Product, design, GTM and architecture. 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, 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 build new apps, and new layers of the local-first architecture Donezo runs on.
Product, design, GTM and architecture. Sales, marketing and customer support. Uses every app he ships.
One partnership, held to the same standards as every app we make.
Lisbon, 9 to 12 November 2026. Omar is there with Donezo.
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.
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.
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