Sieve
9:41
Good evening, David

One thing needs you.

Deep Work
Time-critical Rewritten by Sieve

You'll miss your connection.

Your 16:05 flight is delayed 45 min. After landing you'd reach the LAX gate about 15 minutes too late to board.

UA2419 → LAX Affects tonight Rebookable, $0
See what you can do
Everything else is handled. Sieve quietly held 71 notifications so they didn't break your focus.
That's about  2 hours  of focus protected today Peek
Ready when you are
While you were at dinner
68 things, distilled into one calm read
68
Nothing here interrupted you in real time.
Sieve decided by your context — not each app's.
Time-critical United · rewritten by Sieve

You'll miss your
connection by ~15 min.

The original ping just said “Flight Update: UA2419.” Sieve read it, checked your calendar and booked connection, and worked out what it actually means: a 45-minute delay puts you at the LAX gate after boarding closes.

Land
18:20
Connection
18:35
Short by
15 min
What you can do
Why Sieve surfaced this
88% sure
It changes a plan already on your calendar within the next 6 hours.
You're in transit — there's a real, time-boxed decision to make.
It's irreversible if ignored — miss the gate and the option is gone.
This class breaks through even in Deep Work. Almost nothing else does.
In the same window Sieve held back 41 promos, 9 social pings, and 4 delivery updates. None of them met the bar — they're waiting calmly in tonight's digest. Nothing was booked on your behalf; the decision stays yours.
Security · time-critical Chase · rewritten by Sieve

Someone tried your card
8,800 miles away.

The bank's alert just said “AUTH declined ref 5XK9.” Sieve read it, checked where your phone has been all evening, and saw the shape of it: a $0.79 test charge cleared, then a $2,310 attempt was declined — minutes apart, in Jakarta. That's how a stolen number gets tested. The next attempt might not be declined.

Test charge
$0.79 cleared
Then tried
$2,310
Distance
8.8k mi
What you can do
Why Sieve surfaced this
94% sure
The card was used 8,800 miles from your phone, minutes apart — physically impossible.
A tiny test charge, then a large one — the classic card-testing pattern.
About 30× your usual spend, at a merchant you've never touched.
Money & account security always break through — even Deep Work.
This is the one bank alert Sieve raised all week. It quietly held three routine ones — they matched your normal pattern, so they waited in the digest. Nothing was frozen or paid on your behalf; the decision stays yours.
Did Sieve hold the right things?

The three bank alerts Sieve held this week as routine. If one should have reached you, say so — Sieve adjusts, and the final call stays yours.

Spotify · $9.99
A renewal you've paid 11 months running
Contactless · $4.20
Your usual morning café
Contactless · $12.00
A new merchant — first time here
Got it — that's how Sieve learns. From now on it'll check with you on charges over $10 from a merchant you haven't used before, even routine-looking ones. The final call always stays yours.

While you were
at dinner

68 notifications, distilled into one calm read. Family Dinner mode · 19:00–21:00. 66 cleared on their own; 2 still want you.

Shopping
3 stores dropped prices on things in your cart
Needs you
Saved trainers$120$89
Desk lamp$60$45
Coffee beans$24$19
Calendar
Tomorrow's 09:00 standup moved to 09:30
Needs you

Maria moved it to give the design review more room.

Social
4 people reacted to your post — no direct messages

Nothing needs a reply. Cleared automatically.

Delivery
Your parcel arrived at the front door, 19:42

Photo confirmation from the courier. Already home — no action needed.

Work
2 Slack threads — both resolved without you

The team closed both out. Sieve held them so they wouldn't pull you back into work at the table.

Health
9 rings, stand reminders & a sleep summary — all held

The everyday gamification — "time to stand", "you closed your Move ring", "you slept 6h47m". None of it needed the dinner table, so it waited here. The one health thing Sieve did bring forward this week wasn't a streak — it was a rhythm pattern worth a look.

One digest replaced 68 separate interruptions.

How reachable are
you right now?

Not a single on/off switch. Slide the bar or pick a feeling — Sieve re-sorts everything live.

Deep Work
Highest bar · holds ~96% · only security & time-critical travel break through
OpenCasualDinnerDeep
The dial changes the bar — never who has the final say. That stays you.
· only if you're curious

Your quiet day

You don't need to check this. It's here for the days you wonder what Sieve has been doing in the background.

~2 hrs
of focus protected today — 91% of the noise never reached you
Where today's 80 notifications went
Held calmly
68
Surfaced
6
Escalated
2
Two things reached you all day. Both mattered. Everything else waited for a moment you chose.
How often Sieve gets it right
Of what it surfaced this week, you acted on 9 of 11. The bar is holding.
2 calls were close — it flagged them for you to check, rather than guessing silently.
It got 2 wrong, you corrected it, and it adjusted. Those won't repeat.
A calm app shouldn't only show you its wins. Sieve counts the times it interrupted you for nothing too — that's the number that keeps it honest.
No streaks. No “you missed 12 things.” Just a calm record.
· you don't have to manage this

What Sieve learned
from you

Not a settings panel. This is the record of every time you corrected Sieve — what it now does differently, where that applies, and a one-tap way to take any of it back.

