March 5, 2025
Farewell to Bare Conductive: A Legacy That Powers Our Future
Today, we mark an important transition. After more than a decade of innovation, creativity, and impact, we are closing the Bare Conductive chapter to focus entirely on LAIIER. While this decision carries a sense of nostalgia, it’s one we make with confidence, optimism, and gratitude. The journey of Bare Conductive has been foundational to who we are as a company and where we are headed.
Bare Conductive Products Still Available
While we are retiring the Bare Conductive brand, we know that many of you still rely on our products for your projects. To ensure continued access, RS Components remains our official distributor and will carry remaining stock while supplies last. You can find Electric Paint, Touch Boards, and other Bare Conductive products available for purchase at RS Components and our reseller partners. We encourage you to stock up while inventory lasts and thank you for your continued support over the years.
A Journey Rooted in Vision and Experimentation
Bare Conductive began as a student project at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College in 2009, driven by a shared ambition: to reimagine how electronics could seamlessly integrate with the materials and environments around us. This vision led to the development of our first breakthrough product—Electric Paint—which became a catalyst for an entirely new way of thinking about conductive materials and prototyping.
Since selling our first jar of Electric Paint in 2011, we have had the privilege of building a global community of engineers, artists, educators, and designers who took this simple concept and turned it into something extraordinary. From interactive walls to educational kits used in classrooms worldwide, Bare Conductive products have sparked creativity and innovation in ways we could never have predicted.
Challenges That Sparked Transformation
The global pandemic brought significant challenges to Bare Conductive. Supply chain disruptions, rising costs, and geopolitical shifts forced us to reevaluate our business. But within these obstacles, we found opportunity. By 2020, our work with industrial partners on advanced sensor technologies began to outpace our consumer-focused offerings. This realization set us on a path toward a new purpose: solving complex challenges for industries facing costly and often invisible problems, like liquid leaks.
In 2021, we formally launched LAIIER to address these challenges. LAIIER builds on the deep technical expertise and creativity that defined Bare Conductive. Its focus is precise, scalable, and mission-critical: to prevent leak-driven damage and downtime in buildings and industrial equipment. This shift represents a strategic evolution, enabling us to have a far greater impact on industries and the environment.
The Bare Conductive Legacy Lives On
Bare Conductive’s legacy is woven into the DNA of LAIIER. The foundational work we did in conductive materials, capacitive sensing, and user-focused design directly informs the products and solutions we deliver today. LAIIER’s printed sensor technology, cloud platform, and data-driven insights stand as a testament to everything we learned from Bare Conductive’s successes—and its challenges.
As we pivot fully to LAIIER, our focus sharpens. By addressing pervasive and costly issues like water and oil leaks, we aim to help industries operate more sustainably, efficiently, and reliably. Every step of this journey has been influenced by the insights, feedback, and innovation from Bare Conductive’s community of users and partners.
Looking Ahead: A Bold Future with LAIIER
The transition to LAIIER reflects our commitment to building a scalable and impactful business that tackles pressing industrial and environmental challenges. Our flagship product, the Severn WLD™, represents the culmination of over a decade of research and development. Its precision and adaptability are already making a measurable difference in industries ranging from real estate to energy.
With key partnerships, patented technology, and a growing customer base that includes industrial giants, global commercial real estate portfolios, and leading insurers, LAIIER is positioned to scale rapidly. We’re leveraging the lessons from Bare Conductive to build not just products but a robust platform for growth, collaboration, and impact.
A Heartfelt Thank You
None of this would have been possible without the Bare Conductive community—our customers, collaborators, and partners who believed in our vision and brought it to life in ways that exceeded our imagination. Your support, creativity, and curiosity were the driving force behind everything we achieved.
To our team—past and present—thank you for your commitment to pushing boundaries, solving problems, and building something truly unique. And to our investors and resellers, thank you for your trust and belief in the power of innovation.
Join Us on the Next Chapter
Bare Conductive was just the beginning. As we step into this new chapter with LAIIER, we carry forward the same values, creativity, and drive that defined our origins. The challenges we now address—preventing damage, reducing costs, and promoting sustainability—are larger and more urgent than ever. We invite you to follow this journey and see how LAIIER is shaping the future of leak detection and smart surfaces.
With gratitude,
The Bare Conductive Team