The Execution Guardrail
Radical Subtraction™ OS
Stop optimizing your calendar. Start subtracting from it. A leverage-protection dashboard that tells leaders exactly which meetings to kill — and forces the decision before you add more.
Meeting load is a leverage problem, not a scheduling problem
Traditional productivity apps play calendar Tetris — they help you survive an overloaded week by packing more in. Radical Subtraction™ OS asks a different question: how much of this can we kill? It is a blunt governance engine that triggers hard psychological disruption before you touch your schedule, so you stay in your zone of highest authority instead of drowning in operational work.
What the Pulse engine gives you
📊 Pulse Dashboard
A GREENYELLOWRED signal for your weekly meeting load, based on total hours in meetings and recurring-meeting count.
💀 The Kill List
AI-powered suggestions (GPT-4o) identifying 1-3 specific meetings to cancel or delegate immediately — blunt and surgical.
🛡️ Coaching Guardrail
Surgical questions surfaced automatically during high-dilution periods, before you agree to add anything else.
🔕 Digital Subtraction
One-click, quick-copy Slack status text for signaling and protecting deep-work blocks.
Three ways to feed your calendar data
🗓️ Google Calendar
Connect directly via OAuth for a live, auto-refreshed audit. See the Google Calendar audit workflow.
📁 Any Calendar (.ics)
Export a .ics file from Outlook, Apple Calendar, or Calendly and upload it directly — no OAuth required.
✏️ Manual Entry
Enter your meeting hours, recurring count, and event names by hand for an instant Pulse read.
Who this is for
Executives, managers, and team leads who want a data-driven view of how much of their week is consumed by meetings versus high-leverage work — and a mechanism that forces subtraction rather than just visualizing the problem.