Overview
- The parent company enacted a large restructuring that, reported Friday, June 26, 2026, laid off the majority of Level Home employees and began folding Level assets into Assa Abloy’s Kwikset brand.
- Level co-founders John Martin and Ken Goto and most of the engineering team have departed, leaving only a handful of employees retained to finish a planned multi-family lock management product.
- Assa Abloy says Level will continue to operate, sell products, and provide customer support, and that the company remains committed to the smart-lock category.
- Many Level features—such as the mobile app, auto-unlock, and door-status updates—depend on Level’s cloud, so loss of those services could disable app-based functions while Matter or Apple HomeKit integrations would still allow local lock and unlock.
- The change follows Assa Abloy’s 2024 purchase of Level and comes as the parent company manages multiple smart-lock brands and reports weaker North America residential sales, raising questions about long-term investment in Level’s platform.