My name is Téo.
I spent three years working at my desk 10 to 12 hours a day.
Not out of obligation. By choice.
Because that's what people who build things do.
But around late afternoon, something happened.
Not a sharp pain. Not a warning signal.
Something more insidious.
The upper back collapsing, millimeter by millimeter.
The shoulders rolling forward.
The chest closing like a parenthesis.
And the breathing — without noticing —
becoming short. Shallow. Stuck.
From that point, focus crumbles.
Decisions blur.
You re-read the same line three times.
You open Slack for nothing.
You think you're tired.
You're not tired. You're compressed.
I tried everything recommended.
Reminders every 30 minutes. YouTube exercises. The standing desk.
It helps. For ten minutes.
Then the body falls back into its habits.
Work takes over again.
What was needed was something physical.
A tool you place, you use, and it does the work.
Not a routine. A mechanism.
I didn't find that product.
So I built it.
ALIGNED is the result of months of prototypes, tests, and iterations —
on myself, on friends, on designers, engineers, and founders.
The observation is always the same:
60 seconds. Thoracic extension. The chest reopens.
Breathing returns. And with it —
focus.