nelsa is now in private beta — for individuals first.
An execution companion · Private beta

The plan was never
the hard part. Doing it is.

nelsa turns the plans you make with ChatGPT, Claude, and notes apps into a quiet, living system that follows up, nudges, and keeps watch — so you actually finish.

Request access →See how it worksNo new app to learn. Paste a plan, start today.
Works with the plans you already make in —
01 — Paste to execute

Your plans aren't bad. They're just stranded in twelve different places.

Drop in the raw thing — a Claude conversation, a voice memo, a notion page, whatever. nelsa reads it like a thoughtful chief of staff and rebuilds it as something you can actually follow.

Before — what you actually have∴ everywhere
Mon 11:14 ok claude said: 30-day plan: ship landing → auth → billing → onboardingMon 11:46 "should I learn stripe first or just paddle"Tue 09:02 note to self: talk to the 3 friends who said they'd payWed meditate 10 min dailyThu 22:11 voice memo (4:12) — "if I don't get to onboarding by Friday this whole thing slips two weeks"Fri draft for the X launch post is in notion somewhereSat need to call mom · run · finish chapter 4 of the book · taxes
After — what nelsa builds● goal graph

Ship indie SaaS in 30 days

⌁ ends Jun 24

Auth + billing wired

milestone· due Fri· 2 tasks left
cron:standuppush:reminder

Talk to 3 friends who'd pay

research· this week
call:checkartifact:notes

Launch post draft

writing· day 21
carry:forwardblocker:flag
02 — The Execution Radar

A quiet portfolio view of everything you're trying to keep alive.

Most days you have ten things going at once — work, health, a side project, the book you started reading, a call you keep meaning to make. nelsa keeps the whole picture in peripheral vision so you don't have to.

Execution Radar

Tue · 9:14 am
Ship indie SaaS in 30 days 4 of 12 tasks · ends Jun 24
At risk
Run a 10k by end of summer 4 runs this week · 6.4mi avg
On track
Finish reading Designing Data-Intensive Apps ch. 6 of 12 · ~40 min/day
Fresh
Write essay on agentic UX outline only · idea from Apr
Cold
Quarterly review with team checklist 70% drafted
On track
Signal · cross-goal loadAttention

You've got four deep-work tasks stacked on Thursday across SaaS and the essay. Probably one too many.

Pattern · last 14 daysCalm

Mornings stick. Evening tasks slip 64% of the time — want to move runs to lunch?

Cold goal · 11 daysDecide

The essay on agentic UX hasn't moved. Keep watching, archive, or schedule a focus block?

03 — Your morning brief

Open your phone to two things to do — not twenty.

Every morning, the Radar boils everything down into a short brief: what to move today, what to let slip, what changed overnight. No infinite to-do list. No guilt.

  • i.

    Two tasks, not twenty

    Chosen by what's most fragile, most overdue, and most fitting for the day you're actually about to have.

  • ii.

    Permission to let things slide

    nelsa carries unfinished things forward and tells you, in writing, what it's okay to drop this week.

  • iii.

    Optional evening reflection

    A 90-second check-in. nelsa updates the Radar quietly while you sleep.

9:14
Tue, May 27 · Morning brief

Two things, if you can.

Onboarding's slipping. Let's protect one block for it.

● Steady10k goal
4-mile easy run

Move to lunch? Evenings have been hit-or-miss.

Carry forward3 items
It's okay to skip these

Essay outline · taxes folder · book ch. 7.

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04 — Snippets

Small execution primitives doing the boring follow-through.

Snippets are tiny, composable behaviors attached to your goals — schedulers, nudges, check-ins, streak guards. Mix them like ingredients. Add more as you need them.

cron:scheduler

Time-of-day reminders, tuned to you

Fires at the moment you're statistically most likely to actually do the thing — not a generic 9am ping.

// 9:42am · Tue
remind "onboarding block in 18 min"
push:nudge

Gentle, written by hand

Reminders read like a friend who's been paying attention — not a calendar alarm.

// push
"hey — the auth thing. 25 min is plenty."
call:check

Two-minute accountability call

For the goals that really matter, nelsa rings to ask one question. Optional, never pushy.

// daily 7:30pm
ask "did the onboarding block happen?"
streak:guard

Protect what's working

Once a habit catches, nelsa quietly defends it from the rest of your life — and lets you off the hook on bad days.

// run goal · day 12
streak = 4 · grace = 1
carry:forward

Undropped, not unfinished

Things you didn't get to don't shame you the next morning — they move forward with a clear reason.

// 3 items rolled to wed
reason = "deep work day"
blocker:flag

Name the thing in the way

When a task stalls twice, nelsa pauses it and asks what's actually blocking — instead of nagging.

// flagged twice
blocker? waiting on stripe approval
05 — Built for

For people running their whole life from a planning doc.

nelsa launches first for individuals — the solo engineers, students, indie hackers, and career switchers who plan in AI and tape it all together by hand.

Indie hackers & solo engineers

You ship alone, but you're tired of holding it all in your head.

You've got a side project, a day job, a portfolio site to rebuild, three half-written essays. nelsa is the manager you never wanted to hire.

  • Drop a Claude or ChatGPT plan, get an executable goal graph
  • Carry-forward + streak guards so a bad week doesn't tank a quarter
  • One-tap "request access" to research agents when you need them
Students & career switchers

A study plan that bends when life does, instead of breaking.

Internship apps, a 30-day system design plan, the new language you want to actually finish. nelsa keeps it all on the Radar — and tells you what to drop, not just what to do.

  • Cohort-friendly sprints — 14-day LLD, 30-day ship, 60-day interview prep
  • Daily brief in the morning, optional 90-second reflection at night
  • Honest weekly digest: what's working, what's been pretending to work
"
I'd been making the same 30-day plan, in the same way, for six months. nelsa was the first thing that actually noticed when I stopped.
— Anika R., founding engineer · private beta
Private beta · Individuals first

You don't have to hold it all in your head anymore.

Request access to nelsa. We're letting in a small group each week — solo builders, students, and anyone tired of being their own project manager.

Free during betaWeb + iOSWorks with ChatGPT, Claude, Notion, voice memos