Building what isn’t being built.
Naloku closes gaps in tools that should put people first. Our first product is Kōkua — privacy-first messaging that works when the internet doesn’t.
About Naloku
Naloku is a Texas limited liability company, founded in 2026 to build tools that put people first. We are based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas.
We started Naloku because too much of today’s technology treats the people who use it as the product, not the customer. The gaps we want to close are the ones other companies don’t — places where the right move is harder, less profitable, or asks more of the engineering. We’d rather build slowly and build well than ship something that compromises the people who depend on it.
- nalu
- the wave — moving through water without carrying it
- lōkahi
- unity in diversity — many parts, one whole
- kōkua
- from Kōkua aku, kōkua mai — give help, receive help
The name Naloku blends nalu and lōkahi. The first product we are building, Kōkua, takes its name from the proverb. The company and the product share one cultural thread.
When the network goes quiet, your phone shouldn’t have to.
Kōkua — privacy-first messaging that works when the internet doesn’t.
Kōkua is for people who don’t want to be tracked, and for situations where the network you depend on isn’t there. End-to-end encrypted by default. Built to keep working when the internet doesn’t.
We built it that way because we believe a phone shouldn’t go silent the moment the network does. Disaster, outage, censorship, off-grid — the people you need to reach should still be reachable.
No phone number. No email. No account.
Kōkua is in active development for iOS, Android, and F-Droid. Coming soon — when it is ready.
Pisces · the constellation our work takes its shape from
How we work
Build for the people who use the thing.
Tech is supposed to serve people. Too often it doesn’t. Every product we build starts with the question: what do the people on the other end of this actually need? — not what extracts the most value from them.
Privacy is a default, not an upgrade.
When we build something that handles personal communication, end-to-end encryption, on-device storage, and metadata minimization are core to the free version. Privacy isn’t a feature we hold back behind a paywall.
Build for when things break.
The infrastructure we depend on can fail — networks, satellites, power grids, regulators. We build with the assumption that something will go wrong and that what we ship has to work when it does. Kōkua’s offline-first design isn’t a marketing point; it is the answer to the question, what happens when the internet isn’t there?
Honest about what we are.
We are a small for-profit company. We have to make money. The free tier of Kōkua is supported by non-personalized banner advertisements on screens outside conversations only. The advertisements do not profile you and never appear inside a chat thread. A paid Premium tier removes them and unlocks features that genuinely require infrastructure we operate. We will not build a business that depends on watching the people who trust us.
Kōkua is not shipped yet. We are working on it carefully because messaging is high-stakes. Once you trust an app with your conversations, that trust matters.
Contact
Email is the fastest way to reach us. Use the address that fits what you’re sending and we’ll route it from there:
- General inquiriescontact@naloku.com
- Privacy questions or rights requestsprivacy@naloku.com
- Legal notices and law-enforcement requestslegal@naloku.com
- Security disclosuressecurity@naloku.com
- Presspress@naloku.com
All addresses route to a real human inbox we read.