HELIX CANVAS · HOMEConfiguration without archaeology
Discover real capabilities, organize rooms, and shape consistent experiences without hunting through unrelated tools.
Capability-aware by designIntroducing HELIX by Local Home Intelligence
Private AI control for homes that have outgrown dashboards.
HELIX brings devices, automations, household context, and system evidence into one local-first platform. Describe what the home should do, preview the change, approve it, and let deterministic services carry it out.
Local-firstPermission controlledInspectableReversible
HELIX CANVAS · HOME
HELIX
Good evening, home● 18 entities healthy
Living roomEvening ambience
Lighting · 42%
TelevisionOff
KitchenReady for dinner
Counter lights
Air qualityGood
ComfortDownstairs climate
71°
Target 70° · Quiet mode
Verified outcomeHallway light confirmed at 18%
Action completed through the local connector. Event evidence retained.
Designed for heterogeneous homesLocal APIsZigbeeZ-WaveESPHomeSelected clouds
The operating problem
A smarter home should not become a harder home to operate.
Every device, cloud account, dashboard, and automation creates another place for the system to become confusing. HELIX is designed to make the home understandable again.
Troubleshooting with evidence
Separate device, network, connector, vendor-cloud, platform, and automation failures instead of treating every symptom alike.
Explain the actual boundaryAutomation without guesswork
Translate intent into structured rules that can be reviewed, tested, traced, and changed without losing control of the home.
Human approval stays centralThe HELIX platform
One system. Two ways to work with the home.
HELIX separates the home’s deterministic control plane from the AI that interprets requests. That boundary is deliberate.
See the platform architecture →HELIX
The local home model and execution platform. It connects devices, maintains state, applies policy, executes approved actions, records outcomes, and isolates integrations.
HELIOS
The conversational intelligence layer. Ask about the home, create an automation, diagnose an integration, or describe the dashboard you want using structured tools and available evidence.
CANVAS
The visual home experience. CANVAS adapts controls to each device’s actual capabilities and gives people a clear place to view, shape, and approve changes.
A bounded AI workflow
From intent to a verified outcome.
AI can help interpret the request. The platform remains responsible for policy, execution, and evidence.
Add local devices, bridges, and selected vendor accounts.
Build a capability-aware model of rooms, devices, people, and policy.
Use text, voice, or CANVAS to explain the experience you want.
Review the proposed automation, dashboard, migration, or action.
Permission-controlled services perform the approved change.
Record what happened and surface uncertainty rather than invent success.
Trust is a product capability
AI can interpret the request. It should not secretly run the home.
HELIX separates probabilistic reasoning from deterministic execution and makes the boundaries visible.
Local-first contextSensitive household information stays on local hardware wherever practical.
Explicit permissionsRoles and policy constrain who can see, propose, approve, and execute.
Inspectable changesMaterial changes are designed to be previewed rather than silently applied.
Honest outcomesThe system should distinguish confirmed results, reported state, and uncertainty.
Connector isolationA failing vendor integration should not take down the rest of the home.
Recovery pathsMigrations, configuration, and platform changes should remain reversible.
Optional cloud useCloud integrations and AI providers remain explicit dependencies, not hidden defaults.
Clean-room integrationsConnectors are built against vendor APIs without copying community platform code.
Private alpha
Built in the open. Described without theater.
HELIX is in active development. The public build page separates what is working, what is in development, and what remains on the roadmap.
Working in a real home
Working
Home model, rooms, devices, capability-aware controls, isolated connectors, event history, and daily automations.
Working
HELIOS conversation and tools, model routing and failover, and a household model with the evidence behind every statement.
Working
Zigbee, Matter and Thread, HomeKit, Samsung SmartThings and TVs, Google Nest, Reolink cameras, Tuya, and more.
In development
In development
Full Home Assistant migration, AI-generated connectors, the suggestion experience, and appliance-grade voice.
Roadmap
Guided setup, recovery, and the hardening a mass-market home appliance needs.
Shape the next generation of home systems
Help build a home intelligence platform that remains maintainable after the demo ends.
We are looking for advanced homeowners and thoughtful partners who care about local control, explainable behavior, and honest system boundaries.