One more thing to build.
LookSense is built by SpectralSense, a small product company that ships hardware, writes its own software, and does its own industrial design.
Why we exist
Getting dressed is the first thing you do every day. For most people it’s automatic: a glance in the mirror, a quick call on navy or black, done. For a lot of people it isn’t. Color reads wrong, or doesn’t read at all, and a small decision turns into a daily negotiation.
That loss, repeated every morning for years, is one of the quietest ways independence slips. We think it’s worth fixing properly, not with a filter that guesses, but with a sensor that measures.
What we’re building
LookSense reads the real color and fabric of what you own and turns it into plain guidance: what you have, what goes together, and whether the outfit works before you walk out. It styles from your own closet, and it’s built so a blind, low-vision, or color-blind person can trust every read.
The app runs on your phone today. The spectral sensor behind it, the part that makes the reads true instead of guessed, is the moat and the roadmap. Sight is where we start. It is not where we stop.
Patrick Connolly, founder
LookSense is the fourth company Patrick has founded. Each of the previous three did something the internet or the media landscape hadn’t done before.
Obscura Digital · Founder
One of the foundational companies in large-scale interactive and immersive media. Obscura’s work became part of the backbone of the MSG Sphere in Las Vegas.
MyEvents.com · Founder
An early social networking and event-coordination company, pre-Facebook. Raised $8M from Sierra Ventures. Acquired.
Colo.com · Founder
The original carrier-neutral colocation company. Raised nearly $1B from Menlo Ventures, Accel Partners, Deutsche Bank, and Merrill Lynch during the original internet buildout.
First commercial web SQL server
Before the modern internet had meaningful structured data, Patrick shipped one of the first commercially deployed web-facing SQL servers.
This isn’t a startup swing at an unfamiliar market.
It’s a deliberate, patient return to the kind of engineering that actually changes how something works. Built in Holladay, Utah and Menlo Park, California.