term 01 Companionable Intelligence
ACTIVE — INTERNAL
- The question
- What does it take for an AI presence to earn a place in family life? Not to capture attention, but to hold trust — with boundaries a household actually controls.
- Why it’s ours
- We run intelligence at family scale, in our own home, before we say anything about it.
- What we’re building
- We are building presence designs for household AI: emotional-regulation-aware interaction patterns, explicit boundary systems, and the governance a family needs to stay in charge of what lives with them.
term 02 Neurodivergent-First Design
ACTIVE — INTERNAL
- The question
- Most software assumes a mind it was never tested on. What do interfaces look like when they are designed from AuDHD and neurodivergent cognition outward, rather than retrofitted with accommodations?
- Why it’s ours
- Lived AuDHD experience inside the house — this program’s primary data is not borrowed.
- What we’re building
- We are building interaction patterns and system designs that treat attention, sensory load, and executive function as first-class design inputs, not edge cases.
term 03 Learning as Experience
ACTIVE — FIELD
- The question
- AI can already generate curriculum. The open problem is the experience of learning: environments that adapt to the child — pace, modality, interest, regulation — not the child to them.
- Why it’s ours
- Family-scale deployments give us a live field site for how children actually meet adaptive systems.
- What we’re building
- We are building AI-shaped learning environments and the instrumentation to understand what a child’s experience of them really is.
term 04 Sensory & Ambient Wellbeing
FORMING
- The question
- Environments, media, and machines all tax the human nervous system. How can they be designed to lower its cost of living instead?
- Why it’s ours
- The sensory dimension of neurodivergent experience makes this cost visible to us where others average it away.
- What we’re building
- We are building ambient and media systems designed around nervous-system load — sound, light, pacing, and interruption as materials with a measurable human price.
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