The AI focus layer for knowledge workers

Close every other tab.
If something needs you, Fokuzen tells you.

Fokuzen unifies Slack, email, GitHub, Linear and your calendar into one calm feed — and surfaces only what actually needs your attention. Everything else stays quiet.

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Fokuzen — Inbox

Needs your attention

Thursday · 9:14 AM
✦ AI Briefing
You have 3 items that need responses today — two teammates are waiting and a PR review is overdue. Everything else can wait.
2 waiting on you PR overdue 3h focus window ahead
Carlos is waiting for your response
Slack · #engineering
2h ago
PR #284 needs your review — auth token refresh
GitHub · fokuzen/backend
4h ago
Invoice #INV-2840 requires your approval
Gmail · accounting@corp.com
3h ago
Emily mentioned you in Sprint 12
Linear · #notification-system
1h ago
This is your day

The day doesn't break you. The checking does.

After a significant interruption, it can take about 23 minutes to fully refocus on the original task.1 That's the tax Fokuzen is built to remove.

  • You open Slack. Then email. Then Slack again — and the thread you were holding is already gone.
  • Half your mind stays parked on "did someone need me?" — even in meetings, dinner, and sleep.
  • A birthday GIF and a production outage ping you in exactly the same way.
  • By 6pm you've checked everything twenty times — and finished almost nothing.
The cost of context switching

It isn't just you. The research is brutal.

These aren't Fokuzen's numbers — they're what decades of attention research keep finding about focus and context switching. This is the tax we're built to take back.

~23min

After a significant interruption, it can take around 23 minutes to fully refocus on the original task.1

Time to recover focus
~3min

Knowledge workers switch activities or get interrupted roughly every 3 minutes — often long before reaching a state of deep work.2

~2hrs/day

Add up every interruption and context switch across the day, and estimates put the lost focus time at around two hours per person, daily.3

40%

Studies on multitasking and task switching show that frequently switching tasks can cut effective productivity by up to 40% on complex work.4

100s/ day

Digital workers can toggle between apps and windows hundreds of times a day, losing several hours a week just reorienting after each switch.5

Fokuzen exists for one reason: so you can close the other tabs and trust that if something needs you, you'll know.

How Fokuzen works

Three moves, and the noise is gone.

Morning Brief

Fokuzen scans everything that landed overnight and hands you a two-line read on your day. No scroll, no triage.

Unified Attention Feed

Mentions, reviews, approvals and replies from every tool in one feed — ordered by who's blocked and what's overdue.

Safe Focus Sessions

A focus session silences everything, batches notifications, and shows just work and the clock. Step out and your brief updates.

Morning Brief

A morning brief that reads the noise so you don't have to.

Every morning, Fokuzen scans everything that landed overnight and hands you a two-line read on your day. No scrolling. No triage. Just what changed and what it means.

  • Who's waiting on you — surfaced before you even open an app.
  • What's genuinely urgent vs. what quietly resolved itself.
  • Your free focus windows mapped against the day's calendar.
✦ Morning Brief · Thursday
Good morning. 3 items need responses today — Carlos and Emily are waiting, and PR #284 is overdue. Your 2 PM design review overlaps standup. You have a clear 3-hour window after lunch to ship the auth fix.
2 waiting on you PR overdue 1 calendar conflict 3h focus ahead
Unified Attention Feed

Everything that needs a response. Nothing that doesn't.

Mentions, reviews, approvals and replies from every tool land in a single feed — already sorted by who's blocked and what's overdue. Jump to the source to act, or park it in Fokuzen.

  • Smart priority bars mark what's urgent vs. important at a glance.
  • Snooze or convert to a task right inside Fokuzen — without touching the source app.
  • One tap to the source app the moment you're ready to reply or approve.
Needs your attention 5 items
Carlos is waiting for your response
Open in Slack Snooze
2h
Invoice #INV-2840 requires approval
Gmail · Finance · $3,240
3h
Comment on Q2 retro doc
Notion · can wait
5h
Safe Focus Sessions

A timer that guards the deep work — and answers "am I missing anything?"

Start a focus session and Fokuzen holds the line: notifications are batched, the feed goes silent, and the only thing on screen is the work and the clock. Step out and your brief is waiting.

