Mobile AI Coach · Closed beta

A friend who's invested in your success.

Yene structures your work, names your patterns, and stays with you when motivation crashes. For tech founders and entrepreneurs who keep starting things — and want to finish one.

Built on validated behavior science
Voice + text · iOS & Android
Made in Ethiopia · Built for the world
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The pattern

You start things.
You stop. You start again.

The first version is exciting. The second week is grinding. The fourth week you're 'just busy.' By month two it's faded out of consciousness.

You didn't quit. You forgot.

It's not a willpower problem. It's not a discipline problem. The behavioral science is clear: motivation crashes are structural, not personal.

Yene exists for that exact moment.

88%
of new year resolutions abandoned within weeks
66d
median time for new habits to actually stick
2.7×
more likely to ship when written down and shared
0%
of streaks that survived one bad day
What Yene does

Four things no other productputs in one place.

01Implementation Intentions

Stops you from lying to yourself

"I'll work on marketing tomorrow" — Yene won't accept it. Every commitment gets a time, a place, and a way you'll know it actually happened. The vague plan you've made ten times now becomes the specific one you'll do.

02WOOP · Pre-mortem

Sees the crash before you do

Three weeks in, your motivation is going to drop. It's not personality — it happens to everyone working on anything hard. Yene tells you when, why, and what you'll do about it. While you're still calm enough to plan.

03Pattern detection

Notices what you're avoiding

Most goals don't die from a decision — they die from forgetting. Three days quiet and Yene asks why. Three weeks of skipping the same task and Yene names the pattern. Without nagging.

04Persistent memory

Remembers what you forgot

ChatGPT forgets you the moment you close the tab. Yene doesn't. It remembers your patterns, what works for you, what you've tried, why you started. Three weeks from now, when you've forgotten — Yene hasn't.

Not a habit tracker. Not an AI life coach. Not a community.The friend who structures your work and stays with you through the dip.

The 90-day journey

From "this is exciting"to actually shipped.

DAYS
1–7
Phase 01

Honeymoon

Energy is high. Yene captures this energy into structure that survives the next phase.

Yene's role·Capture energy into structure
DAYS
8–21
Phase 02

Reality hits

First commitment slipped. First excuse. This is where most apps lose their users.

Yene's role·Calibrate. Don't over-push.
DAYS
22–60
Phase 03

The Dip

The structural motivation crash. The moment Yene was built for.

Yene's role·Activate the pre-agreed protocol
DAYS
61–90
Phase 04

The Compound

You survived. Habits forming. Yene gets out of the way.

Yene's role·Witness, celebrate, point forward

Some users will ship. Some will pivot. Some will quit cleanly.What no Yene user does — drift away from a goal they meant to do.

In your hand

One conversation.
Three taps.
That's the whole product.

9:41●●●●
Morning, Selam.
Day 23 · Reality Phase
Momentum
68↑ 8 this week
Three shipped, one slipped. Good rhythm.
Today · 3 commitments
9:00 AM · 30 min
Send 3 cold emails to potential users
2:00 PM · Customer call
Daniel re: marketplace pricing
Evening · 1 hr
Build the signup form. Ship it ugly.
"How'd yesterday's call go? Quick word."
Today
Coach
Goal
You
A

Specific commitments, not vague intentions

Every action gets a time, a context, and an observable outcome. The format Yene drives every plan toward.

B

Momentum, never streaks

One number, weekly. Can go down. Real progress, not gamified behavior.

C

Voice + text, your choice

Hold to talk. Or type. Whatever works at 2pm on a Tuesday.

D

Notifications that read like a friend

Specific. Curious. Capped at three a day. Never a templated push.

The voice

Direct when you need it.
Patient when you don't.

A real conversation from week three. The user has missed cold emails three times running.

Y
Yene
On goal: Freelancer marketplace
Reality · D23
didn't write the cold emails again 😩
2:30 PM
Third week, same thing.

That's not a productivity problem — it's something else.

What's actually going on with cold emails specifically? Are they wrong, or is there something about sending them that's hard?
2:30 PM
honestly i think i'm scared they'll say no
2:33 PM
Real answer. Thank you for that one.

Then this isn't a marketing task — it's a fear-of-no task. Different beast.

Want to spend 5 minutes on a smaller version that's easier to send, or talk about why a 'no' feels heavy?
2:34 PM

"Third week, same thing" only works because Yene remembers.That's the difference between a friend and a chatbot.

The substance

Built on 19 booksand decades of research.

Yene's responses aren't generic AI advice. Every push, every question, every reframe is grounded in validated behavior science — and we'll tell you which one if you ask.

Gollwitzer & Sheeran · 2006
Implementation Intentions
d=0.65
Oettingen · 2014
WOOP / Mental Contrasting
+20-40% goal attainment
Harkin et al. · 2016
Self-monitoring meta-analysis
d=0.40 across 138 studies
Duckworth · 2007
Grit & long-term goals
predicts above IQ
Wrosch et al. · 2003
Goal disengagement
clean kill > drift
Brehm · 1966
Reactance theory
why nagging backfires
Lally et al. · 2010
Habit formation timeline
~66 days median
Klein · 2007
Pre-mortem methodology
failure imagination
Deci & Ryan · ongoing
Self-Determination Theory
autonomy/competence/relatedness
Fitzpatrick · 2013
The Mom Test
customer interview rigor
"Our honest commitment: of users who actively engage past day 14, we're targeting 35–50% completing a meaningful milestone within 90 days. We'll measure publicly and adjust."
Our promise · Measured, not marketed
Closed beta · Limited spots

Ready to finish
something for once?

We're inviting 30–50 builders into the closed beta. Free Pro tier for life if you actively use Yene for 60 days and tell us what's working.

Optional — helps us prioritize who to onboard first.

No spam. We'll email you when your spot is ready.