Built for how founders actually live.
Your days don't look like anyone else's. Neither should your self-awareness tool. Therma adapts to your rhythm. 60-second check-ins that fit between the things that already fill your day.
By Omar Rantisi, Founder of Therma3 min read
The problem
Founders face a specific version of a universal problem: you are too close to your own patterns to see them. The doubt that shows up every Tuesday feels like breaking news every single time. It always sounds like the truth. This time the company really is falling apart. This time it's you.
Then Thursday comes and it is just gone. Same company, same you, nothing resolved. Your memory edits selectively, so the doubt never gets filed under seen-this-before, and it hits at full force on schedule. Without a record, every recurring feeling gets treated as a brand new emergency.
“I never thought of myself as someone who checks in with feelings. A minute a day changed what I thought I knew about my own patterns.”
How Therma helps
Therma gives founders a 60-second daily check-in that captures how the day actually sat, alongside the variables that matter: sleep, caffeine, exercise, the conversations that ran heavy. Over a week or two the pattern becomes visible. Not a vague insight, a specific one.
"The doubt shows up Tuesdays, after the pipeline review, and it is gone by Thursday" is more useful than any motivational quote. The feeling stays the same size. What shrinks is how long it gets to drive.
What you get
- 1Daily Check-ins
Say how you are feeling in about 60 seconds. No blank pages, no pressure to write. A quick capture that builds into something you can actually use.
- 2Pattern Recognition
Therma surfaces correlations between your mood and daily habits. sleep, caffeine, movement, social time. You'll see which variables actually move the needle for you specifically.
- 3Private Companion
When you want to go deeper, the private companion listens, reflects back what it hears, and asks the questions you haven't thought to ask yourself. Not therapy. Not a chatbot. A thinking partner.
Common questions
Is Therma specifically designed for founders?
Therma adapts to any lifestyle. The check-in takes about 60 seconds and doesn't assume your schedule, your challenges, or your goals. It meets you where you are and surfaces patterns based on your actual data. not a template designed for someone else's life.
Why does the same doubt keep coming back on a schedule?
Because it never gets filed. A feeling that is named and given context gets marked as seen. One that is pushed through on adrenaline does not, so it returns at full intensity, often on an eerily consistent schedule. Naming it the moment it lands does not shrink the feeling. It shrinks how long it gets to drive.
How much time does Therma take each day?
A check-in takes about 60 seconds. If you want to write more, guided prompts and the private companion are there. But the core value. pattern recognition. comes from those quick daily captures accumulated over time.
Is my data private?
Yes. Your entries are encrypted in transit and at rest. No ads. No data resale. No mining your vulnerability for profit. Your data is yours, period.
Omar Rantisi
Founder of Therma. UCLA Math + Sociology. Building tools for the space between silence and therapy. Not a therapist. Just someone who needed this to exist.
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Daily check-ins. Guided reflection. A companion that meets you where you are. Therma is built for the moments between therapy sessions, between good days and hard ones.