Reclaim protects the time. It never finds out what happened in it.
Reclaim defends focus time better than we do, and this page says so. But a block on the calendar is an intention — it is not evidence that the work moved.
What Reclaim is good at
- Genuinely smart defence of focus time, with habits and tasks that reschedule themselves around a moving calendar.
- The best answer here to the specific problem of a calendar being eaten alive.
- Smart 1:1 scheduling that finds the slot both people can actually keep.
- Immediate value with almost nothing to configure.
Six questions, asked of both
These aren’t chosen for this page. They’re the diagnostic layer of TRAM, the loop we publish for free, and we ran eight tools through them — including ourselves, and including where we lose.
| The question |  Reclaim | Ariso |
|---|---|---|
Capture What counts as work worth capturing? | Your calendar only
| Wherever work happens
|
Closure What happens to the action item? | It gets a block
| Closes on evidence
|
Continuity Does last week connect to this week? | One schedule per week
| Daily rolls up to annual
|
Altitude Does it know why any of this matters? | Urgent because you said so
| Connected to the goal
|
Reach Does it read your other systems? | Calendar and tasks
| Reads your systems
|
Foresight Does it warn, or only record? | Warns about your calendar
| Warns before it slips
|
Where Reclaim beats us
If none of these matter to you, we’re probably the better fit. If one of them is load-bearing for your team, believe it — you’ll find out in month two either way.
Automatically rescheduling habits and tasks around a calendar that keeps moving is a hard problem, and Reclaim is better at it than we are.
Smart 1:1s, buffer time, decompression between meetings. We surface that your focus time is eroding; Reclaim actually goes and defends it.
One job, done immediately, with nothing to adopt. If your problem really is the calendar, that focus is a feature.
Honestly the least adversarial row on this page: nothing stops you running both, and plenty of people should.
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