What Matters Powered by Claude

One quiet list of what actually needs you.

What you owe, what you're owed, and what's worth knowing — kept in one place, and kept up by Claude or ChatGPT overnight. Every suggestion comes with a reason, and nothing lands without your approval.

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Our Claude

Powered by Claude

  • The intelligence is built in — no key, no setup.
  • Claude reads your list and tells you what you'd miss.
  • It sees the patterns you don't: what keeps slipping, who never replies.

Your Claude

Works with your Claude

  • Connect your own Claude over MCP — one token, any client.
  • It turns the sources it already reads into proposed items.
  • Every proposal waits for your yes. You are the final voice.

Everything in one quiet place

What you owe, what you're owed, what's worth knowing

Anything dated today rises to the top on its own. Priority shows only when something deviates from normal, so the urgent rows are the ones you see.

the thread

Email Marisol Vance today
Teams Tomás Beaulieu today
Meeting Priya Sundaram Added by your AI agent

Made for

Built around how the work actually arrives

A built-in intelligence assistant

Every morning a real model (powered by Claude) reads your open list and tells you what you would miss by skimming it: what genuinely cannot wait, who has gone quiet on something they owe you, and what has quietly stopped mattering. Each finding comes with a sentence saying why, and one tap to act on it — nothing changes on its own.

People drowning in email and Teams

Every item remembers where it came from — an email, a Teams thread, a meeting — and whose move is next. What you owe sits under Action; what others owe you sits under Waiting, so a promise made to you is never lost just because someone else is late.

Claude and ChatGPT users

Connect your assistant over MCP and it reads and maintains the same list you do. Overnight it proposes additions and completions, each with a reason — and nothing lands until you approve it. Turn the same thing down three times and it proposes a rule, enforced on the server from then on.

Anyone you share the work with

Hand a task to someone you are connected to and it waits on their review screen until they accept — the same review your AI proposals land on, so nothing reaches anybody’s list without them saying yes. Yours moves to Waiting while they have it, and comes back when they say it is done, for you to agree. They never see your list — only the one thing you sent.

Every screen you use

The web app works everywhere, a native Mac app lives in your menu bar, and an iPhone and iPad app is on its way. One account, one list, no syncing to think about.

Questions, answered

What is What Matters?

A tracker for action items — the things that actually need you. Three sections keep it honest: Action for what you owe, Waiting for what others owe you, and Notes for what is worth knowing but needs no action. Anything due today or earlier rises to the top on its own.

How does the AI keep my list?

You mint a connection on the Connections page and hand it to Claude or ChatGPT. From then on your assistant can read the list and propose changes — every suggestion arrives with a reason, and you accept or reject each one. Nothing is ever written without your approval.

Which AI assistants work with it?

Anything that speaks MCP, the Model Context Protocol — Claude and ChatGPT both do. The same protocol powers the overnight review: your assistant reads your mail, chat and calendar where you have connected them, and proposes what belongs on the list.

How is it different from a to-do list app?

A to-do list or task manager holds what you type into it. What Matters also tracks tasks you did not type: your AI proposes them from your mail, chat and meetings, tells you why, and learns from every rejection. And it splits the list by whose move it is — your tasks, and the ones you are waiting on.

What does it cost?

It is free to start — sign in with Google or Apple and the account is yours, no card asked. A Pro subscription raises the limits for heavier AI use.

Where does my data live?

In your own account, behind your Google or Apple sign-in. AI connections are scoped tokens you create and revoke yourself — each one sees only your list, and cutting it off is one click.

Is there a phone app?

An iPhone and iPad app is in the works — coming soon. Until then the web app is built to be used from a phone, and the list is the same one everywhere.

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