  • Silence with confidence — nothing urgent slips through, it just queues.
  • Session chains auto-link focus and breaks into a clean rhythm.
  • Pull the next task in the moment one's done, without breaking flow.
18:42
focusing
Pause End session
Focusing on
Review auth token PR #284
What Fokuzen gives you back

Less to hold in your head, all day.

One calm inbox

Instead of six anxious feeds fighting for your attention.

Focus that feels safe

Silence everything, because nothing urgent can rot unseen.

Fewer micro-checks

No more reflexive opens of your phone, Slack and Gmail.

You see blockers first

If someone's waiting on you, it rises to the top automatically.

…and it plugs into the tools you're already drowning in.

Slack
Gmail
GitHub
Linear
Notion
Jira
Google Calendar
Notion
Google Calendar
Jira
Linear
Slack
GitHub
Gmail
More each month
Privacy & control

You stay in control.

Fokuzen reads your tools to keep you calm — it never writes back to them. The connection is strictly read-only, and the off-switch is one click away.

Strictly read-only

Fokuzen only observes your sources — it never writes back to them, even if you ask it to.

Never acts as you

No messages, comments or emails are ever sent on your behalf — Fokuzen can't send them at all.

Encrypted in transit & at rest

Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, on infrastructure you can audit.

Disconnect & purge

Unplug any source and wipe its data from Fokuzen in a single click.

Pricing

Free while we're in beta.

Fokuzen is free for everyone during the private and public beta. These are the plans we'll launch with — individuals stay free forever, and final pricing for the paid plans will be announced before we leave beta.

✦ Free during the private & public beta
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For the individual reclaiming their attention.
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  • Up to 3 connected sources
  • Unified attention inbox
  • Focus mode & timers
  • Smart AI prioritization
  • Daily AI briefing
Pro
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  • Advanced AI triage & priority tuning
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Questions

The things people ask before they trust it.

No — Fokuzen is a calm layer on top of your tools, not a replacement. You keep working in Slack, Gmail, GitHub and the rest exactly as you do today. Fokuzen just becomes the one place you check to know whether you even need to open them.

It still arrives — it just waits quietly in your queue instead of interrupting. The moment your session ends, your brief reflects anything new. And you can set rules so truly time-critical alerts are allowed through, so silence never feels risky.

No — and it can't. Connections are strictly read-only, so Fokuzen never sends messages, comments or emails as you, even if you ask it to. When something needs a reply, you jump to the source app and act there yourself. Inside Fokuzen you can only snooze an item or turn it into a task.

Slack, Gmail, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Jira and Google Calendar today, with more arriving regularly. If a source you rely on is missing, tell us — integration requests directly shape the roadmap.

It looks at signals humans use intuitively — whether someone is directly waiting on you, whether a deadline is near, whether you're blocking others — and ranks accordingly. You can correct it anytime; it learns your patterns and you stay in control of the rules.

Yes — free forever for individuals, no credit card. You can connect up to three sources and use the inbox, focus mode and daily briefing indefinitely. Upgrade only if you want unlimited sources or the deeper AI features.

Your quietest, most focused
workday starts here.

Drop your email and we'll send you a private beta invite — once you're in, connect your tools in two minutes and let Fokuzen carry the "what am I missing?" so you don't have to.

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References

  1. 1.
    Gloria Mark et al. — University of California, Irvine research on interruptions and attention, widely summarized as ~23 minutes and 15 seconds to recover focus after a significant interruption. Synthesis: “The Context Switching Tax: 23 Minutes Lost Every Interruption,” Get Alfred. get-alfred.ai/context-switching-tax
  2. 2.
    Gloria Mark — field observations of knowledge workers showing activity switches roughly every 3 minutes, reported across interviews and popular summaries of her UC Irvine work. (See also the references within reference 1.)
  3. 3.
    Synthesis of multiple analyses on the cost of context switching and daily focus loss, estimating around 2 hours of focus time lost per person per day.
  4. 4.
    American Psychological Association and cognitive-psychology studies on multitasking and switching costs, summarizing that effective productivity can fall by up to 40% when switching tasks frequently in complex work.
  5. 5.
    Studies and analyses from productivity and activity-monitoring tools showing hundreds of app/window switches per day and several hours a week lost reorienting after each switch.