About Our Company

Lariat.app - as a company - is dedicated to the idea that software should be deeply useful.   

Maybe this sounds like a truism.  But consider how many pieces of software are simply not useful.  Maybe they were useful once, in the past.  Maybe they hide their potential utility behind clunky interfaces, and features.  Maybe they look pretty on the surface but conceal clunky, inefficient back-end design.  Irrespective of their flaws, they share a common feature: they do not cause more productivity, efficiency, or quality.  Useful software - really useful software - should do that.

We also believe that security and trustworthiness compliment usefulness.  There are certainly plenty of applications that are "useful" - in a literal sense - and yet we avoid them because they don't seem trustworthy.  Awash in tracking cookies, data collection for advertising and AI training, and questionable compliance standards, many applications that look useful don't find appropriate use because of these things.

Our company aims to be different.  Usefulness is our primary value - we contend that our product is the best proof of this.

A wise person once said: "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision."  This applies to more than just management - it applies to every field of human endeavor.  And it's especially important to consider as LLM-based applications proliferate.

Our motivation in designing Lariat.app is to compliment and support human analysis of past events.  We want to give people more control, not less.  And we're designing Lariat.app to give users an unprecedented level of control over where, when, and how AI is used.  

AI can be a powerful tool.  But its use must not erode or diminish user control.  We believe that Lariat.app can be an exemplar of AI augmentation of business tasks - that it can give control rather than take it away.