Companheiro

Everything you’ve made is trying to say one thing.

It is there in your notes, your drafts and every half-finished thing. Companheiro is where you hear it, hold it, and build from it.

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30 days free. No card needed.

Things you’ve already made

Draft

My mother kept the good plates for guests who never came.

Lyric

Every house I’ve lived in had a room I never used.

Voice memo

“something about waiting until I’m ready”

Photo

Empty café chairs, before opening.

Four separate ideas. One vision.

The line you keep coming back to. The image you can’t put down. You call them scattered ideas. Often, they are one vision.

Idea

Always somewhere to begin.

No more waiting for the muse. Name what you care about, and you leave with a question worth making something from.

Theme

Your question

The question is waiting.

Conceptualise

Turn a rough idea into a clear one.

You know there is something there, but not yet what it is. A few honest questions later, you can say it out loud.

1 · First Contact
Creativity & devotion

What have you been practising in private, waiting for someone to say you’re allowed to call it your life’s work?

Your answer

But for three years I’ve kept a notebook of things I wish someone had told me: how to sit with a bad day without calling it a bad life, how to apologise properly, what to do when the people you love are wrong about you. I mostly write in it after the hard days. I’ve never shown anyone, because it feels arrogant to write advice for someone who doesn’t exist, from someone still getting most of it wrong. But my father never said any of this to me, and I learned it late, and the hard way. If I’m not around on the day they need it, I want them to be able to open it at any page and hear my voice telling them they’re going to be alright.

What it will never do.

Four things other tools are built to do, and this one is built to refuse.

Generate the work for you

It can ask and suggest. Every sentence you keep is one you chose.

Tell you whether it’s good

It helps you see what you meant. Whether it’s good is for your eyes alone to judge.

Keep score

No likes, no views, no streaks. Nothing here measures how the work performed.

Speak for you

It talks only to you. It never posts or sends anything in your name.

Project Board

See the whole vision in one place.

What the project is for, every piece of it, and what has to run through all of them, on one canvas. Months in, you can still see the whole of it at a glance.

Atlas Ceramics · launch film

On Direction

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Vision

Atlas Ceramics · launch film

Sixty seconds on hands, heat and patience.

Keeps: natural light. Refuses: a voiceover, stock music.

For the client

Treatment

Film

Shot list

Photo series

Stills for the site

don’t forget: due 3 March
goal: convey patience

Kiln at 6am. The light to match.

Voice note after the recording

1:12

Task list

Before the shoot

An essay, a song, a photo series, a film: it holds whatever you make.

Carry several projects without losing sight of any of them.

Your images and recordings stay yours. It only reads what you write about them.

VisionDirection

When the plan changes, see everything it touches.

A deadline moves, a client changes their mind. You ask once, and the answer has read every piece, rule and thread you wrote, and checked the facts outside them.

The Six O’Clock Ferry · Documentary

You ask

The festival wants the film three weeks sooner. What does that put at risk?

The whole canvas

Checking the festival’s rules
Vision3 rulesOpeningThe boothThe council voteLast morningTrailer2 threads

Talking a project through

You

The archive lent me the 1987 footage on one condition. Festivals only, never online.

Say a rule once. It keeps it for you.

A year in, you will not remember every promise you made at the start. It does, and it asks before you break one.

Who it’s for.

Six kinds of makers. Pick the one closest to you.

Direction

One-person studios

You are the whole studio: client projects, your own work, and one head to hold all of it.

What changes for you

  • Every client project where you can take it in at a glance.
  • You see what connects the pieces before anyone has to point it out.
  • A constraint agreed in week one is still there in month three.

It never posts, sends or speaks to a client in your name.

Direction, €29 a month. As many projects in progress as you carry, each on its own canvas.

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Two ways to hold a vision.

Focus for two projects in words. Direction for many, in any medium. Move between them whenever you like.

Focus

For one or two visions at a time, in words.

€9a month

Or yearly, with two months free

  • Two active projects at a time
  • One project holds as many pieces as it needs
  • Unlimited personal check-ins
  • Define and conceptualise new ideas
  • Find and hold your vision
  • Access to the writing suite, with questions when you are stuck
  • A task list on your canvas
  • Bring in another by resting one for 14 days
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or try everything free for 30 days

Direction

Many visions

For many visions at once, in any medium.

€29a month

Or yearly, with two months free

  • Everything in Focus
  • Have access to unlimited active projects
  • The full canvas: threads that run across your pieces
  • Images and recordings beside your words
  • Talk the whole vision through, from its canvas
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or try everything free for 30 days

Plans renew automatically until you cancel. Fair-use limits apply. See the Terms and refund policy.

30 days free

No card needed to start, and everything in Direction to try.

Cancel whenever

From Settings, in a moment. A full refund if you cancel within 14 days of your first payment.

Your work stays yours

If you stop paying, everything you made stays readable and exportable.

Start with what you already have.

Bring one note, one draft, one brief, one thing you keep circling. The vision is usually already in there.

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30 days free. No card needed.