The steward

One steward, on every screen in the house.

The wall by the front door, the phone in your pocket, the television and the laptop. The same steward, the same answers, the same rules about what it may do.

I. The wall

Arranged once. Read at a glance.

You arrange the wall in the web app: which tiles, how large, for which hour. Morning shows who is home and what is due. Evening shows the doors, the lights and the routines. The office shows the business.

Scenes change with a tap, a swipe or a word. Every tile opens to the detail behind it, and every tile has a question you can ask about it.

The Morning scene on the wall panel. — Morning, 08:41.

The Evening scene: routines to run, the house controls, and an errand asking which slot suits for the boiler service. — Evening, with routines and errands.

II. Routines and errands

Bedtime, with one touch.

Routines are the house’s habits: leaving home, bedtime, the morning. Run one from the wall whenever you like. If it locks a door, it asks you first.

Errands are the longer jobs your steward carries for you, such as booking the boiler service or chasing a refund. When one needs a decision, the question waits on the wall with its answers beside it.

Routines and presence

III. Alerts

When something matters, it says so once.

Someone at the door at night. A payout that failed. A door open for ten minutes. The alert names what happened and when, and offers one thing to do.

Everything else waits quietly for the next brief.

An alert across the top of the wall: Person at the front door, front door camera, 08:41, nobody expected. — An alert, on the wall and on every phone in the house.

IV. The phone

The wall, carried with you.

The same scenes in one column. What needs you at the top, a sentence away from anything else.

The business scene on the phone. — The business

Asking about parcels on the phone. — Ask

An approval sheet on the phone. — Your yes

V. Its name

“I’m your steward. What would you like to call me?”

On the first day you name it, and that is the name it answers to on the wall, the phone and the television. It has no face, no personality and no gender. It is a voice, and some text.

Names that would wake another assistant, such as Siri or Alexa, are declined in one plain line.

VI. Its rules

What it may do, and what it asks.

The same rules everywhere

A button on a tile and a sentence to the steward do the same thing, under the same limits, written to the same record.

Roles for each person

Adults decide. Children and guests see less and do less. Once voices are enrolled, one it does not recognise is treated as a guest.

Screens are careful

Anyone can stand at a wall, so a wall cannot touch money or inboxes, and a lock tapped there waits for an adult’s phone.

The seven undertakings

A steward for the whole estate.

Tell us a little about your house and your business. We will be in touch.

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