The team

Meet the founders

Four builders on a mission to make personalized neural audio the default way humans focus, sleep, and unwind.

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Aarav Naveen

Founder & CEO

Came up with SmartSound in November 2025 and built it end-to-end — from the neuroscience research and adaptive audio engine to the app, the website, and the product roadmap.

  • Founded SmartSound (Nov 2025)
  • App & website engineering
  • Research & product development
  • Product roadmap & slide deck
  • Social media marketing
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Rishi Datanwala

Co-founder & Engineering

Joined Aarav early to help build SmartSound. Contributes to the app and website codebase and supports the technical architecture behind the adaptive audio system.

  • App engineering
  • Website engineering
  • Product roadmap & slide deck
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Dane Bromfield

Co-founder & Growth

Runs the human side of SmartSound — leading user research surveys, coordinating the beta tester program, and driving in-person marketing efforts on the ground.

  • User research & surveys
  • Beta tester coordination
  • In-person marketing
  • Product roadmap & slide deck
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Allan Jessil

Co-founder & Contributor

Joined the team through the founding program and contributes product tweaks, polish, and meaningful input into the SmartSound roadmap and pitch materials.

  • Product tweaks & refinements
  • Product roadmap & slide deck
Our story

How SmartSound started

  1. November 2025

    The idea

    Aarav came up with SmartSound — a personalized neural audio engine that adapts to the listener's brain — and started building the first prototype, the research foundation, and the product roadmap.

  2. Shortly after

    Rishi joins

    Aarav brought on Rishi to help accelerate engineering across the app and website.

  3. The program

    Dane and Allan come on board

    Through a founder program, Dane joined to lead user research, beta testing, and in-person marketing, and Allan came on to contribute product tweaks. The four-person team has been building SmartSound together since.

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