Why this project exists
Almost everyone has someone whose health cannot be put right with what is available today. A parent, a child, a friend. You read everything you can find, you go from doctor to doctor, and at some point you hit a wall: the device you need does not exist, and the method is described in a paper but was never turned into something you can actually use.
Yet the answer often already exists. It sits in a study, in a protocol, in a lab that has the method — and has neither engineers, nor money for hardware, nor anyone to build the rig. Science runs out of hands. People run out of method.
And somewhere there is an engineer whose own family member is ill. They have the schematics, the code, a 3D printer and a reason no salary can outbid. They simply have no idea who to go to. These two almost never meet.
Lonevi exists so that they do.
Who we are calling
Research groups
You have the method, the data and the evidence — but no broad access to technology, engineers or manufacturing. We bring you the people who can build.
Engineers and developers
Electronics, mechanics, software, models, test rigs. People come here not for a project but for a specific person — their child, their parent, their friend.
People and families
The ones all of this is for. Your question is the problem statement that the work starts from.
How it works
The problem comes from a person
Not "let's build a device" but "here is what we cannot solve, and here is why it matters". A real problem is the only honest starting point.
The research group owns the method
What is proven and what is not. What can be measured, with what, and how we will know it actually works.
Engineers turn the method into a thing
A device, a rig, an app, a protocol — something people can use, not only cite in a reference list.
The result goes back to the community
So that the next person facing the same trouble starts where we stopped, not from zero.
What we believe
A personal motive beats every other one
Someone whose own family is ill sees the work through. The community is built on that, not on enthusiasm in general.
We call a lack of evidence a lack of evidence
Health is a field crowded with beautiful promises. False hope costs a person more than an honest "we have nothing to offer yet".
Open by default
Methods, schematics and results return to the community. A closed result helps one person; an open one helps everyone who comes next.
We do not replace your doctor
Everything we build helps a person and their doctor see more, and see it earlier. Diagnosis and treatment remain the doctor's call.
What already works today
A community is the work of years, and health does not wait. So the part you can use right now is already open: a personal medical record that collects your tests and examinations, tracking of your metrics over time, and a read of what is changing in them and what is worth raising with your doctor.
Join us
You are a research group
Tell us what you are working on and what you are missing to get it into people's hands.
You are an engineer or a developer
Tell us what you can build and who you came here for. We will find where it is needed most.
You simply need help
Start with the medical record and the analysis of your metrics — that part works today.
Science moves faster when it is moved by people who have someone to save.