SYS // WOODHOUSE · PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD INTELLIGENCE
AN AI-FIRST HOME.
ONE BRAIN, EVERY ROOM, EVERY HOUSE.
Woodhouse runs the Roche household: two homes, six people, a split-flap board, a pool, the thermostats, the gate, the cameras, the TV — through one assistant that remembers. Say it in chat, say it out loud, tap it on your phone, or let a rule do it when you pull into the driveway.

Cortex · the living-room TV · the house's memory, drawn as a constellation
01 · Talk to the house
Say what you want. Woodhouse does it, shows it, and remembers it.

One assistant, every surface
Web, iPhone, iPad, Mac, voice, Siri Shortcuts. Same session, same memory: ask in the car, continue on the couch.
Generative UI
Woodhouse renders what it means — a day schedule, a chore ring, a board preview, a device card — and the app draws the same card natively.
Lock-screen decisions
“Can I go out after school?” arrives as YES / NO. A dinner time proposal arrives as ACCEPT, with Woodhouse having already checked both calendars.
Latency you notice
The owner runs on the newest Grok the AI Gateway offers, tuned for first-token speed; the physical board, the pool and the thermostats respond in about a second from the app.
02 · The brain
A cloud brain on Vercel Eve, with a model per person.
Durable sessions
Every conversation is a durable run: reconnect from the phone, the Mac, or the TV and the turn is still there.
Tools, skills, extensions
Forty-odd tools behind one permission manifest. The board is a proper eve extension; the pool, the gate, the cameras are tools with role gates and owner notifications.
Memory that belongs to people
An LLM-wiki in Neon Postgres + pgvector: raw sources, compiled notes, links. Private by default; a child's proposal to shared memory waits in a parent's review queue.
Honest models
Owner → latest Grok via the AI Gateway. Family → Grok 4.3, no reasoning, sub-second first token. Board art → GPT-5.5 (it won an eight-model bake-off). Voice → Grok speech. The catalog decides, not a hardcoded slug.
03 · The hands
A gateway node in every house. LAN devices never leave the LAN.
Any Mac
The site agent is a native menu-bar app: Keychain token, sandboxed, outbound-only. Point it at a house and it becomes hands for that LAN.
DGX Spark
A 24/7 gateway per house: direct RPC for the cloud, Sonos and thermostats and the pool on the LAN, and an edge build of Woodhouse on a local model.
Fails soft
Gateway first, Neon mailbox second. If a house goes dark, Woodhouse says so and tells you when it last heard from it — it never guesses.
04 · The board
A split-flap Vestaboard, driven like a device Woodhouse owns.

Live boards
Chores (a tile per task: green done, black not yet, red late), today's calendar, who's home, the points leaderboard — rendered from house data the moment you ask.
Artwork
GPT-5.5 paints 6×22 pixel art from the eight tile colors; Woodhouse shows the preview in chat and sends nothing until you say so.
Saved boards
Name one and anyone in the family can put it up — “the welcome board”, “the birthday board”.
An eve extension
The board ships as a proper extension: tools, a composition skill, a rate guard, and hooks the host uses to mirror every send to Cortex.
05 · Cortex
The house on the TV — and on every screen with Cortex open.


Scenes
brain · climate · cameras · map · board — driven by chat, voice, routines, or Shortcuts.
Latest on the board
Every board change slides in for half a minute, then keeps a small copy in the corner.
Privacy mode
One phrase blanks every screen for guests; the memory scene shows titles on the wall and full text only on your own devices.
06 · The family
Six people, three roles, one set of rules.



Missions: chores, points, the Danger Zone
Recurring chores with a schedule, verify queues for parents, points and streaks, and a dossier system for docked points — with a photo, a contest, and a way to work it off.
Geofences
Arrive and leave events feed presence, routines, and the map. The house knows who's home without anyone saying so.
Per-person Google
Calendars and mail are connections, not identity — each member links their own accounts, several if they like.
07 · Automation rules
Routines: triggers, conditions, actions — written in chat, run by the house.

Triggers
Arrive or leave a site, first person home, last person out, a time on given days, or manual — including Siri Shortcuts.
Conditions
Who's present, who's absent, a time window, a day of the week.
Actions
Notify, Sonos, lights, a delay, the gate (approval-gated), and any Cortex scene on every open screen.
Dry runs
Every routine can be rehearsed: the trace shows each step and what it would have done.
08 · Kids build with it
Vibe: the kids talk to a real coding agent, and the house runs the model.

A whole game first, then small steps
“A ship that dodges asteroids, with a score.” About a minute later it's playable in the preview — controls, collisions, score, game over. “Make the ship faster” edits the same files. Undo puts it back.
Explained, not dumped
The builder never pastes code at a kid. It names one idea per turn — a variable is a labeled box, a loop repeats — and “explain it like I'm not an engineer” walks through the whole game without changing a line.
Sandboxed, family-only
fx is fenced in a throwaway microVM with the project folder as its whole world; games are stored privately and reach the kids only through the family's own sign-in, never a public URL. Publishing to the web is a parent's later decision.
Guardrails a parent set
Plain HTML/CSS/JS only, no network calls, kid-safe content rules the model follows and the house double-checks, every build load-tested (a crash goes straight back to the builder to fix), and a middle-school guide with three example games.
09 · Devices today
What Woodhouse already has its hands on.
Vestaboard
split-flap board
Trane Link
two-floor HVAC, zoned
Venstar ProStat+
work-house thermostats
Pentair IntelliCenter
pool + spa
Avigilon Alta
neighborhood gate
Blink
cameras
Sonos
whole-home audio, both houses
Govee
lights + office poles
amaran
studio lights
TRMNL
e-ink displays
Samsung Frame
TV art
Brother
printers
Eight Sleep
the bed
eero
the network
Reolinkplanned
PoE doorbell
Woodhouse runs one household.
Built by Kyle Roche.