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Who it is for

Five kinds of week, and one honest difference between them.

The last question in onboarding is what describes you right now. Most software would use that to change the marketing and nothing else. In Rihla it changes the horizon: how far out a first deadline is inferred before you edit it — because a student’s term and a parent’s year are not the same unit of time.

  • Student

    Term-length urgency
    ×0.75

    Your deadlines are set by somebody else’s calendar and they are closer than they feel. A goal that would default to a season is pulled in by a quarter, and an exam answer pulls it in much further than that.

  • Employee

    A season, unmodified
    ×1.0

    The default. Ninety days is long enough that a real goal fits inside it and short enough that you find out whether it was the right one. Your job already imposes its own deadlines; the app does not need to add urgency you did not ask for.

  • Founder / Freelancer

    A season, but your answers move it
    ×1.0

    The context does not shorten your horizon, but the answers you give about the work do: a launch, a feature or a win lands at sixty days rather than ninety. The urgency comes from the thing you named, not from a label we put on you.

  • Job-seeker

    Term-length urgency
    ×0.75

    Treated like a student’s term, for the same reason: this is a period you are trying to end, not a way of living you are trying to sustain. A ninety-day default would quietly tell you to settle in.

  • Balancing roles

    Honest slack
    ×1.25

    The only group the app gives *more* time to. If several people depend on your week, a deadline set as though they do not is a deadline you will miss and then feel bad about — which is a worse outcome than the longer date you would have hit.

And what it does not change

  • Not the questions

    The onboarding questions come from the life areas you picked, in the order you picked them, capped at three. They are the same three whether you are a student or a founder — what differs is what you chose, which is a better signal than what you are called.

  • Not the scoring

    No group is graded on a curve. A deep-focus hour counts the same for everyone, and there is no cohort you are being compared against — the app never has another user’s data to compare you to.

  • Not a lock

    The inferred date arrives marked low-confidence and editable. It is a starting position, offered because a blank date field is a worse question than a wrong answer you can correct in one tap.

The eight life areas

What you pick here matters more than what you call yourself.

You choose them in order, and the order is the signal — the first is treated as the one with the most at stake. Life balance, one of the five sub-scores, is computed against this selection, which is also how a decision that serves a neglected area ends up scoring higher on alignment.

  1. 01Health
  2. 02Career
  3. 03Study
  4. 04Side project
  5. 05Money
  6. 06Relationships
  7. 07Spirituality
  8. 08Other

None of this works without the record underneath it.

The horizon is a starting guess. Everything after it is measured.