PRESENCE JOURNAL

Building calmer ways
to work.

Founder stories, product decisions, and useful notes about protecting focused work without shutting people out.

A Presence tablet mounted beside Arron's home office door
NOTES FROM HOME · 5 MIN READ

Back to school means back to working after school.

Red means no. Green means yes. Any other color means knock. A simple signal is helping my seven-year-old understand the hours after pickup.

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MORE FROM THE JOURNAL

A Presence office status display
NOTES FROM THE TEAM · 6 MIN READ

The fastest message Steve and I stopped sending: Are you free?

How a senior producer and lead video editor use Team View to coordinate production work without another interruption.

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A live Presence display outside an office
PRODUCT LESSON · 5 MIN READ

My calendar said I was free. My phone call said otherwise.

A calendar is a plan. Availability is what is actually happening now.

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An office door with a privacy-safe Presence signal
PRIVACY BY DESIGN · 5 MIN READ

My coworkers needed an answer, not my calendar.

Good coordination does not require everyone to see the details behind your day.

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Arron Hartt, founder of Presence
FOUNDER STORY · 8 MIN READ

A dad built a privacy-safe office status system after working from home with his seven-year-old.

Presence started with a door, a busy summer, and one question my family should not have needed to keep asking.

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WHAT COMES NEXT

Useful, honest, and built in public.

Future notes will cover privacy choices, beta lessons, office displays, Digital Knock, and the small decisions that make interruptions easier to handle.