# Verity — Confidential home AI from Berlin

*A home that understands you — and keeps it to itself.*

Verity is a highly capable home AI — it sees, hears, and acts, and what it knows about your life stays with you.

This document describes the entire Verity system in plain text: the positioning from the home page plus the full capabilities of every component, gathered into a single document.

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Verity is built by reb00t — a workshop for confidential home AI, based in Berlin.

## Capability or privacy. Until now you had to choose.

*The false choice*

An assistant that genuinely helps sends every conversation and every face to the cloud of large corporations. A system that protects your privacy can barely do more than switch a light.

Everyone treats this as a law of nature. It isn’t.

## Confidential computing

*The breakthrough*

Your data stays local, at home — never in a company cloud. And when Verity computes, it does so inside a sealed, hardware-encrypted enclave no one can look into: not Big Tech, not us, provable by attestation. Full capability — and yet what concerns you stays confidential.

## Capable AI, within everyone’s reach.

*Our vision*

Until now, real AI power came at a price: either expensive hardware in your own home — a GPU you buy, run and maintain — or a corporation’s cloud that takes your data in return. Verity needs neither.

- **No GPU of your own** — The heavy lifting runs in a sealed enclave in the cloud. No costly hardware, no maintenance — the capability is simply there.

- **No loss of control** — Your data stays with you, readable by no one else — not even us. Top-tier AI that belongs to you.

## Discerning. Private. Sovereign.

*Who we build for*

- **For connoisseurs & early adopters** — People who understand what confidential computing means — and who want an AI in the home without being surveilled.

- **For sensitive households** — Those protecting an eventful life finally get a home that can do more, without anyone listening in.

- **For caring families** — A quiet companion lets loved ones live independently at home for longer — with dignity instead of surveillance.

## A workshop, not a warehouse.

*How we work*

reb00t is the workshop behind Verity. We design, build, and install every system ourselves — few projects, each served completely. No middlemen, no compromises, a direct line to the people we work for.

## The system — all components

Verity is a single, considered intelligence for your home. Twelve components on one foundation: your data stays local, with you — readable by no one else. Not even us.

**At a glance:**

1. **The AI Assistant** — A genuinely capable AI that understands your home and everyone in it — and acts, rather than merely answering.
2. **Home Control, in Conversation** — Light, blinds, doors and windows — controlled in conversation, automated by simply saying what you'd like.
3. **Sound & Music** — On your existing system — digital or fully analog: Spotify, radio stations and multi-room, controlled in conversation with your home.
4. **Presence & Location** — The home knows who's there, roughly where the family is, and what's moving — confidentially, and on each person's own terms.
5. **Safety & Defense** — Fire and intrusion protection through audio, video, and movement — that doesn't just detect, but drives intruders away.
6. **Garden & Outdoors** — Smart irrigation and a robotic mower under one direction: a garden that tends itself — attuned to weather, season and your life.
7. **Documents & Mail** — Never search for a document or an email again: your AI files, finds, answers mail, and even writes letters — in conversation.
8. **Phone & Calls** — A discreet secretary for your calls: it answers, fends off spam, takes messages — and everything stays confidential.
9. **Identity & Access** — Your home recognizes who belongs to it — and governs who may do what. Effortless day to day; an extra confirmation for the most sensitive things.
10. **Network & System Integrity** — Guards the digital home: network surveillance, intrusion defense, anomaly detection, and self-repair.
11. **Platform & Your Own Apps** — Your home gets its own private address — and its own software, conjured on demand. Verity isn't only an AI; it's a platform.
12. **The App & Your Agent** — A personal AI agent for every member of the household — in your pocket, for iOS and Android. Chat, see, and control your home from anywhere.

## 1. The AI Assistant

*Component 1 of 12*

A genuinely capable AI that understands your home and everyone in it — and acts, rather than merely answering.

At the center of Verity is the **AI assistant** — an intelligence that runs your
home, not a voice box that merely answers questions. It grasps context, follows intent beyond
the single command, and makes decisions in your interest — like an exceptionally
attentive, discreet member of the household who never sleeps.

### More than an assistant

Most "smart" systems react to keywords. The assistant *thinks.* It understands what
you're actually trying to achieve, draws on the context of the whole house, and
acts ahead of you. It orchestrates every other component — control, safety,
communication — into one coherent whole. And it quietly handles the hundred
small things you'd otherwise have to remember: appointments, messages, notes,
reminders.

