FocusAI

FocusAI is a proactive AI assistant tool. An AI website blocker for Chrome that reads the task you type and blocks pages that do not serve it. Sessions are hard to quit: quitting early means typing a surrender sentence by hand.

Focus AI is a Chrome extension for people who have already cycled through several website blockers and uninstalled every one of them. The premise is narrow and deliberate: instead of maintaining a blocklist of domains, the user types what they intend to work on, and the tool evaluates each page against that stated task. A calculus lecture on YouTube passes. Shorts on the same site does not. The judgment is made by AI reading the task, not by a fixed list of forbidden URLs, which is why work-related use of a normally distracting site can survive while the feed gets turned away. The second mechanism is the Quit Wall. Sessions are meant to be hard to abandon, so turning one off is not a single click. The user types a surrender phrase by hand, letter by letter, with no pasting. Strict mode is on by default at install, and the user picks an intensity level per session: standard blocking, the Quit Wall, or a full lockdown with no exit. A status pill stays visible on every page during the session, and drifting to a feed triggers the blocked screen. Time spent choosing work over the feed is logged and banked, giving the week a running tally of reclaimed minutes. The design target is students and knowledge workers with ADHD or a long history of defeating their own tools, and the site says so plainly. Setup takes about thirty seconds and needs no account, and the first three sessions are free before the $9.99 monthly subscription. Compared with older blockers such as StayFocusd, the differentiator is context: blocking follows the task rather than a hardcoded site list. The tradeoff is that the whole product lives inside Chrome, and the tool's accuracy depends on how clearly the task is described. Support is handled by the solo founder, who publishes a direct email address and claims roughly a two hour reply time, with a stated habit of patching misblocked pages quickly. There is also a bring-a-friend offer that grants free subscription time for short videos about the tool, at 1K and 10K view thresholds.