CEO Mode
Strategy, planning, big-picture. The mode where you decide what matters and break it into the smallest pieces your brain can actually execute. AI-assisted on Pro.
ADHD · A Cognitive Operating System
Not a to-do app. A cognitive OS for ADHD brains.
Two modes for two states of the ADHD brain. Plus the apps that make them work.
Your brain has two modes. Zalfol is built around both.
Goldfish Mode
One task. Five minutes. Total isolation — no nav, no notifications, no second tab. The mode where you actually execute. AI-assisted on Pro.
Everything else in Zalfol is built to support the cycle between these two states.
What runs on the OS.
Each one is the kind of thing that could be standalone. They're better together.
Keeper
Your digital safe. Articles, links, videos, tweets — captured from any tab via the Chrome extension. The Brief studies your work three times daily and groups your inbox into project / interesting / archive / action required. Stop losing things to "I'll read it later."
Chrome extension · The Brief · 3× dailyHeart + Urges
Emotional logging with eight ADHD pattern detectors — RSD, shame spiral, hyperfocus crash, emotional flooding, executive paralysis, overwhelm cascade, guilt loop, novelty crash. Plus Urge Fighting — log any addictive behavior, one-tap into resistance mode when an urge hits. Earn XP for resistance. No AI here. Ever.
8 patterns · One-tap resistance · No AISponsor
Pair with one trusted person. They get a daily nudge view of your focus — your Goldfish completion rate, your active CEO project — without seeing the content. Real-time chat with read receipts. 30-day cooldown anti-spam. Backed by Matthews' accountability research.
Human-in-the-loop · Real-time · Anti-spam
What else runs on it
Miner
Zero-structure thought capture
R&D
Novelty, budgeted
Sleep / Night Brief
End-of-day flush, morning prime
2-Min Actions
Interrupt handler with archive
60+ Ready-made Projects
Browse the library →
Don't know what you don't know? Start with a template.
The hardest part of ADHD is the cold start. You know you want to launch something — a business, a course, a habit, a study schedule — but the moment you sit down, the page is blank and the brain freezes.
Templates are how you skip the cold start. Pick a project that's already broken down — micro-tasks under five minutes each, dependencies named, assets listed, key results pre-set, even the Goldfish queue baked in. Walk through it. By the time you finish one, you've learned the whole CEO-mode loop by doing it once.
Learn programming from zero
- HTML basics — 5 min tasks
- First static page in a sandbox
- Disciple street: Software
Morning routine for ADHD
- 5-minute wake-up sequence
- Pre-first-task dopamine setup
- Defends the flow window
Learn AI tools — 21 days
- One tool per day, 5-min drills
- From prompts to workflows
- Practice in the Sandbox
60+Templates
5-minMax task length
FreeAll tiers
EN + ARBilingual
The Learning System
Pick a street. Walk it until you master it.
Disciple is Zalfol's learning system. Choose a street — software development, marketing, personal finance, product thinking — and walk it from Newcomer to Master through six ranks, earning street coins as you go. It's gamified the way ADHD brains actually respond to: small wins, named ranks, visible progression, and four ways to engage.
The Elder
The Elder never gives you direct information. Only Socratic questions. Pose a problem and the Elder maps it through trigger words to the right question — the one that makes you find the answer yourself.
Socratic only · Trigger-word graphThe Tour Guide
The Tour Guide never initiates. It waits in queue, then responds when you ask. The patient, neutral mentor — never a notification.
Responds, never pushesLingo Bingo + Sandbox
Vocabulary acquisition via bingo cards. Practice tasks in the sandbox. Both feed street coins. Both reward small daily encounters over marathon sessions.
Words + Practice · Daily dripsLibrary
Your curated reference library for the street — books, articles, videos. Connected to Keeper. Captures don't get lost between fields.
Keeper-connected · Per-field
Newcomer 0–99
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Observer 100–299
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Apprentice 300–599
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Practitioner 600–999
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Builder 1000–1499
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Master 1500+
See the streets →
Zalfol is a platform — not a feature list.
Each app you saw could be standalone. Most of them, eventually, will be. Right now they live inside Zalfol because they connect to each other in ways no separate app could.
Keeper captures show up as research in your CEO projects. Your urges feed pattern detection in Heart. Your sponsor sees your Goldfish completion rate without seeing the content. Your Disciple street links to your Library and your Keeper. The platform is the value — not any single app.
Soon you'll choose which apps run on your home screen. The OS doesn't change. The apps do.
I'm Eslam. I built this because nothing else worked.
I am Eslam, an engineer with 18 years of experience in designing and analyzing systems and algorithms. 10 of those years I struggled against my brain, then discovered my diagnosis of ADHD at 29 — so I spent 6 years researching and building tools and systems for my brain. For the past 3 years I built 2 companies, 4 products, and taught the systems I researched and designed to hundreds of students. And I built this whole Operating System in just two months.
The strength, flight, laser eyes weren't the reason Superman became a hero — they were the tools. Superman is a hero even without them. ADHD people are also super heroes; they just need the tools to enable them to utilize their super powers. I believe our current AI era is going to be led by ADHD people as its super stars — they are the ones most starved for executive abilities, which is exactly what AI provides the most.
For years of professional life, and years of college before that, I searched for any tool that could match my brain — my two states: the CEO state of high dopamine, high intensity, high energy, and the Goldfish state of wandering, unable to remember what's what, just wanting one detailed micro-task to auto-attack and charge my mana with.
What Zalfol is — it's the system that allows you to operate your mind, and finally unlock your super powers.
The free plan is real.
No card to start. Cancel from settings. Pro is the support layer.
Free
$0/month
Forever. No card. Cancel anywhere.
- 2 active projects
- All modes (CEO + Goldfish + Miner)
- All apps (Heart, Sponsor, Disciple, Keeper, R&D, more)
- Brain Dump + Chrome extension
- 60+ templates
- English + Arabic
Pro · Founder's Pricing
$29.90/month
$10/month
Less than $1/day at the founder's rate.
Founder's pricing — locked in for life if you upgrade while we're bootstrapped under 1,000 Pro subscribers. Returns to $29.90/mo after.
- 6 active projects (vs 2)
- AI Co-CEO in CEO mode
- AI Assist in Goldfish mode
- The Brief — 3× daily Keeper analysis
- Premium Goldfish themes + priority support
If your brain has two modes, Zalfol is the system that helps you unlock both.
Zalfol is one platform with all the apps that serve both.