Two minutes now.
A promotion case in December.
Cookd is your private work memory. Keep a win when it happens — weekly, biweekly, whenever — and it quietly compounds into review drafts, promotion cases, and resume bullets.
Scroll through a working year
You spend a Saturday hunting a p95 regression. Monday, it's fixed and forgotten by everyone — including, eventually, you.
“p95 back under 200ms — turned out to be the N+1 on events”
A teammate ships their first major feature. Half the review comments were yours. No ticket says so.
“walked P through the deploy pipeline + reviewed the rollout plan”
Mid-year check-in. Your goal was “own a system end-to-end.” Turns out three captured wins already prove it.
Goal: own the events pipeline end-to-end
You finish the data-systems book that untangled the queue redesign. That's a skill grown, not just a book read.
“finished DDIA — used ch.11 thinking for the queue redesign”
Kept so far, without trying
24 wins
plus 5 goals evidenced and 8 learnings logged — a few minutes a month, total.
2026 Performance Review
Drafted from 24 kept wins
This year I shipped measurable improvements across reliability, onboarding, and team growth — several backed by clear before-and-after numbers.
- Reduced onboarding drop-off — first-week activation up from 41% to 52%.
- Fixed a production performance issue — p95 latency down ~38%.
- Unblocked a cross-team integration — two teams shipped a week early.
- Mentored a junior engineer — guided their first major feature to ship.
Review draft · promotion-readiness report · resume bullets — grounded in the year you actually kept, exported to PDF.
The night-before scramble, replaced by a season you saw coming.
Read the full example draftWhy it matters
Reviews are decided on the year you can prove — not the year you worked.
Most people do far more than they can recall under pressure. Cookd makes sure the proof is already there when it counts.
Impact scatters as it happens
Your work lives across tasks, docs, messages, and meetings. None of it adds up on its own.
The best wins fade first
Small fixes, cross-team help, quiet mentoring — exactly the work worth remembering is the first to go.
Review season becomes a scramble
Reconstructing six months of impact the night before a review rarely does your year justice.
Invisible work stays invisible
Mentoring, unblocking, and process fixes seldom show up anywhere — until you write them down.
What Cookd keeps
One record, three kinds of proof — and the context behind them.
Most tools track only what you shipped. Cookd keeps the whole story — the goals you’re chasing, the skills you’re growing, and the wins that prove both.
Universal Capture
Paste a messy recap and Cookd sorts it into wins, goals, and learning to review — nothing is saved until you confirm.
Wins & evidence
Capture wins with light structure, metrics, skills, and evidence links — organized by projects and review cycles.
Goals & OKRs
Track what you're working toward and see which goals already have proof and which still need more.
Learning & skill growth
Log courses, books, and lessons as skill-growth evidence, linked to the wins they produced.
The honest cadence
Built for the way you’ll actually use it.
Most tracking tools assume daily devotion and die in a week. Cookd assumes you’re busy — and that a light record, kept honestly, beats a perfect one abandoned in February.
Weekly or whenever
Cookd is built for people who come back after a week or three — not a daily planner with a guilt streak.
Gentle, not needy
A quiet nudge if you want one. No shame mechanics, no fire emojis, no “you lost your streak.”
AI that never invents
Every draft is grounded only in what you captured. A missing number is asked for — never made up for you to defend later.
Private by default
Single-user, no sharing, no required integrations. Works with AI fully off, and everything exports or deletes anytime.
Why Cookd
More structure than a brag doc. More continuity than an AI chat.
Why not just a brag doc?
A doc is easy to start in January and easy to abandon by February. Cookd keeps the context around each entry — goals, learning, skills, evidence links, projects, and review cycles — so a year later you understand what your work proves, not just what happened.
Why not just an AI chat?
You can paste work notes into a chatbot, but threads get messy, scattered, and hard to maintain across a year. Cookd is AI-assisted structurefor your career evidence — organized into wins, goals, skills, and promotion-ready proof that’s yours to keep.
Pricing
The record is free. December is Pro.
Keeping the year by hand is always free. Pro is the AI work-memory coach you reach for when the record has to become a case.
Unlimited wins, goals & learning · 10 AI generations a month · readiness against the default rubric. Enough to keep a whole year.
Unlimited AI capture, the work-memory coach — goal evidence analysis & learning-to-skill synthesis — PDF exports, and your company’s own rubric. Annual $99/yr, 2 months free.
Cancel anytime. Your record is never deleted on downgrade.
Quiet questions
The things people ask before starting.
Is my data private?
Cookd is single-user by design — no team sharing, no manager view, and no required integrations. AI features can be turned off entirely, and even with AI on, it only ever uses your own captured work.
What if I miss a month?
Nothing happens. There's no streak to lose and no guilt mechanics. Cookd is built for people who come back weekly, biweekly, or whenever something meaningful happens — the record simply picks up where you left off.
Does the AI make things up?
It's designed not to. Every AI feature works only from the work you've captured — your wins, goals, and learning — and asks for a missing number rather than guessing it. No AI is perfect, though, so treat drafts as a strong starting point and review them before you rely on them.
Do I need to connect Slack, GitHub, or Jira?
No. There are no required integrations. Paste a note, message, or PR description and Cookd structures it into a win — you get value on day one with nothing connected.
How is this different from a Notion doc, a spreadsheet, or an AI chat?
A doc or spreadsheet is easy to start and easy to abandon by February. An AI chat is great for a one-off answer but turns into a messy, scattered thread. Cookd gives that AI structure and continuity — your wins, goals, learning, and evidence stay organized across the whole year, ready to become review drafts, readiness reports, and resume bullets.
Does it work without AI?
Yes. Every AI feature has a deterministic fallback, so the whole product is usable without an API key. AI is an enhancement, not a requirement.
How much does it cost?
The record itself is free — unlimited wins, goals, and learning entries, 10 AI generations a month, and readiness against the default rubric. Pro is $9.99/mo (or $99/yr) and adds unlimited AI capture plus the work-memory coach — goal evidence analysis, learning-to-skill synthesis, premium exports, and custom company rubrics.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel from your account and keep Pro until the end of your billing period, then move to the Free plan. Your record is never deleted when you downgrade.
Can I export or delete my data?
Anytime. You can export your wins and documents, and delete individual records or your whole account whenever you want. Your data is yours.
Who's behind Cookd?
Cookd is built by Eastbase Studio, a small independent product studio.
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