One Incense
Someone who watches you work — and remembers.
An AI body double with a memory. Say what you'll do, sit one stick of incense, and be seen doing it. The Preceptor notices when you leave — and he remembers whether you came back yesterday, too.
Not customisable · It has a gaze · Camera never leaves this device · One stick of incense = 25 min
A meditation hall, not a to-do list
Every focus app gives you a timer. This one gives you somebody — with a standard, and a memory.
A companion who remembers
The Preceptor keeps a private note about your pattern — not your words, your pattern. Miss three days and his tone changes. Show up daily and it changes back. That memory is the product.
It notices when you leave
Tab switches, a quiet keyboard, an empty chair if you allow the camera. Drift past the grace period and the keisaku taps — one wooden crack, the way meditation halls have woken drifting sitters for a thousand years.
Private by architecture
Face detection runs locally — no frame is ever uploaded, and we cut the detector vendor's telemetry out of the build. What does travel: your typed intent and session stats go through OpenRouter to the configured model provider for the companion's lines, and browser speech recognition (if you use it) is your browser vendor's service. Both are labelled where they happen.
Two companions, one standard
The Preceptor holds the hall — dry, exacting, keisaku in hand. Suanni, ninth son of the dragon, keeps the burner warm — he treats a bad day as weather, not character. You can't redesign them. The thing watching has to be somebody else.
Paper by day, ink-green by night
The room follows your hours: xuan paper and seal-red in daylight, ink-green and candlelight after dark. Pine rain and the hall use compact recordings that load once, then repeat from memory; a local synthesized fallback keeps the room usable offline.
The debrief tells the truth
At the end of each sitting the companion says what actually happened — plainly, without contempt, and with one concrete next action. Shame is what makes people delete focus apps. Disappointment is allowed here; withdrawal is not.
Pricing
The room is free. The companion is the plan.
The Room
Sit as long as you like
- Paper by day, ink-green by night
- Pine rain, the hall, stillness
- Sittings with drift detection
- 5 companion lines each day
The Hall
The companion speaks — and remembers
- All-day voice from the Preceptor and Suanni
- A memory that carries across days
- A truthful debrief after every sitting
- Camera presence, on-device only
Questions people actually ask
The honest answers, including the ones with trade-offs.
From the hall
Field notes on focus, body doubling, and getting yourself to start.
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One IncenseHow to Practice Mindfulness at Work, Without the Fluff
Five mindfulness practices that fit inside a working day, cost nothing, and require no cushion, app, or belief system — plus an honest note on what they will not fix.
One IncenseThe Library Effect: Why You Work Better Around Strangers
You already know you concentrate better in a library. The reason is not quiet, and understanding what it actually is lets you rebuild it at home.
One IncenseThe hall is open.
Say what you'll work on. Sit one stick of incense. Be seen doing it.