The Problem
Built for lists and folders. You think in places and pictures.
About
In my mid-forties, I had a late-in-life awakening to my ADHD, and building NeuroQuest has taught me more about my own brain than anything before it.
Just like everyone else, I lived in folders and tabs, everything out of sight, out of mind. Staying organized, finding things, getting back into the work, all of it was a fight. Not because I was sloppy. My brain organizes information, connects dots, and sees patterns differently than the systems I was forcing it into.
Then I thought about the map in Super Mario Bros 2, how you move between worlds, and wondered why my work couldn't feel like that. A place, not a folder. So your work lives somewhere you actually remember, instead of somewhere you have to search for. And Lumen, the assistant inside NeuroQuest, carries the part that's hardest to hold onto alone: knowing what to do next.
That's how NeuroQuest started. Everything I keep learning about neurodivergence now feeds straight back into the product. I hope you find the same relief I did.
Carlin Guarneri, Founder & CEO
Creative director with 20+ years in marketing and advertising, investor in business and real estate, founder, and connector of dots. Only in recent years did she truly understand her ADHD brain, and realize how many of life’s challenges didn’t need to be there. Now she’s focused on building the tools to break those barriers.
Our design principles
No guilt, ever
Context over search
Built for your brain
Calm by default
How It Works
Zoom from your whole world down to the room you’re working in. You travel between your projects. You don’t dig through them.
Islands
The big areas of your life or work.
Buildings
Your projects, clients, and workstreams.
Floors
The phases and milestones inside them.
Rooms
Where your ideas and work actually live.
Features
Pick up exactly where you left off.
See exactly where you were and what’s next.
Beat the blank page.
Lumen gives you three ways to start.
See time, don’t just feel it.
A visual countdown. Never a jarring alarm.
Just one thing mode.
The interface melts away. Just your work.
If you can see it, it exists.
Your work stays visible in its place. Nothing vanishes into folders.
MEET LUMEN
The intelligence inside NeuroQuest. It holds your context, sorts your brain dumps, and restarts work that stalled.
The Science
The hippocampus, your brain's spatial memory center, also handles episodic memory, learning, and context. For 200,000 years, humans remembered by place.
ADHD brains face specific challenges with working memory, task switching, and object permanence. If something isn't visible, it stops existing.
Traditional tools ignore all of this. NeuroQuest puts ancient cognitive architecture to work for modern knowledge work.
Years humans remembered by place.
US adults with ADHD.
Neurodivergent people globally
Every feature maps to research.
Early Testers
"The biggest aha moment was that I felt calm thinking about work!"
Teacher
Spatial thinker
Working spatially gives a free feeling. Less anxious
Vet Tech
· Neurodivergent
Everything in one spot. I’ve got so much going on in my head
Business Owner
· Suspected ADHD