We are excited to share our product vision, what has inspired us and what we think is important. Hope you enjoy it!

The future of work is remote, hybrid and distributed. But still, there’s a big gap between what it looks like to work remotely and what it looks like to work in person.

The predominant way companies have solved this in the past is by going asynchronous. Companies like Gitlab and Slack, have been thought leaders in distributed work and created some very much-needed tools and practices. While these tools improve distributed work, they only provide a partial solution.

Because there are many situations where you can’t go asynchronous, you need collaboration and you need to think together in real-time. Sometimes that can be scheduled but many times that occurs in the moment.

In-person, here’s what it could look like:

Jim is stuck with a bug, taps Tia on the shoulder, and asks for help. Tia turns to Jim’s screen and they walk through the code together. They find the bug and Jim can move on with his work...

Lisa walks past Jack’s desk to see he looks stressed out and stops to cheer him up. It turns out Jack needed some help finishing the last slides before an important client presentation. Together, they finish the slides just in time...

All these interactions come naturally when you’re in an office but they don’t have the equivalent when you’re working remotely. Much has to do with the fact that today's digital products and interfaces don’t emphasize, enough (or at all), these highly relevant and often interconnected factors of physical communication;

• Context; the environment and circumstances around the communication.
• Presence; the degree of awareness people have of each other during communication.
• Non-verbal communication; cues such as little handshakes and affordances people use to signal and communicate.

By studying these factors and what happens in a physical office;

• how people decide whether to talk with each other and for how long,