Product, design, GTM and architecture. Built the Donezo system from the ground up. Sales, marketing and customer support. Uses every app he ships.
When starting is hard, nothing gets done. It all started here.
I was in Amsterdam building an app for my framework, one that helps founders understand market problems and build better solutions. While trying to build it, I noticed something I couldn't unsee.
Friction. Everywhere. Monthly charges, scattered data, privacy that exists only on paper, tools that demand your dependency before they let you work. The more I looked, the more I realized these weren't separate problems. They were symptoms. Complexity exists because of architecture decisions at every step, from the business model to the user interface. And it all adds friction.
This is where Donezo was born. A brand that says no to friction in every aspect. No cookies. No login. No server running your data. No onboarding needed to use the app. No scattered data. Everything runs local and on the user's terms.
I didn't plan Donezo. I found it along the way. I started building tools that just worked. No setup, no account, no waiting. One turned into two. Two turned into a system. The system became Donezo, the first product of Sequence Theory, my company here in Amsterdam. The framework turned out to be the compass. It pointed here.
Omar Alhaj Ali, Founder
Build belief before demand is the core philosophy of my framework at Sequence Theory. It implies that you must build your own belief about the problem and the solution: for you, your team and your customer. I used it and found friction everywhere. Then I applied it all the way, and it pointed me at Donezo, built on local-first principles.
Experimenting with AI-native tools to build the app for my framework. I noticed the lock-in, shifted to local software, then ditched the cloud entirely and built local tools for myself first. They worked.
Found Donezo after connecting data together worked: one vault under the tools, everything local, backed up to my own Drive. The brand grew from the small apps I had built, and from the architecture decisions made all the way because of that realization.
Building tools on one shared vault, with AI working on the same data beside you. One system instead of a maze of apps and API calls. And this came with some really cool discoveries: a structured company brain through the DZ vault, agents and workflows.
Connected tools and data. Smart sheets: templates that talk to each other inside Docs. Connective tissue: one sheet that gathers every CSV and XLS file into a single view, managed with one master tool, and you can make your own interface with Guardian. My data stopped living in an app and the app started living on top of my data. Sealed files were also discovered on the way.
Beginning of Q4: polish, and distribute the system. Everything the framework pointed at, complete and in people's hands. Testing, polishing, revising and updating as we go. Join the ride!
Most software connects your work by owning it. Accounts, subscriptions, lock-in, data trade-offs. The more tools you use, the more scattered your data, the more you pay, the more fragile your system.
This exists because productivity software was built for enterprises. We solve it differently.
Donezo is an operation space that leaves the work with you. Apps work instantly. Data stays in one private Vault. Cloud and AI are optional. Your membership gives you the tools; what you make with them stays yours, in open formats, on your machine.
An architecture decision, made once, kept in every app.
Sequence Theory built Donezo from the ground up. Noord Tech is our development partner. Together we are building new apps that ship soon, and new layers of the local-first architecture Donezo runs on.
Product, design, GTM and architecture. Built the Donezo system from the ground up. Sales, marketing and customer support. Uses every app he ships.
Building with us as one partnership: new apps we will ship soon, and new layers of the local-first architecture Donezo runs on, held to the same standards as every app we make.
Your Early Access helps us incorporate, grow our partnership, and build more tools for daily life and business. Every founding member is part of the movement toward software that runs local, stays private, and leaves what you make truly yours.
Early Access · €99Pay once. Yours for good. Shape what comes next.
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