Beeminder

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Commit to your goals with financial accountability — automatically tracked

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Beeminder is an accountability platform that charges your credit card when you miss the commitments you set. Connect it to Actionist and your agents automatically log datapoints from the apps where your work happens — GitHub commits, Toggl time, help desk resolutions, CRM activities — so your bright-line graph stays current without manual entry. Agents can read goal health, surface derailment risk before the charge fires, correct bad datapoints, and export historical trend data, all without you opening the Beeminder dashboard.

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Average time saved

6 hours

per person · per month

≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the daily manual cycle of counting outputs from source apps, logging values into Beeminder, and checking bright-line status across every active goal.

Schedule

What your Beeminder agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs

7Agents at work

24/7Always on

Agents

Tue–Thu

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10a

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12p

Multi-app workflows

Beeminder × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows

8Apps spanned

~59 hrsSaved / week

6Personas served

For personal productivity

Featured3 apps

Toggl time entries auto-logged to Beeminder goal

When a Toggl time entry stops for a tracked project, the agent reads today's accumulated datapoints, creates a new entry on the matching Beeminder time-tracking goal, then checks the updated derailment status and posts the bright-line position to the user's personal Slack channel. The accountability graph stays current without any manual logging.

~13 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow

Trigger·When a Toggl time entry is stopped for a tracked project

Trigger

Step 1

Toggl

Detect time entry stopped for a tracked project

read

Step 2

Beeminder

Get today's existing datapoints for the matching goal

write

Step 3

Beeminder

Create data point for a goal with today's tracked minutes

read

Step 4

Beeminder

Check goal derailment status after the new entry

write

Step 5

Slack

Post bright-line status update to personal Slack channel

Result

Create data point for a goal with today's tracked minutesPost bright-line status update to personal Slack channel

The win

Saved per run

30 min

Runs / week

~25×

Zero manual Beeminder updates — every tracked session feeds the goal

Driven byOperations Agent

ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

Sales
15 min / week
Manual daily Beeminder updates
Reps open Beeminder at the end of each day, type in today's call count, and check whether they are safe — a separate step that is easy to skip when closing hard.
Sales Agent
0 min
Agent logs activity from CRM automatically
When a rep logs a call or meeting in HubSpot, the agent creates a Beeminder datapoint and posts the bright-line status to the sales tracker — no manual goal updates between deals.
Marketing
12 min / week
Manual weekly content goal update
The content lead manually counts the week's published pieces each Friday, logs the count in Beeminder, and checks whether the team is on pace — a routine check that often gets skipped during busy launch weeks.
Marketing Agent
0 min
Agent logs content output from the CMS automatically
When content is published, the agent creates a datapoint on the content-output goal and posts current bright-line status to #marketing — the team sees their commitment health without opening Beeminder.
Customer Support
20 min / week
Manual ticket-count goal logging
The support lead manually pulls the daily resolution count from the help desk dashboard and enters it into Beeminder each evening — a task that is often forgotten on high-volume ticket days.
Customer Support Agent
0 min
Agent logs resolved ticket count daily from the help desk
Each day the agent reads the help desk resolution count and creates a Beeminder datapoint, then checks the bright-line status and alerts the team if the commitment is within 24 hours of derailment.
Human Resources
10 min / week
Manual Beeminder goal setup per hire
HR manually creates a Beeminder goal for each new hire, configures the rate and pledge, and archives it at offboarding — a 10-minute task per person that compounds with each new cohort.
Human Resources Agent
0 min
Agent creates and manages hire-specific goals automatically
When a new hire joins, the agent creates their performance goal in Beeminder with the correct rate and pledge, and archives it at offboarding — no manual goal setup or cleanup by the HR team.
Finance
14 min / week
Manual finance goal data entry
The finance team manually counts completed invoices and expense reports each day and enters the totals into Beeminder — a repetitive data-entry task that is often delayed until end of week.
Finance Agent
0 min
Agent logs invoice and processing counts from accounting systems
The agent reads processing counts from the accounting system daily and creates Beeminder datapoints automatically, checking bright-line status and alerting the finance lead when the team is behind pace.
Operations
45 min / week
Manual goal registry maintenance
Operations manually reviews every team's Beeminder goals each Monday, checks which ones are close to derailment, and compiles a status summary for leadership — a process that can take an hour when the team is large.
Operations Agent
0 min
Agent maintains the full goal registry and surfaces at-risk goals
The operations agent lists all goals weekly, checks derailment status across every team, retrieves graph images for at-risk commitments, and assembles the cross-team accountability report automatically.
Legal
18 min / week
Manual compliance goal tracking in Beeminder
Legal manually enters completed contract reviews and filings into Beeminder at the end of each day, then checks whether each compliance goal is on pace — a routine that is easy to deprioritize when counsel is in back-to-back reviews.
Legal Agent
0 min
Agent logs compliance completions and flags at-risk goals to counsel
When a contract review or regulatory filing is completed in the CLM, the agent logs the datapoint and checks bright-line status — counsel gets an alert within about a minute if the compliance commitment is approaching the charge threshold.

