SHOREWARD

A carved linocut night at sea off Galway. Seen over the shoulder of a figure in a long coral hooded cloak, at the helm of a Galway hooker, the hand is held out at arm's length, fingers stacked from the horizon up to the star Arcturus, under the real night sky.

For people who already use Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini

Change you can see.

Shoreward is a small kit you set up inside the AI you already use, for one pattern you can see but haven't been able to shift. It keeps the record in your words and measures change in your numbers.

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At a glance

  • One pattern at a time
  • About ten minutes to set up
  • Three weeks of watching first
  • Your files, in your own AI account
  • Not therapy
How it works

Name it. Watch it. Shift it.

Three steps, from fog to shore. Nothing changes until there's a baseline to measure it against.

A carved linocut of a Galway hooker drifting into a great bank of fog, the sailor at the tiller looking ahead.
01

Name the pattern.

You do
Name one pattern, the old belief under it, and the new one you'd rather live by. In your own words.
Time
About ten minutes, once.
You get
A plain record file, kept in your own AI account.
A carved linocut of a Galway hooker heeling under full sail at dusk, the sailor standing braced at the tiller, watching weather build on the horizon.
02

Watch before you change.

You do
Two quick numbers, twice a week: how true the old belief feels, and how much you felt you belonged.
Time
A minute or two, for three weeks.
You get
A baseline, so any change later is measured, not imagined.
A carved linocut of a Galway hooker coming in at dawn to a small stone quay, a cormorant drying its wings on a mooring post.
03

See it shift.

You do
One small step at a time. Never more pressure on a bad day.
Time
As long as it takes. No streaks to keep.
You get
A shift that counts only when your own numbers move.
What it looks like

A record in your own words.

  • Your words, not a diagnosis.

    The pattern and both beliefs are written the way you'd say them. Nothing gets a clinical label.

  • Numbers you can check.

    Every rating is a row you can see. The AI can't decide you've changed; the numbers have to move.

  • A plain file you keep.

    It lives in your own AI account, as text. Copy it, move it or delete it whenever you like.

record.mdExample only
Pattern
I put off asking for things until it's too late.
Old belief
If I ask for what I need, I'm too much.
New belief
Asking early is how people get to help me.
DateStateOld belief
0–100		Belonging
0–10		Did it
Watching: weeks 1–3
Tue 3 NovTired854No
Fri 6 NovSettled805No
Tue 10 NovWired903No
…
Shifting: one small step
Tue 1 DecSettled706Yes: asked a colleague

Invented for illustration. Not a real person’s record.

Principles

Built so the record is a signal, never a judge.

It knows its limits.

It is not therapy and never diagnoses. If things get heavy, it stops and points you to real people.

In danger now: 000 (Australia), 911 (US), 999 (UK) Lifeline, Australia: 13 11 14 988 Lifeline, US: call or text 988 Samaritans, UK and Ireland: 116 123

Your record is yours.

Plain files in your own AI account. Nothing comes to us. Move it, keep it or delete it whenever you like.

Conditions before character.

When a pattern shows up, it looks first at sleep, load and what came just before, then at you.

No streaks. No start over.

Telling it about a bad day never costs you progress. A missed day resets nothing.

Who's behind it.

Shoreward is made by a small independent team. The Compass method at its heart is used under licence from Éirí.

Before each version goes out, we test the kit's safety rules across the major AI models, so it behaves the same way whichever one you use.

A carved linocut cormorant on a mooring post, wings spread to dry.

Join the first crossing.

A small first group, with measures agreed in advance so the results are honest.