### It knows everyone in the household

A home is not a single user. The assistant recognizes the people who live here and
understands each one's habits, preferences, and boundaries. It knows who likes
soft light in the evening and who wants to be left alone in the morning. Each
person has their own protected space — one person's appointments, messages, and
notes are not accessible to another. Personalization and discretion, for
everyone under one roof.

### It learns — and stays understandable

With every day, the assistant gets better at understanding you. And yet it stays
accountable: you can ask at any time *why* it did something and get a clear
answer. Not a black box, but a presence that gives an account of itself.

### And no one can look in

This deep understanding of your life is the most sensitive thing there is — and
so no one but you can reach it. Everything the assistant knows about you — its thinking, its memory, its
learning — stays stored locally, in your home. No corporate cloud, no
outside access; not even we can look in.

*For how the assistant hears, sees, and speaks, read our stories on
[speech recognition](https://home.reb00t.io/en/stories/speech-recognition/) and
[confidential computing](https://home.reb00t.io/en/stories/confidential-computing/).*

*Topics: AI Assistant, Confidentiality.*

## 2. Home Control, in Conversation

*Component 2 of 12*

Light, blinds, doors and windows — controlled in conversation, automated by simply saying what you'd like.

Verity controls your home the way you'd explain it to a person — not through
menus and rule editors, but in conversation. You say what you'd like, and the
house does it. Today, tomorrow, and from now on.

### Everything that moves your home

Light and scenes, blinds and shading, doors and windows — the AI assistant controls the
systems of your house as one. Instead of separate islands,
you get a home that behaves as a whole: it welcomes you, it prepares the evening,
it secures itself at night.

### Automate by simply saying so

This is the decisive difference. A new automation isn't created on a screen, but
in the room: *"When I start a film in the evening, dim the lights and lower the
blinds."* Verity understands it, sets it up, and applies it on its own from then
on. You change it by simply saying it differently. Programming becomes
conversation.

So your home's intelligence grows with your life — without ever opening a manual
or hand-tending a rule.

### Always in your hands

As far as the automation reaches, your familiar switches stay. Every light,
every blind, every door — and the music too — can be operated by hand, the
classic way, at any time. The intelligence sits on top of your home, never in
the way: every system stays independently controllable and keeps working even if
the network goes down or the AI falls silent. There is no single point on which
everything depends — natural, fail-safe, and forcing no one in front of a touch
display.

### Confidential, of course

For the house to react at the right moment, it has to perceive what's happening
— whether a room is in use, who's coming home, how the evening is unfolding.
That perception stays in the house: stored locally, readable by no one
else — not even us. What happens in which room, only you know.

*Topics: Automation, Comfort.*

## 3. Sound & Music

*Component 3 of 12*

On your existing system — digital or fully analog: Spotify, radio stations and multi-room, controlled in conversation with your home.

Music isn't a side feature — it's atmosphere. Verity puts your music under the
direction of the same intelligence that understands your home, turning separate
devices into one coherent sound experience throughout the house.

### Your system — digital or analog

Verity plays through the system you already own — whatever kind it is. Digitally
connected or **fully analog**, active or passive speakers, a tube amp or a modern
streaming amplifier: the AI assistant supplies only the **source and the
control**, while your chain makes the sound. The sound you deliberately chose
stays fully intact — we add the intelligence, not the compromise.

That's exactly what sets us apart from all-in-one systems like Sonos:
convenient, but rarely a match for demanding ears. Verity ties you to no brand
and no speaker — your high-end hardware remains the benchmark.

### Spotify, radio and more — in conversation

Say what you're in the mood for: an album, a mood, an artist, your favorite
station from another city. Verity plays from **Spotify**, from **thousands of
radio stations** worldwide, and from your own collection — all driven by natural
language, not five different apps. "Something calm for dinner" is enough.

### Multi-room that thinks

Music follows you, or stays where it belongs. Play the same track in sync through
every room, or give each area its own sound. Verity knows which rooms are in use
and suggests the obvious — the kitchen at breakfast, the living room in the
evening, soft in the hallway.

### In conversation, confidential

Because you control your music by talking, your home is listening — and that
voice is the sensitive part, not your playlist. Like everything you say to
Verity, it stays at home with you: stored locally, accessible to no one else —
not even us. You enjoy your music; Verity builds no picture of
you.

*Topics: Sound, Music, Multi-room.*

## 4. Presence & Location

*Component 4 of 12*

The home knows who's there, roughly where the family is, and what's moving — confidentially, and on each person's own terms.

