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Built for every brain that works differently.

Your brain isn't broken.
The tools were.

One platform. Every kind of mind.

A cognitive platform for neurodivergent adults โ€” built for dyslexia, ADHD, traumatic brain injury, autism, cognitive decline, and every brain that works differently.

780MPeople with dyslexia
40M+US adults affected
$4.5TUntapped potential
2ร—Mental energy burned daily
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Three brains. One purpose.

UnSquirrel gives you three completely separate cognitive environments โ€” one for work, one for personal life, one for learning. Each has its own tools, its own AI personality, and its own encrypted space. Nothing ever crosses between them without your explicit permission.

๐Ÿ”’ The Vault Wall

Each brain runs in its own encrypted space. Your employer can never see your personal life. Your health data can never influence your work tools. Your academic data stays yours alone. This is not a setting โ€” it is built into the foundation of how UnSquirrel works.

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Career Brain
Work Mode

Professional productivity for high-stakes careers. Handles complex deadlines, communications, and documentation โ€” without asking you to disclose anything about how your brain works.

Planned โ€” Phase 1 onward
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Life Brain
Personal Mode

Your private space for health, family, and daily life. Navigate the medical system, care for the people you love, and manage the cognitive load of simply being a person in the world.

Planned โ€” Phase 1 onward
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Student Brain
Academic Mode

A dedicated cognitive environment for neurodivergent students. From dense textbooks to writing anxiety to accommodation bureaucracy โ€” Student Brain handles what makes learning unnecessarily hard.

Planned โ€” Future Phase

Why the alternatives don't work

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

Every major productivity platform claims to be accessible. None was designed with neurodivergent brains as the primary constraint. These aren't bad tools โ€” they're tools built for a different kind of mind. And that difference matters, every single day.

Notion
The friction
Infinite blank canvas. Total freedom, zero structure out of the box.
What it does to you
Hours spent building a beautiful system you never actually use. The blank page is the enemy of executive dysfunction โ€” not a feature.
Todoist
The friction
Red "overdue" labels. Guilt-coded task management. Missed tasks displayed as failures.
What it does to you
Shame spirals. Anxiety every time you open the app. Eventually, you stop opening it at all. The tool designed to help you becomes something you avoid.
Forest
The friction
Kills your virtual tree if you leave the app โ€” punishing you for switching context.
What it does to you
ADHD brains switch context involuntarily. Punishment mechanics for something you can't control trigger emotional dysregulation, not motivation.
RescueTime
The friction
Tracks and scores your "unproductive" time. Surveillance by design.
What it does to you
Seeing a score for how "bad" your day was is not motivating. It's devastating. Many neurodivergent users experience this as confirmation of their worst fears about themselves.
Why none of them can fix this
The structural problem
These products were architecturally designed around neurotypical brains. Accessibility features added later are cosmetic โ€” they don't change the underlying interaction model. A dark mode and a font size slider don't fix shame mechanics, blank canvases, or surveillance scores.
What this means
The only way to build something that genuinely works for neurodivergent adults is to start from scratch โ€” with neurodivergent cognition as the primary design constraint, not a secondary one. That's what UnSquirrel does.

You are not the problem. You haven't failed at productivity. You've been handed tools that were never built for how your brain actually works โ€” and told to adapt. UnSquirrel is built the other way around.


How we build differently

Seven principles.
None of them optional.

Every decision in UnSquirrel is tested against one question: does this add friction? If the answer is yes, it gets redesigned. These aren't features โ€” they're the foundation.

