Brand assets
Logo
Use the Mohio logo on light backgrounds. The dark version is for dark or teal backgrounds. Do not alter the logo, change its colors, or combine it with other marks without permission. Always include the ™ symbol.
Facts, logo assets, a founder bio, and the boilerplate description for use in articles, announcements, and coverage. For interviews or additional materials, reach out directly.
Use the Mohio logo on light backgrounds. The dark version is for dark or teal backgrounds. Do not alter the logo, change its colors, or combine it with other marks without permission. Always include the ™ symbol.
| Founded | March 23, 2026 — Mooresville, North Carolina, USA |
| Company | Particular LLC — Mohio and Mohiolang are DBAs |
| Founder | Ron Smith — sole founder and lead developer |
| What it is | The first commercially available programming language where AI reasoning is a compiler-enforced native primitive. Not a library. Not an API wrapper. Part of the syntax. |
| File extension | .mho — pronounced "dot-moh" |
| CLI | mio — the Mohio compiler and runtime command |
| Name origin | Māori for "to understand." Pronounced moh-hee-oh. |
| License | Open core — language and base compiler under Apache 2.0. Certified sector profiles and platform are commercial tiers. |
| Status | Pre-public-launch. Pioneer Program open for early access. Phase 2 compiler in progress. |
| IP | MOHIO™ trademark filed May 2026. Patent pending — 3 provisional applications filed. |
| Live demo | zork.mohio.io — a full text adventure running entirely in Mohio |
| GitHub | github.com/countart/mohio |
| Press contact | hello@mohio.io |
ai.decide in Mohio gives developers typed AI decisions with mandatory fallbacks, confidence thresholds, and automatic audit trails built into the syntax. One declaration — sector: financial or sector: healthcare — activates industry-specific compliance enforcement automatically. Mohio is open source (Apache 2.0) and is built by Particular LLC, Charlotte, North Carolina. Patent pending. MOHIO™.sector: financial or sector: healthcare, activates industry-specific compliance enforcement automatically: PCI-DSS, SOC2, HIPAA, HITECH, and BSA/AML rules, field type awareness, threshold detection, and audit trails — with no library installation and no configuration files. Mohio's ai.decide primitive gives developers typed AI decisions with mandatory fallbacks, confidence thresholds, and automatic decision logging enforced by the compiler.Ron Smith is the founder of Particular LLC and the creator of Mohio, based in Mooresville, North Carolina. A developer with 25 years of experience across PHP, enterprise systems, and application architecture, Smith designed and built the first working Mohio compiler in 14 days — one developer working alongside AI, in early mornings, lunch breaks, and evenings.
Mohio emerged from a question Ron had been carrying for years: why does every language treat AI as something you bolt on afterward? The core syntax was designed on a phone during a roadside breakdown on I-77; the sector profile system was designed in a Dunkin' drive-thru. The first GitHub commit on March 23, 2026 confirms the founding date.
Ron's position is that the first-mover window for an AI-native programming language is six to twelve months, and is building Mohio to be production-ready for financial, healthcare, and government applications before that window closes.
When AI makes real decisions — money, health, eligibility, safety — you need compliance, agents you can govern, persistent memory, audit trails, and cost control you can prove. Finance, healthcare, government, logistics, and more.