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About Us
We’re a team of builders, designers, and problem-solvers creating tools that make project management feel effortless.
#Origin
Project management shouldn’t feel like busywork. Too many teams spend hours juggling spreadsheets, switching between Jira, GitHub, Sentry, Slack, and a client status doc that’s always out of date. We built Kavanah as a single workspace where the board, the code, the deploy, the incident, and the client update share one timeline — with AI agents handling the glue work so your team can focus on shipping.
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#The Name
כַּוָּנָה
/ka·va·NAH/ · Hebrew
Kavanah is a Hebrew word meaning intention, focus, or directed consciousness. In Jewish thought it describes the inner intention behind an action — the difference between reciting words and meaning them, between performing a ritual and inhabiting it.
The root k-v-n carries the sense of directing, aiming, aligning, and orienting toward something. The Talmud frames prayer without kavanah as a body without a soul. In Kabbalah and Hasidism the idea deepens: every action can carry spiritual intention; consciousness itself shapes outcome.
We chose the name because that’s the bet underneath the product. Project work fails not from lack of tools but from lack of alignment — between people, between intent and action, between the plan and the day. Kavanah is software built to keep teams oriented toward what they actually meant to do.
#Achievements
Behind every number is a story of teams, workflows, and ideas brought to life with Kavanah.
#Our Team
Founder & CEO · AW3 Technology
Founder & CEO of AW3 Technology, the venture studio incubating Kavanah. Builds Kavanah end-to-end — agents, schema, UI, and the OpenAPI surface — alongside the alpha-tester clients using it on real projects. Mission: merge code, capital, and creativity to build tools that empower people and systems that endure.
Founder-led, building in the open. Get in touch via careers@kavanah.ai.
#Backed By
Kavanah is built inside AW3 Technology, a venture studio creating frontier software startups in Web3 & AI. The mission: merge code, capital, and creativity to build tools that empower people and systems that endure.
15+
Companies built
$5M+
Raised by portfolio
2.5×
Studio IRR vs. traditional VC
3.4×
Faster zero-to-seed
Validated inside the studio
Kavanah went through AW3's idea-to-MVP process — opportunity sizing, market validation, and pre-seed underwriting — before a line of production code was written.
Shared design + engineering
AW3's in-house senior engineers, designers, and ops staff staffed the build phase. Kavanah inherits a shared component library, deploy pipeline, and AI infra rather than rebuilding them.
Studio capital + GTM
Pre-seed capital, brand, and pitch infrastructure came from AW3. The studio actively supports fundraising, design-partner introductions, and the first GTM hires.
Portfolio network effects
Cross-portfolio collaboration with AW3's other AI and Web3 companies surfaces design partners, integrations, and shared infrastructure earlier than a standalone seed would.
Supported by an advisor network across finance, education, and technology — including leaders from Baird Augustine, Bitwage, and Blocksee.