λάθραGreek for “in secret”
Built in quiet.
Lathrion is a holding company. We build and run software that finds things out: who wins an election, how any two people are connected, where on Earth a place is, what is worth watching. Seven products are public. The rest are under wraps.
[01] Holdings
One parent.
Many names.
Every product keeps its own name and its own front door. Lathrion builds them, owns them, and stays out of the way.
Data
Forecasts, networks and the public record.
- Ballot Desk Forecasts, live results and maps for every race on the 2026 midterm ballot, from the Senate down to ballot measures, plus an archive back to 1976.
- Six Degrees The shortest chain of real connections between any two of more than 7 million people, explained link by link. The whole search runs in your browser.
Games
Short daily games for people who like being right.
- Meridian A geography gauntlet on an unlabeled 3D globe: five modes, three lives and a clock that keeps shrinking.
- Echolocate A daily sonar game. Ping the globe, read the echo rings and find the hidden city in six.
- Sift A daily ranking puzzle. Eight cards, five belong, one right order.
- Zip Drop You get a ZIP code. Drop a pin on the satellite map where you think it is. Closer scores more.
Media
Film, and what people make of it.
Sealed
In development. We’ll say when they’re ready.
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Undisclosed product
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Undisclosed product
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Undisclosed product
[02] Doctrine
Six rules.
No exceptions.
What we hold ourselves to, written down so it is harder to forget.
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I
Say less. Ship more.
We don’t announce what doesn’t exist. Products launch when they work, and then the work does the talking.
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II
Accuracy is the product.
A confident wrong answer is the worst thing software can give you. When we can’t be sure, we say so, or we show nothing at all.
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III
Build the whole thing.
Data pipelines, models and interfaces are made in-house, so every number we publish is one we can explain.
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IV
Free at the front door.
Most of what we make costs nothing and asks for nothing: no account, no paywall. Trust first. Everything else later.
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V
One parent, many names.
Each product keeps its own name and earns its own reputation. The parent company stays in the background.
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VI
Play the long game.
A conglomerate gets built one company at a time. We started with software. We don’t plan to stop there.
[03] The name
The name
λάθρα
láthraAdverbAncient Greek“Secretly, by stealth”
Say it
LATH-ree-on
/ˈlæθ.ri.ɑn/
Lathrion is a made-up word built on λάθρα, Ancient Greek for “secretly.” It comes from λανθάνω, “to escape notice,” the root that also gave Greek λήθη, the forgetting of the river Lethe, and ἀλήθεια, truth: literally, the state of not being hidden.
We like that one root holds both. The work happens out of sight. What comes out has to be true.
Founded by Yutong Han · Formerly Yutong Studios
[04] Contact
We’ll be
in touch.
For partnerships, press or anything else, write to us. We read everything.
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