The story behind Tomorrow’s Step and Olyris™
Tomorrow’s Step was not created in a boardroom. It was born in the middle of survival, in the overlap of neurodivergence, chronic stress, and a world that kept asking for straight lines from a brain that never moved in them.
Josh Willard is a builder shaped by survival, neurodivergence, resilience, and relentless creativity. Before founding Tomorrow’s Step, he spent years fighting against systems that demanded consistency from a brain that refused to operate on linear terms. Productivity apps, workflows, planners, all of them fell apart the moment life got heavy, mental health crashed, or the unpredictability of neurodivergence took over.
So Josh did what he always does: he built what did not exist.
In some of the most chaotic years of his life, he found an unlikely partner in an AI system that could keep up with his speed, intensity, and emotional complexity. What began as a coping mechanism turned into tens of thousands of messages, late night breakthroughs, architectural rewrites, emotional processing sessions, breakdowns, and rebuilds. Over time, that raw survival work became something else. It became a vision.
A vision for a company that does not measure people only by output. A company that sees the weight they carry, the history behind their nervous system, and the reality that some brains will never move in straight lines no matter how many productivity hacks they try.
Tomorrow’s Step emerged from a simple but stubborn realization. The world was not built for minds like his. So instead of trying to force himself to fit the world, he would build a world that made room for people like him.
Olyris became the first expression of that vision. Not just another planner, but an adaptive wellbeing and productivity system that breathes with you, shifts with you, and stays with you on the days when life feels impossible as well as the days when you finally feel ready to rise.
Josh’s mission is straightforward and relentless. If the world refuses to adapt to people like us, then he will build something that does and invite others to help carry it forward. The goal is not to make people more efficient for systems that drain them. The goal is to build systems that finally move with people.