Anticipating
Noticing the passport expires in six weeks, before it becomes a scramble at the post office.
Life admin
Running a life is real work. It never lands on a calendar.
A passport needs renewing. A class thread has forty replies. A refund has not arrived. Nobody assigned you any of it, and it still has to get done. Beemy covers this half of your day as well as the inbox.
On this page
What it is
Life admin has a shape. Here is what is in it.
A 2019 study of 70 people across 35 couples gave this work a name: “cognitive labor”. Most people have felt it and had no word for it. It has three parts. None of them looks like "doing a chore."
Deciding
Comparing dentists, weighing one insurance policy against another, choosing which school to visit.
Monitoring
Checking whether the refund landed, whether the form went through and whether anyone replied.
Almost none of it arrives as a chore on a list. It arrives as a message: a renewal notice, an appointment confirmation, a school thread, a bill or a refund email. You must remember to check on each one. The full citation and caveats are at The Numbers.
The honest part
The number we do not give you.
A UK government time-use survey put unpaid work at 3h 37m (women) vs 2h 43m (men) a day. That covers housework, caring for others and volunteering. It was a one-week diary study, self-reported and UK-only. It is the clearest official evidence that this work exists and that people do not share it evenly. But it measures housework and caregiving in general. It does not measure the renewals-and-refunds admin this page covers.
The closest research to that narrower question is the study behind the taxonomy above. It measures who carries it. It shows who carries the load and how people share it. It does not show how many hours the work takes. So we will not invent an "hours of life admin a week" figure for this page. You will not find one here, on purpose. The Numbers has the full sourcing, including where the evidence runs out.
The playbook, personal side
What Beemy takes off you today, and what's next.
These jobs come from the same library as the rest of the site, filtered to the personal ones. Some watch your work and personal calendars at once. Neither calendar can see the other.The Playbook has the whole library.
Handled today
Read the class newsletter so you don't have to
Reads the whole thread and tells you the one line that matters (non-uniform day is Friday).
Gmail
Draft the RSVP to the birthday invite
Drafts a warm reply in your voice and waits for your approval before it sends.
Gmail
Move the swimming lesson without touching your work calendar
Moves it inside your personal calendar. Your work schedule never sees it happen.
Calendar
Book the flights before the good seats go
Finds the flight options and drafts the booking confirmation reply, ready for your approval.
GmailCalendar
Catch the clash before it becomes a scramble
Flags the clash across both calendars. It is the one thing Beemy always escalates instead of guessing.
Calendar
Chase the RSVP nobody's answered yet
Sends a friendly nudge in your voice to whoever has not answered yet.
GmailCalendar
Pay the bill before the late fee
Flags it in time and drafts the payment confirmation reply, then waits for your approval.
Gmail
Reschedule the appointment without the day even noticing
Handles the reschedule inside your personal silo. It drafts the reply and the calendar update for you to approve.
GmailCalendar
Reduce a busy week's personal inbox to the two that need you
Triages it down to the two that need your voice and files the rest where it belongs.
Gmail
Keep the evening off, on purpose
Keeps your personal thread clear of anything work-related. No client email has seen what is for dinner.
Gmail
Rolling out next
Wake up to a pre-triaged inbox
Reads, classifies and files everything into the right silo before you wake. Nothing woke you, because nothing needed to.
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One digest instead of fifty tabs
Reads all of it and distils a single daily or weekly brief that takes minutes.
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Follow a stock without watching it all day
Tracks it in the background. It tells you when something moves, and why.
RSSrolling out
Tune the digest to what you read
Notices what you skim and what you read, then re-tunes the mix. You touch no setting.
RSSrolling out
Turn a subreddit into two minutes
Distils it to what is worth your two minutes, on the schedule you set.
RSSrolling out
One item, shown
One personal job, shown.
Illustrative
Illustrative example, built with mock data.
In Gmail · personal
What arrived
Permission slip due before Friday's trip
A permission slip for Friday's trip arrives mid-afternoon, easy to lose among the day's other messages.
Beemy's draft
Re: Permission slip due before Friday's trip
A signed reply is drafted with Friday checked against the family calendar first, filed only in the personal silo.
You approve it before Friday. The work inbox never saw the message at all.
The objection worth answering
Why Beemy can be in your personal life safely.
Here is the obvious question. Does an assistant that drafts a work email need to know about a dentist appointment or a family birthday? Our answer is a wall. Personal and work knowledge sit in separate silos. The architecture keeps them apart, so no setting can be left unchecked.Trust & security shows how that holds.
Beemy also starts read-only on the personal side, as it does on the work side. It watches before it drafts, and it drafts before it sends. When something is unclear, such as two conflicting dates or a form that might be a scam, it asks you. The same rule covers every work message. If Beemy gets a personal call wrong, When Beemy gets it wrong explains what that costs and how fast you get it back. Why Beemy exists makes the case for one assistant across both halves of a life.
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