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Mindful team chat

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March 6, 2026 Cleariest — Mindful Team Chat

Your team chat is stealing your best hours. We built Cleariest to give them back.

Every Monday morning, 47 unread channels. Critical decisions buried in private DMs no one else can see. 2.5 hours daily lost to catch-up scrolling. Sound familiar? Team communication tools were supposed to make work better, instead, they created an always-on culture of notification anxiety and information silos.

Cleariest is team chat redesigned around two principles: protect focus, default to transparency.

Deep Work Mode - Focus protection built into the fabric of your team

One click to enter Deep Work Mode. All notifications pause. Messages batch into a digest delivered when your session ends. Your team sees your focus status — changing team behavior, not just your settings. Need to interrupt? You can, but you'll have to explain why. Schedule team-wide focus blocks for synchronized deep work across your entire organization.

Public-First Channels - Decisions belong to the team, not to DMs

Cleariest guides your team toward open, public channels by default. No more "can you forward that?" or decisions made in private threads that half the team never sees. New hires get instant context. Everyone stays aligned. Transparency isn't a policy — it's the architecture.

AI Thread Summaries - Catch up in seconds, not hours

Missed a 200-message thread? Cleariest summarizes the key decisions and action items automatically. Searchable. Organized. So you can rejoin the conversation without the guilt scroll.

Everything you expect from modern team chat

Real-time messaging with threads, reactions, rich text, code snippets, and file sharing. Channel types for teams, projects, and topics. A thread inbox that keeps you organized. Mobile apps for Android (available now) and iOS (coming April 2026).

Pricing that respects your team

  • Free forever for up to 10 people - fully featured, no credit card required

  • Pro at $6/user/month - AI summaries, advanced reporting, unlimited team size

  • Business - SSO, custom branding, priority support for larger organizations

Built by someone who lived the problem

Cleariest was created by a software engineering manager who was tired of watching talented teams lose their best work hours to notification noise and communication chaos. This isn't a feature bolted onto an engagement-driven platform. It's a tool built from the ground up to make team communication calmer, clearer, and more intentional.


Set up in 2 minutes. No credit card required. Free for teams up to 10.

Cleariest - communication should be clear and open by default.

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Team chat tools are built like social media - engineered to keep you scrolling, checking, reacting. The result is notification fatigue dressed up as productivity. I built Cleariest to show that chat != noisy