Pharen started with a problem we kept running into in our own work. Everything was scattered across chats, documents, tasks and inboxes. Before we could get anything done, we were searching for the latest file, copying context from one tool to another and explaining the same things again.
AI was supposed to make this easier. Instead, it often became one more tab. A chat could write a good answer, but it did not know what the team had decided, where the important information lived or what needed to happen next. We did not want another chatbot sitting beside the actual work. We wanted AI that could understand the work with us.
That became the idea behind Pharen. One shared workspace where knowledge, communication, data and workflows come together. The AI understands the context, can follow the decisions a team has made and helps where the work is actually happening.
We are building the product we wished we had. It should be open, fair and flexible enough to grow with a team. The people using Pharen should stay in control of their data and infrastructure.
Milestones
Programs & community
HHL Digital Space · Traction Lab
At Traction Lab, we sharpened Pharen around concrete questions: Which problem do we solve first? How does a strong product vision become a dependable tool for everyday work?
At Launch Day, we presented our progress, gathered feedback from Leipzig's startup ecosystem and marked the start of the next product phase together with the cohort.
HHL Digital Space × SpinLab
The Summer School for Diverse Startups brought together founders with different experiences, industries and points of view. Through workshops, conversations and pitches, we tested assumptions and made Pharen easier to understand.
The direct exchange with people who share knowledge and help one another move forward was especially valuable. Those perspectives shape a product designed to work for many different teams.
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