The quiet your
best work needs.

Vela seals off the noise, holds your attention in place, and turns scattered days into hours of work you’re actually proud of.

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SEE HOW

01

The problem

Busy was never the problem. Scattered attention is.

64 days

Of a working year the average person hands to task-switching and interruptions. Vela gives them back.

64 days

Of a working year the average person hands to task-switching and interruptions. Vela gives them back.

9 min

The climb back into deep focus after one notification. Vela makes sure it never lands.

1 hour

Less than that is all most people get unbroken in a day. Real thinking needs whole blocks.

Quietly at work inside 1,200+ teams

  • Northwind

  • Cadence

  • Helio

  • Pylon

  • Verve

  • Atlas

  • Lumen

  • Vertex

02

How it works

Focus shouldn’t ride on willpower. Vela makes it structural.

FOCUS SESSION

● Live

01:24:30

Blocking 12 distractions

Seal off the noise

Start a session and Vela locks out the apps, tabs, and pings that pull you under — right up until the timer’s done.

THIS WEEK

+18%

18h 40m

Make progress visible

Every focused hour records itself, so momentum stops being a vague feeling and becomes a number you watch climb.

CURRENT STREAK

🔥 14 days

Longest streak · 31 days

Keep the chain alive

Small daily targets and a running streak make focus a habit that pulls you forward, not one you fight for every morning.

03

Features

Everything that pulls you away, handled in one quiet place.

FOCUS MINUTES

+12% this week

1,240

01

Watch the hours stack up

Vela counts every focused minute and rolls it into days, weeks, and months — momentum you can actually point to.

02

Cut distraction off at the source

Name what derails you once. Vela shuts it down the second you begin, and quietly lets it back in when you’re done.

BLOCKED DURING FOCUS

● Active

S

Slack

Instagram

X

X

@

Email

SAME WORK, LESS TIME

4× faster

+4x

BEFORE

6h 30m

WITH VELA

1h 45m

03

Win back hours, not minutes

With the interruptions gone, the same work takes a fraction of the time. Most people are finished before lunch.

04

Benefits

A small habit. A noticeably different week.

Focus that
runs itself.

Start free

Hands-off shielding

Vela blocks the usual offenders the moment you start — no willpower spent.

Effortless logging

Sessions record themselves across every device. Nothing to start, nothing to forget.

Honest patterns

Find out when you genuinely focus best, then build your hardest work around it.

Shared quiet hours

Teams set protected blocks together, so heads-down time actually stays that way.

Streaks that stick

Daily targets and a running streak make the habit genuinely hard to break.

Depth in one tap

Drop into a sealed, distraction-free session without any of the setup.

05

The difference

Grinding harder isn’t a plan. A system is.

Without Vela

With Vela

Distractions gone before you notice them

Your priorities setting the agenda

Every focused hour accounted for

Just enough friction to keep you honest

Attention-first from the very start

Shorter days, deeper work

06

Results

Fewer distractions. A lot more done.

  • I used to end the day drained with nothing shipped. Now I clear two deep blocks before standup.

    Sarah Mitchell

    Platform Engineer

  • I figured a blocker would feel like a punishment. Honestly, it feels like relief.

    James Okafor

    CMO at BrightLayer

  • My calendar finally holds hours that belong to me, and Vela keeps them that way.

    Emma Larsson

    Head of Marketing at Volta

  • The afternoon Slack spiral just disappeared. I had no idea what it was costing me.

    Daniel Park

    Founder at Stackly

  • Same hours, roughly double the output. My clients think I quietly hired help.

    Priya Nair

    Freelance Consultant

  • It eases me into the work before the dread can show up. Mondays don’t scare me anymore.

    Tom Eriksson

    Growth Lead at Novu

  • I used to end the day drained with nothing shipped. Now I clear two deep blocks before standup.

    Sarah Mitchell

    Platform Engineer

  • I figured a blocker would feel like a punishment. Honestly, it feels like relief.

    James Okafor

    CMO at BrightLayer

  • My calendar finally holds hours that belong to me, and Vela keeps them that way.

    Emma Larsson

    Head of Marketing at Volta

  • The afternoon Slack spiral just disappeared. I had no idea what it was costing me.

    Daniel Park

    Founder at Stackly

  • Same hours, roughly double the output. My clients think I quietly hired help.

    Priya Nair

    Freelance Consultant

  • It eases me into the work before the dread can show up. Mondays don’t scare me anymore.

    Tom Eriksson

    Growth Lead at Novu

  • Deep work stopped being a lucky accident. It happens on a schedule now.

    Aisha Kamara

    Brand Strategist at Fuse

  • It’s quietly smart about when I do my best work, and just guards those windows.

    Lucas Webb

    Digital Marketing Manager

  • Our heads-down hours are genuinely heads-down now. The team felt it within a week.

    Nina Hoffman

    Co-founder at Loopkit

  • I dropped three apps after switching. One tool, longer focus, far less to manage.

    Marcus Chen

    Social Media Lead at Pylon

  • I plan my whole day around the streak. Breaking it feels worse than the work.

    Rachel Torres

    Content Strategist at Merge

  • Setup took ten minutes. The habit took about three days.

    Oliver Grant

    Head of Product at Briefcase

07

Pricing

Free to start. Worth keeping.

Starter

$0

/mo

Everything you need to build the habit and feel the shift.

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Up to 3 sessions a day

Block the essentials

A daily focus snapshot

One device

Community support

Pro

POPULAR

$12

/mo

For people whose week rises or falls on their focus.

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Unlimited sessions

Custom blocklists & schedules

Full insights and streaks

Every device you own

Priority support

Teams

$20

user/mo

Protect focus across a whole team, not just one calendar.

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Everything in Pro

Up to 15 seats

Shared quiet hours

A team focus view

A dedicated contact

08

FAQ

Still deciding? Start here.

Isn’t this just another to-do app?

What exactly can it block?

Will the habit actually stick?

Does it work everywhere I do?

What if it’s not for me?

Who can see my data?

Your next deep block is one tap away.

Set your first session in under a minute, and feel the difference before the day is out.

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Vela

Vela

Vela guards your attention, so your best work has somewhere to happen.

Vela guards your attention, so your best work has somewhere to happen.

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