AN INTERRUPTION-REDUCTION TOOL
Presence automatically tells the people around you when it’s a good time to come in—without showing them your calendar or private details.
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No dedicated tablet required. Start with the browser you already have and connect only the services you choose.
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Presence reflects what is actually happening—not only what was scheduled. Calendars, supported meetings and calls, work hours, and quick updates become one calm status for family, coworkers, and reception.
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Each question may be small. The context switch is not. Presence gives people the answer before they have to interrupt.
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PRESENCE WHEREVER WORK HAPPENS
Start with the problem Presence can solve for you.
Help family and coworkers know when it is a good time.
Explore remote work →▰For office doorsTurn a tablet, spare screen, e-ink reader, or TRMNL into a live sign.
Explore office displays →•••For teams and receptionSee participating coworkers in one calm, timezone-aware view.
Explore team status →⌘For schools and campusesCoordinate administrators, IT, and facilities across approved named places.
Explore school teams →SEE PRESENCE IN ACTION
See how Presence brings calendars, meetings, calls, locations, shared views, and office displays together without sharing the private details behind them.
WHAT PRESENCE DOES
Presence is not another status you have to remember to manage. Connect the services you already use, choose where your status appears, and let Presence keep the answer current.
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Calendars, meeting services, supported calls, a privately chosen Focus App, working hours, and optional manual updates can contribute limited availability signals. Presence translates them into one simple status.
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PRIVATE SHARING
Your spouse, teammate, or receptionist sees the answer without seeing your calendar.
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Updated just nowCALLS THAT WERE NEVER ON THE CALENDAR
The optional Mac companion receives only whether a connected iPhone call is active. Teams, Zoom, Webex, Google Meet, Twilio, and compatible VoIP setups can provide simple activity signals without exposing who is calling or what is being said.
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Meeting titles stay hidden, account secrets are encrypted, and precise places are never shown.
Use the built-in personalities or create up to five custom statuses with your own name, message, color, and duration. Each one stays safely tied to a core Presence behavior.
Use any tablet, browser, spare screen, e-ink-style reader, or TRMNL display—with screen-awake support on compatible Android browsers.
WORKS WITH YOUR DAY
Connect only what helps Presence answer whether now is a good time. Every connection is optional and under your control.
Google Calendar, Outlook, Microsoft 365, iCloud, private ICS feeds, and multiple calendar accounts.
Supported meeting services can provide a simple active or inactive signal—even when the meeting was never scheduled.
A new kind of iPhone call awareness and compatible VoIP workflows can update On a Call without sharing audio, callers, phone numbers, or conversation content.
Presence now detects when OBS starts recording or streaming on a connected Mac. The Chrome beta adds the same automatic awareness to YouTube Live and supported browser studios—all without accessing the production itself.
Choose one Mac app and a 1, 5, or 10-minute sensitivity. When it stays in front long enough, Presence can automatically show Focus.
Live Presence status changes can now trigger the Alexa routines you choose for lights, plugs, announcements, and office scenes.
Make a temporary status change, or save custom wording such as Editing while Presence safely treats it like Focus behind the scenes.
No microphones. No recordings. No email reading. Presence receives only the limited status signals needed from the services you choose.
INTERACTIVE EXAMPLE
Choose an example moment and watch Presence translate it into a simple, privacy-safe status. No real calendar is connected.
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Calendar details hiddenFROM HOME OFFICE TO WHOLE OFFICE
Presence is just as useful in a traditional workplace. Give each office, studio, edit suite, or meeting room a simple live display so coworkers can understand availability before they interrupt.
PRESENCE FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Give receptionists, office managers, and teammates a private directory that answers the question they hear all day: “Is now a good time?”
Calendar details stay private.
WHY I BUILT PRESENCE
Working from home gives us the chance to notice life’s smallest moments—while still giving our work the focus it deserves.
“Presence came from a simple question: How can I protect focused work without missing the little moments happening just outside my office?”Arron HarttFounder of Presence
After two years of working from home, some of my favorite moments are the ordinary ones: making lunch, tying my seven-year-old’s shoes, putting on a Band-Aid, or sharing a quick laugh with my wife. They may seem small, but they are a meaningful part of why I love working from home.
Working from home puts me close to the people I love, but being nearby does not always mean I can step away for the little things. When my family can see that I am focused, recording, or in an important call, they do not have to guess—and my coworkers can trust that the work in front of me has my full attention.
Presence is not about working less or being available every minute. It makes the boundary clear, so focused work can stay focused—and the moments between it can still matter.
SIMPLE BETA PRICING
Billing is coming after the beta. Join now to help shape the product before paid subscriptions begin.
The core Presence plan will always be free for verified nonprofits, regardless of their mission.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Presence is designed to be simple to understand before you connect anything.
Presence uses read-only calendar access to calculate whether you are free, busy, or approaching a meeting. Event titles may be evaluated privately for statuses such as Focus or Recording, but titles, attendees, and meeting details are never shown on shared views or displays.
Yes. Calendar accounts can be disabled or removed from the dashboard. Public and display links can be disabled or replaced at any time, immediately invalidating the old link.
Yes. There is no charge during the current beta. Presence Personal is planned at $5.99 per user per month afterward, with free access planned for verified nonprofit organizations.
Presence supports multiple Google Calendar accounts, Outlook and Microsoft 365, iCloud, and private ICS feeds. Live availability can also come from Teams, Zoom, Webex, Google Meet, iPhone calls through a Mac, and supported VoIP systems. Status can be viewed in any modern browser, on tablets and spare displays, or through the TRMNL-ready feed.
Yes. Each person can open their private display link on a tablet, e-ink-style browser, spare monitor, or other web-capable screen outside an office or studio. Every user remains in control of their own calendars and can revoke their display link at any time.
Yes. Presence for Organizations includes a private Reception View showing each participating member’s status, department, broad workplace, and expected availability. Members opt in themselves, and calendar titles, attendees, and precise locations are never shown.
The optional Presence Mac companion uses Apple Continuity to notice only whether a nearby iPhone call is active. Twilio and compatible work-phone systems can send the same private call-start and call-end signals. Teams, Zoom, Webex, and the Chrome extension can contribute simple live activity without exposing meeting names, participants, chat, recordings, audio, or video.
No. You choose and confirm one Mac application. Presence receives only its name, identifier, and whether it has remained frontmost long enough to trigger Focus. It does not collect window titles, documents, spreadsheets, keystrokes, screenshots, other open apps, time-use history, or productivity scores. You can pause the automation without forgetting the app.
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