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Notes from
the desk.
Product thinking, voice-first design, and privacy — straight from the team building Spark.
The phone is the enemy of focus
The average professional checks their phone 96 times a day — once every ten minutes. Here's what that actually costs you, and why willpower was never the fix.
Why we built a desk robot instead of another app
Every AI tool today is a place you go to. We wanted the opposite — intelligence that lives where you already work and acts before you ask.
Your workday should happen for you, not to you
Meetings vanish into thin air. Tasks get lost in conversation. Notes scatter across five apps. The mental load of remembering is its own full-time job.
Working alone shouldn't feel alone
Remote work made us productive and quietly isolated. Screens don't notice when you're stressed. A desk should feel like less of a solo grind.
Ambient AI: the future isn't a screen you visit
Intelligence got cheap. The interface didn't keep up. The next leap isn't a smarter chatbot — it's AI that lives in your environment and acts without being asked.