How it works
Six questions in. A plan for your year back.
Year Well Built is a free, self-guided annual review. You answer six open questions about the year behind you and the year ahead. It reads your answers together and gives you back a plan.
1. You answer six questions
Two look back, at work and at life outside it. Two look forward. One asks what you already know is coming. The last asks what would make the year well built.
Type, or choose to dictate and simply talk. Half-formed answers are fine. Your answers are saved in your own browser as you go, so you can stop and come back.
2. Your answers are read together
Year Well Built reads all six at once. It looks for what repeats, what you care about most, and what you may be standing too close to see. This takes less than a minute.
3. You get a plan you can change
- One word for the year, and why it follows from what the last year taught you
- Three intentions at most, each with a short reason
- The values underneath your answers
- Three small actions for your first ninety days
- The fixed points you already know about
- One thing to say no to, to protect the rest
- A short note from Matt, with one question to sit with
Every line can be edited before you keep it.
4. The full plan arrives by email
Add your email address and you get a four-page PDF. It adds the year in quarters, a small practice to keep each intention alive, questions to ask yourself at day ninety, and a few things to read.
At day ninety, one email asks how it is going. That is the only follow-up, unless you choose to join the newsletter.
What it costs
Nothing. There is no account and no password.
How long it takes
Allow about twenty minutes. Longer if you like to think out loud.
Who is behind it
Year Well Built is made by Matt Rutherford, a career and leadership coach based in Ireland. The plan follows the way he works with coaching clients: reflect back what was said, name what matters, and keep the first steps small.
There is some AI in it. It is used to read your answers together, analyse them quickly and draft your plan. A great coach or facilitator does this while listening to you. Year Well Built automates that step, so you get an outcome straight away.
If your plan raises something you want to think through with someone, you can book a discovery call.
Your answers stay yours
Your answers are read once to build your plan and are not kept. Your plan is stored only if you ask for it by email, and you can delete it at any time. The privacy page has the detail.
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