IrisGo for Solopreneurs

IrisGo is described on its own website as an AI operating system for solopreneurs — a desktop application that hands off the repetitive admin of running a one-person business so the owner can spend the day building the business instead. It brings several day-to-day chores into a single app: a scheduled daily brief, an inbox triage layer called Radar, a to-do list, and a workflow recorder that lets you show the app a task once and then replay it. The makeers summarise the promise simply: hand off the repetitive admin and spend your day building the business. It is aimed squarely at people running a business on their own, and it runs on Windows and Mac. Running a business alone means every operational task ultimately lands on the same person. The website walks through a single day to illustrate that weight: a morning that begins with checking a calendar and an inbox, 38 unread messages, bills and asks and deadlines mixed in with everything else, errands that never fit neatly into a to-do list, and by the afternoon still more filing and administration. IrisGo's premise is that this recurring work should be handed off rather than merely organised. Instead of adding another dashboard, it automates the recurring pieces — the brief, the triage, the tracking, and eventually the demonstrated tasks themselves — so the solopreneur's attention goes to work that actually needs a human. The product is in free beta, and the team says the makers are in the comments on Product Hunt to answer questions. The Daily Brief is a scheduled task that starts the day for you. In the website's example, a task called "Morning brief" is set to run on weekdays at 8:00. IrisGo reads the user's calendar and unread email, then posts a short brief in chat — for instance, three priorities, two client calls, and an Adobe invoice due today. Because the brief arrives as a chat message rather than a dashboard, the user gets the day's shape in a few lines while doing something else, like having breakfast. The same surface then becomes the place where the rest of the day's work is discussed and handed off. Email triage is handled by Radar. Rather than asking the user to read every message, Radar lifts the bills, asks and deadlines out of the inbox and presents them as cards. In the walkthrough, the inbox has 38 unread messages but only three that need the user: a $120 bill, a client asking for a revised quote by Friday, and a contract renewal deadline on October 9. Each card carries an "Add to To-dos" button, so a single click moves the item onto the user's list without retyping anything. This is the clearest illustration of the product's approach: the app does the scanning and sorting, and the human only makes the decision. To-dos are organised under three simple headings — today, upcoming, and no date — and are ticked off as the user works through them. In the example day, the ticked items are sending the revised quote, paying the Adobe invoice, and replying to Maya, after which the app shows "All clear for today." The list is deliberately plain: it exists to hold the handful of things Radar and the user have decided actually need doing, not to become another backlog. Watch & Learn is the feature behind the tagline "show it once, let it run." The user demonstrates a task in the normal way and IrisGo records the steps. Holding a receipt over the laptop, the user shows the app a single expense report: Record workflow, then a log that reads attach receipt.pdf, type the amount, click Submit. The app watched the task being done the way it is always done and wrote the steps down, and they become available under Workflows in the app. Later, when a new receipt arrives, the user simply says so — "use receipt-2.pdf instead" — and IrisGo replays the workflow, rebuilding the steps with the new vendor, amount and date. The example ends with "Replay complete, 6 of 6 steps replayed," and the user checks the result. Taken together, the product works around a chat workspace as the primary surface: briefs are posted there, Radar items are acted on from there, and new instructions such as a replacement receipt are given there in plain language. Scheduled tasks such as the Morning brief run on a schedule the user defines. Recorded workflows capture a demonstrated sequence once and then re-execute it against new inputs, with the user reviewing the outcome rather than doing the steps again. The website also states plainly what the app can see: data and workflows at the user's consent. The benefits described are time and attention returned to the business owner. The day outlined on the site begins at 8:00 with a brief instead of an inbox, moves at 8:30 from 38 unread messages to three decisions, reaches "all clear for today" by 9:15, and by 4:40 turns a repeated filing task into a replay the user only has to check. Because updates install automatically and the beta is free, there is no maintenance overhead described for getting started. The makers frame the outcome as handing off the repetitive admin and spending the day building the business. Concrete scenarios in the content include the morning routine of a scheduled brief assembled from calendar and unread email; triaging an inbox down to the bills, asks and deadlines that need a person; ticking off a short daily list of items drawn from that triage; filing an expense report from a receipt by replaying a recorded workflow with a new file; and the broader hand-off question the site poses to users — which workflow would you hand off first, invoicing, client onboarding, bookkeeping, proposal follow-ups, or your own? The website also provides short in-app demos covering Daily Brief (0:07), Email Triage (0:10), My Radar (0:13) and Watch & Learn (0:17), plus a 36-second demo on the site. IrisGo for Solopreneurs is built for solopreneurs, and the beta is available for Windows and Mac. The stated requirements before installing are Windows 11 (64-bit) and Apple Silicon Macs, and it is free during the beta with updates installing automatically. The launch was a number one Product of the Day on Product Hunt, the company is backed by Andrew Ng's AI Fund, and the product has been covered by TechCrunch, Fast Company and The Information. The makers — Jeffrey Lai, Arnold Yip and Lman Chu — are in the Product Hunt comments for questions. Overall, IrisGo positions itself as an AI operating system for one-person businesses: a daily brief to set the day, Radar to find what needs a decision, to-dos to carry it through, and Watch & Learn to capture repetitive tasks once and run them again. Its value proposition is not more management software but fewer chores — hand off the repetitive admin, and spend the day building the business.