Ancre, by Coaching Millénium
Go further than your first answer
Six questions written by ICF-certified coaches, and three more if you want to dig deeper. An AI that follows up right where you went quickly. And fifteen to thirty minutes to see your life more clearly.
Coming soon to iPhone
Free. For adults. What you write stays yours.
What is Ancre?
Ancre is a mobile app for guided reflection enriched by AI, designed by Coaching Millénium in Trois-Rivières, Québec. You choose a theme and answer six questions, one at a time, and three more if you feel like digging deeper. There is no right answer. Just yours.
Ancre’s questions are written by coaches certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), including one at the PCC level. The AI, shaped by them, reads what you just wrote and asks you one more question. It does not coach. It does not evaluate you. It concludes nothing in your place.
A sequence takes 15 to 30 minutes and ends on a realization, then on your first concrete steps.
Ancre is a personal reflection and introspection tool. It doesn't replace support from a certified professional coach.
How a sequence unfolds
In Ancre, a reflection sequence always follows the same path: you arrive, you write, you conclude. In between, there is room to dig.
Grounding
A breathing ring stays with you for a few seconds, then Ancre asks how you are doing. You don’t enter a reflection the same way after a light day as after a heavy one, so the tone adjusts.
Six questions
One at a time. Each has a lead written in advance, if you get stuck. One of them comes in two parts, to look at the same thing from two angles.
Time to reflect
When you stop writing, a short countdown starts. The deeper your answer goes, the shorter it gets. It is not a wait: it is the space to go further than your first idea. And if you are done before, “I'm done” is there.
Dig deeper, if you want
After the fourth question, Ancre offers you three more questions to go further, before wrapping up. You can also go straight on.
The conclusion
The last question makes your realization concrete: what first steps will you take?
The recap
You see everything you wrote, in one place. Your last answer can become a goal, right away.
Your phone closed the app halfway through? Your sequence waits for you. You pick up where you left off.
What the AI does while you write
In Ancre, the AI has one role: to take you a little further into your own reflection. It reads what you just wrote and sends back a lead. Not an interpretation. Not advice.
Picture your life six months from now, feeling truly aligned — what do you see?
I see myself calmer in the mornings, with time to walk before work. I say no without explaining myself and I keep time for my friends.
Saying no without explaining yourself — what would it take to practice that, even once, this week?
Prompts
You stop writing and your answer is still short? After a few seconds, a sentence appears, written from your own words. It opens a door. You decide whether to walk through it.
Follow-up questions
Just before moving on to the next question, Ancre asks you a follow-up born from your answer, the one that digs where you went quickly. It is a real question, deserving as much reflection as the others. It doesn’t speak to you? “This question doesn't speak to me” sets it aside.
Always the same stance
Ancre’s AI looks toward what is possible. When you write “always” or “never”, it gently questions the absolute. It never compares you to anyone, draws no conclusion about you, and never gets ahead of a question still to come in your sequence.
The sequences
Ancre offers five guided reflection sequences. Clarity is free, without limit; Energy, Transitions, Identity and Gratitude are included in Ancre+.
Clarity
Goals & prioritiesName what really matters to you, and see where you want to go.
FreeEnergy
Vitality & balanceSpot what truly feeds you, what drains you, and what your body is trying to tell you.
Ancre+Transitions
Change & decisionsSee clearly what's ending, what's beginning, and the gray zone in between.
Ancre+Identity
Values & who you areRecognize what truly matters to you, and where you're drifting from it without realizing.
Ancre+Gratitude
What is going wellNotice what is going well, even in the ordinary of everyday life.
Ancre+
A sequence is meant to be revisited. Everything is always in motion: life isn’t fixed, and your perception even less so.
Coming next
Three new sequences are in the works: Relationships, to explore the bonds that hold you up and the limits that fit you; Decision, to untangle a choice that keeps dragging; and Self-love, to notice how you treat yourself day to day, and what you truly deserve.
After the sequence
A sequence ends. What it stirs keeps going. Ancre keeps the thread with three tools.
Your goals, on firmer ground
You write your goal in your own words, or start from the last answer of your sequence. Ancre reads it back to you, then asks a few questions to make it clearer, with the SMA3RT method: specific, measurable, acceptable, ambitious, attainable, realistic, time-bound. Clearer, not more ambitious. Then Ancre invites you to check in from time to time, to see where you really are.
What is shifting
Three days after a sequence, Ancre invites you to write what remains of it. Not right away: “what does this change for you now?” can’t be answered thirty seconds after finishing. An excerpt of what you wrote waits for you at the top of the page.
Then, at your own pace, Ancre comes back to ask what has changed, even slightly. Every two weeks by default; every week, every three weeks, once a month, or never, if you prefer.
Your journal
Everything you write in a sequence is kept there. And from time to time, Ancre brings back what you wrote a few weeks ago: “You wrote this 23 days ago. Does it still resonate?”
Your safety and your privacy
In an app where you write about yourself, trust comes before everything else. At Ancre, nothing that touches your safety or your data is sold in a paid tier.
A safety net, for everyone
Every time you write in Ancre, a quiet safeguard checks whether there is distress in what you just shared. If it notices something, it decides nothing for you: it asks you. You can answer “It's just a figure of speech”, and that is respected.
