Technology should give you your life back, not take it.

We build software that saves you time and helps you grow.

We were promised connection. We got notifications.

You open your phone for a second and an hour disappears. You have hundreds of contacts and still feel yourself drifting from the people you love. It isn't a lack of willpower. Much of the technology we use is designed to keep your attention, not to improve your life.

So we decided to build the opposite.

We measure success by what happens after you close the app: the dinner that actually happened, the skill you learned, the time you got back. If our software works, you'll use it less and live more.

It saves you time. It helps you grow.

Every product we ship has to meet these four rules.

  1. Saves you time

    If it eats your hours, we don't ship it.

  2. Helps you grow

    Tools that make you more capable, not more dependent.

  3. Respects what's yours

    Your data, your attention, and your choices are not for sale.

  4. Ends in real life

    The best ending for an app is one person in front of another.

Our first product

Keyfren helps you stay close to the people who matter to you.

It reminds you when it's a good moment to reach out, shows you what they love so you have a reason to invite them, and turns a thought into a plan.

  • Free for personal use
  • Your contacts are never sent to AI services or used to train models
  • Invites people can accept, move to another time, or decline
Keyfren illustration with a reminder that it's a good moment to write

The name

From intellectus to Intralectus.

Intellectus is Latin for understanding. It comes from inter and legere: to choose between. We swapped inter for intra, from within. Understanding by choosing from within: that is where good technology starts, with what you choose matters.

More life. Less screen. Start with the people you love.