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Preflights 
Most blockers fail because you have to babysit them with brittle blocklists and schedules. TabAI stops the death-by-tabs problem by learning what “work” looks like for you, then cutting off distractions when you drift. You stay in flow without turning your browser into a locked cage.
Your brain isn’t “bad at focus”.
Your browser is.
One tab turns into ten. Ten turns into a feed. Then you snap back 40 minutes later and call it “research”.
Here’s the deal: most distraction blockers lose because they expect you to predict every future temptation. You set rules. You tweak lists. You add schedules. You end up managing the tool instead of doing the work.
TabAI (tabai.dev) takes a different swing.
It learns your work context and uses that to decide when a site is a distraction right now. Not “always”. Not “never”. Context.
That matters because the same site can be useful at 10:05 and poison at 10:25. Docs can be work. YouTube can be work. X can be work. Or they can be the hole you fall into when the task gets hard.
TabAI aims to catch the slide early.
Instead of forcing you to build a perfect blocklist, it tries to understand what you’re doing and steps in when you drift. That means fewer brittle rules and less guilt-driven toggling between “locked down” and “anything goes”.
But there’s a catch: a blocker only works if it feels fair. If it blocks the wrong thing, you’ll rip it out.
So TabAI’s edge is the promise of adaptive blocking - tight when you need guardrails, quiet when you’re actually working.
Who’s this for?
- Builders who live in the browser all day
- Founders who can’t afford focus leaks
- Anyone tired of pretending willpower scales
Why does this matter? Because attention is the only resource you never get more of. TabAI doesn’t give you motivation. It gives you friction in the right moments - when your cursor starts hunting for dopamine instead of shipping.
You don’t need more hacks.
You need fewer escapes.