If you choose to go further, Ancre shows you real resources for the country you are in: a support line and the emergency number, verified by hand for 13 countries, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia; 112 everywhere in the European Union; and the findahelpline.com directory elsewhere in the world. This safety net is free and active for everyone, on every field where you write.
What you write stays yours
- Never sold, never used to train AI. To follow up, the AI reads what you just wrote, just long enough to respond. That’s all.
- In the free version, everything stays on your phone. Nothing is copied online.
- With Ancre+, your online backup is encrypted on your phone before it leaves, and linked to your Apple or Google account. No one but you can read it, not even the Ancre team. Your phone ends up in the river? You lose nothing, even if you switch from Android to iPhone.
- A lock when the app opens, with Face ID, your fingerprint or your phone’s passcode. No extra password to remember.
- Your data belongs to you. You can export everything to a file, bring it back into Ancre later, or erase everything in one gesture, on the device and online.
- No ads in the app.
Usage measurement counts usage statistics, never what you write. You can turn it off anytime in Settings; in Europe, it waits for your consent.
Ancre+
The full space.
Prompts and follow-up questions on every single answer, every sequence, your online backup — to keep moving as often as you need to.
The same essence, further with you.
Prompts and follow-up questions, on every answer
In your sequences, your goals, your check-ins and “What is shifting” — everywhere it is worth going further.
A follow-up on every check-in you leave
Gentle reminders to keep what matters in motion.
As many goals as you want, with the date read from your sentence
Create as many goals as you want. Ancre+ finds the date in how you phrased it.
The field of possibilities on each of your goals
Perspectives and concrete openings so you can make choices that look like you.
Every sequence, with no limit on runs
Energy, Transitions, Identity and Gratitude, on top of Clarity — and revisit them as many times as you want.
Your online backup, end-to-end encrypted
Everything you write, readable by you alone, not even by us — and you lose nothing, even if your phone ends up in the river.
Across your devices
Find your space again on your phone and your tablet, Android or iPhone, linked to your Apple or Google account.
Ancre+
Cancel anytime, in the App Store or Google Play. You subscribe in the app, whenever you like.
- Follow-up questions on every answer
- A follow-up on every check-in
- Goals with the date read for you
- Field of possibilities on your goals
- Every sequence, no limit
- End-to-end encrypted backup
- Across your devices
Always free
The Clarity sequence, without limit, with a first complete journey accompanied by AI, then a preview every month. One active goal at a time. Your journal and “What is shifting”. And everything that protects you: the safety net, the lock, exporting and deleting your data.
Who designed Ancre
Ancre was born at Coaching Millénium, in Trois-Rivières, Québec, from two coaches who ask questions for a living. Ancre’s sequences come from there: hundreds of coaching conversations, distilled to the essential.
Sébastien Boyer
ICF-certified coach, PCC level · agile coachSébastien went through physical sciences and software engineering before coaching. He describes himself as “one of those creatures that are hard to pin down”. He is also the one who built the Ancre app, line by line. At Coaching Millénium, he coaches in life, business, management and leadership, and organizational coaching and agility.
Marie-Josée Décarie
ICF-certified coach · alternative supportive-counselling therapist (TRAA)Marie-Josée brings to Ancre her fine reading of what happens when a question hits home. At Coaching Millénium, she coaches in life and business, and offers supportive counselling.
Want to go further than an app? Discover Coaching Millénium (in French).
A question, a comment?
Write to us, we’ll get back to you: info@coachingmillenium.com
Frequently asked questions
Does Ancre replace a coach or a therapist?
No. Ancre is a tool for personal reflection and introspection designed by Coaching Millénium. The questions are written by ICF-certified coaches, but the app does not coach and does not offer therapy. It does not replace working with a certified professional coach.
Why use Ancre rather than a chatbot like ChatGPT?
Ancre follows a structured path: six questions written by ICF coaches, and three more to dig deeper, leading to a realization and then to concrete steps. Ancre’s AI follows up without interpreting or advising. A safety net watches over every answer, and in the free version, what you write stays on your phone.
Who can read what I write in Ancre?
No one but you. To follow up, Ancre’s AI reads what you just wrote, just long enough to respond; what you write is never sold or used to train AI. In the free version, everything stays on your phone. With Ancre+, your online backup is end-to-end encrypted on your device: even the Coaching Millénium team cannot read it. You can also lock the app with Face ID, your fingerprint or your passcode.
How much does Ancre cost?
Ancre is free, with the Clarity sequence without limit and a first complete journey with AI. Ancre+ costs $69.99 a year or $7.99 a month. Ancre+ adds the Energy, Transitions, Identity and Gratitude sequences, AI on every answer and the encrypted backup. You can cancel anytime, in the App Store or Google Play.
How long does a sequence take in Ancre?
From 15 to 30 minutes. An Ancre sequence has six questions, and three more if you choose to dig deeper. If you need to stop, it waits for you: you pick up where you left off.
On which devices and in which languages is Ancre available?
Ancre is available on iPhone, in the App Store, and on Android, in Google Play, for adults 18 and over. The app comes in six languages: Québec French, France French, English, Italian, German and Spanish.
Your first sequence is waiting
Six questions, and three more if you feel like digging deeper. Fifteen to thirty minutes. Start with Clarity: it is free, and it stays free.
Coming soon to iPhone
For adults 18 and over. Designed by Coaching Millénium, Trois-Rivières, Québec.