Principle 01
Zero-friction capture
One tap. One field. No dropdowns, no required categories, no decisions. ADHD brains have a narrow window before an idea disappears โ€” we're faster than that window.
Principle 02
Structure without setup
You land in a working environment the moment you open the app. No blank canvas. No onboarding wizard. No configuration required before you can do anything useful.
Principle 03
Shame-free failure states
Missed tasks roll forward silently. No red labels. No "overdue." No streaks to break. Missed is data โ€” not a verdict on you as a person.
Principle 04
Always-visible priorities
What matters today is always on the surface. No hunting through nested pages. No relying on memory. The interface acts as your external working memory.
Principle 05
Energy-aware, not time-blind
Not all hours are equal for every brain. UnSquirrel learns your energy patterns and surfaces tasks that match your current capacity โ€” not an idealised schedule.
Principle 06
Sensory-first defaults
Calm by default. No animations, no alert sounds, no badges unless you choose them. Dark mode from first launch. High-stimulation elements are always opt-in, never opt-out.
Principle 07 โ€” The foundation everything else rests on
Privacy as architecture, not a settings screen
Your data lives on your device. Three encrypted walls keep Career, Life, and Student completely separate. Your employer cannot see your personal life. No data is sold. No ads. No surveillance. This is not a toggle โ€” it is built into the structure of how UnSquirrel works. It cannot be switched off because it was never switched on.

5 features. Every one counts.

Phase 1 is planned and awaiting funding. These are the five features that will launch first โ€” each one chosen because it directly eliminates a real, daily pain point for neurodivergent adults. Focused. Intentional. Nothing added until these are right.

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AI Text Simplification & Translation

Paste any text โ€” an email, a contract, a medical letter, a legal document. Instantly simplified to the reading level you choose, in any language. A link back to the original is always there so you can verify. Reading exhaustion, reduced.

Career + Life Brain
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Visual Deadline Dashboard

A colour-coded urgency system that shows what needs your attention โ€” right now, soon, or later โ€” at a single glance. Always uses both colour and shape so it works for every kind of vision. One tap gives you a full summary of where you left off.

Career + Life Brain
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Document Locker with Expiry Alerts

Store your most important documents securely on your device. The system watches expiry dates and alerts you before anything lapses. IDs, insurance cards, leases, medical records โ€” nothing slips through.

Life Brain
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Wellbeing Journal

Simple sliders for mood, energy, and brain fog. Voice or typed notes. Completely private โ€” never visible to employers, ever. Over time, patterns emerge that help you understand yourself and plan your days better.

Life Brain
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Pulse Log

Your private work journal inside Career Brain. Capture context, track your focus and energy across the working day โ€” all entirely separate from your personal life and always yours alone.

Career Brain
More is coming. Phase 1 is the foundation. Additional features for Career Brain, Life Brain, and eventually Student Brain will follow as UnSquirrel grows โ€” one funded step at a time. Everything is designed. Everything will be built.

Built one honest step at a time.

Phase 1 is fully designed and ready to build โ€” it just needs funding. From there, UnSquirrel grows in deliberate steps, each shaped by what the community tells us. Nothing here is guessed.

โ—‡ Building first
Phase 1 โ€” Foundation

The five core features that remove the most exhausting daily friction โ€” reading overload, missed deadlines, lost documents, and invisible cognitive patterns. Awaiting funding to begin.

Where it goes from there

Deeper professional tools Personal wellness Support for students Community & connection Tools for employers Research & global impact
Our promise: we will never announce a phase as active until it is funded and in development. A real plan, built one honest step at a time.

You are the only one in control.

UnSquirrel is built on one non-negotiable principle: your data is sovereign to you. You decide what is shared, who sees it, and when that permission ends. We cannot override this. No one can.

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On Your Device First

Your data lives on your device by default. Nothing reaches a server unless you explicitly choose to back it up โ€” and even then, it is encrypted before it leaves.

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You Grant Every Permission

Nothing is shared without your explicit action. You choose what, with whom, and for how long. Revoke any permission at any time โ€” instantly and completely.

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Three Walls. No Crossing.

Career, Life, and Student Brain data are stored in completely separate encrypted spaces. Your employer sees only Career Brain โ€” and only with your permission. Health data never touches work tools.

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Never Sold. Never.

UnSquirrel does not sell, trade, or share your data with advertisers, data brokers, or third parties. There are no ads in UnSquirrel. There never will be.

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Delete Everything. Anytime.

Delete all of your data โ€” locally and from any backup โ€” at any time. Your right to delete is unconditional. No retention periods. No questions asked.

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Stealth by Default

UnSquirrel looks like a premium productivity tool. Accessibility features are under Settings. You never have to disclose your neurodivergence to use any feature.

