Stride finds the idea.Then finds the time.
Stride is a free planner for entrepreneurs, side-project builders and students. It argues with your business idea until it's worth building, then reads your Google Calendar to find when you're actually free and works out what to do next, in an order that fits around everything else.
Free to use. Stride reads your calendar — it never posts, shares or changes anything you didn't ask it to.
So let's look at one Tuesday.
What Stride does with your Google Calendar
Stride asks for two Google Calendar permissions and uses them only for the planning features below. Nothing here is used for advertising, and nothing is sold.
- What it reads
- The title, start time and end time of events in the next 14 days. Not guests, not locations, not descriptions, and nothing further ahead than that.
- Why it needs that
- To work out the hours you are genuinely free, and to spot exam and deadline days it should leave clear rather than schedule work into.
- What it writes
- Suggested tasks go to a separate “Stride Suggestions” calendar that Stride creates. It can never edit, move or delete anything on your own calendars.
- Where it goes
- Event titles and times are sent to Anthropic’s Claude to generate your plan. They are not sold, not used for advertising, and not shared with anyone else.
Stride's use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. The full detail is in the privacy policy.
Tuesday
4 hr 30 min freeMessage 20 local cafés
45 min
What are you building?
One or two lines is plenty.
How far along are you?
Hours a week
01
You tell it one thing.
A line or two about what you're building, and roughly how many hours a week you've actually got. That's the whole setup — no project plan, no task list to fill in first.
02
It writes the next steps.
Small enough to finish and specific enough to know when you have. “Message 20 local cafés”, not “do marketing” — and in an order where each one makes the next one possible.
03
Around the calendar you already keep.
School, academy, practice, exams. Stride reads the next fourteen days straight from Google and plans in the gaps between them — you never retype your own timetable.
04
So here's your Tuesday.
Sixteen hours, on paper. It looks like plenty until you put anything in it.
05
This is what's actually left.
Four and a half hours, starting at half six — fifteen minutes after practice ends, because nobody goes from a gym straight to focused work.
06
Then the week changes.
It always does. Tell Stride in a sentence — you've lost an evening, the exam moved, do the boring one first — and it rebuilds the whole plan around it. You never drag anything.
07
And if the idea itself is the problem?
There's a second conversation, and this one is paid to disagree with you. It maps what holds up and what doesn't as you argue, then hands the parts that survived to the planner.
This is what you get
Sample week
Not a screenshot — this is the real dashboard, running on a made-up student's week. Yours is built from your own calendar.
2–8 Oct
7 days of work
1 day looks like exam or deadline territory — Stride plans around them.
You asked for 10 hours a week, but this week only leaves about 14 free hours once school and your other commitments are in — and some of that has to be homework and rest. Stride planned for 3 hours instead, so the plan is one you can actually finish.
How did this go?
Honest answers make next week's plan better. "Didn't" is a perfectly good answer.
- Ask three friends what they'd pay for a boxThu 1 Oct
Your trail so far
1 of 4 done · 25%
Keep going at whatever pace fits your week.
What to work on next
Short DM, one line about what it is. Done when 20 are sent, not when they reply.
Tomorrow45 minYou need one number: what it costs you to put one box in someone's hands.
Sun 4 Oct1 hrDaylight, plain background. Three good photos beats thirty average ones.
Wed 7 Oct45 minThe sentence you'll use in every message from now on.
Today30 min
Last week
You planned 5 hours last week and did about 2.5 hours of it.
Thursday is where it keeps breaking down — worth planning lighter there.
- Done
- 2
- Partly
- 1
- Missed
- 2
What's already booked
Read-only from Google Calendar.
Fri 2 Oct
Today- 07:30–16:15School
Sat 3 Oct
TomorrowNothing scheduled
Sun 4 Oct
Nothing scheduled
Mon 5 Oct
- 07:30–16:15School
- 19:00–21:00Maths academyyours
Tue 6 Oct
Keep clear- 07:30–16:15School
- 16:15–18:15Volleyball practice
- 09:00–11:00English mid-term
Wed 7 Oct
- 07:30–16:15School
- 19:00–21:00Maths academyyours
Thu 8 Oct
- 07:30–16:15School
- 16:15–18:15Volleyball practice
How it works
01
Connect your calendar
Sign in with Google. Stride reads the next 14 days so it can see your classes, academy and exams — and nothing else.
02
Say what you're building
One line about your project, and roughly how many hours a week you've actually got for it.
03
Get a week you can finish
A short, ordered list of concrete next steps with days attached, placed in your real free gaps and never on an exam day.
What makes it different
- It tells you the truth about your time
- Ask for ten hours a week and Stride will say so if your calendar only holds three — then plan three. A plan you can't finish is worse than no plan.
- It plans around exams, not through them
- Assessment weeks are left alone, and the days before them go easy. School comes first; that isn't a compromise, it's the design.
- It asks how it actually went
- When a task's day has passed, Stride asks: did it, partly, didn't. Answering "didn't" is fine, and it's what makes next week's plan fit better than this week's.
- It never guilt-trips you
- No streaks, no badges, nothing to break. Miss a week because of mocks and Stride simply replans around it.
Find out what your week actually holds
Takes about two minutes to set up. You need a Google Calendar you already use.
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