Livo Enterprises

Technology for living well.

Somewhere along the way, our devices stopped feeling like tools and started feeling like obligations.

Our first product, LivoCapsule, is coming to the App Store. See all products →

Why Livo

A new phone means new gestures to memorize. A new app means another account, another password, and another quiet stream of information about you flowing somewhere else. We own more technology than ever and feel less in charge of it. At some point you notice that your devices are training you.

Livo Enterprises builds the other kind: technology that adapts to the person using it, stays out of the way, and leaves your days lighter. Livo is our word for life, and for living it well.

Two promises

Every Livo product is held to both.

  1. It makes life simpler, not more complicated.

    A product earns its place by taking something off your plate. If you spend more time managing the tool than doing the thing you got it for, it isn’t finished.

  2. You stay in charge.

    You run the technology. It doesn’t run you. In practice that means two things.

    It learns how you work
    For decades people have been told to adapt to machines: learn the menu, learn the gesture, learn the file format. We think that’s backwards. You should be able to say what you want in your own words, and the product should do the adapting.
    Your data is yours
    Whatever a Livo product learns about you stays on your devices, in formats you can open without us. It goes to other people only when you decide, and only to the people you choose.

What that means in practice

These are constraints on us. They decide what we build, and what we won’t.

Where this is going

The ideas behind Livo today will grow as we learn, and the products will follow them. Notes is where that thinking happens in the open.

Who we are

Livo Enterprises is a small, independent company started by Ken Jones, who spent a career building software and then working with data, and came out of it convinced that technology had the relationship backwards. Read why.

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