An AI task manager where tasks are said, not typed.An AI task manager where tasks are said, not typed.

A task is born at an inconvenient moment: at the end of a call, on a job site, in a hallway. Opening an app, choosing a project, typing a title and picking a date takes long enough that most people decide to do it later. Later is when the task is lost.

Speaking removes those steps. “Send the Carters their quote by Friday” takes about three seconds to say, and it already contains everything a task needs: the action, the client and the deadline.

It also changes when you capture. You no longer wait until you are back at a desk; the task goes in while the other person's words are still in your ears, so the wording is precise instead of “follow up with client”.

The assistant listens for structure in ordinary speech. From “on Monday I need to chase Reed about the deposit and order the parts for the Greens” it prepares two tasks, both due Monday, one on each client. If you have not said when, it asks. If a name matches two clients, it asks which one.

Then it reads the tasks back. You confirm, fix a detail or cancel. Only confirmed tasks are saved, so the list contains what you meant, not what a system guessed.

A task list is useful only if you look at it, and looking is another thing people skip. With Hey Alix you ask. “What is overdue?” “What is due this week?” “What do I still owe the Carters?” The assistant reads the answer out.

The same tasks are in the panel as a list you can read, edit and tick off by hand. Voice and screen show the same data.

Asking by client is the part a plain list cannot do. Before you call Tom Reed, ask what is open for him, and you go into the call knowing about the deposit, the parts and the date you promised.

This is a task manager for one person's work. It does not assign tasks to other people, share lists with a team or draw project timelines and boards. If you manage a ten-person project with dependencies, you need project software.

It also does not create tasks from your email, because it does not read email. Tasks come from what you say or type to the assistant.

Today you set tasks with due dates by voice in the browser, on phone and computer, in English and Polish, and you ask for them whenever you like. Changes are logged and can be undone.

The assistant does not yet alert you on its own when a task comes due — you ask, it answers. Reminders that speak first are planned, along with apps for iOS and Android. Hey Alix is in early access with a waitlist.