Unscary

An iPhone app by B43

Sharper writing for remote work, powered by AI practice

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Coming soon to the App Store. We will email you the day it is ready.

The Unscary AI “Your path” screen. It mirrors the member's goal back as “You want to catch up and stop feeling behind,” then shows the four-rung climb, Automate, Standardize, Try and Recognize, with a “You're here” marker on Try.

What the research says

“the average employee spends 57% of their time communicating (in meetings, email, and chat) and 43% creating (in documents, spreadsheets, and presentations).”
Microsoft's Work Trend Index finds the average employee spends more of the workday communicating than creating. Source: www.microsoft.com
“We're all carrying digital debt: the inflow of data, emails, meetings, and notifications has outpaced humans' ability to process it all.”
Microsoft describes 'digital debt': the inflow of data, emails, meetings, and notifications now outpaces people's ability to process it. Source: www.microsoft.com
“Access to the assistive chatbot ChatGPT decreased the time it took workers to complete the tasks by 40 percent, and output quality rose by 18 percent.”
A randomized experiment found AI assistance made professional writing tasks markedly faster while raising output quality. Source: news.mit.edu

Remote work multiplied your writing load

Workplace research shows the average employee now spends more of the day communicating in meetings, email, and chat than creating actual work — and the inflow keeps outpacing our ability to process it. For remote workers, nearly every one of those exchanges is written.

AI helps most where words pile up

Research on professional writing tasks found people working with an AI assistant finished faster and produced better output. Unscary makes that your default: short lessons and hands-on reps from B43's AI training, aimed at the messages, docs, and updates you already write.

A builder step in the Unscary AI app. The exercise reads “Now add the part that was missing,” showing a mock chat with a support-reply request and an empty Context slot, and a field below where the member writes the context to add.

How it works in the app

Each day brings a quick rep on a real writing task — tighten an update, summarize a thread, draft a reply worth reading. Points and streaks keep the habit alive, and your progress report shows your written output getting sharper week by week.

Make every message earn its keep.

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