A home can only truly anticipate if it senses who is there and what is happening.
Verity weaves presence, location and motion into a fine sense of the home's
rhythm — the foundation on which everything else responds naturally.

### It knows who's home

Through the devices on the network and in the house, Verity recognizes who is
there and who comes or goes — discreetly, with no one having to check in. The
lights welcome the right person, the heating doesn't run for an empty house, and
the evening prepares itself as the family arrives. Presence becomes comfort, not
a tally.

### And roughly where the family is

When they choose to, members of the household share their location — not to the
meter, but **fuzzy**: "home", "nearby", "out". Through geo-fencing the home knows
when someone is approaching and prepares accordingly. Each person decides what
they share and with whom; no one is tracked. It's a quiet reassurance — above all
with children, or with older parents who live independently and yet should never
be alone.

### It senses motion — and makes sense of it

Motion detection through sensors, audio and video tells the home which rooms are
alive. Light comes on where someone is and goes off where no one remains; scenes
follow people instead of a rigid schedule. The same perception sharpens security
at night — the home tells the midnight trip to the kitchen apart from something
that shouldn't be there.

### The most revealing data — kept at home

Who is home and when, and where the family is, is some of the most sensitive
information there is. It lives only in your home — stored locally, with no presence or location
profile taking shape anywhere else. No one can read it, not even us.
No presence or location profile is mined or passed on. The home senses you — and
keeps it to itself.

*Topics: Presence, Location, Care.*

## 5. Safety & Defense

*Component 5 of 12*

Fire and intrusion protection through audio, video, and movement — that doesn't just detect, but drives intruders away.

Most security systems can do one thing: raise an alarm. Verity understands
what's happening — and acts. It protects against fire and against intruders, and
when it matters, it doesn't stop at a notification.

### It understands the danger

Through audio, video, and movement, Verity reads the situation and makes sense
of it. It tells the delivery driver at noon from the figure at the window at
three in the morning, the usual evening sounds from shattering glass, the steam
from cooking from genuine fire smoke. Instead of false alarms, you get clarity.

### It drives intruders away

Detection is only half the job — the other half is getting the intruder to
leave. Verity makes your home **wake up and defend itself**, in measured,
intelligent steps:

- **The house wakes:** lights flare across several rooms, music and voices start
  up — the home suddenly seems occupied and alert.
- **It speaks:** a calm, firm announcement makes clear the person is seen,
  recorded, and reported. Nothing drives an intruder off more reliably than the
  certainty of being discovered.
- **It exposes:** blinds rise to open the view from the street; exterior light
  and strobe strip away the cover of darkness.
- **It protects inward:** connected doors can lock down sensitive areas while the
  system alerts you and — on request — security or police with solid evidence.

### In a fire, every second counts

If Verity detects fire or smoke, it wakes the occupants with voice and light,
illuminates the escape route, unlocks doors, shuts down ventilation, and calls
for help — guiding you calmly outside.

### Vigilance no one reads along

This is where others fail: cameras and microphones usually mean material others
can look into. With Verity, every recording — image and sound — stays in your home,
stored locally. Evidence is your property, to share deliberately — not a
corporation's. Even someone who steals the device finds nothing readable. Evidence remains your property, to share deliberately — not a
corporation's. Even someone who steals the device finds no viewable recordings.

*More in our stories [Seeing without watching](https://home.reb00t.io/en/stories/vision/) and
[A watchful eye that stays silent](https://home.reb00t.io/en/stories/security/).*

*Topics: Safety, Defense, Confidentiality.*

## 6. Garden & Outdoors

*Component 6 of 12*

Smart irrigation and a robotic mower under one direction: a garden that tends itself — attuned to weather, season and your life.

A beautiful garden is work — or a set of separate devices that know nothing of
each other. Verity runs the care of your outdoor space as one: irrigation and
lawn, tuned to each other, to the weather, and to your day.

### Irrigation that knows the weather

Verity doesn't water on a rigid schedule but by need. It factors in the forecast,
the season and soil moisture, waters early in the morning when the water reaches
the roots, and holds off when rain is coming. Each area gets what it needs — the
lawn unlike the beds, the pots unlike the hedge. No wasted water, no parched days.

### A lawn that mows itself

The **robotic mower** becomes part of the system instead of an island of its own.
Verity mows at the right time — when no one is outside and nothing is disturbed —
pauses when it's wet, and speaks up when it needs help. You don't hear the work;
you only see the result: a kept lawn, without ever thinking about it.

