A year with Prumo

The wake-up ping

Day one

Bea's daughter Nia is mid-story about a school project when Outlook lights up: "URGENT — deck for the 8am stand-up." Reflex: unlock, skim, half-listen. Nia's voice drops: "Mum, did you hear me?"

That night Bea sets up Prumo. It asks what re-energises her — "family breakfasts" — and what drains her — "pre-work pings." It brings that back the next morning as one small thing to protect.

Quieter mornings

The first week

Each morning, Prumo brings back a short brief of what actually matters that day, and holds the rest until she's ready. Nia notices first: "Mum, you didn't check your phone once." Bea notices something else — she walks into her 9am review with a calm she hasn't felt in months.

Boundaries that hold

By the first month

Prumo has learned the shape of her days. It surfaces the one reply that can't wait and lets the rest sit. It nudges her before her deep-work block, and gently, before dinner: "want to wrap up? Bedtime's in fifteen." Never a command — always a question she can wave away.

Her manager comments on how clear her roadmap has become. Nia comments on the new after-school Lego ritual.

A new default

A year in

Bea didn't do a digital detox. She let something carry the loops she used to hold in her head — so the ball never dropped, and the weight of remembering lifted. What she got back wasn't a number on a dashboard. It was breakfasts she was actually in, and evenings that belonged to her.

"Prumo didn't just save me time — it safeguarded the moments I'll remember."