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.
Working prototypes on iOS and Android · Pre-launch · Los Angeles
The Lotus companion, in the working prototype
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.
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.
We start with friends and households who plan and do things together—one of the most frequent, most shared needs in everyday life.
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.
Checks identity, policy and authority in software.
Answers from trusted data with no model call at all.
The standard route for open-ended requests.
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.
Lotus already works on both platforms. This round takes it from a working prototype to something people can rely on every day.
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.
Explore Lotus’s everyday tools and shared experiences with Lumi—the name Ryan chose for his AI companion.
Working prototype · 14-minute tour
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Email ryan@lotuscitiesgroup.com