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Infrastructure for Developer Cognition

The first operating system that models your mental workload. Track cognitive load, eliminate context-switch overhead, and protect your deep work.

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Cognitive Load

Flow State

Focus Time

2h 14m

Switches

Load Trend (24h)

Active Tasks

Fix auth token refreshLow

Review PR #142Med

Implement caching layerHigh

The Problem

Developer attention is under attack

Modern engineering workflows are optimized for output, not for the human brain. The result: chronic context fragmentation.

Context Switching

23 minaverage recovery time per switch

Developers switch between repos, PRs, issues, and meetings constantly. Each switch costs 10-25 minutes of mental reload. No tool measures or reduces this cost.

Cognitive Overload

5-15active issues juggled simultaneously

Multiple code reviews, feature work, and production fixes create mental fragmentation. There is no brain RAM meter, no overload warning system.

Invisible Costs

40%of productive time lost to friction

Existing tools optimize task completion and velocity. They ignore mental clarity, focus endurance, attention decay, and cognitive recovery time.

How It Works

Three steps to protected focus

Step 01

Connect your GitHub

One-click OAuth integration syncs your repositories, issues, pull requests, and commits. Your data stays local and private.

Step 02

Track cognitive load

Our engine analyzes task complexity, context switches, review burden, and fatigue to generate a real-time Cognitive Load Score.

Step 03

AI optimizes your flow

Specialized agents generate context briefings, suggest optimal task order, guard against costly interruptions, and protect deep work.

Features

Mental bandwidth infrastructure

Not another task manager. A complete cognitive operating system that understands, protects, and optimizes how you think.

Cognitive Load Score

A live 0-100 metric that fuses task complexity, context switches, review burden, and fatigue into a single number — your brain's RAM meter.

Context Memory Engine

AI-generated briefings when you return to a task. No more manually reloading PRs, comments, and code changes after time away.

Focus Timer & Tracking

Built-in focus sessions with interruption detection. Track deep work streaks and build a heatmap of your productive hours.

Interrupt Guard

When a new task arrives mid-focus, the system calculates the exact context-switch cost and recommends: accept, defer, or delegate.

Smart Task Sequencing

AI-powered planning agent suggests optimal task order based on complexity, deadlines, your energy state, and time of day.

Cognitive Analytics

Trends, heatmaps, and pattern recognition across days and weeks. Identify your peak hours and chronic overload patterns.

Backed by Research · Real-Time Tracking

Live developer tracking. Real data. Real results.

We track cognitive load patterns across active GitHub developers in real-time — from framework creators to systems programmers — using 7 research-grade formulas. Data refreshes automatically every 6 hours.

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Developers Tracked Live

Real-time GitHub activity, auto-refreshed every 6 hours

Research Formulas

CLI, adaptive weights, anomaly detection, burnout risk

23.25min

Avg Refocus Time

Cost per context switch (Mark et al., 2008)

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Avg Time Savings

— productivity gain per developer with Cognitive OS

Open Research Tracker Research Data

Pricing

Invest in your attention

Save 3-5 hours per week of cognitive recovery time. The tool pays for itself instantly.

Free

For solo developers getting started

$0/forever

GitHub sync (3 repos)
Basic cognitive load score
Focus timer
7-day analytics
Community support

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Pro

Full cognitive analytics & AI memory

$15/per month

Unlimited GitHub repos
Advanced cognitive scoring
AI context briefings
Interrupt guard agent
Smart task sequencing
30-day analytics & heatmaps
Priority support

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Team

Organizational cognitive observability

$35/per seat / month

Everything in Pro
Team cognitive heatmaps
Bottleneck prediction
Burnout risk alerts
Manager dashboard
API access
Dedicated support

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Platform Guide

Every screen, explained

Six purpose-built dashboards that work together to model, protect, and optimize your cognitive bandwidth.

Dashboard

Your cognitive command center

A real-time overview of your mental workload. The Cognitive Load Score (0-100) fuses task complexity, context switches, PR reviews, urgency, fatigue, and staleness into one number that tells you exactly where you stand.

Key Metrics

Cognitive Load Score

48h Load Trend

Context Switches

Focus Minutes

What You Get

Score breakdown by six cognitive dimensions

Active GitHub tasks sorted by complexity

Built-in focus timer with session tracking

AI Agent Insights from Focus, Planning, and Interrupt Guard agents

Cognitive Load Score48h Load TrendContext SwitchesFocus Minutes

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