Data sovereignty is not a feature. It is the foundation.

Every architectural decision was made with one question: does the user remain in complete control? If the answer was no, we built it differently. Your cognitive life belongs to you. Full stop.

Read the full Privacy Statement โ†’

Any career. Any brain.

Designed with neurodivergent users at its heart โ€” and because good design is universal, it works brilliantly for everyone. No disclosure required. Ever.

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Property Managers
Legal deadlines, tenant communication, and maintenance โ€” handled.
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Web Designers
Client intake, scope protection, and technical docs โ€” simplified.
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Legal & Paralegal
Court deadlines, case notes, and dense statutes โ€” navigable.
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Healthcare Workers
Medical documents, appeal windows, patient advocacy โ€” supported.
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Caregivers
Medications, appointments, family coordination โ€” never dropped.
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Students
Syllabi, textbooks, lectures, and writing โ€” accessible from day one.
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HR & Employers
Meaningful ADA accommodation โ€” without stigma or complexity.
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Trades & Small Business
Permits, contracts, vendors, deadlines โ€” without the overwhelm.

Built from lived experience

In my twenties, I tested at 148 โ€” two points off genius. A recent test scored me at 126. I notice my own cognitive decline. I'm building UnSquirrel for both versions of myself.

My husband had cystic fibrosis. We managed a lot of his care at home โ€” IV antibiotics on a strict schedule, daily medications, treatments that couldn't slip. I had to learn the medical system from the inside, advocate for him when he couldn't, and make critical decisions about his care while holding space for his emotions, his family's fear, and my own grief, all at the same time.

He fought for a bilateral lung transplant. He didn't make the list in Denver because his protein levels were 0.01% off. I lost him in April 2005.

Years later, one of his medical team told me something that never left me: "We never get to see the full picture of a patient outside of our care."

That became the heart of UnSquirrel โ€” a bridge between the people who care for us and the systems that need to see us whole.

148โ†’126IQ โ€” building for both versions
20+ yrsProperty management expertise
Sandra Burden
Founder & CEO, UnSquirrel Technology LLC
๐Ÿ† Recognized โ€” Influential Women Magazine
๐Ÿง  Dyslexic founder with lived experience
๐Ÿ  Property management professional
โค๏ธ CF patient advocate & caregiver
๐Ÿ”ฌ Pre-seed raise: $200,000
"I got tired of adapting to tools that weren't built for my brain. So I built something that adapts to me โ€” and to every mind like mine."

They never see the full picture. Until now.

"They told me they never get to see the full picture of a patient outside of their care. 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."

โ€” Sandra Burden, recalling a conversation with her late husband's medical team.
This became the origin of UnSquirrel's caregiving and family support features.

Help bring UnSquirrel to life.

UnSquirrel is built by and for people whose minds work differently โ€” and it's being built in the open, with the community it serves. Every contribution, big or small, moves it closer to the people who need it most.

๐Ÿ’š Support UnSquirrel on GoFundMe

Share the campaign, join the waitlist, or simply tell a friend โ€” it all helps.

$200K
Where your support goes
  • App Development (AllianceTek) 50% โ€” $100K
  • Founder & Team Runway (12 mo) 30% โ€” $60K
  • Cloud Infrastructure & AI APIs 10% โ€” $20K
  • Community & Outreach 6% โ€” $12K
  • Legal & IP Protection 4% โ€” $8K

Why it matters. Why now.

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Millions are left to cope alone780 million people live with dyslexia, and far more with ADHD, autism, brain injury and cognitive decline. No tool is built around how their minds actually work.
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Built from lived experienceDyslexic. Caregiver. Living with her own cognitive change. Every feature solves a problem the founder has personally faced โ€” not a problem invented in a boardroom.
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Ready to buildThe full specification is complete and an engineering partner is engaged. The only thing standing between UnSquirrel and launch is the funding to build it.
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A community, not a customer baseUnSquirrel is shaped by the people it's for. Backing it means helping decide what gets built โ€” and who it's built for.

Exploring a larger investment? You can view the pitch deck or reach out at unsquirreltechnology@outlook.com.

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