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A focus companion · For when starting is the hardest part

Ready when you are.

Body doubling is the focus technique that quietly changes everything for people with ADHD — working alongside someone makes starting easier, and staying possible. Paro brings the presence without the camera, the scheduling, or the stranger on the other side.

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01 · The premise
Starting is the hardest part.

You know what you need to do. You've been meaning to do it. But the gap between knowing and beginning is wider than it looks — and that gap is where ADHD lives. Most productivity apps want to fix you. Paro just sits with you while you work.

02 · How it works
01

Open. Tell your buddy.

No login. No streak shame. Open Paro, type what you're working on — even a rough idea is enough.

02

Pick a stretch.

Ten minutes to ninety. Your buddy stays present while you work, with quiet ambient sound around you.

03

They notice you finished.

A halfway check-in. A warm close at the end. No streaks weaponized against you. No optimization theatre.

No camera No scheduling No strangers Just presence No camera No scheduling No strangers Just presence

A buddy that's just there.

You pick a name. You pick a voice. Your buddy doesn't lecture you, doesn't track your habits, doesn't tell you what you should be doing. They show up when you do — quietly, without commentary.

The ambient sound runs underneath — a coffee shop, a library, rain on glass — to make the room feel a little less empty. That's the whole product. That's enough.

  • Pick a buddy: Mio, Eli, or Rue
  • Stretches from 10 to 90 minutes
  • Five ambient environments (Pro)
  • Apple Health Mindful Minutes
  • Home-screen widget

For everyone who can't just begin.

  1. The writer staring at the cursor.
  2. The student at 11pm with one chapter to go.
  3. The freelancer in the kitchen, again.
  4. The developer with one more bug to fix.
  5. The researcher with twelve tabs and zero starts.
  6. Anyone who works better when they don't feel alone.

Up to eighty-five percent of neurodivergent people report meaningful improvement in task completion when they work in the presence of another person.

Behavioral research on body doubling · ADHD UK, 2023

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