New · v2.4 – Ambient drafting
A calmer way to run your week.
Vale gathers your tasks, notes, and meetings into one quiet plan so the day feels lighter before it starts.
TRUSTED BY CALM TEAMS AT
Duskfield
Bluenote
Fieldday
Arbor & Co
Plainsail
Why Vale
Less noise. More week.
Three quiet ideas, one calmer schedule.
9:00 – Focus · Deep work
11:30 – 1:1 with Maya
2:00 – Writing · Async update
One quiet plan
Tasks, meetings, and notes on a single timeline – sized to the hours you actually have.
Weekly sync · 45 min
Weekly sync · 15 min
Meetings that shrink
Vale suggests shorter holds, declines conflicts politely, and guards your focus blocks.
Notes that follow
Meeting notes and ideas file themselves to the right project, ready when you return.
Wins pulled in automatically
Carry-overs sorted for Monday
Done in 5:00
The five-minute review
Wins and carry-overs pull themselves in. Friday ends with a clear head.
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2 quiet digests · 9:00 & 16:00
A quiet inbox
Notifications arrive in two daily batches instead of forty small interruptions.
Deep work · this week
Focus analytics
See where your deep work actually went – and protect more of it next week.
The method
Setup — under 10 minutes
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Day one
Connect your tools
Vale links your calendar and tasks in minutes, then learns the hours you actually keep.
Every Monday
Approve the draft
A quiet plan for the week arrives each morning. Accept it, nudge a block, or clear it.
Friday · 5 min
Review & repeat
Wins and carry-overs pull themselves in, so next week starts lighter than this one.
Begin with one quiet week.
How it feels
Calm, in practice.
Plan the week in minutes, not meetings.
Every Monday, Vale drafts a plan from your calendar and last week’s rhythm. Accept it, nudge it, or clear it.
Wednesday
9:00 – Focus · Spring release
11:30 – 1:1 with Maya · 15 min
2:00 – Writing · Async update
26 hrs
given back to a 14-person team, every single week.
Weekly update · Fieldday
Shipped: onboarding, focus beta. Next: pricing refresh.
Read by 6 · no meeting
Updates without the meeting
A five-minute async update, drafted from what shipped.
“I canceled three tools in two weeks. The quiet is the feature.”
Jonas Verbeek · Founder, Duskfield
Works with your stack
Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack, and the tools you already run.
calm weeks planned last year
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Don’t take our word for it – hear from teams who traded meeting sprawl for quiet weeks.
“Our Mondays stopped feeling like an ambush. Vale drafts the week before standup, and we spend ten minutes adjusting instead of an hour negotiating.”
Maya Chen
Head of Product
· Bluenote
“I canceled three tools in two weeks. The quiet is the feature.”
Jonas Verbeek
Founder
· Duskfield
“I was skeptical – every planner promises calm and ships notifications. Then Vale politely declined a meeting for me in week one. My calendar has white space for the first time since 2023, and my team noticed before I said a word.”
Priya Nair
Engineering Lead
· Fieldday
“The first planner my whole team opens every morning without being asked. Six years of trying, and that has never happened.”
Sam Okoye
COO
· Arbor & Co
“Meetings shrank. Updates went async. Nobody misses the old way.”
Elena Roux
Design Director
· Plainsail
“Less like software, more like a good habit I finally kept.”
Tomás Rivera
Strategist
· Independent
“The Friday review writes itself now. I close the laptop at five and honestly don't think about Monday until Monday.”
Hana Sato
Product Manager
· Kitefall
“We run a fourteen-person eng org on Vale. Handoffs stopped falling through the cracks, and the async update replaced two standing meetings. I did the math – that's twenty-six hours a week back across the team.”
Marcus Webb
CTO
· Lodestone
“Bought it for the focus blocks. Stayed for the quiet inbox.”
Ana Ferreira
Designer
· Studio Ana
“Vale is the first tool that respects that my time is finite. The plan fits the hours I have, not the hours I wish I had.”
David Osei
Head of Ops
· Northloop
“Two protected mornings a week quietly turned into a finished manuscript. I owe this app a line in the acknowledgments.”
Claire Beaumont
Writer
· Independent
“Our whole pitch is calm. Vale is the only tool we use that matches it.”
Ravi Menon
Founder
· Slowline
Pricing
Simple, honest pricing.
Start free. Upgrade when the calm sticks.
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For one calm week at a time.
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WHAT’S INCLUDED
One week horizon
Two-way calendar sync
Mobile capture, offline
Markdown export
MOST LOVED
Pro
The full calm, for you.
$6
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per member · month, billed yearly
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Unlimited horizons
Focus analytics
Quiet inbox
Priority support
Team
Calm, org-wide.
$11
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per member · month, billed yearly
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Everything in Pro
Shared plans & handoffs
Async weekly updates
SSO & admin controls
Questions
Answers, quietly.
Short answers, no fine print. If it’s not here, a human replies within a day.
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