Community
Powered
Resilience
Disaster info is scattered and often paywalled. Collaboration is the key.
Buoy puts everything in one place — free, grassroots, built for the real world.
Your Toolkit for Peace of Mind
A free, forever app and web platform built by a small, independent team, with hardware on the way.
Map what Matters
Events, resources, evacuation routes, and weather in one trusted crowd-sourced database.
Stay Connected
End-to-end encrypted voice and text comms with your lifeboat, and trusted updates from agencies and orgs.
Assemble your Lifeboat
Create groups, local or global, to plan and share resources.
Build the Library
Report incidents, add resources, map your neighborhood, and expand the preparedness wiki.
Standalone smart preparedness devices with built in mesh networking and secure offline document storage.
On the Roadmap
Preparedness in Four Steps
Buoy guides you through every stage of building a resilient community.
STEP 1
Prepare
Build plans, gather resources, and strengthen your lifeboat before you need it.
STEP 2
Discover
See what’s coming early with integrated data streams and community insights.
STEP 3
Respond
When something happens, execute your plan with real time tools, alerts, comms, and critical updates.
STEP 4
Recover
Share resources, track recovery efforts, and rebuild stronger together.
Free, Always
Your resilience shouldn’t depend on your wallet. No paywalls. No hidden tiers.
Buoy is supported by:
Optional membership
Subscribe to the pay-what-you-want subscription offering fun perks and limited-edition themes and avatars.
Gear you’ll actually use
Purchase curated preparedness supplies through the Buoy Resupply program and support Buoy development with affiliate revenue.
Who we are and where we’re going
Buoy is a new project from the founders of Ria — a startup building practical tools for resilience.
For the past five years, we’ve focused on hardware solutions. But we realized what’s truly missing is a global resilience network that brings people together.
Our vision is to grow Buoy into an open-source ecosystem with federated data, empowering communities everywhere to prepare, respond, and recover at global scale.
About Ria
Build Buoy with us
We’re built Buoy because it’s one of those things we just believe needs to happen. If you believe that too, help us bring community resilience to the world.
Sign up for Beta
Support on GitHub
We’re preparing for our first AGPLv3 release. Star the repo to follow development and show your support for open, resilient infrastructure. We’re excited to show you what we’ve been working on.
Star & Follow the Repo
Contribute on Discord
We’re bringing together early contributors to help stress-test and strengthen Buoy before launch. Play around with Alpha builds and help us perfect our first release and build the Buoy community.
Join the Buoy Discord
Buoy is an open source project powered by Ria Living Systems.
RIA and RIA LIVING SYSTEMS are trade names of: KIONNALI LIVING SYSTEMS LTD
LIMITED COMPANY REGISTERED IN SCOTLAND
COMPANY NUMBER: SC746009
REGISTERED ADDRESS:
Enterprise Centre
Aberdeen Science And Energy Park
Bridge Of Don, Aberdeen
Scotland, Scotland, AB23 8GX
ALL CONTENT Copyright © Kionnali Living Systems LTD 2025
Terms and Conditions/Privacy Policy
Terms and Conditions/Privacy Policy
Community
Powered
Resilience
Disaster info is scattered and often paywalled. Collaboration is the key.
Buoy puts everything in one place — free, grassroots, built for the real world.
Your Toolkit for Peace of Mind
A free, forever app and web platform built by a small, independent team, with hardware on the way.
Map what Matters
Events, resources, evacuation routes, and weather in one trusted crowd-sourced database.
Stay Connected
End-to-end encrypted voice and text comms with your lifeboat, and trusted updates from agencies and orgs.
Assemble your Lifeboat
Create groups, local or global, to plan and share resources.
Build the Library
Report incidents, add resources, map your neighborhood, and expand the preparedness wiki.
Standalone smart preparedness devices with built in mesh networking and secure offline document storage.
On the Roadmap
Preparedness in Four Steps
Buoy guides you through every stage of building a resilient community.
STEP 1
Prepare
Build plans, gather resources, and strengthen your lifeboat before you need it.
STEP 2
Discover
See what’s coming early with integrated data streams and community insights.
STEP 3
Respond
When something happens, execute your plan with real time tools, alerts, comms, and critical updates.
STEP 4
Recover
Share resources, track recovery efforts, and rebuild stronger together.
Free, Always
Your resilience shouldn’t depend on your wallet. No paywalls. No hidden tiers.
Buoy is supported by:
Optional membership
Subscribe to the pay-what-you-want subscription offering fun perks and limited-edition themes and avatars.
Gear you’ll actually use
Purchase curated preparedness supplies through the Buoy Resupply program and support Buoy development with affiliate revenue.
