before anything else
Close the day. Everything follows.
Your body clocks out first. The brain is slower to agree. You can be lying down with the lights off and still be in tomorrow's meeting, still replaying what you said today, still running the list of what everyone else needs from you next.
Sleep is the anchor everything else hangs off. More hours awake don't buy that back - a day that's actually allowed to end does. That's the foundation Dōpo is built on: a ritual for finishing the day and turning the mind off, not a sleep aid stacked on top of a day that never ended.
where it started
Made for our mom.
the brothers
Built from one clear clue.
Will and Sam made a nightly mix for their mom, then kept paying attention when she reached for it again the next evening.
Dōpo started on a family vacation, watching our mom try to close a day that wouldn't close. Her body was ready for it to be over; her mind wasn't getting the memo. Wine was the tool she'd always reached for, but it was starting to cost her the next morning more than it helped the night before - she wanted something that matched how she felt at 10pm, not a trade against how she'd feel at 7am. So we made her a nightly mix - glycine, L-theanine, magnesium, lemon balm, stirred into water, nothing hidden in it.
The next evening, her glass was already lined up on the counter, waiting for us before we'd even asked. Then she did it again the night after that. That is the part that got our attention: she reached for it on her own, every night, without being asked.
When we finally asked her why, she put it more plainly than any pitch deck could: "I need the day to be over, and this is the thing that lets me feel like it is." That became the entire brief. Not fall asleep faster. Not sleep score more. Just the feeling that today is finished. We're Will and Sam, two brothers who grew up watching our mom run everyone else's day before she ever got to close her own.
This is the founders' account of where Dōpo began. It is not a customer testimonial or a claim about the finished drink.
the quality standard
We hold ourselves to the highest standard.
Dōpo has already completed and shipped its first production run. The formula below is the formula our first customers received.
Every active amount is disclosed. No proprietary blend. No added melatonin. Our first release sold out, and we're working on what comes next.
3 g
Glycine
200 mg
L-theanine
200 mg
Magnesium bisglycinate
300 mg
Lemon balm leaf extract
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
the mission
We make one thing. It ends the day.
Not sleep. The twenty minutes before it.
Four ingredients, one scoop, one glass at the end of the day. We'd rather get that right than sell you a shelf.
The evening should have an ending. Most of them just stop - you run out of hours, the phone dies in your hand, and tomorrow starts from wherever you left off. We're building the version where you close it on purpose.
We'll know it worked when it's boring. You pour it without thinking. It lives on the counter next to the kettle. A friend asks what it is, you tell them, and neither of you makes a thing of it.
the last decision of the day
One scoop stirred into a glass of water. Thirty seconds.
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