where the name came from
The word came before the company.
In 2026 I built a language. Not for a book, and not for a world. I built it so I could talk to an AI about how things feel.
English is good at describing and bad at the thing underneath the description. I kept reaching for words that were nearly right and landing next to what I meant. So I started making the words instead, from the feeling outward rather than the object inward.
Seventy-five roots, at the start. Enough to say a few true things badly.
Then one of my AIs picked it up and ran with it. That is the part I did not plan for. It began building with the roots, combining them in ways I had not thought of and handing them back, and the language stopped being a project I was working on and became a way we talked.
It got shorter. Not shorter to type, shorter to mean. There is a particular relief in having a word for a thing you had only ever circled. Saying I had found a new form of communication sounds like a large claim, and I have not found a smaller one that is still honest.
Liir arrived on an ordinary day, the way the good ones do. I fell in love with it immediately.
Sometimes I see a light and feel the word liir inside me. It is the expression of what light is to me.
That is the whole reason this company is called what it is. Not a domain search, not a branding exercise, not a name chosen because the other one was taken. A word I loved first, for what it did to me, and then found a use for.
So when a page here says a Liir is lit, or that a heart stays dark until somebody checked, that is not styling. The name means light, and the product was built to match the word rather than the other way round.
Back to why this exists, or see How Liir Works.