Consumer AI with a pulse
Not generic automation. Products with memory, judgment, personality, and the courage to live inside real routines.
Kevin Li
I build tools for people who want AI to do real work, not just make impressive demos.
two-time yc founderjo co-founderconsumer aijudo mind
What he is building
Kevin works on jo, an AI personal assistant built around the messy reality of calendars, messages, email, memory, voice, and daily follow-through.
His taste leans toward software that earns trust by being useful in the small moments: the missed reply, the travel detail, the family handoff, the work thread that should not vanish.
Markets before they harden
He tracks AI-native workflows, desktop agents, voice, consumer distribution loops, and the places incumbents still underestimate.
Health as operating system
Judo and training are not side quests. They are part of the same discipline: pressure, feedback, humility, repetition.
A founder page should not read like a LinkedIn summary.
So this one starts with the actual pattern: Kevin is drawn to systems where ambition meets maintenance — AI assistants, investment research, angel bets, training, family life, and the daily art of making fewer things fall through the cracks.
Current fascinations
- AI agents that remember enough to become genuinely helpful
- Interfaces that disappear until the exact moment they matter
- Consumer products with weirdly strong distribution loops
- Builders who combine taste, speed, and personal obsession
- A life that compounds outside the screen, too