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What we do
The idea the company is built around
An augur read the signs and said what they meant.
The mission, in one line
Make being understood something you can see.
Everything we ship is a version of that sentence.
That is roughly the job. We build software that pays attention to what is actually in front of it — the feeling in a sentence, the state someone is in — and then shows that it noticed, before it says anything at all.
Most software waits for a command and returns a result. We are interested in the half‑second before the result: the flicker of recognition that makes an interaction feel like it is happening with something rather than at it. A friend’s face moves before their mouth does. Almost no software works that way. We think it should.
A friend does not summarise you. Neither should the thing in your pocket.