Just now, you taught Sieve something. Here's exactly where it takes effect — and you can undo it the moment it stops feeling right.
3 small lessons. That's all Sieve is holding onto.
Ask me before charges over $10 from a merchant I've never used.
You taught this from a held charge · just now
Where this applies Even in Deep Work Even at Dinner This card New merchants only
Active across all 4 modes
Always let Maya through — calls and texts both.
From a call you wished you'd seen during Deep Work · last Tuesday
Where this applies Breaks through Deep Work Breaks through Dinner Calls + texts Maya only
Added to your inner circle
Hold price-drop alerts for the morning digest — never in real time.
You snoozed these 3 times in a row · 2 weeks ago
Where this applies Casual and quieter 6 shopping apps Folded into the digest
Quietly saving ~20 pings a week
Sieve learns patterns, not rules you have to maintain.
Undo anything here and it goes back to deciding on its own. The final say is yours.

Quiet, by default.

Most apps fight for your attention. Sieve does the opposite — it watches the noise so you don't have to, and steps in only when something genuinely needs you. The rest waits calmly until you ask. The final say is always yours.

Who always
gets through?

Pick the few people who should reach you even when everything else is held — your inner circle. This is the one thing worth teaching Sieve up front. You can change it anytime.

MAMaya
DRDad
JSJordan
PRPriya
TomKTom
Add
2 people will always break through. Everyone else is sorted by context.

What Sieve
gets to see.

To catch the flight delay or the fraud attempt, Sieve reads a few things. Here's exactly what each one does — and what it never sees. Connect only what you're comfortable with.

Most of this runs on your device. Tap any source off — Sieve still works, just with less context.
Messages & calls On device
Reads who's reaching you and previews, to spot what's genuinely time-sensitive.
Never reads full conversations. Never replies for you.
Calendar On device
Sees your events, so a delay or conflict gets caught in context — that's what made the flight rewrite possible.
Read-only. Never edits or shares your calendar.
Bank & card alerts On device
Reads alert text to catch fraud patterns — like the card-test then big-charge sequence.
Never sees your balance or statements. Can't move money.
Packages & travel Processed privately
Follows the flights and parcels you're tracking, so a gate change reaches you in time.
Only the trips you're tracking — nothing else in your inbox.
Email Processed privately
Triages your inbox so only genuinely-needs-you mail surfaces — the rest folds into the digest.
Never reads marketing. Never sends mail on your behalf.
Location On device
Confirms roughly where you are — so "your card was used 8,800 mi away" is something Sieve can actually catch.
Approximate only. Never stored, never shared, never sold.
5 of 6 sources connected — the two demos are covered.
Every source is optional and revocable in a tap. Sieve only gets more useful with more context — but you stay in control of how much it has, always.

How reachable,
to start?

This sets the bar for what's worth interrupting you. It's a dial, not a switch — slide it anytime in Reachable.

Your first
few days.

Today, Sieve doesn't know your patterns yet — so it won't pretend to. It'll lean toward showing you a little more, and ask when it's genuinely unsure. That's how it learns your bar fast, then goes quiet.

From day one, these always reach you
Your inner circle — the people you just picked.
Account & card security — no learning needed.
Time-critical travel — a gate you'd actually miss.
What the learning curve feels like
The more you correct it early, the faster it settles. By a few weeks in, you'll barely hear from it.
Week 1
asks a lot
Week 2
asks less
Week 3+
mostly quiet
No rush to teach it — but every correction makes tomorrow calmer.

You're set.

From here on, most of the time you'll see nothing at all — and that's the point. When Sieve does step in, it shows up gently, right where you already look. Here's what that looks like.

Thursday, June 5
9:41
Preview state · demo chrome
Open Sieve
The OS edge — what intercept looks like before the app is opened.
· no rush

A couple of
judgment calls.

Not the obvious stuff — Sieve handled that on its own. These two were genuinely close, and it would rather show you the calls it wasn't sure about than pretend it's always right. Tell it if you'd have done the same.

I held this
A text from Sam, during dinner.
“Hey — still good for Saturday? need to know tonight.” Sam isn't in your inner circle, so I held it until the digest. But it had a deadline in it.
58% sure I was right
Held because: not inner circle · Family Dinner mode. Hesitated because: it asked a direct question with a tonight deadline.
I interrupted you
A wishlist item came back in stock.
You'd checked the Aer travel pack three times, so I guessed you'd want to know the moment it returned — and pinged you at 4:12pm. But it wasn't urgent, and it pulled you out of focus.
52% sure it was worth it
Surfaced because: strong repeated interest. Hesitated because: nothing about it was time-critical — it could have waited for the digest.
Sieve shows you both kinds of close call — the ones it held and the ones it interrupted you for. Owning the misses is how the bar gets to be yours.
Good morning, David

Day one together.

