Mortis — for journalists.

One-line description

50-word pitch

Full boilerplate

Mortis is the first meditation app built on frequency science — not affirmations, not ambient noise, not guided fluff. The product is a living Matrix of 132 frequencies, 150 breathwork techniques, 100 postures, and 100 instruments. A voice intake asks how you feel; AI picks the combination your physiology needs. HRV is measured before and after every session. Twice-daily compliance with the protocol rebates your monthly subscription toward zero — data in exchange for a discount.

Founded in 2026 by Grady O'Neill, a competitive triathlete and boxer who spent two months in a monastery in Thailand and Myanmar and two weeks with a Papua New Guinea tribe. The app launched at a hybrid NYC + global event on April 18, 2026 at Coopers Classic Cars in the West Village.

Key facts

Why this matters

• The meditation app category is saturated with "wellness-pastel" products that give users content but not measurement. Mortis inverts that.
• Compliance-based pricing (Pro $20/mo with a rebate toward $0) is the first subscription model to treat structured user data as the asset rather than user attention. Full daily compliance = $0 billed. Users are paid in refunded dollars for the data that improves the recommendation engine for everyone.
• Every frequency in the library is backed by a peer-reviewed citation. 40 Hz gamma entrainment (MIT, Iaccarino et al. 2016). 7.83 Hz Schumann resonance. 5.5 bpm coherence breathing (clinical trials, Navy SEAL protocols).
• The Matrix — a personalized constellation of frequencies + breathwork + postures + instruments that updates with every session — is the first time consumer meditation data has been structured this way.

Founder bio

Grady O'Neill is a competitive triathlete and boxer. Before building Mortis, he spent two months in a monastery in Thailand and Myanmar studying the Theravada concentration practices (anapanasati and vipassana) and two weeks living with a tribe in Papua New Guinea observing non-technological frequency practices. The gap between the clinical-trial evidence for specific frequencies and the way meditation apps were packaging "mindfulness" drove the product thesis: if the science is real, the measurement should be in the app.

He is based in New York.

Launch story

On April 18, 2026, Mortis held a public launch event at Coopers Classic Cars in the West Village. 88 people attended or joined virtually. The app went live on the App Store at 4 PM ET; at 6:30 PM ET the group began a 15-minute synchronized frequency meditation.

The 4 PM release (build 47) contained a native-module mismatch — specifically expo-secure-store and expo-keep-awake not re-linking cleanly — that caused every fresh install to crash on boot. The crash was caught during the event. A hotfix (build 48, v1.1.1) was submitted to Apple that same night with an expedited review request. It is in Apple review as of this page's publication.

Simultaneously, the team built v1.2 (the full product bridge release) with every new surface gated behind feature flags and REST-based telemetry to avoid re-introducing the native-module risk. v1.2 is queued to ship right behind the hotfix. The story is being documented in real time in the Saturday recap.

Brand assets

• App icon — 512×512 PNG
• Logo mark — SVG (favicon)
• OG image — 1200×630 JPG

Colors

• Mortis orange: #F5841F
• Background black: #0a0a0a
• Text white: #ffffff

Typography

• Serif headlines: Instrument Serif (Google Fonts)
• Sans body: Inter (Google Fonts)

Quotable lines