Dedicated to women. Open to everyone.
Your work, your health and the conversations that matter, in one place.
Metis is Snow AI’s home for career, academics, menopause, and what women want to talk over with each other or with a suitable expert. Nobody is excluded: anyone can read, and anyone can join in.
Metis is not open yet. There is nothing to join or subscribe to today. This page says what we are building and how we will look after the people who come.
Career
Getting back to work, changing direction, asking for what the work is worth.
Academics
Studying at any age, and finding the way through a course, a degree or a return to school.
Menopause
Plain-language health writing on the years around it, and room to talk about it.
Conversations
The things women want to talk over with each other, or with a suitable expert.
Three parts, built one at a time
The publication
A blog on business and on health.
Free to read. Later, members will find plain-language depth behind the articles. Men’s and children’s subjects are welcome here too, and many pieces will point to Playbook or Foundry.
The business path
From a career break or a job to work of your own.
Take the skill you already have, whether you write code, design, keep books or teach, and turn it into a service: what to offer, what to charge, how to find your first clients, and how to run it around children.
The open community
Small peer groups, by stage.
A place to talk about what is not spoken about elsewhere, in a group of people who are where you are.
- A new mother on a break
- Returning to work
- Starting a business
- Midlife and menopause
How we take care
A place where people talk about health and about what is still taboo has to be careful from the first day. These are decisions we have made, not decoration.
A chosen name
Posting is under a name you choose, never your account name, so you can speak freely. This is the default.
Moderation, and a way to report
Open conversation attracts abuse. There will be moderators, and a plain way to report a post or a person.
Help when it is needed
Where words about depression, anxiety or harm appear, crisis resources are shown. In the U.S., call or text 988.
Education, not medical advice
Health writing here is education. It is reviewed by qualified clinicians, and it does not replace your own doctor.
Nothing sold on what you say
Nothing is sold, and no one is targeted, on the basis of what a member says.
What you share about your health is yours
On request, we delete it.
Why Metis?
In Greek myth, Metis is the Titaness of wisdom and wise counsel. The word mētis also means practical skill, the kind that is earned by experience, which is the kind this place is for.
Beside the rest of the family
Building work of your own takes more than one tool. These are the ones beside Metis.
- Playbookplaybook.snowai.appBusiness basics, and health and tax for people who run their own. Many of our articles will link across to it.
- Foundryfoundry.snowai.appFor students and the college-bound: choosing a college, its pitfalls, and life after it.
- Modelmodel.snowai.appTest what leaving a job for self-employment does to your numbers, health-insurance subsidies included.
- Pitchpitch.snowai.appRehearse the price conversation, and the moment someone says “that is too expensive”.
- Taxtax.snowai.appSelf-employment tax and estimated payments, explained before the first quarter comes round.
- Webinarwebinar.snowai.appLive sessions, the place we mean to bring mentors and members together.