### Tuned to your life outdoors

Because Verity knows when the garden is in use, the machinery works when it
disturbs no one. The weekend is yours, not the mower's; irrigation runs before
you wake. And an evening outside begins with the right light, on its own.

### Outside too, it stays your garden

Watering schedules, the cameras on the house, the times when something stirs
outdoors — all of it stays stored locally, with you. No manufacturer logs when you're
in the garden or when the property sits empty — and we can't either. No manufacturer logs when you're in the
garden or when the property sits empty. The care is automatic; the data is yours.

*Topics: Garden, Outdoor, Automation.*

## 7. Documents & Mail

*Component 7 of 12*

Never search for a document or an email again: your AI files, finds, answers mail, and even writes letters — in conversation.

Paperwork is the quiet burden of every household: contracts, invoices, receipts,
an inbox that is never empty. Verity takes that burden off you — not as yet
another filing program, but as a counterpart that genuinely understands your
papers.

### Never search again

Hand your documents and your correspondence to your AI, and it organizes
everything itself. Just ask: "When does the insurance run out?", "Find the
plumber's invoice", "What did the last email from school say?" — and you get the
answer, not a list of hits. The searching stops.

### Mail that handles itself

Your agent reads along, summarizes, and drafts replies in your tone. Answer an
email, confirm an appointment, write to an authority — you say what you want, and
at the end you only review. Even **physical letters** take shape in conversation:
dictated, composed, ready to send.

### The most sensitive things deserve a second door

Documents are among the most private things a household holds. For the most
delicate — contracts, health, finances — Verity reaches in only after an extra
confirmation (see [Identity & Access](https://home.reb00t.io/en/module/access/)). Effortless day to
day, strict where it counts.

### Understood without being read

Your papers stay where they belong: in your home, stored locally. No
corporation reads along — and neither can we. Your AI knows every
one of your documents. No one else does.

*Topics: Documents, Mail, AI agent.*

## 8. Phone & Calls

*Component 8 of 12*

A discreet secretary for your calls: it answers, fends off spam, takes messages — and everything stays confidential.

The phone is one of the last great interruptions of the day — and one of the
rudest. Verity takes the ringing off your hands and turns it into something
cultivated: an attentive secretary that knows when you want to be disturbed and
when you don't.

### It answers when you'd rather not

The AI assistant can take calls, politely establish what they're about, and relay them
for you. You learn who called and why — as a calm summary, not a missed
notification. On request, Verity speaks on your behalf: confirm an appointment,
reschedule a delivery, give a piece of information.

### It keeps the unwanted away from you

Marketing calls, scam attempts, and the increasingly brazen AI voices on the
other end are recognized and turned away before they ever reach you. Important
calls Verity announces — with name and purpose — so you can decide in seconds:
take it, or have it handled.

### Confidential from the first second

A call is among the most private things that reach a home. Content, transcript,
and summary therefore stay in the house: stored locally, readable only by
you — not by your phone provider, and not by us. Whoever speaks to your home speaks only to your home.

*Topics: Communication, Confidentiality.*

## 9. Identity & Access

*Component 9 of 12*

Your home recognizes who belongs to it — and governs who may do what. Effortless day to day; an extra confirmation for the most sensitive things.

A home that thinks along has to know *who* is in front of it — not out of
suspicion, but to treat everyone rightly: family differently from a guest,
adults differently from children. That identity is the foundation for keeping
everything personal personal.

### It recognizes people, not just devices

Verity reliably recognizes each person — by device, by face, or by a quiet code.
So your home knows not only *that* someone is there, but *who*: the prerequisite
for each person getting exactly what is theirs.

### Everyone gets their own space

Each person receives their own rights and levels — the children unlike the
parents, guests only for what is intended. Everyone moves freely within their
own, without reaching into anyone else's; one person's appointments, messages and
documents stay hidden from another.

### A second door for the most sensitive things

Not everything carries the same weight. For the most delicate — contracts,
finances, [documents](https://home.reb00t.io/en/module/documents/), certain rooms — Verity asks for an
extra confirmation before anything happens: several traits that must fit
together, rather than a single key that can be lost. Effortless day to day,
strict exactly where it counts.

### Verified without being spied on

Faces, codes and device keys are themselves highly sensitive. They are stored and
verified in your home — nowhere else, readable by no one, not even us. Your home
knows who you are. No one else finds out.

