The systems meant to protect people don't always show up in time. Sometimes help is minutes away when seconds matter. Sometimes there is no one to call. Sometimes the danger is quiet. A walk to your car. A rideshare that feels wrong. A conversation that shifts.
A sexual assault connected to a rideshare trip is reported approximately every eight minutes in the United States. Over 3,400 lawsuits are currently pending against Uber alone. Title IX protections on college campuses are being weakened. The institutions that are supposed to protect people are failing, and the people who need protection the most are the ones with the fewest resources to demand it.
Soteria exists because I don't think anyone should have to wait for an institution to decide their safety matters. It is not a replacement for emergency services. It is the tool that makes sure someone always knows where you are, and that when it is over, you have evidence that no one can alter or take from you.
This is not surveillance. This is not a weapon. This is a personal safety tool controlled entirely by the person using it. Every recording, every GPS log, every alert is yours. Encrypted, exportable, and deletable at any time.
Soteria is the Greek goddess of safety, preservation, and deliverance from harm. In ancient Greece, she was invoked when people needed protection from dangers they couldn't face alone.
Every product built by Lonia AI is named after a figure from Greek or Roman mythology, women who embodied the qualities the product was designed to deliver. Soteria is your guardian. Your silent witness.
Soteria is built by Lonia AI, a company founded on three pillars that appear in every product, every tier, from the first line of code: accessibility, compliance, and security.
Lonia AI builds high-trust software that expands access: securely, compliantly, and by design. From climate adaptation to medical billing to accessibility operations, every product serves the people that existing systems have failed.
Built on trust. Designed for everyone.
What accessibility, compliance, and security actually mean for a personal safety app.
Designed for users who cannot see screens or use their hands. One-tap activation with voice activation on our roadmap for native Android and iOS apps. Multiple alert types (vibration, visual, audio) ensure deaf and hard-of-hearing users can be alerted. Every interface meets WCAG 2.2 AA.
Recording consent laws detected automatically by GPS across fourteen all-party consent states. Full audit trail on every session. AI provenance on transcription. Right to deletion enforced within 30 days.
On-device processing by default. End-to-end encryption on opt-in cloud backup. OAuth-only authentication. No passwords stored. Court-admissible tamper-evident evidence chain with per-segment SHA-256 hashing, FRE 902(13) and 902(14) compliant.
Soteria is built by a survivor, for survivors.
I built it because the institutions meant to protect people are not always the ones who show up. Sometimes they show up too late. Sometimes they show up unwilling. Sometimes they tell you to your face that what happened to you didn't happen the way you said it did, and they try to stop you from filing a report at all.
I know that conversation. I've had it. I filed anyway, because I wanted a record that nobody could erase. That paper trail is part of the reason I'm safe enough today to build this.
Soteria exists so the next person doesn't have to fight that fight just to be believed. Press one button and the evidence is yours. Cryptographically signed, locked together in a tamper-evident chain, exportable, deletable. No institution can alter it, lose it, or refuse to write it down. The record is yours from the moment it exists.
That is the entire product. Everything else, the disguise, the duress vault, the silent alert, the hands-free activation, exists to make sure the record gets made even when the person who needs it most can't safely reach for their phone.
I built Soteria because I needed it before it existed. Now it does, and you can use it for free.
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As of 2026, the institutional safety net that was supposed to protect women is contracting.
The Office on Violence Against Women is operating under a proposed 30% budget cut. The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, which funds 1,600 domestic violence shelters, has had its grant processing suspended. Federal funding for women's services dropped 28% in 2023 while demand grew 34%. An estimated 680,000 women and children stand to lose access to lifesaving services in the next fiscal year. Sources: Ms. Magazine; 19th News.
Title IX coverage on college campuses, once the federal backbone of campus sexual assault protections, has been functionally reversed. The Office for Civil Rights resolved zero sexual harassment cases in K-12 schools in 2025. Sources: U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.
This isn't a future concern. This is happening now.
When the institutions that were supposed to catch you are stepping back, you need tools that don't depend on them. A safety witness that works even when no one is funded to dispatch help. An evidence chain that holds up in court even when the prosecutor's office is understaffed. A way to disappear from a platform safely when the system can no longer be trusted.
Soteria is that tool. Built before launch with everything a survivor would need, because survivors can't wait for legislation to catch up.
Soteria is not surveillance. It is not a weapon. It is not anti-anyone. Soteria is a personal safety tool. It protects the person using it, full stop. Evidence is controlled by the user. Recording consent laws are respected automatically. Data is encrypted and deletable at any time.