Async work, human pace

Do your best work,
with fewer interruptions.

Your best hours get eaten by “got a sec?” Currant sets your status from your real focus and load, so teammates know when to wait — and you get long, unbroken stretches back.

Free, and it sets itself.

Maya, calm and heads-down at her laptop, a warm glow around her
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Maya Chen Deep focus
until 1:00 · set by Currant
The problem

Async work waits invisibly.

Teams rarely stall because no one's working. They stall because work waits — unanswered mentions, stale decisions, reviews nobody picked up. Meanwhile the day fills with interruptions.

~275
interruptions in a workday
~23 min
to refocus after each one
48%
say work feels chaotic & fragmented

Sources: Microsoft 2025 Work Trend Index; UC Irvine interruption research.

Personal status

A softer Slack status that sets itself.

Currant reads your real response pace, focus, and load — and sets a status that tells teammates what to expect. No manual updates, no explaining yourself.

Fresh Flowing Slammed Deep Away
  • Fresh — replies normal.
  • Flowing — usually within a couple of hours.
  • Slammed — heavy load; a good moment to send clear, complete requests.
  • Deep — in focus, low bandwidth.
currantAPP9:41 AM
You're in Deep focus until 1:00 PM. Replies may be slower than usual.
One clean, complete request, poured through without a splash
currantAPPOnly visible to you
Maya's Slammed right now. One message she can act on beats five “quick questions” —
  • the decision you actually need
  • the context & links to make it
  • when it has to land
The moment she replies, jump on it — so her answer keeps moving, not waiting.
Protect the constraint

When someone's slammed, help the work land.

When you're about to message a teammate who's Slammed, Currant quietly shows you a private heads-up — only you see it — so your ask lands complete the first time, and you get a real answer in one pass instead of a day of back-and-forth.

Send less, but send it whole — and act the moment they reply. Their attention stays protected, and your work moves faster.
Same thing.

Privacy

Your status, your call.

Currant is the opposite of a tracker. You turn it on, you control it, and it never reads what you write.

  • You turn it on. It activates per person — nothing happens until you say so.
  • You stay in control. Override, snooze, or pause any time.
  • Only you see it. In v1, your status change is visible to you alone.

Currant reads messages only to spot @mentions and replies — it stores that a mention happened and whether it was answered, never the content, never your DMs. Read our privacy approach →

A status kept safe under a glass dome
For engineering leaders

See the one bottleneck holding the company back.

As more work goes async — and as AI agents generate more drafts, tickets, and requests — the constraint shifts to human decisions: approvals, reviews, risk calls. Currant finds the single place a release is actually waiting, and what it costs. We measure waiting, not people.

  • Wait-time saved — the headline number, in hours per week and dollars.
  • The global bottleneck — named as a function, never a person, with the queues stacked behind it.
  • Systemic fixes — each constraint ships a suggested action you can assign and watch resolve.

SoonFocus (how scattered the company's attention is) and Resilience (single points of failure) — early signals, off by default.

Talk to us about flow
currant This quarter
Waiting removed across the org
31 hrs/wk ≈ $4.2k/wk back
Current constraint 12 teams waiting
Release sign-off · median wait 1.6 days
Suggested fix: add a backup approver Assign →
Coming next
Focus Resilience
How we're different

A different question: where is work waiting?

Calendar/status sync: “In a meeting.”
“Response pace is slow because the queue is high.”
Jira/Linear: “Task in progress.”
“Task is waiting on a decision buried in Slack.”
Eng-metrics tools: “Here's what shipped.”
“Here's where work is waiting right now.”
Reminder bots: “You forgot to reply.”
“This queue is aging and may block flow.”
How it works

Work is a web of invisible queues.

It piles onto whoever everyone depends on — so your best people become the bottleneck, and the whole team waits. Here's the full picture, and how Currant fixes it.

Read how it works →
Many teammates' requests converging on one overloaded person.

Do your best work, with fewer interruptions.

No pressure. Just clearer expectations.