Vision

🌾 GoalPost in Rural India

You live in a small village, where mobile connectivity is intermittent and Marāṭhī is spoken. You have an older Android phone and share it with your sister. GoalPost has been installed with Marāṭhī support and works offline when needed.

You open it in the early morning, before heading to the fields. There’s a message from your cousin:

“Need help preparing a room for visiting relatives. Can anyone bring extra mats?”

You can. You add a reply.

Your village circle has been using GoalPost to coordinate harvest tools, share internet data bundles, and keep track of village gatherings. You post an offer:

“Extra sugarcane this week. Available tomorrow.”

Later, while waiting at the bus stop, you read a story posted by a friend about a traditional recipe her grandmother shared. You smile. You mark it with a heart. You want to let her know you read it, felt it.

No one’s watching what you click. No ads. No distractions.
Just community, grounded in rhythms you already live by.

🌲 A Felt Vision of GoalPost: A Companion for the Overfull Mind and Devoted Heart

You open your laptop. The day is already full. There are layers of projects, promises, potential burnouts, and soft joys. You carry the whole landscape of your life in your body. You’ve been holding it all.

GoalPost greets you gently with a simple invitation:

“How is your energy today?”

You breathe. There are sliding scales. They are there to help you listen:

My social energy: maybe 1-2 hours, tops.
My focus energy: yes, enough for two good work blocks.
My care battery: full. I’m ready to give, but gently.

GoalPost takes that in. It knows your intentions, your long arc. It knows your short-term commitments, your community ties, your past patterns, your longings.

The screen blossoms, just like a garden.

At the center is you: your intention, your long-term vision. Maybe it’s a forest home. A community on the land. A rhythm of movement between places. Whatever lives there, GoalPost holds it without judgment. It holds it like soil holds roots.

Your commitments branch out from the center like paths, like mandalas, like a living map.

GoalPost quietly highlights one:

“Today might be a good day to focus on the earthen building course. Your focus battery is strong, and your care energy is available for deeper work.”

You nod. It feels true. You hadn’t remembered that.

Another branch glows:

“You promised to check in with a friend today. You have the capacity. Shall I draft the message?”

Yes. You breathe out. It’s not pressure. It’s coherence.

GoalPost weaves in your learning journey, your relationships, your more-than-human kin, your current care needs. Not in a dashboard, but in a living ecosystem. Everything is connected, and the purpose of everything on the screen is simply to support you. There is nothing screaming at you for attention.

There is a corner of your space called “My News.” It offers a few carefully filtered updates from journals, blogs, and other places you trust. There is just enough to connect you with the larger world, offered to you to feed your learning.

There is a space for your wishes, which are tended like seedlings. GoalPost helps you notice which ones are thriving, which ones want water, and which ones are seasonal.

You close the laptop. Your mind is quieter. You remember who you are. You have been accompanied.

🎛️ A Felt Vision of GoalPost: A Day at the Conference

The day begins with orientation.

You open your laptop. The first thing you see in your GoalPost space is a visual field: your home, your people, your ecosystem, all pulsing gently with data that matters. Your partner made it to work. Your kids are at school. The people you care for are accounted for. You breathe in. Nothing is demanding your attention. You are fully present with the world as it is.

A new visual bloom has grown. This cluster is connected to the conference you’ve been preparing for. GoalPost noticed the rhythm of your recent messages, calendar updates, and excitement. Now this context has a home: a dedicated segment with relevant people, tasks, and questions.

You see one of your collaborators was up late. She might oversleep and delay the opening of a key space. You make a gentle mental note.

As you step outside, GoalPost recognizes your movement. It sends a soft morning digest:

Here’s how your people are waking up today.

You smile. Two volunteers posted a selfie from a conference shuttle bus you didn’t know about. GoalPost quietly offers:

Want me to find the schedule for tomorrow?
Yes, please. Already done.

