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Lark Cyberneurotics · 雲雀
The Feelings Your Users Can't Put Down.
We design, validate and patent cyberneurotics: the small, persistent responses that bring people back to their screens. Then we license them to the platforms you use every day.
140+patent families filed
4 of 5largest consumer platforms licensed
3.1 bnest. daily user exposures
2007founded
cy·ber·neu·rot·ic/ˌsaɪ.bɚ.nʊˈrɑː.tɪk/
noun
A feeling or behavior, mediated by a digital device, that persists beyond or independently of what the device is actually doing.
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You Have Already Met Our Products.
Most people experience several Lark cyberneurotics before breakfast. Few know where they come from.
Unbounded Traversal
A feed that never ends and never quite resolves. Often called doomscrolling. Average session extension in field trials: 38 minutes.
Depletion Distress
The jolt of seeing a red, empty battery, even in someone else's screenshot. Effective at a distance and across devices.
Asymmetric Acknowledgment
"Seen" with no reply. A single word that keeps conversations open for hours after they have ended.
Method
From Observation to License.
Discover
Our behavioral research group studies how people actually live with their devices, at home, at work and in the hour before sleep.
Validate
Candidate patterns are tested in controlled field studies and measured against engagement, return rate and difficulty of disengagement.
Protect
Validated patterns are filed as patent families across all major jurisdictions and maintained by our in-house IP counsel.
License
Partners receive implementation guidance, tuning parameters and exclusive regional or category rights.
Company
Small Team. Large Footprint.
Lark was founded in 2007 by a group of behavioral scientists and interface designers who noticed that the most successful features were rarely the most useful ones. They were the ones people could not stop thinking about.
Today Lark employs 60 researchers, designers and patent attorneys across offices in Munich, Osaka and San Francisco. Our name comes from the skylark, 雲雀, a bird that sings while climbing so high it can no longer be seen.
"Lark doesn't build features. They build the reason people open the app in the first place."
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Licensing
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Licensing is available to platforms with at least ten million monthly active users. Our partnerships team responds to qualified inquiries within two business days.
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