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THE HOWA INTELLIGENCE

To help with a home, you need to know it.

Which room you're talking about. What's in it. What was repaired last year. How you like to use it.

HoWA connects the thread between those details and the people they belong to.

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Daylight and window shadows fall across a white hall. A fine red thread runs across the stone floor and through a deep doorway with a dark recess towards a lit threshold beyond.
Three white stone plinths stand in a sunlit white hall, holding a small photograph, a letter sealed with red wax and a blank card, while a fine red thread runs across the floor towards an open doorway.

A photograph tells part of the story.

It might show a room's layout or the condition of a border. The records can tell you when the work was done. The household can explain why a chair needs to stay by the window.

We want HoWA to hold those details together. “World awareness” means knowing what is there and what is happening around it. Spatial awareness adds where things are and how they relate: the doorway beside the sofa, the shaded bed beside the wall.

Home starts with rooms, assets, documents, photographs and recorded work. We're developing towards more detailed models of the spaces themselves.

How Home builds that knowledge

In a white hall, a red thread loops from a brass key on one low plinth, over a framed photograph on the next, to a folded card on a third.

  1. Add what you know

    A document, a photograph or a note about a room gives HoWA something to work from. Compatible services and devices can add information where you enable them.

  2. Keep the source

    A date from a certificate should stay linked to that certificate. You can check where it came from and correct it if it is wrong.

  3. Use it when you need it

    Ask about the warranty. Prepare a brief for a gardener. Review a reminder before saving it. The relevant details are already with the home.

  4. Record what changed

    Keep the new certificate, the revised design or the work completed. The next person who helps can be given the history you choose to share.

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE

The boiler, from one service to the next.

The boiler, from one service to the next.
What is savedWhat it is used for
Boiler details, manual and locationIdentifying the appliance and preparing an engineer's request
Previous certificate and warrantyChecking the recorded service date and servicing requirement
A request you have reviewedAsking your chosen engineer about the work
New certificate and invoiceRecording completion and reviewing the next service date

Feature availability depends on the stage of early access and the services connected to your home.

You choose what leaves the record.

An engineer may need the appliance details and the previous certificate. They do not need the household's private correspondence.

Review what will be shared and with whom. Property history and private household information are kept separately; moving home does not automatically pass your personal information to the next owner.

A column of small niches is set into a white wall, and a red thread arcs from a card in one niche to a card in another, while the rest stay empty.
White staircases climb and turn between open doorways, and a fine red thread runs along the handrails from one flight to the next, changing direction as it goes.

A machine needs more than a command.

Before a machine can work in a home, it needs to know where it can go, what it may touch and when to stop. We want HoWA to hold that information alongside the job and the household's instructions.

This is part of our longer-term development. The same principle applies to digital assistants: give them the details required for the task and keep their access within the limits you set.

Detailed spatial models, additional assistant connections and robotics are in development.

The method comes from someone who knows the work.

Know-How programmes will give HoWA an expert's plan to follow: caring for a garden through the year, for example. The home supplies the details, such as the plants, the work already done and the time the household has.

HoWA can then organise the programme's tasks and reminders around that home. Any booking or purchase remains subject to your permission.

Know-How is opening in stages. Living programmes are in development.

A basket of garden flowers rests on the floor of a white room beside an open doorway onto an English garden, with a fine red thread running out along the garden path.

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