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Integrity Contracts

Create accountability contracts for the goals and habits you can’t seem to stick to — or that are really meaningful to you

Pick any habit or goal you keep slipping on — the morning workout, the writing session, the diet, the deep work block. You’ve set the intention before. You meant it. Then Wednesday happened, the week slipped, and you rolled it to next Monday — again.

The problem isn’t discipline. It’s not willpower. It’s not even motivation. It’s that breaking a promise to yourself costs nothing in the moment. The brain doesn’t weigh next quarter’s goals against right now — it weighs ice cream against salad, Netflix against the open textbook, the warm bed against the 6am run. And in that exact moment, the short-term reward wins every time. Not because you’re weak. Because you’re human. We are wired to discount future payoff in favour of immediate comfort — psychologists call it temporal discounting, and it’s been baked into us since we needed to eat today to survive tomorrow.

The long-term version of you — leaner, sharper, further along — has no voice in that moment. He doesn’t show up. She doesn’t argue back. The future self is abstract. The ice cream is right there.

That is why our Contracts can become a helpful tool in your toolbox. By pre-committing — staking something real before the moment of temptation arrives — you give your future self a seat at the table. Now breaking the promise has an immediate cost too. The short-term reward still exists. But so does the short-term consequence. And suddenly the equation is fair.

Integrity Contracts mentor voices

How contracts work

Three steps. One week. No excuses you can make after the fact.

1. Pick your habit or goal

Contracts attach to targets you already defined — not a generic streak counter. The commitment is specific: a number, a window, a standard that’s yours.

2. Set your stake and difficulty

Choose how much skin you put in. Easy contracts offer modest upside. Hard contracts raise the multiplier — and the pressure. An in-app calculator shows you the reward potential before you commit.

3. Choose your mentor voice

20+ archetypes. Drill sergeant. Quiet operator. Stoic philosopher. Storyteller. Pick the tone that matches what you need this week — not what felt good last month.

4. Select how many grace days

How many days you have to log entries for the contract after the official contract duration is over.

Then lock it in. The contract runs. Your mentor gives you motivating messages along the way. During a contract you feel a raised pressure that you don’t feel otherwise, because of the stakes you set for yourself.

Legendary mentors

  • 20+ mentor archetypes — from tough love to steady encouragement, storyteller to systems thinker
  • Messages across the full arc — reinforcement when you hit the week matters as much as the reckoning when you don’t
  • Tone you choose, week by week — what you need in a hard quarter isn’t what you need in a flowing one
  • Tied to your goals and habits — not a bolt-on guilt trip. The mentor knows what a good week means for you numerically.
Legendary mentor archetypes

Coin stakes

Lose what you earned. Earn it back by executing.

Integrity Coins aren’t a gimmick layer on top of your productivity system. They’re the currency of the whole economy — earned through daily logins, hitting goals, completing reviews, crushing stretch targets.

When you stake coins on a contract, you’re putting proof of past effort on the line. That’s why it works. It’s not abstract. It represents the Tuesday you showed up when you didn’t want to.

  • Win → get your staked coins back plus a bonus
  • Lose → forfeit your stake and earn a small consolation

Plan limits

Start free. Scale when you’re ready for more pressure.

Free

1 Integrity Contract Try it out

Pro

Up to 7 active contracts simultaneously

Ultimate

Unlimited contracts

One active contract per habit at a time — so you’re forced to finish what you started before stacking more.

How it fits your system

Contracts don’t live in isolation. They plug into everything.

  • On the dashboard you see the contract progress on the goal or habit you have a contract on
  • Every contract shows you everything you signed up for: your target outcome, the duration, staked coins, grace period. A countdown timer shows that everything eventually has an end — and you’d better make sure it’s a successful one.

    Contract: target, duration, staked coins, grace period, and countdown

Vs. financial stakes apps

Same psychology. Without the part where you get charged when life happens.

StickK / cash stakes

Real money motivates — and sometimes destabilizes. One bad week plus a surprise charge is a rough combination. No mentor arc. No connection to your full goal graph.

Beeminder

Powerful for metric obsessives. Derailments cost real dollars. It can become really expensive when life happens.

Build Momentum

Stake coins you earned. Pressure without predatory billing. 20+ mentor tones. Weekly contracts tied to the habits and goals you already track.

Ethics

Optional by design. Serious by choice.

Contracts are not the default. You can first start with gentle tracking — for easier and more default habits, this is more than okay. You turn contracts on when you decide you need maximum pressure — not because the app decided for you.

  • Virtual currency only — no gambling, no guaranteed financial returns
  • You choose the stake, the difficulty, the mentor tone
  • Grace period options available for when life happens
  • Cancel early if needed — the stake forfeits, but the choice is always yours

If you’ve outgrown “try harder” and want structure that respects your nervous system — stakes without predatory billing — this is it.

You already know what the week should look like. Make it cost something not to deliver.

Try your first contract free — no credit card required.