● Pre-seed · Lotus Cities Inc.

Your everyday life,
connected.

One ecosystem spanning the apps people use most—communication, social life and everyday needs—with an optional AI companion that helps across all of them.

Raising $1.65M to take a working Android and iPhone ecosystem into production and a focused U.S. pilot.

Working prototypes on iOS and Android · Pre-launch · Los Angeles

Lotus companion home screen in the working prototype

The Lotus companion, in the working prototype

59
apps in one ecosystem
5
areas of everyday life
1
account, network and AI companion across all of them
iOS + Android
working prototypes today
What’s built

Not separate apps.
One ecosystem.

Every Lotus app shares one account, one network of people and one AI companion, so plans, conversations and context move with you from app to app instead of starting over.

Connect

Communication, relationships and community
MessagesCallsSocial Life · 9 appsMy NetworkMomentsPollsComments

Enjoy

Music, TV, stories and creative expression
Stage · 5 appsSwipe · 3 appsLow KeyAuditionScrollMedia StudioChannelsZoom

Experience

Events, nearby discoveries, outings and travel
Lotus MapNearbyEventsTripsStayRentalsRideFood

Get things done

Day-to-day needs, work and money
Ask LotusTasksLotus WebInspectorMy CollectionsWork · 4 appsMy Money · 3 appsMarketplacePackageServices

Grow

Learning, education and personal development
Library · 2 appsEducationEnthusiastsPerfectionistGeeksGenie

Every app works on its own, with or without AI. Production hardening and a measured pilot are what this round funds.

A sample of screens from the working iOS and Android builds.

Shared event planning inside a group chat
Where we start

From “we should”
to “let’s do it.”

We start with friends and households who plan and do things together—one of the most frequent, most shared needs in everyday life.

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Plan inside the conversationOpen a shared event right in the chat. Add details, comment live and talk while the plan takes shape.
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Then do it, in the same placeCalls, tasks, maps and watching together are native Lotus tools, not links out to other apps.
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Every plan invites new peopleShared planning brings friends and family into Lotus, which is how we will test growth in the pilot.
Lotus Brain

Software first.
Models second.

Lotus Brain is our own AI engine. Many everyday requests can be answered reliably by software alone, so Lotus only calls an AI model when it adds something, and permissions and actions always stay under the user’s control.

STEP 1

Decision kernel

Checks identity, policy and authority in software.

STEP 2

Verified answer

Answers from trusted data with no model call at all.

STEP 3

Language model

The standard route for open-ended requests.

STEP 4

Specialist

Harder tasks, with at most one bounded repair.

The working prototype runs on OpenAI today. Lotus Brain is being prepared to take over in production, so costs stay low as more people use Lotus.

The round

From prototype
to production.

Lotus already works on both platforms. This round takes it from a working prototype to something people can rely on every day.

$1.65M
Pre-seed

We are bringing on four engineers to work alongside the founder, getting the ecosystem ready for production, qualifying Lotus Brain, and running a focused U.S. pilot with friends and households. The goal is simple: show that people come back to Lotus, invite others and are willing to pay.

Meet Lotus

Let Lotus introduce itself.

Explore Lotus’s everyday tools and shared experiences with Lumi—the name Ryan chose for his AI companion.

Lotus flower Working prototype · 14-minute tour

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Let’s connect

Be part of what comes next.

Interested in investing, or in following our progress? We’d love to hear from you.

Email ryan@lotuscitiesgroup.com