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Built for every kind of mind

Your brain isn't broken.
The tools were.

A calm, private cognitive platform for neurodivergent adults — designed around how your mind actually works.

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Made for every brain that works differently.

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Private by designOn-device. Never sold.
Recognized by Influential Women Magazine Built by a dyslexic founder Privacy-first architecture Designed for accessibility

The idea

A platform that adapts to you — not the other way around.

Mainstream productivity tools were built for one kind of brain, then patched for everyone else. UnSquirrel starts from neurodivergent cognition and builds outward.

  • Zero-friction capture. One tap before the thought disappears.
  • No shame mechanics. Missed tasks roll forward quietly.
  • Calm by default. No badges, no streaks, no red alerts.
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The platform

Three brains. One purpose.

Separate spaces for work, life, and learning — each with its own tools and its own encrypted vault.

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Career Brain

Work mode

Deadlines, communication, and documentation — handled, without disclosing how your brain works.

Planned — Phase 1
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Life Brain

Personal mode

A private space for health, family, and daily life — and the medical system that comes with them.

Planned — Phase 1
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Student Brain

Academic mode

Dense textbooks, writing anxiety, and accommodation paperwork — made learnable from day one.

Future phase

The Vault Wall

Your employer never sees your personal life. Health data never touches your work tools. It's the foundation, not a setting.

Why the alternatives don't work

The tools exist. They weren't built for you.

Not bad products — just designed around a different kind of mind. Accessibility bolted on afterward doesn't change that.

Blank canvases

Infinite freedom, zero structure. Hours building a system you never actually use.

Guilt-coded tasks

Red "overdue" labels turn a to-do list into a source of shame you learn to avoid.

Punishment mechanics

Losing a streak for switching context punishes something an ADHD brain can't control.

Surveillance scores

A daily "productivity score" isn't motivating — it's confirmation of your worst fears.

You are not the problem. You were handed tools built for a different mind and told to adapt. UnSquirrel is built the other way around.
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How we build differently

Seven principles. None optional.

Every decision is tested against one question: does this add friction? If yes, it gets redesigned.

01

Zero-friction capture

One tap, one field, no decisions.

02

Structure without setup

A working space the moment you open it.

03

Shame-free failure

Missed tasks roll forward. No verdicts.

04

Priorities in view

The interface is your working memory.

05

Energy-aware

Tasks that match your current capacity.

06

Sensory-first

Calm defaults. Stimulation is opt-in.

07

Privacy as architecture

Not a toggle — the structure itself.

Phase 1 — the foundation

Five features. Every one counts.

Chosen to remove the most exhausting daily friction. Nothing added until these are right.

Text simplification

Any email, contract, or medical letter — simplified to your reading level, in any language. Original always one tap away.

Career + Life

Visual deadline dashboard

Now, soon, or later at a glance — coded by colour and shape, so it works for every kind of vision.

Career + Life

Document locker

IDs, insurance, leases, medical records — stored on-device, with alerts before anything expires.

Life

Wellbeing journal

Sliders for mood, energy, and brain fog. Voice or typed. Never visible to employers.

Life

Pulse log

A private work journal inside Career Brain — track focus and energy across the day, always yours alone.

Career
Career Brain · Today What needs you now Reply to the housing appeal Due today · Now Renew insurance card This week · Soon Draft the quarterly report Next week · Later Dense letter simplified to your reading level — original always one tap away
Urgency at a single glance — coded by both colour and shape.

The road ahead

Built one honest step at a time.

Phase 1 is fully designed and ready to build — it just needs funding. Everything after grows from what the community tells us.

Building first

Phase 1 — Foundation

The five features that remove the most exhausting daily friction. Awaiting funding to begin.

Where it goes next Deeper professional tools Personal wellness Support for students Community & connection Tools for employers Research & global impact
Our promise: we never announce a phase as active until it is funded and in development.

Your data. Your rules.

You are the only one in control.

Your data is sovereign to you. You decide what is shared, with whom, and when it ends. No one can override that.

On your device first

Nothing reaches a server unless you back it up — encrypted before it leaves.

You grant every permission

Choose what, with whom, and for how long. Revoke instantly, anytime.

Three walls, no crossing

Career, Life, and Student data stay in separate encrypted spaces.

Never sold. Never.

No advertisers, brokers, or third parties. No ads — ever.

Delete everything, anytime

Wipe all your data — locally and from backup. No questions.

Stealth by default

Looks like a premium productivity tool. Disclose nothing.

Read the full privacy statement →

Who it's for

Any career. Any brain.

Designed with neurodivergent users at heart — and because good design is universal, it works for everyone. No disclosure required.

Property managers

Legal deadlines, tenant comms, maintenance.

Web designers

Client intake, scope, technical docs.

Legal & paralegal

Court deadlines, case notes, statutes.

Healthcare workers

Documents, appeal windows, advocacy.

Caregivers

Medications, appointments, coordination.

Students

Syllabi, textbooks, lectures, writing.

HR & employers

Meaningful ADA accommodation, no stigma.

Trades & small business

Permits, contracts, vendors, deadlines.

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Our story

Built from lived experience.

In my twenties I tested at 148 — two points off genius. A recent test scored 126. I feel my own cognitive change, and I'm building UnSquirrel for both versions of myself.

My husband had cystic fibrosis. I managed much of his care at home and learned the medical system from the inside — advocating for him while holding his fear, his family's, and my own. He didn't make the transplant list because his protein levels were 0.01% off. I lost him in April 2005.

Years later, one of his doctors told me something that never left me: "We never see the full picture of a patient outside our care." That became the heart of UnSquirrel.

Sandra Burden
Founder & CEO, UnSquirrel Technology LLC
Influential Women Magazine Dyslexic founder CF caregiver & advocate
"I got tired of adapting to tools that weren't built for my brain. So I built one that adapts to me — and to every mind like mine."

The village bridge

They never see the full picture. Until now.

"They only see a snapshot. They never see the caregiver at 2am managing an IV drip. They never see the family falling apart in the waiting room."

— Sandra Burden, recalling her late husband's medical team.
This became the origin of UnSquirrel's caregiving and family features.

Why people are joining

Voices from the community.

UnSquirrel is being shaped in the open, with the people it's for. Here's what early members are telling us.

"Every app I've tried made me feel behind. I'm here because someone finally started with how my brain works, not how it's supposed to."

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Amara OkonkwoParalegal · ADHD

"Reading long documents costs me hours no one else pays. The simplification tool alone would give me back my evenings."

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Sofia ReyesGrad student · Dyslexia

"I care for my mum and run a small business. Something that keeps the medical side from slipping through the cracks is exactly what I need."

Daniel WhitfieldCaregiver · TBI

Back the mission

Help bring UnSquirrel to life.

Built by and for people whose minds work differently. Every contribution moves it closer to the people who need it most.

$100K
Pre-seed goal — where your support goes
  • App development (AllianceTek) 50%
  • Founder & team runway (12 mo) 30%
  • Cloud infrastructure & AI 10%
  • Community & outreach 6%
  • Legal & IP protection 4%
1

Millions cope alone

780M people live with dyslexia — and far more with ADHD, autism, brain injury, and cognitive change. No tool is built around them.

2

Lived experience

Every feature solves a problem the founder has personally faced — not one invented in a boardroom.

3

Ready to build

The full specification is complete and an engineering partner is engaged. Only funding stands between plan and launch.

Support on GoFundMe View the investor pitch

Exploring a larger investment? Reach out at info@unsquirrel.com.

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