule syntax.

02

Work like normal

Keel watches your screen quietly in the background. No timers to start, no lists to babysit, no friction.

03

Drift, and it steps in

The moment you wander toward something you swore off, Keel steps in. You choose how it lands: a gentle nudge you can wave off, or a firm, tamper-proof stop.

INSIDE KEEL

Designed to disappear into your day.

ONBOARDING

Set boundaries in plain words.

No allow-lists. No regex. You describe your goal and your weak spots like you'd tell a friend, and Keel translates that intent into precise, living boundaries.

"Allow YouTube for research, kill Shorts the instant they open." It understands the nuance you actually meant.

Keel — Set up
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MONITORING · ON

What are you here to do?

Tell Keel what matters. It figures out the rest.

I'M WORKING TOWARD
Finishing my dissertation draft by Friday
WHAT PULLS ME OFF COURSE
Instagram YouTube Shorts Reddit Online betting + Add
IN MY OWN WORDS
I "research" on YouTube and fall into Shorts. Betting sites are a hard no, even on breaks.
KEEL UNDERSTANDS
Allow YouTube for search & docs
Close Shorts the moment they open
Block all betting sites instantly, no exceptions
Keel — Insights
Keel
Today
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This week

12
day focus streak
18h 40m
protected time
63
slips caught
FOCUS HOURS · MON–SUN
M
T
W
T
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S
S
MOST TEMPTING
Instagram
24
YouTube Shorts
18
Reddit
12
INSIGHTS

Watch your focus compound.

Every slip Keel catches is a slip that didn't become an hour. See your streak grow, your protected time stack up, and exactly which temptations keep knocking.

Not to shame you, but to show you the day you actually wanted.

THE DIFFERENCE

A wall you resent, or a partner that has your back.

Static blockers
Keel
Setup
Manually build & maintain blocklists
Say your goals once, in plain words
New distractions
Slip through until you add them
Caught automatically, it reads your intent
Always-on
Too rigid to live with, so you toggle it off
Safe to leave on 24/7, it adapts as you do
Bypassing it
Switch it off the second you waver
Firm mode is tamper-proof, with no technical workarounds
Feel
A wall you route around
A partner that keeps you honest
PRIVACY

It watches your screen. Here's why that's okay.

Keel only works because it pays attention. So we built it to earn that, with encryption and hard limits on what it is ever allowed to do.

Encrypted, always

Everything Keel reads is encrypted before it leaves your Mac, and used only to check it against the goals you set.

Used for one thing

Your screen is read for a single purpose: deciding whether it crosses a boundary you set. Nothing it sees trains a model or builds a profile.

On your terms

You set every boundary, see exactly what Keel acts on, and can wipe its memory whenever you want.

QUESTIONS

Good questions, straight answers.

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