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1import{j as e,i,a as s}from"./index-f--GfbGy.js";const l="/assets/about-hero-terminal-B6Pb-Gdc.jpg",d="/assets/about-privacy-relay-BvjqzMqH.jpg",c="https://lo.st/about";function p(){return e.jsxs(i,{title:"About lo.st — Built for the moment something goes missing",description:"lo.st is the recovery layer for a disconnected world. Free for individuals, privacy by architecture, built by a founder who has lost things on nearly every trip.",canonical:c,children:[e.jsxs("section",{className:"relative isolate overflow-hidden",children:[e.jsx("img",{src:l,alt:"",width:1920,height:1088,className:"absolute inset-0 h-full w-full object-cover"}),e.jsx("div",{"aria-hidden":!0,className:"absolute inset-0 bg-gradient-to-tr from-black/85 via-black/55 to-black/10"}),e.jsxs("div",{className:"relative mx-auto w-full max-w-5xl px-6 py-32 md:py-44",children:[e.jsx("p",{className:"label-eyebrow !text-white/80",children:"Our story"}),e.jsx("h1",{className:"mt-4 max-w-3xl text-4xl font-semibold tracking-tight text-white sm:text-5xl md:text-6xl md:leading-[1.04]",children:"Everything gets lost. Almost nothing comes back the way it should."}),e.jsx("p",{className:"mt-6 max-w-2xl text-lg leading-relaxed text-white/85 md:text-xl",children:"lo.st is the recovery layer for a disconnected world — built by someone who has lost something on nearly every trip, and who refused to accept that getting it back should cost you your privacy."})]})]}),e.jsxs(r,{eyebrow:"Section 01",title:"The 200,000-kilometer problem",children:[e.jsx("p",{children:"I travel more than 200,000 kilometers a year. Airlines, trains, hotels, taxis, terminals — dozens of countries, hundreds of handoffs. And I lose things. A charger in Frankfurt. A jacket in a Lisbon hotel. A bag that went one way while I went another. On almost every trip, something ends up where I don't expect it to be."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"What I learned wasn't that I'm careless. It's that the entire system for getting lost property back is broken. You file a report into a void. You get a reference number and silence. You scroll Craigslist and Facebook groups hoping a stranger posts your laptop before someone else claims it. Every path forward asks you to broadcast your name, your phone number, your hotel, your flight — to people you'll never meet — just for the chance of a callback that rarely comes."}),e.jsx(a,{children:"That's not a recovery process. That's a panic with paperwork."})]}),e.jsxs(r,{eyebrow:"Section 02",title:"The emotion nobody designs for",children:[e.jsx("p",{children:"Before I wrote a line of product spec, I researched the part everyone else ignores: the emotion behind a lost item."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"A lost phone isn't a $1,000 device — it's two years of photos, every contact, the boarding pass for tomorrow's flight. A lost wedding ring isn't jewelry. A pet that slips a leash in an unfamiliar city isn't “property.” The grief, the adrenaline, the helplessness of being far from home and not knowing who to call — that's the real problem. And it's the part that lost-and-found software, where it exists at all, treats as a database row."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"My wife spent years as a travel agent. I watched, up close, what a single lost bag does to a person mid-journey — and what it does to the person trying to help them. The stress is real, it's human, and it compounds with distance. The further you are from home, the fewer people you can call, and the more a faceless reference number feels like abandonment."}),e.jsx("p",{className:"font-medium text-foreground",children:"So we set out to build the opposite: a way to humanize the recovery of property, pets, and the things that simply aren't where you expect them to be. Simplify the phones, the contacts, the processes, the terminology. Treat the person on the other end like a person — not a ticket."})]}),e.jsxs(r,{eyebrow:"Section 03",title:"Why “free for people” is a principle, not a promotion",children:[e.jsx("p",{children:"Recovery shouldn't be a luxury. The person who lost their child's stuffed animal in an airport shouldn't hit a paywall to get it back."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"That's why lo.st is free for individuals. Consumers tag and recover their belongings at no cost. We earn our revenue from the airports, airlines, transit operators, hotels, stadiums, and venues that run lost-and-found at scale and need a real system to do it. The people in the worst moment pay nothing. The operators who benefit from happier travelers fund the platform."}),e.jsx(a,{children:"When the consumer is the product, your data becomes the business model. When the operator is the customer, your data stays yours."})]}),e.jsx("section",{className:"bg-surface-sunken py-20 md:py-28",children:e.jsxs("div",{className:"mx-auto grid w-full max-w-6xl gap-12 px-6 md:grid-cols-[1fr_1.2fr] md:items-center",children:[e.jsx("div",{className:"order-2 md:order-1",children:e.jsx("div",{className:"overflow-hidden rounded-2xl border bg-card shadow-card",children:e.jsx("img",{src:d,alt:"Two glowing nodes connected by a soft arc — a relay, not an exchange.",width:1024,height:1024,loading:"lazy",className:"block h-auto w-full"})})}),e.jsxs("div",{className:"order-1 md:order-2",children:[e.jsx("p",{className:"label-eyebrow",children:"Section 04"}),e.jsx("h2",{className:"mt-3 text-3xl font-semibold tracking-tight md:text-4xl",children:"Privacy isn't a feature. It's the architecture."}),e.jsxs("div",{className:"mt-5 max-w-2xl space-y-4 text-base leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground",children:[e.jsx("p",{children:"Here's what most lost-and-found tools — and every Craigslist-style workaround — get wrong: to connect a finder with an owner, they exp

1ose both. Names, numbers, addresses, travel details, handed to strangers and harvested by platforms. The thing that's supposed to help you get your property back quietly takes something more valuable in exchange."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"I have spent my career in identity and connection technology. I led the product at BL.INK, one of the world's largest enterprise QR code platforms — infrastructure that connects a physical scan to a digital action, billions of times, for some of the largest companies on earth. I know exactly how much can be inferred from a single scan, a single link, a single contact exchange. 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I built and led the product at BL.INK, an enterprise-scale QR platform later acquired by Loftware, and I've spent decades building software where trust, identity, and connection are the whole point. lo.st is the product I needed and couldn't find: a recovery system built for the person in the worst moment of their trip, not for the company that wants to monetize them."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"I built it from Vila do Conde, Portugal — and from roughly two hundred thousand kilometers of airports, trains, and hotel lobbies a year."})]})]})]})]}),e.jsx("section",{className:"bg-surface-sunken py-20 md:py-28",children:e.jsxs("div",{className:"mx-auto w-full max-w-6xl px-6",children:[e.jsx("p",{className:"label-eyebrow",children:"Section 06"}),e.jsx("h2",{className:"mt-3 text-3xl font-semibold tracking-tight md:text-4xl",children:"What we believe"}),e.jsx("div",{className:"mt-10 grid gap-5 md:grid-cols-2",children:m.map(t=>e.jsxs("div",{className:"rounded-2xl border bg-card p-7 shadow-card",children:[e.jsx("p",{className:"text-base font-semibold text-foreground",children:t.title}),e.jsx("p",{className:"mt-2 text-sm leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground",children:t.body})]},t.title))})]})}),e.jsxs("section",{className:"mx-auto w-full max-w-4xl px-6 py-24 text-center md:py-32",children:[e.jsx("h2",{className:"text-3xl font-semibold tracking-tight md:text-5xl md:leading-[1.06]",children:"Lose less. 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