Chaos Pilot

Figure out what matters now — and what can wait

Everything feels urgent at once, and it's hard to trust your own read on what actually needs you first. Chaos Pilot works only from what you know — deadlines, consequences, who's waiting — to put your tasks in a defensible order. When a missing fact would change that order, it says so instead of guessing.

See what Chaos Pilot gives you

Real output from an actual run on the list below, unedited.

The list

Send the Q3 numbers to Dana (by Friday, Dana is waiting) · Reply to the landlord about the lease renewal (landlord waiting) · Renew the car registration · Book a dentist appointment. About 2 hours, low energy. Two of these have been on the list for a fortnight.

Real run, 2026-10-07 — one of the tool's own built-in examples.

The headline

One task has a supplied deadline and a named person waiting by Friday; that is the clearest time-sensitive signal in the supplied information.

Do first

  • Send the Q3 numbers to Dana — Supplied deadline is Friday; Dana is supplied as waiting. Next step: Assemble or locate the Q3 figures and draft the message to Dana.

Do next

  • Reply to the landlord about the lease renewal — A named person is waiting. No deadline was supplied, but a lease renewal is the kind of correspondence where delay may affect the landlord's ability to act. It follows the Dana task in that it is a reply owed to someone rather than a self-contained errand.

Can probably wait

  • Book a dentist appointment — No deadline, no person waiting, and no consequence of delay was supplied. The supplied information does not establish that this must happen sooner.

One fact would change the order

  • Renew the car registration: When does the current registration expire, or is it already expired? If the expiry date is at or before Friday, this task would compete with the Dana task for the first slot. If it is further out, it likely belongs in do_next or can_probably_wait.

Does it fit in the time you have?

With low energy and roughly two hours, completing the Dana task and a landlord reply is plausible if the Q3 numbers are already assembled. If the numbers still need significant work, two hours may be tight for both. The car registration fact is also unresolved and could add to the load.

In a Nutshell

When
Several things are competing for your attention and you can't tell what to start with.
You give
Your tasks, and a timeframe — today, this week, or a few weeks out.
You get
An order to work in, what the supplied facts don't show a need to rush, and the one missing detail that would change it.
The edge
It ranks only from what you supply — deadlines, consequences, who is waiting — and puts a task in 'need one fact' rather than inventing a reason to move it.

Good to Know

Questions people ask

How do I decide what to do first when everything feels urgent?

Look at what you actually know: real deadlines, who's waiting, and what happens if it slips. Chaos Pilot orders your list on exactly those facts, says why each task sits where it does, and gives a first step for the top one — the real example on this page shows a four-item list sorted that way.

What if I don't know a deadline?

It doesn't guess. When one missing fact would change the order — like when a registration expires — it asks for that fact and explains how the answer would move the task.

Can I just paste my whole messy list?

Yes. Paste everything at once and it pulls out the tasks, deadlines and who's waiting before sorting them.

What if I'm too overwhelmed to read a full plan?

Use “Just One Thing”: it returns a single task and the very first action to take, nothing more.

Does it consider how much energy I have?

Yes — tell it your energy and roughly how much time you have, and it says whether the top tasks realistically fit and what to drop if they don't.