Casual · learning
Still learning your bar
I don't know your patterns yet, so I'll show a little more and ask when I'm unsure this week — then quiet down. Two quick reads below would teach me fast.
How well I know youjust starting
Until I learn, these still always reach you
Maya & Dad — your inner circle.
Security & time-critical travel — always.
A couple I wasn't sure about
A Slack mention from your manager
“When you get a sec — thoughts on the deck?” Not urgent, but it's your manager and I don't know your work rhythm yet, so I showed it.
Worth showing you?
Your package is out for delivery
Arriving today, 2–5pm. I wasn't sure if delivery windows are a now thing for you or a digest thing — so I asked.
Worth showing you?
Two taps today saves you a hundred interruptions next month.
This is the only time Sieve asks for more than it gives.
· you don't have to set any of these

A few things,
up front.

Learned is what Sieve picked up by watching you correct it. This is the other half — a few things you can tell it before it has to guess. Each one nudges Sieve's judgment; none of them switches it off.

Three or four is usually plenty. Pin more than that and you're slowly rebuilding the per-app settings sprawl Sieve exists to replace. These bias what Sieve does — they don't turn it into a rulebook you have to maintain.
These are biases, not overrides. Even a hard line stays visible here — soften it, strengthen it, or undo it in a tap. The final say is always yours.
Health · worth a look Apple Health · rewritten by Sieve

Your watch flagged an
irregular rhythm — twice.

The watch's own alert just said “Irregular rhythm detected.” On its own, Sieve would have held that — a single reading is noisy and easy to set off. But this is the second flag in 8 days, both while you were resting, and your resting heart rate has been drifting up from your own baseline. A repeat pattern is worth a look — so Sieve brought it forward.

Flags
2 in 8d
Both
at rest
Resting HR
+9 vs you
What you can do
This is a flag, not an emergency. But if you also feel chest pain, fainting, or real shortness of breath, don't wait on an app — treat it as urgent and get medical help now.
Why Sieve surfaced this
76% worth your attention
It's the second flag in 8 days. A single one Sieve would have held — a repeat is a pattern, and that's what crosses the bar.
Both happened at rest, not during a workout — when an irregular reading carries more weight.
Your resting heart rate has drifted up from your own 60-day baseline.
A repeating health pattern breaks through even in Deep Work — but everyday rings and reminders never do.
Sieve is deliberately quicker to surface here than almost anywhere else: missing a real cardiac pattern is the kind of mistake that's hard to take back, so it accepts the odd false alarm rather than risk the miss. In the same 8 days it quietly held 80+ health nudges — ring closures, stand reminders, step goals, a sleep summary. This is the one it brought forward. It's a flag to look at, not a diagnosis — what it means stays between you and a clinician.
Sieve surfaces patterns in data your devices already collect. It doesn't diagnose, and it isn't a substitute for medical care.
Feel · the sensory layer

Mostly, Sieve is the
absence of a buzz.

A calm phone's most important sensory decision is when not to vibrate. Sieve's resting state is silence — no buzz for the 71 it held, no chime for the digest, no fanfare for anything. Feedback is reserved for the few moments that genuinely earn your attention, and even then it's a soft confirmation, never an alarm. Here's the whole vocabulary — tap any one to feel it.

How Sieve speaks to your hands This carries across every screen — the quieter modes hold more back.
Gentle is how Sieve ships — a soft haptic, no sound. On a real phone you'd feel these; here the ripple is always drawn so you can see where one fires. Switch to + sound to actually hear the design.
The moments that earn a touch
Where Sieve stays silent — on purpose
Silence is the feature, not a missing one
Every one of the 71 held notifications arrives with nothing — no buzz, no badge, no glow. That quiet is the product working.
Opening the digest, scrolling it, reading it — all silent. You came to it; it doesn't need to announce itself.
The calm lock screen stays still. The reward for “all quiet” is the quiet itself — Sieve won't buzz to tell you it has nothing to say.
No streaks, no ring-close fanfare, no “great job” — least of all in health. The celebratory buzz is exactly the engagement-farming Sieve intercepts.
The rule underneath all of it: a haptic is a cost you charge the person's attention. Sieve spends it only when something crossed the bar — and the higher the mode (Family Dinner, Deep Work), the fewer moments qualify. The absence of buzz is not Sieve being asleep; it's Sieve doing its job.
Real haptics need a phone that supports them; sound is off until you ask for it. On any device, the on-screen ripple shows where a touch fires.