Focus protection for teams

Take back the time to think.

Numa sits between you and Slack, filtering noise and protecting focus. So you and your people can do the work that actually matters.

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You lose nearly a quarter of your productive time to messaging noise. Every single day.

And nobody tracks the cost.

275
Interruptions per person per day
Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2025
23 min
To regain deep focus after one interruption
UC Irvine · Gloria Mark
~500h
Lost per employee per year to recovery
ActivTrak / Forbes

AI makes this worse, not better.

The real bottleneck in every company is human attention. There's only so much of it. AI doesn't free attention up. It fills whatever space is left.

+21%

Each person produces more with AI tools, but teams don't actually ship faster. The extra output creates extra noise for everyone else.

+47%

People using AI touch 47% more tasks every day. More output. More context switches. More messages. More noise.

And no platform vendor will fix this. Slack, Teams, and Google cannot credibly protect you from their own engagement model.
“You're not missing things because you're unfocused. You're missing the thinking, because you never stop responding.”

Your focus, protected.

Numa is the layer between you and your messaging tools. It watches everything, catches what's urgent, and holds the rest until you're ready. Nothing slips. Nothing unnecessary interrupts.

Protects deep work

Focus zones activate automatically. During protected time, only truly urgent signals reach you. Everything else waits in a prioritized digest.

Delivers what matters

When focus time ends, a smart digest tells you exactly what needs attention and what can wait. Clear, prioritized, actionable.

Makes silence safe

When the system handles triage, silence stops feeling like negligence. You can be offline without anxiety, knowing nothing slips through.

Three steps. Zero disruption.

Numa stays on duty in your messaging platforms so you don't have to.

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Measure

Baseline analysis

Retroactive analysis of 6 to 8 weeks of Slack metadata. Your attention profile: where focus breaks down and how reflexive your response patterns really are.

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Protect

Focus zones + digest

Non-urgent messages held silently during focus zones. Urgent signals pass through. Priority scored by configurable rules. Digest delivered when you're ready.

Track

Attention metrics

Four core metrics tracked continuously. Patterns over time, not surveillance. Your attention health, visible for the first time.

Nothing happens. That's the product.

Numa doesn't ask you to disconnect. It stays on for you.

Default on

Focus zones activate automatically. If you experience messaging pressure, you'll never have to manually opt in. The system does it for you.

Rule-based priority

DMs from your manager, @mentions, keywords like “P0” or “down” pass through immediately. Everything else waits.

Smart digest

“3 things need you. 18 can wait. 104 didn't need you at all.” Delivered the moment your focus zone ends.

What it feels like
9:00
Focus zone activates.Slack goes quiet.
9:01 · 10:30
Nothing happens.That's the product.
10:30
Zone ends. Digest arrives.“2 things need you.”
10:34
Back in flow.Rebound Time: 4 min.

What changes when focus is the default.

The first morning

You open your laptop and start working on the thing that actually matters. No catching up. No sorting through messages first. Just the work. An hour goes by before you even notice.

The first week

You stop checking Slack out of habit. When you do open it, everything is already sorted for you: what's urgent, what can wait, what never needed you at all. You answer when you choose to, not when a notification tells you to.

The first month

The people around you change too. Fewer “quick questions” that break your focus. More thoughtful messages that respect your time. The whole team gets quieter, because the system made it easy to be.

“The first thing you notice isn't what Numa adds. It's what disappears: the quiet guilt of not replying fast enough.”

Four metrics you've never had.

Patterns you can learn from. Not scores that judge you.

Deep Time
≥ 3h / day
Total minutes of clean, uninterrupted focus.
Noise per Hour
< 8 / hr
Notification-worthy messages per person per hour.
Reflex Rate
20%+ drop
Messages responded to within two minutes.
Rebound Time
< 5 min
Time from focus end to first meaningful action.

Built on science. Designed for zero risk.

A structured approach with a peer-reviewed foundation.

Grounded in published research

Telepressure is a peer-reviewed construct. Our metrics, default-on design, and intervention model are built directly on academic research by Barber & Santuzzi and others.

Backed by the Numa Movement

Working with content creators and researchers to start the public conversation about telepressure, the right to focus, and what healthy knowledge work looks like.

GDPR-safe by design

Metadata only, never message content. Fail-open architecture. Clear time-boxed structure with defined exit criteria. Full transparency at every step.

How much focus time do you actually have?

We're onboarding pilot teams now. Join the waitlist and be among the first to find out.

We'll reach out personally. No spam, no sequences.
Or reach out directly at Sven.deconinck@numachange.org