I built a productivity that adapts to you. Marketing partner needed.
Every productivity tool I've used demands I adapt to it. Learn its categories. Fill its forms. Maintain its state. Remember to open it. The maintenance burden eventually exceeds the value and I abandon it. I'd bet the same has happened to you.
Tenshen (tenshen.app) inverts that. The AI initiates. It captures from email / voice / photo / meeting transcripts. It infers state. It surfaces what matters in a morning briefing and a welcome-back flow that reads like reconnecting with an EA, not catching up on chores. The user decides, but doesn't have to maintain.
I've been building it solo. Deployed, used by me daily. Architected for multi-user SaaS, ready to onboard the moment there's a reason to. My own usage runs around $3/month in AI API costs, which is a useful signal for what per-user unit economics look like at any scale. The product works. The technical de-risking is behind me.
What I need is a marketing partner. My background: a decade of B2B product management, most recently leading offering management at a Big 4 consulting practice (35% YoY revenue growth, designed a pricing methodology that became the practice's default). I'm comfortable with the build, with positioning, with talking to customers. What I can't do alone, fast enough, is build the brand and pull a paying user base in.
Structure I'm offering: milestone-based equity tied to paying users acquired. No baseline grant. 4-yr vest, 1-yr cliff on any earned slice. I want someone who'd punch up — underestimated where they sit today, hungry to be the one who built a brand instead of managing someone else's. If you want a 50/50 split for showing up, this isn't that conversation.
Two CTAs, both honest:
- If you've felt that productivity-tool maintenance fatigue and want to try Tenshen — drop a comment or DM, I'll send an invite. I'd rather have ten people use it deeply than a thousand bounce.
- If you're a marketer who reads "milestone-based equity, no baseline" and leans in instead of out — same channel.
The strongest part here is the “AI initiates” angle. Most productivity tools still depend on the user doing upkeep: tagging, updating, sorting, reopening, and remembering the system exists. Tenshen’s better frame is not just adaptive productivity, but low-maintenance executive assistance for people whose work state is scattered across email, voice, meetings, photos, and context.
That positioning feels sharper than “productivity tool,” because productivity is crowded and vague. The real promise is continuity: the product notices, reconnects, and briefs you without making you rebuild your own context every morning.
One thing I’d watch is the Tenshen name. It is distinctive, but if this becomes a broader AI workflow or personal-ops platform, Xevoa .com would carry the product in a cleaner, more scalable SaaS direction.