Finally.
Quiet that works.
Seven minutes. No exercises. No trace. Presence removes what you were carrying so you can continue.
Stress doesn't respond to effort.
You've tried the breathing. The journaling. The cold water on your wrists. These methods ask you to process what you're feeling. Presence works differently. There is nothing to process.
What remains after a session is not calm. It is the absence of the thing that was not calm. The distinction matters.
Proprietary. Effective. Patent-protected.
Seven minutes
A single session integrates into any schedule. Commute. Lunch. The twelve minutes before a meeting you should have cancelled. Presence does not require your full attention.Presence operates across attentional layers. Your conscious participation is not required and has not been, in our research, significantly correlated with outcome.
No residue
Most interventions leave a trace — a memory of having been stressed, a record of the effort to recover. Presence leaves no such trace. Sessions are not stored. The experience does not persist.
Always available
Standard handset. No peripherals. No account required beyond an email address. Presence is on across every device. In every room. Even when the app is closed.We collect only what is necessary to serve you. What is necessary has grown over time. We expect it will continue to.
The results speak.
Users mostly don't.
"I can't really describe what it does. I just know that after, whatever was wrong isn't wrong anymore. I've recommended it to everyone I can think of. I keep recommending it."
"My therapist asked me what changed. I told her I started using Presence. She asked me to describe the experience. I found I couldn't. She said that was fine. She has since started using it herself."
"I looked back at my calendar to see when I started. The date is there. I don't remember the days before it particularly well, but I'm told they were difficult. I feel I should be more curious about this."
We were working on this before you needed it.
Antecedent was founded in 2019 by Dr. Sara Venn and Dr. James Ohlsson, researchers whose work on involuntary attention recalibration represents a significant and largely uncelebrated contribution to human performance science.
We do not discuss the specifics of the proprietary method. Not because we have something to hide. Because the explanation does not help.
"There is a version of this work that asks for your trust. We prefer a version that simply works, and lets you form whatever conclusion feels natural. Most users form no conclusion. We find this the most encouraging outcome."
Co-founder, Antecedent