About
A small studio in Southern Utah.
Stillgrove was founded on a plain idea: the most personal technology in your home shouldn't be built by companies that don't know you.
The origin
We started because the alternative kept getting worse.
The smart-home industry has spent a decade quietly trading the resident's privacy for the manufacturer's data. Every year the microphones get better, the terms of service get longer, and the amount of ordinary household life shipped to distant servers grows. Very little of it is ever revisited.
Stillgrove is the version of that industry we wanted to live inside. Private by design. Crafted, not manufactured. Yours outright. It is not a reinvention (the technology to build it privately has been available for years). It is a decision to actually do it, and to install it into the kind of houses where the decision matters.
What we hold to
Three things, kept simply.
01
Small on purpose
Stillgrove will always be a studio, not a chain. The size lets us stay honest about what we can promise and personal about the way we install.
02
Local by decision
Materials from suppliers we can drive to, work done by the same hands that answer the phone. It is slower than the alternative, and it is the point.
03
Private by design
Your voice never leaves your home. Not for training, not for marketing, not because we haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.
The studio
One workshop, one pair of hands, a slow week.
Stillgrove is built around a workshop, not a factory floor. Every stone will be cast, cured, sanded, and signed by the same hands that install it, and a good week will always be measured in homes prepared, not units shipped.
A note
If you'd told me twenty years ago that the microphone on the kitchen counter would be the thing to worry about, I wouldn't have believed you. It is, though. So we built the version that isn't.
The founder