Attention Is Yours.

Every screen you own was built to take your focus and call it engagement. Intension gives it back — a new layer for your Mac that learns the rhythm of your attention, builds your day around your deepest hours, and never lets a byte leave your machine. The first operating system designed to protect your attention instead of mine it.

Meet The Founders

Conor Sanchez-O’Shea

CEO & Cofounder

Conor Sanchez-O’Shea

Building the future of aligned AI. Previously led growth at Humane, GTM at Tesla, and founded Up to Us. Obsessed with radically personal intelligence.

Gabe Duemichen

CTO & Cofounder

Architecting privacy-first AI that runs on your terms. Engineered systems at Meta and Citizen, scaled startups from idea to Series A. Ships fast, learns faster.

Gabe Duemichen

Our investors

The firms behind Intension have a habit of being early to the technologies that change how people live with their machines

  • RRE
  • Betaworks
  • True Ventures

Meet Our Advisors

The people guiding Intension helped build the institutions the rest of us now take for granted.

  • Glenn Otis Brown
    Glenn
    Otis Brown

    Creative Commons cofounder & CEO; former CDO, Obama Foundation; ex-Google/YouTube + Twitter. Advises on trust architecture, category narrative, and movement-building.

  • Mark Josephson
    Mark
    Josephson

    Former CEO of Bitly and Outside.in; helped scale About.com through IPO/sale. Advises on GTM, commercialization, scaling, and company-building.

  • Ardra Hren
    Ardra
    Hren

    Former Head of AI/ML at Humane; previously at Cruise and Forward. Advises on applied AI, technical architecture, model training, and AI/ML execution.

  • Kyoko Minegishi
    Kyoko
    Minegishi

    Ex-VP Red Bull MarComm; founder of Maze Bright. Advises on strategy, culture, operations, GTM, and brand-led growth.

  • Stacey Matthias
    Stacey
    Matthias

    Former Senior Research Scientist at Apple; founder & CEO of Insight Strategy Group, now MarketCast. Advises on behavioral science, intent, and human outcomes.

  • Praveen Arichandran
    Praveen
    Arichandran

    Former Director of Growth at Tesla; CEO of public co. Argo; led Facebook’s Internet.org product team (40M+ brought online); former Sequoia scout. Advises on growth and networks.

  • Lindsey Kennedy
    Lindsey
    Kennedy

    Elon Musk’s first writer at Tesla; has since written mission and narrative for founders including Figure’s Brett Adcock and Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel. Advises founders on brand storytelling, mission, and investor communications.

  • Alireza Jajarmi
    Alireza
    Jajarmi

    Principal Brand Designer at HP IQ / Humane; former Meta design lead on the Meta rebrand and Quest launches. Advises on brand, visual identity, and product storytelling.

Reach out to the founders.

Conor and Gabe read every message. Whether Intension resonates, or you just want to talk about attention, the door is always open.

Email the founders