The greatest ideas always begin with a blank canvas.
The clearest work begins with clarity
Every task affects more people than you think.
Most work doesn’t stop because it’s difficult. It stops because one person is waiting for another.
Tasks always have dependencies.
Approve launch copy
Blocker right now—
people blocked
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tasks stuck behind this
Blank sees the impact before the delay spreads.
It understands which tasks, decisions, and messages depend on each other. Then it identifies the small action holding back the most progress.
Instead of giving you another task list, Blank surfaces the task that matters most to the company right now — the one that unlocks progress and keeps the whole company moving.
Blank sees the impact before the delay spreads.
Your whole stack, connected.
Slack, Linear, Jira, Notion, Google Drive, Figma, GitHub and anything else your team runs on. Blank uses that context to understand how work depends on other work.
A small dot at the side of your work.
Blank sits quietly next to the tools you already use, and only speaks up to tell you what to prioritise right now and who it unblocks.
Inbox
- MMaya Chen10:42
Pricing page copy
Can we lock the final wording today? Six people are waiting on this before moving forward.
- JJonas Weber09:18
Q3 roadmap review
Shared the doc yesterday. Let me know if you need anything else.
- LLena ParkYesterday
Design handoff
Figma file is ready for the engineering team to pick up.
Blank suggests
Reply to Maya first
This thread is blocking six people from moving forward.
One quiet dot at the edge of the tools you already use.
Before Uber, finding a ride was guesswork. At work, finding the right task still is.
You could have ten drivers nearby. But without knowing where demand is, who is available, and which ride matters now, nobody moves efficiently.
Companies face the same problem. Hundreds of tasks wait across people and tools, and no one sees who is blocked, what depends on what, and which task would create the most momentum.
Hundreds of tasks. Nobody sees the full picture.
Blank matches the right task with the right person at the right moment based on what moves the company forward.
Ride-hailing connected supply with demand. Blank connects work with impact.
Most tasks move your work forward.
A few move everyone else’s.
Blank finds those first.
Two friends, one blank page.
Johannes Renner
CEO & Founder
Business Analytics at WHU and NUS. Loves ice cream, pitching ideas, and asking “what if?”
The connection
We met at Lio, a Y Combinator and a16z-backed startup. Watching an ambitious team scale at high speed, we kept seeing the same problem: great people were constantly blocked by work they couldn’t see. Blank started as our attempt to make those invisible dependencies visible.
Jannik Graf
CPO & Founder
Management & Digital Technologies at LMU and Bocconi . Loves chocolate, building products, and obsessing over the small details.
Two friends, one blank page and a belief that the right work should always be obvious.
Companies are systems of connected work.
One delayed decision can block a team.
One unresolved task can slow a launch.
One hidden dependency can hold back an entire company.
The problem is not a lack of activity.
It is that the task holding everything together is often buried beneath meetings, messages and endless lists.
Blank finds the task everything else is waiting for.