a daily evening ritual

You leave work. It doesn't leave you.

For the work stress that follows you home.

For anyone who replays the meeting on the drive home.

6:02

                    here's what i heard
                  

sounds like today had two things in it — the thing with marcus actually landed okay, but the priya thing is still humming.

you handled marcus well. the priya thing is the one you're going to carry home unless we put it somewhere.

                    today's note
                  

today: handled marcus well; priya thing still humming

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your evening, in three steps

One small ritual at the end of the day.

You've tried the rules — no email after six, leave it at the office. Rules don't stick. Rituals do. Five minutes: check in, name what you carried — type it or just say it out loud — and set it down. An end-of-day mental download, so the work stops running in your head once you close the app.

6:02

                    Tuesday · May 19 · 6:02PM
                  

hey sunil, what you got on mind?

1 evening · 2 missed

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                    What stood out
                  

say a sentence or two...

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Your Evening

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You

step one · the check-in

What stood out?

Mikoyi greets you at the time you set. Answer briefly — a sentence or two.

6:04

                    here's what i heard
                  

sounds like today had two things in it — the thing with marcus actually landed okay, but the priya thing is still humming.

you handled marcus well. the priya thing is the one you're going to carry home unless we put it somewhere.

                    today's note
                  

today: handled marcus well; priya thing still humming

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step two · the naming

It names what you carried.

Not advice. A short reflection of what was hard, what went well, what's still unresolved — and what's worth doing tomorrow versus what you can finally put down.

6:05

carried.
set it down for tonight.

hold to set it down

hold for two seconds

                    6 evenings in a row
                  

step three · set it down

Hold to put it down.

Two-second hold. The day is carried — and now it's somewhere besides your head.

friday · the week

On Fridays, the week shows up.

Who came up the most. Which days felt hardest. What you said last Friday that you wanted to address this week. A short look back, then set it down — so the week doesn't follow you into Sunday night.

6:01

                  friday · the week
                

let's look back
at the week.

                  5 evenings · 4 check-ins · 1 missed
                

                    frequency
                  

marcus came up 3 times this week. priya came up tuesday and thursday.

                    energy
                  

mondays and thursdays felt hardest. wednesday was quiet.

                    open loop
                  

last friday you said you wanted to address the priya thing this week. did that happen?

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the memory

It remembers. So you don't have to.

You shouldn't have to remind it who Marcus is. Or what happened on Tuesday. Or what you said last Friday that you wanted to address this week. Mikoyi keeps the context — the people, the patterns, the open loops — so you can show up and just talk.

voice · text · a real conversation

Less prompt engineering. More thinking out loud.

Mikoyi writes in sentences, not bullet points. It remembers what you told it last Tuesday. Talk by text, or tap the orb to actually speak — when you need to hear yourself say it.

9:41

I had the hardest 1:1 of my career today. Marcus told me in front of the director that my architecture proposal was "cute."

Oof. "Cute" in a room with the director is a specific kind of public cut — it's not just disagreement, it's a size claim. How are you holding up right now?

We can sit with it for a minute if you need, or we can start figuring out what to do. Your call.

The hard day · text

Someone who actually listens

Listening that names what you said — not just nods. Mikoyi names what happened, asks how you're holding up, lets you choose the pace.

9:41

                    wednesday · 8:47pm · a quiet evening
                  

Good evening, Sunil. How did today go?

Tap the orb to speak · or type below

continue with Marcus

decode a message

Hearing yourself · voice

Tap the orb. Speak.

Sometimes you need to hear the thought out loud before you know what you actually think. Voice is always one tap away.

rehearse

The 1:1 you're dreading? Try it once first.

Add your manager, your peer, your skip-level. Mikoyi plays them — realistically, based on what you've told it. You practice. It coaches. The real conversation goes better because you've already had it once.

9:41

wednesday · 8:47pm · a quiet evening

Sunil — who's on your mind?

Tap a person to step into the scene.

picking up where we left off

Marcus

peer · the credit conversation · last Tuesday

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Priya

manager · asking for the promotion

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Sarah

skip-level · scheduling 1:1 · last Friday

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David

peer · setting a boundary

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copy · paste · decode

That Slack from your manager — what did they actually mean?

Paste a message from Slack, Teams, or email. Mikoyi reads between the lines, names what's really being said underneath, and helps you write a reply you won't regret at 2am.

9:41

Hey Sunil — what's on your mind?

My manager just sent this. Help me figure out what's going on.

The paste

Mikoyi notices

Drop in the Slack, Teams, or email that's been bugging you. A quiet prompt offers to decode it.

9:42

pasted message

"Hey, just looped back on the Q3 deck. Some of the framing feels a bit off compared to where leadership is heading. Let's sync tomorrow — happy to walk through it."

· from priya · my manager · 11 minutes ago

Okay. Reading this carefully.

the read

She's not asking a question — she's flagging that something needs to change before this goes further. "A bit off" and "happy to walk through it" are both softeners. The actual message underneath: the framing isn't landing with leadership, and she wants you to rework it.

try this

Reply with: "Thanks for flagging — happy to walk through it. Anything specific from leadership I should know before tomorrow so I can come prepared?"

The read

A real debrief

What's really being said underneath the softeners — and what to write back. Serif prose, not a dashboard.

Slack messages

Teams chats

Emails

Any DM, really

Copy. Paste. Get the read.

I spent 15 years in rooms where the hard conversation got had three days later, badly, by email. And a lot more evenings where the workday just kept running in my head until I fell asleep. I built Mikoyi because the best advice I ever got came from a friend over a quiet beer — and not everyone has that friend on a Tuesday night.

You leave work. It doesn't leave you.

One small ritual at the end of the day.

On Fridays, the week shows up.

It remembers. So you don't have to.

Less prompt engineering. More thinking out loud.

The 1:1 you're dreading? Try it once first.

That Slack from your manager — what did they actually mean?

Set the day down tonight.