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A mallard duck leading a row of golden ducklings across a moonlit pond

Get all your ducks in a row.

A structured program for the life admin you keep meaning to do. Finish a piece, earn a duck.

Free to sign up. You will be first in the door when enrolment opens, and we will never spam you.

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Ten ducks.
Two wings.
One organised life.

Your ducks

3 of 5 in a row

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Dashboard preview, sample progress.

One enrolment, two wings.

In plain English: a guided program to get your documents, money, legal basics and digital life sorted properly once, then run the weekly systems that keep them sorted.

Get Sorted

The one-off admin every adult means to do someday, done once and done properly. The folder your family could actually find. The will you know the location of. The money map. The digital cleanup.

Bus File, Legal Life, Money Plumbing, Digital Life, Home Base

Run Your Life

The systems that keep it done without you thinking about it. Weekly rhythms, paper flow, points, and the behaviour layer that restarts you when life knocks it over.

Time, Paper, Points, AI Crew, Momentum

What the ten ducks actually are.

Get Sorted

The Bus File
The folder your family finds in under 5 minutes: 5 lessons, 8 fillable templates, 14 ducklings.
Legal Life
The four grown-up documents, education only, ending in a booked path, not a guilt trip.
Money Plumbing
Your money on one page, every leak found and dealt with. Never financial advice.
Digital Life
A password manager running your logins, photos that back themselves up, accounts on one list.
Home Base
The home's paperwork findable, its insurance actually read, its maintenance on a calendar.

Run Your Life

Time Architecture
One calendar for your whole life and a fifteen-minute weekly reset that actually happens.
Paper Flow
One tray, twenty minutes a week, nothing lost twice.
Points and Travel
Your loyalty value found, protected and pointed at a real trip. Never a credit card recommendation.
AI Crew
An AI assistant set up safely, with written house rules and three real jobs on its desk.
Momentum
The restart layer from the Momentum Series: why systems slip and how to bring them back.

How it works

Feed your ducklings

Every duck comes with ducklings: small, checkable steps toward a real artefact. Feed the one you are working on.

Earn the duck

Get the last duckling in line and the duck stands up on your dashboard. Ten ducks, two wings, all countable.

Live your life

The point of a row of ducks is that you stop thinking about them. That is the whole idea.

Try it right now

Three real ducklings from the Bus File module. Tick them and see what members see.

0 of 3 ducklings in line

No shame in this pond

You are not lazy and you are not behind. You are carrying a lot, and nobody ever taught you this. Organisation is a skill, learned duckling by duckling. There are no streaks to lose, no guilt notifications, and you can start again any time. The ducks will wait.

No tricks at the till

When enrolment opens the price will be on the page in plain numbers, and it will be the kind of number a normal person can say yes to. No auto-renewing trial tricks, no countdown timers, no fake scarcity, cancelling takes one click, and there is a 14 day no-questions refund. Our privacy page is written in plain English too.

Which of your ducks is furthest out of line?

Take the free Duck Check: ten areas, about two minutes, no email wall, and your answers never leave your browser.

β€œThe gap between people who look organised and people who are organised is enormous, and it only becomes visible at the worst possible moment, to the people who love them most.”

Naomi Shiels, founder, in the Bus File module. Former lawyer, ADF veteran, author of seven books, mother.