+ 100s of other Beeminder automations

Average time saved

13 hrs / person / month

Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size

5 people

Hourly rate

$75 / hr

Hours saved / week

Hours saved / year

375

Annual ROI

$28,125

Based on Beeminder's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~1.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Beeminder into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect Beeminder using your personal auth token and username. The token is available at beeminder.com/api/v1/auth_token.json while logged in.

Get your auth token

Log in to Beeminder and navigate to beeminder.com/api/v1/auth_token.json. Your personal auth token is displayed as JSON — copy the token value.

Note your username

Note your Beeminder username — it appears in the URL when you are logged in (e.g. beeminder.com/alice).

Paste into Actionist

Enter your username and auth token in Actionist and click Test connection. Actionist will read your goals list to verify the handshake.

Credentials you'll need

Auth token*

Username*

Your Beeminder username (e.g. 'alice' if your URL is beeminder.com/alice)

Actions

14 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

0 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

This app has no triggers yet.

FAQs

Questions about Beeminder + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to Beeminder?

Go to the Apps tab, find Beeminder, and click Connect. Enter your Beeminder username and your personal auth token — available at beeminder.com/api/v1/auth_token.json while logged in. Actionist runs a test read of your goals list to confirm the handshake before any actions execute.

What permissions does the Beeminder token give the agent?

Beeminder uses a personal auth token tied to your account. The token gives the connected app access to read and write datapoints across all your goals. There is no scope-narrowing at the token level — if you want to limit which goals an agent touches, configure that in the agent's task definition inside Actionist rather than at the Beeminder credential level.

Can I connect Beeminder to other apps in the same agent task?

Yes. Beeminder is most powerful when the data it tracks comes from the apps where the underlying work actually happens. Common combinations: log GitHub commits or Toggl time entries as Beeminder datapoints; pull Todoist task completions into a Beeminder goal; write Beeminder derailment warnings into a Slack channel or a Notion log. Any of Actionist's connected apps can feed into or react to Beeminder data in the same agent task.

What are the most common things agents do with Beeminder?

The four patterns that come up most often: (1) automatic data entry — the agent pulls a metric from another app (steps, commits, tasks done, words written) and logs a datapoint so you never manually update a goal; (2) derailment alerting — the agent reads your current goal state and posts a warning to Slack when you are close to the bright line; (3) retroactive correction — the agent finds and deletes or updates a datapoint that was logged with the wrong value or timestamp; (4) goal auditing — the agent retrieves all datapoints for a goal over a date range and exports them to a spreadsheet for trend analysis.

Can Actionist charge my card through Beeminder or modify my pledge?

Beeminder's accountability model charges your credit card when you derail from a goal. Actionist does not interact with Beeminder's billing or charge mechanism — it can only read and write datapoints and read goal metadata. The financial consequence is enforced by Beeminder itself, not by any action an Actionist agent can trigger. If you want the agent to help you avoid derailing, configure it to post reminders or log data automatically rather than to manage the pledge amount.

How do I track multiple habits or metrics with one Beeminder connection?

Create a separate Beeminder goal for each metric you want to track, then wire each goal to its data source in a dedicated agent task. Beeminder goals are independent — one goal per metric is the intended model. You can have one Actionist connection serving multiple agent tasks, each writing to a different goal slug. Name your goals clearly (e.g. 'pushups', 'words-written', 'github-commits') and pass the slug as a parameter in each task.

Does Beeminder support real-time triggers or webhooks?

Beeminder's API does not offer native webhooks or push-based triggers. Actionist polls your goal data on a schedule — within about a minute of the configured cadence — to check for new or changed datapoints. If you need near-real-time reaction to a goal state change (e.g. you just derailed), use a scheduled agent task set to a short polling interval rather than expecting an event-driven push.

How do I correct a datapoint that was logged with the wrong value?

Use the Delete a data point action combined with Create data point for a goal to replace a bad entry. First retrieve all datapoints for the goal to find the ID of the incorrect entry using Get all data points for a goal, then delete it with Delete a data point, and finally log the corrected value with Create data point for a goal. Alternatively, use Update a data point if the datapoint ID is already known — this overwrites the value and comment without needing to delete and recreate.