Sit-With-Me
Body-doubling, on your phone.
Body-doubling is the ADHD practice of working with someone else in the room. They do not help. They do not watch. They are just there, and the task gets easier to start. Otterly puts that companion in your pocket.
What it is
A body double is a person who sits nearby while you do the hard thing. A friend on a video call while you clean. A stranger in a library while you write. Their presence lowers the wall between intending to start and starting. People with ADHD have passed this trick around for decades because it works for them, again and again.
Task paralysis is not laziness. Researchers describe it as being painfully aware of the task, wanting to do it, and still not being able to begin. Company changes that state in a way willpower does not.
The Sit-With-Me Room
I'm here.
One tap opens a quiet room. A gentle hello, then silent company while you work. Say anything or say nothing. One soft check-in, never more. Stuck on a step? Otterly shrinks it smaller.
When you stop, Otterly says what it always says: however far you got, you started. That counts.
No camera, no stranger, no schedule
Most body-double services pair you with a stranger on video at a booked time. That works for some people. For many it adds the exact load it should remove: a face to perform for, a slot to keep, US dollar pricing. Otterly is on-demand, silent by default, and priced in pesos. The room is open at 2 AM when the deadline is real.
Half of the story
Sitting with you is what Otterly does after you start. Getting you to the start is the other half. Otterly asks what you have been avoiding and shrinks it into a step small enough to begin.
How the task shrinker worksThe next hard task does not have to be started alone.