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Case study · Memories

Family photos, kept and shown.

A family’s photo library is its most personal record: faces, places, children growing up. In this case study it lives entirely at home, and comes back to life on the walls.

Seven years ago todayFamily holiday · shown only at home

Illustration of the concept.

The problem

The library you rent

Most families keep their memories in a photo cloud: a monthly fee that grows with the library, faces analysed on someone else’s servers, and an account that can be locked, priced up or closed. Meanwhile the best photos sit unseen in a camera roll.

How it works

From the family, to the home, and back.

Everything in the middle runs on hardware in the house.

Source

Every phone

  • Backs up automatically on the home Wi-Fi
  • Originals, full quality
  • Each person’s library, shared albums for the family
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At home

The home system

  • Faces, places and things found on the home hardware
  • Search: “grandma at the beach”
  • Duplicates and screenshots kept out of the way
  • Nightly backup to a second copy
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Experience

Frames & the TV

  • A curated rotation: on this day, recent trips, favourites
  • Different collections for different rooms
  • Nothing streamed from outside the home

Leaves the house: nothing. Remote viewing goes through a private, encrypted tunnel to the family’s own devices.

Living with it

Moments it makes possible.

On this day

A frame in the kitchen shows the same day, five and ten years ago. The family notices, and talks about it.

Find anyone, instantly

Search by person, place or moment across every phone in the family, decades deep, without a single upload.

Room by room

Grandparents’ favourites in the living room, the children’s artwork in the study. Each frame shows its own collection.

Principles at work

Why it’s built this way.

  • Private by design: originals and face data stay in the home.
  • Independent: the library and the frames keep working without the internet.
  • Built to evolve: storage grows with the library; nothing to migrate.
  • Agentic-ready: an assistant can find “the photos from the wedding” when asked, without them leaving.
Consultation

Imagine it in your home.

Every system is designed around the household. Tell us what you’d like your home to do.

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