Presence · Practice · Growth

The AI wearable that thinks with you — not for you.

Meet YUE by Bloom: a quiet companion for your goals, your health, and your voice. Move at the pace of a living thing.

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The problem

A cognitive overload crisis

We are operating beyond what our brains were designed to handle.

5×

More information

The average person consumes five times more information than in 1986.

47s

Task-switch interval

Knowledge workers switch tasks every 47 seconds.

40%+

Adults struggling

Over 40% of adults report difficulty with focus and decision-making.

The result: declining motivation, decision fatigue, and burnout. This isn't a time-management problem — it's a cognitive overload crisis.

The solution

Meet YUE

Bloom's wearable works quietly in the background instead of demanding more attention — helping you manage priorities, health, and daily workflow through natural, hands-free voice interaction and context-aware insights.

Proactive, not reactive

YUE integrates your schedule, tasks, health signals, and routines — helping you make better and fewer decisions.

Built on habit science

A trigger–action–reward system — the framework behind Atomic Habits — so it builds healthier behaviors, not just awareness.

An extension of you

Less like another app to manage. More like a seamless extension of yourself — worn, not watched.

Synchronize your external world and your internal world — so you can be more present.

The companion app

A quiet home for your goals

The Bloom app is coming soon — a calm task and growth companion that syncs your outer world of goals with your inner world of practice and reflection.

Presence dashboard

See your momentum, your day's canopy of tasks, and the skills you're growing — all in one gentle view.

Goals & pathways

Set a goal, and Bloom builds a graduated pathway of tasks that meet you where you are — exportable straight to your calendar.

Voice channel

An always-available place to check in, reflect, or think out loud — the foundation for YUE's hands-free future.

Why now

Three converging shifts

Cognitive overload is peaking

Information volume and constant context-switching are driving burnout, especially for high-demand users. The crisis has reached an inflection point.

AI has hit an inflection point

Consumers now trust AI in daily life. LLM advances make proactive, personalized, ambient assistance technically feasible for the first time.

Wearables have gone mainstream

Fitness trackers evolved into trusted everyday devices — and consumers increasingly want less screen time, not more.

Bloom sits exactly at this intersection: proactive AI, worn not watched.

The team

We've lived this problem

We met as graduate students in entrepreneurship and social innovation at USC, united by one conviction: AI should amplify human potential, not replace it.

Lauritz David

Hardware

8+ years in hardware innovation and product development. Through the LA Cleantech Incubator's Advanced Prototyping Center, has translated concepts into functional prototypes for dozens of companies — CAD, CNC, 3D printing, and embedded systems.

Alena Farooq

Product Strategy & Operations

Built performance measurement systems, enterprise platforms, and AI-enabled workflows. Helped raise a $5M venture fund and managed $20M+ in grant portfolios.

Founder–market fit: as founders — and through deep work at the intersection of hormonal health and cognitive performance — we are our earliest users. We build with empathy, not assumptions.
NSF I-Corps ZAP · Complete NSF I-Corps BOOM · Accepted USC Greif Incubator Alpha wearability testing underway
Roadmap

The path forward

Aug 2026

100+ customer discovery interviews completed. Ergonomics and social-acceptability wearability testing.

End of 2026

Functional prototype in the hands of 10+ beta testers.

Mid-2027

80% of production architecture complete — hardware, AI workflows, biometric integration, privacy-first data handling.

Beta waitlist

Be among the first to wear your calm

Beta spots are limited and early participants have already begun requesting theirs. Add your name — we'll reach out as testing opens.

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