The Waystone
Your home's private core.
The quiet computer inside your walls that runs Willow and the Skipping Stones. Sealed in stone, sold once, yours outright.
The idea
Every smart home has a brain. Ours lives on the bookshelf.
The Waystone is where Willow actually lives. It is the computer that hears your voice, decides what to do with it, and answers back. Crucially, it is sitting in your house, not in a warehouse in another state. Nothing about your household is broadcast anywhere for it to work.
Because it doesn't run anything else (no browsing, no gaming, no email), it is silent, cool, and small. It disappears into a shelf the way a good speaker disappears into a room.
The particulars
One object, one job.
- Purpose
- Runs Willow, hears the Skipping Stones, speaks back. That's the whole job.
- Housing
- A cast-stone enclosure, a larger cousin of the Skipping Stone, meant to be seen.
- Placement
- A shelf, a nook, a bookcase. It doesn't need a rack, a closet, or a fan.
- Silence
- Silent in a quiet room. Convection-cooled through the stone itself, with no vents you'll ever notice.
- Connectivity
- One line to your router. Nothing else required.
- Ownership
- Sold once, at install. No monthly. No account. Nothing to rent, ever.
The plain fact
If our doors ever close, your Waystone keeps working.
The Waystone doesn't check in with us to run. It doesn't wait for an authorization. There is no server on our side that has to stay up for your lights to turn on when you ask. It is a computer in your house doing a job in your house, the way a furnace is a furnace whether or not the company that made it still exists.