About Reset

Made by someone who gets it.

Reset was founded by Dean in 2026, after a late ADHD diagnosis put a name to years of losing track of tasks, struggling to begin and wondering why ordinary things felt harder than they looked.

Why Reset began

Reset’s Focus Companion 11 minutes into a session, showing the orb, today’s intention and the task in progress

Quiet company while you work, in the real Reset app.

The story

Dean built the help he needed.

Before his diagnosis in 2025, Dean spent years trying to keep up with everyday tasks using systems that seemed to work for everyone else. Lists became longer, starting stayed difficult and an unfinished task often felt like a personal failure.

The diagnosis made those patterns easier to understand. Body doubling helped too. Having someone quietly there made it easier to begin, keep one thing in view and return after a wobble.

Reset grew from that experience. Dean wanted one place to empty his head, shape the mess into a workable plan and get a little company while doing it. No streaks. No scores. No shame for having a difficult day.

No streaks. No scores. No shame for having a difficult day.

The promise Reset was built around

From experience to app

A simple idea, built carefully.

Reset did not start with a productivity score. It started with a question: what would make the next step feel easier right now?

Before 2025
The pattern

Tasks were easy to lose and hard to start, even when they mattered.
2025
The diagnosis

A late ADHD diagnosis gave those experiences a name and a better way to understand them.
2026
Reset was founded

Dean began combining practical help with tasks, cognitive offloading and quiet company in one app.
Now
Still listening

Lived experience, research and feedback continue to shape what Reset becomes.

What matters to us

Support that keeps you in charge.

Reset is built around four plain principles.

Start smaller

A clear next step is more useful than a perfect plan you cannot begin.

Keep the final say

Reset can suggest. You decide what stays, what changes and what goes.

Leave out the judgement

A missed day is not a failure. Showing up in any form still counts.

Make room for real life

Energy changes, plans move and interruptions happen. The app should flex with you.

Informed by research

Research keeps us honest.

Reset draws on research into ADHD, executive function, cognitive offloading, intention setting, reminders, self-monitoring and shame-sensitive feedback.

Some areas, including digital body doubling, are still emerging. We say that clearly. Reset is a focus and task app, not a medical treatment, and research is used as a guardrail rather than a marketing shortcut.

See how research shapes Reset

Offload

Take pressure off working memory.

Capture thoughts before asking yourself to organise them.

Sort

Turn a difficult job into a visible next step.

Keep suggestions specific, editable and firmly under your control.

Focus

Offer presence without pressure.

The Focus Companion is inspired by body doubling and makes no claim to replace another person.

Reflect

Show patterns, not a verdict.

Your sessions can offer gentle cues without grading your day.

Shaped by the people who use it

Still listening. Still improving.

Lived experience began the work. Listening will keep it honest. Tell us what helps, what feels unclear and what needs to change.

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