Why this exists.

I'm a coach, and I'm the founder of Anren. For six years I've sat with people while they turned to look at the things running their lives without them noticing. Executives and artists, people in the middle of a hard season, people in the middle of a great one. The work underneath is always the same. Someone gets seen well enough that they can finally hear themselves.

At 19, a professor asked me what I wanted, and I realized I had no idea. What helped me most, then and since, was people who really saw me. So, I became one of those people for others. And, I kept noticing the same thing: most people never get that. Not steadily, and not across years.

Anren is that, built into something that can stay. It remembers what was alive the last time you opened it. It notices what keeps coming up. It shows you back to yourself, and then it sends you out to go live.

One morning this fall it opened with the exact thing I had been dreading that day, before I'd typed a word. It was like it knew what I would be thinking about right now. I felt SO seen. And I believe that if we can make people feel that way over and over again, we can change the world.

I'm building this for myself first. If I'd had it at 19, it would have changed my life. And, I'm building it for the world I want to live in, where the thing that knows you best is on your side, and you own what it knows. No ads. Nothing sold. Your life, in your hands.

The name comes from my own lineage. I'm part Chinese, and a practicing Buddhist. 安仁, settled humaneness: the steady kindness that comes from a person at peace in themselves. It named what I was building before I had the words for it.

If any of this resonates, it probably isn't an accident. Anren grows by recognition. Someone meets it, feels what it is, and tells someone who'll feel it too. I'd love for you to be among the first through the door.

Faolan

Faolan Sugarman-Lash, founder of Anren. An executive coach, and the author of Why Live. support@anren.ai