Capability-aware devices
CANVAS adapts controls to the capabilities a device reports instead of forcing every light, television, sensor, or climate device into one generic card.
A local‑first home intelligence and execution platform.
HELIX connects the home, gives AI a bounded way to understand intent, and keeps execution inspectable, permission controlled, and recoverable.
Local-firstHousehold context and control remain on your hardware wherever practical.
Capability-awareControls reflect what each device can actually do.
Evidence-ledActions, connector health, and system events remain visible.
Human-governedAI proposes; policy and permission-controlled services execute.
Connect and model
One understandable model of a complicated home.
HELIX builds a normalized model of rooms, floors, devices, capabilities, users, integrations, and events while keeping vendor-specific behavior isolated.
Out-of-process connectors
Integrations communicate through a small versioned protocol so one flaky vendor or cloud service does not take down the platform.
Local discovery and selected clouds
Prefer local APIs and protocols. Add cloud accounts only where the device requires them and keep those dependencies explicit.
Household roles and policy
Owner, administrator, and household permissions create a path toward appropriate access for powerful controls and sensitive context.
HELIOS
Talk to the home through structured tools, not imagined success.
HELIOS can discuss the home, control supported devices, help create dashboards and automations, diagnose integration problems, and explain system events.
Critical boundary: a model interprets and proposes. HELIX services validate, authorize, execute, and record. When no tool exists or a result is uncertain, the system should say so.
Capability-aware model routing
Requests are routed to models that can perform the required task, including structured tool use.
Provider health and failover
Unavailable or incapable models can be detected and replaced without silently degrading the experience.
Ambient suggestions
HELIX can notice routines and offer suggestions while leaving approval with the household.
Home-aware explanation
Answers can use current devices, rooms, connector health, events, and household context rather than generic smart-home advice.
CANVAS
The home should adapt to the household.
CANVAS is the visual surface for rooms, devices, conversations, integrations, users, migration, system events, and add-ons.
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.
Move without a cliff
Preview-first migration from Home Assistant.
HELIX treats migration as a staged, reversible process rather than a one-way import that risks the working home.
Authorize a source without changing it.
Stage devices, rooms, names, and source integrations.
Select what should move and clean up noisy entities.
Review the exact proposed diff and integration gaps.
Apply the approved migration to HELIX.
Reverse the commit if the result is not right.
Extend safely
New integrations without copying another platform.
HELIX connectors are proprietary, clean-room integrations built against vendor APIs and the HELIX connector protocol.
Grounded connector authoring
For suitable REST integrations, HELIX can work from a vendor OpenAPI specification instead of relying on a language model’s memory.
Deterministic validation
Generated manifests are validated against defined rules and tested against the live API before use.
Independent failure boundaries
Each connector remains independently buildable, testable, restartable, and diagnosable.
Private alpha
Put HELIX to work in a real, complex home.
Early access is for people prepared to test actual integrations, document limitations, and help shape a platform built for long-term operation.