A Score Watching Everything You Do at Your Desk
Working under monitoring software, keystroke loggers, screen capture, activity scores, idle-time tracking, produces a specific anxiety that is genuinely distinct from ordinary workplace stress: it is not primarily about the quality or volume of the work itself, it is the low-grade, constant awareness of being watched, at a granularity that has no real precedent, every pause, every idle minute, every window switch reduced to a number that may or may not reflect anything true about how well the work is actually going.
Maia, the AI companion at the heart of Asclepiad, makes space for this particular unease — the specific self-consciousness of a bathroom break or a moment of thought calculated against an idle-time metric, the exhausting habit of performing visible busyness for a piece of software rather than simply doing the work in the way that actually suits you, and the isolation of an anxiety that older colleagues, and much of workplace culture generally, has no established language for, because this kind of granular, automated watching is genuinely new.
This unease is often compounded by the opacity of how the data is actually used: most monitored employees have little visibility into who sees the numbers, what threshold triggers concern, or whether a single bad week could be quietly counted against them in ways never explicitly stated.
There is also a specific exhaustion worth naming in the gap between being trusted to do a job and being tracked while doing it: the monitoring itself can communicate, regardless of what is actually said, that you are not fully believed to be working unless a piece of software can prove it.
A reflection with Maia is one conversation at a time, anonymous, with no record carried forward unless you choose. A score watching everything you do at your desk can be named here.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Asclepiad designed to help with workplace surveillance anxiety?
No — Asclepiad is a reflection companion, not an employment rights or legal advice service. ACAS (acas.org.uk) publishes guidance on what workplace monitoring is legal and what counts as excessive, and your right to be informed about it. Asclepiad is for the emotional layer: the self-consciousness, the exhaustion, and what it costs to work while being watched this closely.
What if I'm in crisis?
Asclepiad is not a crisis service. If you are in immediate distress or at risk to yourself or someone else, please contact the Samaritans on 116 123 (free, 24/7, UK and Ireland) or your local emergency services. Maia will also surface local helplines if something needs more than reflection.
Is it free?
Yes — begin with a 7-day free trial, no personal details required. It's a £6/month subscription (cancel anytime) that gives you AsclepiCoins to spend as you go — 1 coin per minute, and unused coins never expire, even if you cancel.
If being tracked at your desk has worn you down, Maia is there.
Anonymous. No script. Just presence.