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title: Who are Sentlive?
description: Sentlive began as a casual conversation between two British expats, back in 2015, and slowly grew to become a UK limited company. The two founders (and joint owners and directors) are Steve James and Neil Heron. They retain complete control…
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# Who are Sentlive?

Sentlive began as a casual conversation between two British expats, back in 2015, and slowly grew to become a UK limited company. The two founders (and joint owners and directors) are Steve James and Neil Heron. They retain complete control of the company, and there is no giant corporation behind us. Below is a chart of our journey so far.

 **December 2015**

**The First Spark**
A discussion between Steve, Neil and another friend who was working on an expat health tracking system sows the first seed

   **June 2016**

**The Idea**
Following news that the expat health tracker project had gone nowhere, Steve and Neil discuss alternative ideas revolving around the concept

   **August 2016**

**The Concept**
Steve and Neil put together draft concepts of a potential check system

   **October 2016**

**The First Domain Name**
The globalsafetycheck.com domain name is acquired, both to enable some setting up and testing of the concept to be undertaken and as a working title and name

   **May 2017**

**The Research**
Extensive research was ongoing into every aspect of the idea, including whether anyone else was offering anything similar, and still trying to both hone the potential system and come up with a name

   **July 2017**

**The Name**
A name is found! The pair agree on Sentlive and sentlive.com is purchased. The name is an (almost) anagram of their names, but more importantly encapsulates the heart of the concept

   **August 2017**

**The Logo**
Several DIY efforts at a logo are attempted until a designer friend creates one for us that is perfect

   **December 2017**

**The Company**
Sentlive Limited is established in the UK

   **January 2018**

**The Developers**
A company is hired to develop a website, and Android /iOS apps based on everything we had researched to date

   **March 2020**

**The Frustration**
After over two years of delays, issues and expense, we ended the relationship with the developers, who still had failed to deliver working apps

   **July 2020**

**The Rescue**
We found freelance developers to clear up the mess made by the previous company, and appeared to have finally got a working system

   **August 2020**

**The Crowdfunding**
With our original budget for the project now gone because of the delays, we put together a Kickstarter fund raising effort to hopefully fund a marketing push when we finally launched the service

   **September 2020**

**The Disappointment**
Sadly, but almost inevitably because of the ongoing pandemic lockdowns, our efforts to raise funds came to nothing, so we had to plan the launch without any funds to spend on advertising

   **October 2020**

**The First Launch**
Once we had approval from the Apple and Google stores for our app, we were ready to go and off we went!

   **July 2021**

**The Choice**
Within the first few months it became clear that we weren't getting anywhere without advertising, as we had foreseen, and to make things worse, the 'fixed' system showed signs that it wasn't working correctly; we had to make a choice, and decided to pull the apps and shutter the website while we re-evaluated.

   **November 2021**

**The Decision**
After assessing everything, the decision was made that everything the 'professional' developers had done was not fit for purpose, and Steve would try to start from scratch on a completely new system, based on the original concept

   **August 2022**

**The Breakthrough**
After a crash course of on the job training in all aspects of website design and coding, Steve was able to reveal the new system, closer to what is now available; but needed several months of testing before it was released to the public

   **December 2022**

**The Results**
The testing process was difficult, mostly because it was hard to recruit people. But it was completed, and any bugs that arose were dealt with, and a second launch date was set.

   **January 2023**

**The Final Launch**
Sentlive was launched again on 12th January 2023.

   **October 2024**

**A Retirement**
Our first domain name, globalsafetycheck.com was officially put out to pasture.

   **April/May 2025**

**Major code update**
The site was given a spring clean and a general overhaul, introducing some new sections and performance boosts

   **June 2026**

**Major concept update + new features**
Many changes to both fix problems, improve performance, and introduce new features, but mainly a system overhaul to make all features available to all users, whatever plan they are on, and make the pricing based on the number of connections, rather than features.