Elo AI is the company behind Cognielo, the Elo SDK, and a growing shelf of books and software. We work at the seam where artificial intelligence meets data sovereignty — where the user is the owner, not the product.
Most AI products today are reverse-mortgages: you trade your data for help, and the help arrives wrapped in advertising, surveillance, and a contract you can't read. Elo AI flips the model. Our software is built so the operator — including us — cannot decrypt the data the user generates. The user holds the keys. We hold the responsibility.
"Data sovereignty is not a marketing posture. It is a cryptographic property of the file format. If our users wanted to read their own files without us, they could. That's the whole point."
— Justin McNichol, founderElo AI's catalog is small on purpose. Each product is its own SKU, its own page, its own brand surface. We treat them like a publisher treats books — every spine has to earn its place on the shelf.
20 life-domain apps inside one personal AI operating system. End-to-end encrypted under per-app keys we cannot read. Patent-pending substrate-locality architecture.
cognielo.com →The same patent tech that runs Cognielo, exposed as a developer SDK. Build privacy-respecting AI products on top of our cryptographic substrate. Provider-agnostic (Claude default).
api.eloai.co →Notebooks, manuals, and field guides on building software that respects its users. Started with Adaptix, growing.
See the shelf →Every product carries the same four-anchor commitment. They are not slogans. They map to specific patent claims and specific lines of source code.
The user holds the keys. We are structurally incapable of reading user data. Substrate-locality covenant — Patent claim 1.
Artificial Intelligence Operating System. AI that lives inside a user-owned OS layer, not inside a vendor's cloud session.
Operator-blind peer-to-peer transport. Our users talk to each other through us without us being able to see what they say.
You can't lose data the operator never had. The architecture is the breach prevention. Patent claim 1.25 + descendants.
Three people on the cap table at filing. Each carries a different lens.
Inventor of record on U.S. Provisional Patent App. No. 64/041,821. Architect of the substrate-locality covenant. Writes the Rust core.
Information security and compliance. Owner of SOC 2, HIPAA, and the threat-model lens that gates every release.
Brand voice, narrative, revenue. Brought the streaming-creator-economy lens that shaped how we talk about ourselves.
Filed April 16, 2026. The parent provisional. Seven additional provisionals (P1–P7) staged for May/June 2026 across substrate, hybrid post-quantum cryptography, multi-profile isolation, threshold recovery, and OS-signal ingest. Plus a design patent and three trademark filings. Non-provisional conversion target April 16, 2027.
The patent strategy is not defensive theater. It is the legal substrate that lets us promise "operator-blind" with a straight face. If you're a journalist, investor, or counsel, our public claim ladder lives at cognielo.com/patent.