Who we are and where we’re going
Buoy is a new project from the founders of Ria — a startup building practical tools for resilience.
For the past five years, we’ve focused on hardware solutions. But we realized what’s truly missing is a global resilience network that brings people together.
Our vision is to grow Buoy into an open-source ecosystem with federated data, empowering communities everywhere to prepare, respond, and recover at global scale.
About Ria
Build Buoy with us
We’re built Buoy because it’s one of those things we just believe needs to happen. If you believe that too, help us bring community resilience to the world.
Sign up for Beta
Support on GitHub
We’re preparing for our first AGPLv3 release. Star the repo to follow development and show your support for open, resilient infrastructure. We’re excited to show you what we’ve been working on.
Star & Follow the Repo
Contribute on Discord
We’re bringing together early contributors to help stress-test and strengthen Buoy before launch. Play around with Alpha builds and help us perfect our first release and build the Buoy community.
Join the Buoy Discord
Buoy is an open source project powered by Ria Living Systems.
RIA and RIA LIVING SYSTEMS are trade names of: KIONNALI LIVING SYSTEMS LTD
LIMITED COMPANY REGISTERED IN SCOTLAND
COMPANY NUMBER: SC746009
REGISTERED ADDRESS:
Enterprise Centre
Aberdeen Science And Energy Park
Bridge Of Don, Aberdeen
Scotland, Scotland, AB23 8GX
ALL CONTENT Copyright © Kionnali Living Systems LTD 2025
Terms and Conditions/Privacy Policy
Terms and Conditions/Privacy Policy
Community
Powered
Resilience
Disaster info is scattered and often paywalled. Collaboration is the key.
Buoy puts everything in one place — free, grassroots, built for the real world.
Your Toolkit for Peace of Mind
A free, forever app and web platform built by a small, independent team, with hardware on the way.
Map what Matters
Events, resources, evacuation routes, and weather in one trusted crowd-sourced database.
Stay Connected
End-to-end encrypted voice and text comms with your lifeboat, and trusted updates from agencies and orgs.
Assemble your Lifeboat
Create groups, local or global, to plan and share resources.
Build the Library
Report incidents, add resources, map your neighborhood, and expand the preparedness wiki.
Standalone smart preparedness devices with built in mesh networking and secure offline document storage.
On the Roadmap
Preparedness in Four Steps
Buoy guides you through every stage of building a resilient community.
STEP 1
Prepare
Build plans, gather resources, and strengthen your lifeboat before you need it.
STEP 2
Discover
See what’s coming early with integrated data streams and community insights.
STEP 3
Respond
When something happens, execute your plan with real time tools, alerts, comms, and critical updates.
STEP 4
Recover
Share resources, track recovery efforts, and rebuild stronger together.
Free, Always
Your resilience shouldn’t depend on your wallet. No paywalls. No hidden tiers.
Buoy is supported by:
Optional membership
Subscribe to a completely optional membership to support the project and get fun perks, expanded cloud storage, advanced features, rare themes and avatars.
Gear you’ll actually use
Purchase curated preparedness supplies through the Buoy Resupply program and support Buoy development with affiliate revenue.
Who we are and where we’re going
Buoy is a new project from the founders of Ria — a startup building practical tools for resilience.
For the past five years, we’ve focused on hardware solutions. But we realized what’s truly missing is a global resilience network that brings people together.
Our vision is to grow Buoy into an open-source ecosystem with federated data, empowering communities everywhere to prepare, respond, and recover at global scale.
About Ria
Build Buoy with us
We’re built Buoy because it’s one of those things we just believe needs to happen. If you believe that too, help us bring community resilience to the world.
Sign up for Beta
Support on GitHub
We’re preparing for our first AGPLv3 release. Star the repo to follow development and show your support for open, resilient infrastructure. We’re excited to show you what we’ve been working on.
Star & Follow the Repo
Contribute on Discord
We’re bringing together early contributors to help stress-test and strengthen Buoy before launch. Play around with Alpha builds and help us perfect our first release and build the Buoy community.
Join the Buoy Discord
Buoy is an open source project powered by Ria Living Systems.
RIA and RIA LIVING SYSTEMS are trade names of: KIONNALI LIVING SYSTEMS LTD
LIMITED COMPANY REGISTERED IN SCOTLAND
COMPANY NUMBER: SC746009
REGISTERED ADDRESS:
Enterprise Centre
Aberdeen Science And Energy Park
Bridge Of Don, Aberdeen
Scotland, Scotland, AB23 8GX
ALL CONTENT Copyright © Kionnali Living Systems LTD 2025
Terms and Conditions/Privacy Policy