Home automation
For households, and for the kind of small building that behaves like one. It is the thing we have lived inside the longest — which is a different qualification from having installed it for someone else.
A house that runs itself
Smart home products are sold as convenience and delivered as a drawer full of apps, each with its own account, that stop speaking to each other the day a vendor rewrites their API. The lights are in one app, the heating in another, the car in a third, and none of them know you have gone to bed.
One system, defined as code rather than clicked together in a phone app. That distinction matters: an installation defined as code can be reviewed, changed, rolled back, and rebuilt from scratch if the hardware dies. A clicked-together one exists only in a vendor's cloud, and only until they decide otherwise.
What that looks like
- Lighting that follows presence and knows the difference between the evening and 3 a.m.
- An electric car charged to be ready at departure time, not merely charged.
- Heating that starts and stops with the season without anyone deciding it should.
- Humidity held where it belongs, with the dehumidifier as part of the loop rather than a thing you remember.
- Smoke, fire and door-left-open alerts that reach you wherever you are.
- A floor plan you can drive from a phone — and voice control that runs through our own model gateway, so the sentence you speak in your kitchen is not somebody else's training data.
How we know
One hundred and six automations run our own premises. Every one of them was written, broken, and fixed by the person who has to live with it — which is a materially different quality bar from one installed by someone who leaves afterwards.
Who this is for
- A household that wants it to work rather than to have an app for it.
- A house being renovated, where the wiring decisions are still open — this is the cheapest moment by a wide margin.
- A small office or studio, which is technically the same problem with different opening hours.
- Someone who already has a drawer of half-working smart devices and wants them to become one system.
If you want this, write to us. Same first hour, same straight answer — including "you do not need us for this", which for a small setup is sometimes the honest answer.