Then, something new. Another GoalPost node nearby sends a signal. Someone else is heading to the same gathering, but needs support getting there. You glance at your phone. A short profile. Mutual circles. A request for connection. You accept.

Moments later, you’re sharing a ride. Trust builds in real time, not from scratch, but from alignment already sensed by your respective GoalPosts: shared location, similar roles, aligned values. You chat. At the end, they send you a thank-you token. GoalPost holds it like a note in a shared ledger of care.

Later, you receive a discreet alert: someone flagged in your event safety protocols has arrived. GoalPost noticed this not from surveillance, but from a pattern of shared posts and trust signals among your contacts. You act.

GoalPost helps you:

identify who to notify
share limited, purpose-bound location data
review visual confirmation discreetly
coordinate a response team without fanfare

It also remembers why certain permissions were in place. It honors boundaries, offering alternatives when full information is withheld for safety and privacy of all involved. It respects protocols without flattening trust, protocols developed by small communities experimenting with how to deal with this very issue in ways that center protection and care for everyone.

Later, GoalPost surfaces a long-awaited reconnection. Someone you’ve been hoping to see is nearby. GoalPost gives you not just their location, but since they have allowed it to be shared with certain people, you receive a glimpse of something they’ve been working on, something that overlaps with your own work. You feel seen and connected to what really matters to you.

You connect, and through that connection, more sparks are created: a new contact, shared affinities, an invitation to explore possibilities. You’re co-creating a resonance field.

At day’s end, GoalPost shows you what unfolded. You have keep a living archive from the experiences at the conference, generated effortlessly and there for you whenever you need it. Tokens exchanged. Relationships woven. Safety maintained. All for your benefit and for the benefit of people you trust. Nobody else.

Nobody else has been listening or tracking what you have been doing so they can show you ads. Nobody can create a file of personal data about you so they can sell it to the highest bidder or share it with a government agency. GoalPost will only reveal to people you personally trust that you went to the conference at all, unless you choose to make it public.

You board your train or plane and open GoalPost one last time.

A small corner blooms:

Some poems, shared by someone you care about. Ready for offline reading.

You lean back. You’re woven into a field.

🏙️ GoalPost in the Suburbs of a City

You’ve been living here for years, but the apartment blocks feel like islands. People come and go. Most neighbors don’t even make eye contact. But recently, something has shifted.

You and a few others have been weaving small threads of connection by lending tools, checking in after an illness, planting shared herbs at the building’s entrance. You’ve started listening to those around you, really listening. You’ve been showing up for others in ways that matter. The other day, you had a potluck supper at your place, and a few people came. They stayed late. They got to know each other, and what’s going on their lives.

You’ve been vulnerable and been asking people for time to spend together. You’ve been letting people get to know you, really know you. You’ve been sharing what is important in your life right now, and what would make you feel supported.

And now you’ve created a shared GoalPost space.

You open the app before your workday begins. You see that Marthe, on the fifth floor, has posted a need: her child is home sick and she could use a few groceries. You know you’ll pass the market later, so you respond:

“Happy to grab a few things. What do you need?”

There’s also a pulse from Kareem. They send a short reflection about loneliness in the city. You send a private message offering a walk later this week.

You add an offer to the shared page:

“I’ve got time this Sunday for light tech support or errands. Let me know what’s needed.”

Then, you check your private dashboard. It shows the three things you’re tending this week: an offer, a request, a promise to yourself.

The tone is quiet. There is no urgency, and nothing is offered that isn’t supportive to you and your trusted circle of care. There is simple presence.

GoalPost becomes a kind of hearth. For you, it is a small, relational fire in the suburbs, places built for speed and separateness. You’re not fixing anything. You’re simply growing your field of care.

These are not edge cases. They are the center.

GoalPost is being shaped by and for communities like these, where care flows differently, where tech must adapt to the relational field, not the other way around.

How would GoalPost live in your hands, your rhythms, your community?
We’d love to hear your reflections.