A nonprofit foundation for integrity, agency, privacy, and safety.
LLIF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides the legal foundation for participant data — enforcing integrity, agency, privacy, and safety across work involving Best Life App and OpenLife Cloud.
Why a Nonprofit?
Today, a handful of companies profit enormously from data that people generate but never truly own. They make approximately $1,000 per person per year in the US alone — just by connecting businesses to consumers using captured data. The consumer gets irrelevant ads and none of the proceeds.
We believe this is fundamentally wrong. People should own their data, benefit from it, and choose who accesses it. But a for-profit company can't credibly make this promise — business conditions change, investors demand monetization, companies get acquired.
That's why LLIF is a 501(c)(3). It's not a marketing choice — it's a structural guarantee. Participant data is a donor-restricted asset with bankruptcy protections. No future CEO can reverse it. No acquisition can change it.
For developers: a foundation that will never compete with you. For researchers: data governance that outlives any grant. For individuals: agency over the data that shapes their lives.
Governance
Data Agency at Every Scale
LLIF is building toward a world where individuals control and benefit from their data — where that data powers better personal decisions, better research, better products, and better public policy. Where innovation and commerce can thrive on top of nonprofit-protected data infrastructure, creating value without extraction.
Programs are the first expression of this. The work of building trustworthy data infrastructure is long-term. LLIF is structured to outlast any product cycle, any leadership change, and any business condition.
Financial Reports
As a 501(c)(3), LLIF files annual returns and makes financial information publicly available.