Dillon Doherty

Building Alleo: AI for planning, life admin, and execution.
Writing about life optimization and what helps people follow through.

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

A few years ago I was stuck — failed venture, job I didn’t love, living with my parents, no clear path forward.

So I built a system to optimize my entire life. Not just tasks. Everything.

That system became a company. Here’s the story:

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

@cantonmeow That makes sense. Something like that just sits on top of everything else and keeps taking mental space even when you’re not actively working on it. The actual studying is one thing, but having it layered on top of inboxes, meetings, and all the rest is a lot

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

@ListservedBud @TristenPalori @evanweirCRE That is such a common small-team problem. Outlook or Gmail, a spreadsheet, and a bunch of stuff people are trying to remember in their head. Then the follow-ups and requirement changes get buried. How often does that actually end up costing you something?

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

@habeeb_taj19252 That kind of agency admin is brutal because none of it is the real work, but it still eats half the day. The reimbursement / tool activation / payment chasing loop sounds especially annoying. What part of it burns the most time for you right now?

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

@oliverbrocato That ops mess is so real. Once everyone has their own system, nobody really knows what matters or what’s actually moving. What part of that breaks down first for you, priorities or follow-through?

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

@d_date @twostraws That’s the worst part. You do the actual work, then get hit with the admin, expenses, and tax cleanup after. What’s the piece of it that always seems to pile up the fastest?

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

@HairlineGod That cycle is brutal. It’s not even the work, it’s the same meeting, same action plan, no follow-through: repeat. What part of that loop wastes the most time for you?

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

@LurkAtHomeMom This is so real. None of it is individually that hard, but when it’s all scattered across ten different places it just fries your brain. What part of it feels like the biggest daily drain for you right now?

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

@quicksearchplus I wanted to DM you, couldn't see a way to do it

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

A lot of people do not have a productivity problem.

They have a carrying-cost problem.

Too many small things sitting in their head.
Too many loose ends across email, calendar, follow-ups, tasks, and life admin.
Too many moments where they have to remember, decide, and push things forward themselves.

That weight adds up fast.

A lot of tools help organize the load.

Fewer actually reduce it.

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

@Jashanx_gill codex has not been good for me in my testing, probably depends on your use case, but it seems lazy and non-compliant

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

Here's the site if you want to check it out: https://t.co/zLZ2bZtxlc

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

Last week I said I'd stop talking about myself.

Aashwin told me to stop apologizing, and my mentor told me I needed to focus on the customer instead of my product.

So here is one step toward that. I worked over the weekend to redo the words on our website. Before they read like a feature list, everything we built instead of the outcomes you care about.

Most of the wording had to change.

"Ask anything. Watch agents make it happen." -> "Give it the work. Get back the time."

"The most capable agents, at your fingertips." -> "Your whole morning's work? Done before you start."

"Applied Intelligence." -> "A team of five. Without hiring anyone."

It is not perfect yet, nor will it ever be. But it is closer to describing what you get instead of what I built, and that's how it should've been all along.

If you've got 30 seconds, check out the website and tell me if it actually makes sense now. I want to know what's still confusing.

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

@stendhalist lmao we'll have terminator before you know it

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

@quicksearchplus Thanks for sharing your product. I'm also working on a productivity app. Want to compare notes?

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

@DXKSH_X I'm working on a tool related to this that is supposed to be pretty easy to use out of the box. You can check it out at https://t.co/C9J3YAUjso and let me know what you think.

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

Nice. The part still on you though: figuring out which AI handles which task, reviewing the handoffs, catching where they contradicted each other.

That coordination overhead is the next thing to go. When the routing's handled and you just define what you're building.

Still early on that. Congrats on shipping something real.

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

It's not really knowledge vs. AI. It's judgment vs. execution.

The people moving fastest aren't just using AI for tasks. They're running their whole workload through it: one person doing what a small team used to. That's where the leverage actually compounds.

Less "your job's gone," more "whoever figures out coordination first pulls way ahead." That's the layer we're building at https://t.co/rI3ZIb3KDH.

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

Good framework. The thing above it though: running this continuously on live data so you catch angle drift before revenue actually moves.

Right now someone still has to think to run it at the right time. That's the gap.

Building the proactive version of this at https://t.co/rI3ZIb3KDH. Less prompt library, more like an analyst who checks in without being asked.

[Dillon Doherty @DillonDoherty2]

And whoever stops doing the operator part manually wins the next version of this role.

When the data analysis just runs, you're back to pure creative judgment. Way better job.

That's what we're building at https://t.co/rI3ZIb3KDH. Curious if you're hitting that bottleneck in your campaigns.