built by three people who thought
AI should prep for you, not you prep for AI.
you wouldn't hire an assistant who kept you waiting. but that's how most AI works. you prompt, you wait, you reformat. we built retain because the equation is backwards.
AI has unlimited cognitive cycles. your experience, clarity, and judgment are the scarce resource. your systems should stay one step ahead of the people they serve, not the other way around.
caroline
paris
caroline has spent her career shaping products around how people actually think - not how software wants them to. she believes the best product decisions are the ones users never notice.
at retain, she ensures every interaction earns its place. if a feature needs explaining, it needs redesigning.
her true genius doesn't only show up at a desk - it appears against the backdrop of vibrant scenes where she jovially inspires everyone around her with absurdly fun new ideas. so we put retain on her iphone - writing on the back of a napkin has its limits.
ryan
san francisco
after a career building products and technologies used by millions, ryan wanted to create something unique, deliberate, and deeply loved by the people who use it.
he believes that every technology, no matter if it's a transistor, a telephone, or a billion-parameter neural network, ultimately belongs to humanity. accordingly it should be used to benefit humanity.
he co-created retain so that these incredibly powerful tools would help guide us through our day, instead of distracting us from what matters.
sam
san francisco
retain is sam's brainchild - born from the idea that you should be able to give someone your undivided attention in a conversation and still have perfect follow-up afterward.
sam is not only an expert in his craft but also impossibly charming and genuinely funny. everyone who meets him wants more of his time - which is exactly why we built retain. selfishly, we needed him less busy so he'd have more time for us.
meetings are where decisions live.
most productivity tools start after the meeting ends. we start during it. the richest context - tone, hesitation, agreement - happens in real time.
software should produce, not consume.
every minute you spend in a tool is a minute you're not doing the work. retain's job is to hand you finished thinking, not another inbox.
small team, big vision.
we're deliberately small. just three people who use retain every day to make each work day go a little smoother.