Quests, not chores
Anyone can propose a job. It moves through a real lifecycle — proposed, accepted, in progress, submitted, confirmed, rewarded — so “done” actually means done.
// quests · rewards · a fair trade
Run your household like a fair little economy.
Incentinomics turns family work into quests with rewards worth doing. Propose a job, negotiate the payoff like adults, confirm it’s done, and let an append-only ledger keep score — no nagging, no vanishing IOUs.
in private family alpha
runs on your own box
public beta — when it’s ready
// household ledger
append-only
- completionDeep-clean the garagedone
- points_earnedDeep-clean the garage+20
- reward_unlockedSteak nightheld
- points_earnedDishes, three nights+15
- points_spentFriday movie pick−30
- points_reversalCorrects an earlier entry−5
Nothing here is ever edited. A mistake becomes a
points_reversal that points back
at the entry it corrects — so the record of what actually happened survives the fix.
// three ideas, one loop
Chore charts track. This trades.
Negotiate like adults
Counter-offers, not commands. Each side answers the other until the terms feel fair — and the reason a number moved is recorded, not argued about later.
An honest ledger
Points, levels and streaks are computed from confirmed completions only. There is no second score to inflate, and no way to quietly withhold a reward that was already agreed.
// the loop, end to end
Click the whole lifecycle.
Every button below drives the same state machine the real app enforces, and names the tool call it maps to. The negotiation is the part no chore chart has — so haggle first, then walk it to a confirmed reward.
A preview of the flow, not a live account. It runs entirely in this page — nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is stored. The vocabulary, the state machine and the tool names are the product’s real ones.
proposed
effort 4
no terms yet
Deep-clean the garage
Proposed by Sam (coordinator) for Alex (doer) · due Sunday
That’s a big ask.Advisory only — effort 4 against Alex’s recent average of 2. Nothing is blocked; both of you just get told.
// negotiation thread
0 rungs
no offer on the table yet
Your AI assistant can read this quest and even propose one — but
quest.confirm from a machine actor returns
UnauthorizedTransitionError. Confirming work and releasing a reward is a
human decision, by design.
// quest state machine1 / 6
- proposedquest.propose
- acceptedquest.accept
- in_progressquest.start
- submittedquest.submit
- confirmedquest.confirm
- rewardedatomic
// tool callsmcp · contract v1
- waiting for the first call…
// ledger writes0 pts
nothing written — the ledger only moves on confirm
// built on a few stubborn principles
The parts we won’t trade away.
- 01
The app works with zero AI.
Humans first, always. The whole quest-and-reward loop is usable without an assistant anywhere near it.
- 02
Already live in an assistant? Bring it.
Claude, ChatGPT or Grok can drive your household over MCP — the same tools the app itself calls, no second account.
- 03
Confirming work stays human.
No exceptions. The ai and service actor classes are denied the confirm and reward transitions in the state machine — and the database independently rejects any illegal edge, app or not.
- 04
A household is a hard wall.
Your family’s data is isolated by design, and the alpha runs on a box in the house — not on anyone else’s cloud.
// private family alpha
One household is using this. Yours could be next.
Incentinomics is being dogfooded by the family that built it, on hardware in their own house. There is no download, no waitlist page and no signup form here — this site is deliberately a single static file. If you want in when the beta opens, write to a person.
iOS · Android · web
MCP server for your assistant
public beta — when it’s ready
Ask for an invite
info@folsomholdings.com
Open in your mail appThis is a mail link, not a form. It opens a message you send yourself, so nothing is collected here and no address is quietly swallowed by a page that can’t store one. The list opens when the beta does.