*Topics: Identity, Access, Permissions.*

## 10. Network & System Integrity

*Component 10 of 12*

Guards the digital home: network surveillance, intrusion defense, anomaly detection, and self-repair.

A home that sees and hears must above all be one thing: **impregnable.** This
component guards the digital boundary of the house — the very boundary that keeps
your data inside.

### The home network under watch

Verity knows every device on your network and keeps an eye on it. It spots
unknown devices that join, and connected things that quietly "phone home."
Suspicious traffic is noticed and stopped before it can do harm — a firewall
that doesn't just follow rules, but understands patterns.

### Detecting anomalies before they become problems

Over time, the system learns how your home normally behaves — digitally and
physically. What's out of the ordinary stands out: a device suddenly acting
differently, an unusual access pattern, an irregularity in the daily rhythm.
Verity flags what matters and ignores the noise.

### It repairs itself

Complex systems have faults — good systems absorb them. Verity monitors its own
health, catches errors early, and fixes them on its own: services are restarted,
connections rerouted, bottlenecks balanced. The goal is a home that simply runs
— reliably, without you having to tend to technology.

### The guardian of confidentiality

This component is more than IT security — it is the guardian of your promise of
privacy. It makes sure your data stays where it belongs — stored locally, in your home — and that nothing leaks out unnoticed. It sends no telemetry to us; what protects your home protects your
home — alone.

*Topics: Network, Integrity, Confidentiality.*

## 11. Platform & Your Own Apps

*Component 11 of 12*

Your home gets its own private address — and its own software, conjured on demand. Verity isn't only an AI; it's a platform.

Most home technology is a finished product: you get what was foreseen. Verity is
something else — a **platform**. Your home gets its own protected place on the
net, where its intelligence, its data and its software live. "An AI at home"
becomes the foundation for whatever software your home will need next.

### Your home's own address

Every home gets its own domain and a personal, protected space — a private place
that belongs to you and no one else. This is where your agent, your apps and your
data live: reachable for you, invisible to everyone else.

### Software, conjured on demand

Need something that doesn't exist yet? Just describe it — and Verity generates
the app for it, tailored to your home. Even the starting point is more than a
gimmick: a **shopping list** you shape to your liking, kept up to date in
conversation with the AI at home or on your phone when you're out. What begins as
an example becomes your own small kit of apps — no developers, no waiting.

### The future of software for the home

This is something new: not another closed box, but a private platform on which
your home's applications grow as you need them. On-demand software for the home —
owned by you, shaped by you.

### A platform no one can look into

A platform of your own is only a gain if it truly belongs to you. Everything that
runs here — your apps, your space, your data — stays stored locally, in your home. No one but you can reach it, not
even us. A platform that grows with you — and whose data stays in your
hands.

*Topics: Platform, Software, Apps.*

## 12. The App & Your Agent

*Component 12 of 12*

A personal AI agent for every member of the household — in your pocket, for iOS and Android. Chat, see, and control your home from anywhere.

The app for **iOS and Android** is more than a remote control. It gives every
person in the household their own **AI agent** — a capable assistant that knows
your home, holds a real conversation, and gets things done on your behalf.

### A personal agent for each person

Each member of the household has their own agent, with their own protected space.
It knows your routines, your preferences and your part of the home — and not
anyone else's. Ask it in plain language to dim the living room, brief you on the
day, water the garden before the heat, or check that the doors are locked. It
understands context across the whole house and acts, rather than just answering.

### It does things, not just answers

This is an agent, not a chatbot. It can carry out multi-step requests, coordinate
the system's components, follow up, and report back — "the kids are home, the
blinds are down, and a parcel was left at the door." The same intelligence that
runs your home, now in your hand.

### See and control from anywhere

Glance at the state of your house, adjust scenes, open the door for a guest, or
talk to your agent as if you were at home. And it speaks up only when it counts —
the unexpected visitor, the smoke detector, the reassurance that at your parents'
home today everything is taking its usual course.

### There, even when you're not

From anywhere, ask your agent what's happening at home and let it act for you. It
understands the situation — not just "a sensor tripped," but what it means — so
you can check on a parent, see whether something is wrong, or help from a
distance: let a carer in, talk someone through a problem, raise the alarm if it's
needed. Being away no longer means being out of reach.

### Connected to your home — not to us

The app and your agent talk end-to-end encrypted to your home, where your data lives — your communication is opened only there, where no one can look in, not even Verity. We cannot see your home through the app. You hold your home — and your
agent — in your hand, and no one else does.

*Topics: App, AI agent, iOS, Android.*