Our Story

We are Austin and Brennan, the co-founders of SLEKE.
The inspiration for re-imagining the mobile operating system developed over several years. From 2018 to 2023 we worked, studied, and traveled in incredible locations around the world including China, England, Malaysia, Morocco, and Thailand.
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On a random sunny day in 2019, we had a chat about the amount of time we spent absorbed in our phones compared to the time we spent living the life in front of us. To us, we were spending too much time absorbed in our devices rather than engaging with the world around us. As time passed, we felt a growing desire to live more presently, to fully engage with the people, the beauty, and the experiences around us.
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Fast forward to early 2023, we still couldn't find any devices that gave us access to the communication and utility tools we needed to interact in the world while restricting access to common distractions like social media, web browsing, and games.
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That's when it struck us ... the answer was Simple. (Simple. was our original name. We left this in to pay homage to our past).
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We decided to make what we had been searching for: a phone giving us access to all the stuff we needed and none of the distracting/unnecessary stuff. And the rest, as they say, is history in the making.
mission
Create technology that enables deeper engagement with the real world
VISION
Reimmagine mobile phone software exclusively for communication and utility.
VALUES
People First.
Simplicity.
Quality.
Sustainability.
Be Kind.