About Donezo

How Donezo
came to be.

Our Story

When starting is hard, nothing gets done. It all started here.

I was in Amsterdam building an app for my framework, the Sequence Framework: an app 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 tracking cookies. No login. No server of ours 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 the Sequence 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.

2025
Experiments

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.

2026
Donezo foundation

Found Donezo after connecting data together worked: one folder 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.

2026 · Q2
Donezo is not a hypocrite

The brand was set on removing friction, and we teamed up with Noord Tech to launch it the usual way: GitHub, Vercel, Supabase. We started for free, then hit the lock-in wall on Vercel. That was the founder's wake-up call. Donezo is not a hypocrite: a brand that removes friction can't depend on it. Sequence Theory spent the next months removing every dependency, the login gate and the database included, and designing a new system we trust. This has added a real meaning to what we do and defined our core architecture. Privacy is the architecture: it started here and grew stronger from then on. It came with a lot of new discoveries.

2026 · Q2
Donezo OS + AI

Building tools on one shared folder, with AI working on the same data beside you. One system instead of a maze of apps and API calls. Along the way came a structured company brain through the Donezo folder, agents and workflows.

2026 · Q3
The complete architecture

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 came out of it too.

2026 · Q3
Connected+ and the Donezobase

One file, the Donezobase, came to hold a whole project, workspace or folder, so it can be carried anywhere and opened again. From it came Ghost mode: no copy on any device, the work opens in the browser when you say so, with a key you set. Connected+ added your own Cloudflare storage, your own domain where the pages and tools you make go live with their data coming back to your folder, and private email and calendar for you and your agents.

2026 · Q4
Signals: the missing link

From the start, the framework had one question mark: how do you collect the signals of a buyer's belief journey without a massive tracking infrastructure? Signals answered it. Your own pages, forms and emails send their signals home, counted privately in your own Cloudflare, with no ad network in between. The framework finally had its signals. Together with Donezo, the content and touchpoints you create, the data coming back home, the APIs you link, the scraping agents and everything underneath, we built a living GTM.

2026 · Q4
Launch

Beginning of Q4: polishing and distributing the system. Everything the framework pointed at, complete and in people's hands. Testing, polishing, revising and updating as we go. Join the ride!

What we believe.

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, the bigger your dependencies.

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. Your work stays in your own Donezo folder. Cloud and AI are optional. Your membership gives you the tools; what you make with them stays yours, in open formats, on your machine.

Every app follows the same standard.

An architecture decision, made once, kept in every app.

Data
Stays on your device, or in your own Cloudflare storage. Backup is optional and sealed in your browser first.
Speed
Every app opens instantly. No spinners. No skeleton screens.
Offline
Works without WiFi. The internet is optional. Your work is not.
AI
Runs on your own API key. Prompts go from your browser to your provider and do not pass through us.
Pricing
Pay once for the membership. No subscriptions, and app updates are included. What you make is yours in open formats, with or without it.
Security
No trackers. No third-party code in the apps. Nothing runs that you didn't ask for.

Small team. Big conviction.

Sequence Theory built Donezo from the ground up. Noord Tech is our development partner. Together we build new apps, and new layers of the local-first architecture Donezo runs on.

Omar Alhaj Ali
Omar Alhaj AliFounder & Power user

Product, design, GTM and architecture. Sales, marketing and customer support. Uses every app he ships.

Ayham Najem
Ayham NajemSecurity & AI integration
Alaa Semsemea
Alaa SemsemeaInfrastructure & code safety

One partnership, held to the same standards as every app we make.

Meet us at Web Summit.

Lisbon, 9 to 12 November 2026. Omar is there with Donezo.

Web Summit Lisbon, November 9 to 12, 2026. Omar Alhaj Ali, Founder, Donezo. ALPHA.

If you are there, come and say hello. We can show you Donezo running, walk through how it keeps your work on your own device, and hear what you would use it for.

When
9 to 12 November 2026
Where
Web Summit, Lisbon
Who
Omar Alhaj Ali, founder
Let’s meet and discuss how Donezo can support your business
Donezo's page on the Web Summit site: an ALPHA startup from the Netherlands, your private operation space. On the Web Summit site Donezo is an ALPHA startup at Web Summit Lisbon 2026. Read our page in the startup listing, and find us there from 9 to 12 November. See Donezo on Web Summit

Help us build software
that sets you free.

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 · €99

Pay once. Yours for good. Shape what comes next.

Questions? Contact our team