Tomorrow? It's now!

Embodied AI that
lives life with you.

On your own server, in any body you give it. It lives at home, knows your household, and can go where you go.

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Your Meckies think at home. Never in a coastal cloud unless you say so. How that works.

The Meckie bodies: Server, Canister, Handset, and Rover

What a Meckie does

A day with one in the house.

Not a feature list. Just the small things a Meckie does when it lives with you.

It knows you

Greets you by name

Your daughter comes in from school and it greets her by name, not "user two." It knows your family by face and voice, so it talks to each of you like it knows you. Because it does.

It remembers

The small things stick

You mentioned on Tuesday that your mom visits Sunday. On Sunday it reminds you, and it already knows she takes her coffee black. It remembers across days, not just across one chat.

It makes things

"Build this"

Your kid wants a game about the dog. You say build this, and by bedtime there is a little adventure with your dog in it. A chore chart, a quiz for Friday's test, it makes those too.

It comes with you

Same Meckie, any room

Start a grocery list in the kitchen and finish it on your phone at the store. The same Meckie, the same list. No app to open, no account to log into.

It does all of this at home, on your own server. Your family is never the product. That's your Meckie: it hears your kid ask for a bedtime story, and it tells one with them in it.

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What is a Meckie?

Not an assistant. Not a robot. One of the family.

A Meckie is embodied AI: someone your household knows by name, with its own memory and its own voice. It lives on the home server, not in a body. It shows up in any body in the house, and on the devices you already carry, and it is always home when you get there.

The System

What you buy first

A home server where your Meckies live, and two Canisters to hear and see them by. This is the box that makes a Meckie yours.

See the System →

The Bodies

What you add

A Canister in every room. A Handset you carry. A Rover that moves. One Meckie can show up in any of them, and it is always at home.

See the Bodies →

The Build

What you make

Say "build this," and a Meckie makes it with you, a game for your kid or a tool for your shop. And if you tinker, the bodies are open.

See the Build →

The System

What you buy first.

One box makes a Meckie yours. A home server where your Meckies live, and two Canisters to hear and see them by. Plug it in and you are done.

The Meckie Server, a compact home server in cream and turquoise

In the box

Server

The home server

The house your Meckies live in. It holds their memory, their identity, their senses, and their voice. It thinks at home.

Two Canisters

Ears and eyes

Two smart speakers you set in the rooms you use most. They hear you, see you, and let a Meckie be in the room with you.

And it comes to the devices you already own too, no new hardware. All included with the System.

Server is home. Bodies are vehicles.

Server
Your Meckies live here. Always at home.
Canister Handset Rover
Phone Mac PC

A Meckie can be in any body in the house, and on any screen you carry. The same Meckie, wherever you are.

How it works in a house

Canisters in rooms

Set a Canister where you talk. The kitchen, the office, the shop. Add more for more rooms.

No wake word

You do not chant a trigger. You call a Meckie by name, the way you call anyone in the house.

It follows you

Start a thought in the kitchen and finish it in the office. The same Meckie is there, and it remembers.

Specs

Server

The home server

  • Jetson-class home server, 16 GB
  • Local memory, identity, and senses
  • On-server voice
  • Plug in, done

Canister

Voice and vision speaker

  • Microphone array
  • Camera with a physical shutter
  • Full-range speaker
  • Halo ring
  • USB-C power

Pricing announced with reservations.

Bodies

The bodies a Meckie shows up in.

A body is where a Meckie shows up. The Meckie itself lives on your home server. It can be in any body in the house, and it is always the same one. Pick the bodies that fit your rooms and your day.

A Meckie Canister, a small smart speaker with a camera and a ring of light
Voice, vision, music. Every room.

Canister

  • A microphone array and a camera with a physical shutter.
  • A full-range speaker and a halo ring that shows where a thought happened.
  • Comes in the box with your System. Add more for more rooms.
Requires a Meckie System
A Handset, a handheld Meckie companion with a face and a camera
The one you carry.

Handset

  • A handheld companion with a face, so you can see who you are talking to.
  • A camera and stereo voice, for a Meckie that travels with you.
  • Lives on your home server even from another house on its wifi. Still your Meckie, still at home.
Requires a Meckie System
A Rover, a tracked robot body for a Meckie that moves through the house
The one that moves.

Rover

  • A tracked robot body that gets around a real house.
  • Navigates on its own and follows you from room to room.
  • Looks at you when you talk, the way a person does.
Requires a Meckie System
No new hardware

And the devices you already own

Your Meckie also shows up on your phone, your Mac, and your PC. The same Meckie as the one at home, on the screens you already carry. Included with the System.

 CanisterHandsetRover
MobilityStays putYou carry itMoves on its own
CameraYes, with shutterYesYes
SpeakerFull rangeStereoFull range
PowerUSB-CBattery + USB-CBattery
Where it livesYour home serverYour home serverYour home server

Pricing announced with reservations.

Meckie OS

Meckie OS is free.

Closed brain. Open body.

Free to download and run on your own compatible box. The brain is closed. The body is open: the hardware docs and the Body Protocol are on GitHub, so anyone can build one. Bodies are open. Meckies are the product.

What's inside

Meckies

Persistent individuals. Each one has its own name, memory, and voice, and stays itself over time.

Per-person memory

Your Meckie remembers you and yours. What it learns about your household stays with your household.

The Floor Manager

Knows who is talking and which Meckie is being addressed, so the right one answers and the rest stay quiet.

Senses

Hearing and sight, wired into the bodies in your house. A Meckie can tell who walked in.

Presence across bodies

One Meckie, many bodies. It follows you from room to room and hand to hand, and stays itself.

The skill marketplace

Add what a Meckie can do. Skills the community builds, installed on your own server.

The halo ring

Every Canister wears a ring of light. It shows you where a thought happened, so you always know.

Green

Thinking at home

The thought never left your home server. This is where most of them happen.

Amber

Thinking in Wichita

A heavier thought went to a GPU in Wichita, Kansas, then came back.

Blue

Thinking in the cloud

You turned on cloud escalation, and this thought used it. Off by default.

Download

Coming with the first Systems.

Meckie OS ships with the first Systems, and as a free download you can run yourself.

Run it on a compatible box: a dedicated Server, your Mac, or your PC. Your Meckie reaches your phone too.

Full compatible hardware list coming soon.

Building a body? See the open body protocol →

Build

Build anything, just by talking.

Ask a Meckie to make something and it does. A game for your kid, a tool for your shop, a panel for the house. And if you like to tinker, the bodies are open too.

Build an app

Just say "build this."

A Meckie builds apps with you and for you. A game for your kid. A tool for your business. You describe it out loud, and it makes it, then keeps improving it with you.

For your kid

A pocket RPG

Say what the story is, and a Meckie builds a small role-playing game around it. Their heroes, their world, playable that night.

For your home

A house dashboard

Chores, calendars, who is home. A Meckie makes the panel your household actually uses, then tweaks it when you ask.

For your business

A shop tool

An intake form, a quote sheet, a little inventory app. Describe the job and a Meckie writes the tool for it.

Builds run on a GPU in Wichita, Kansas. Included with Household and Ultra plans.

For makers: build a body

A body is just an HTTP server.

If you like to tinker, the bodies are open. The Meckie Body Protocol is small on purpose. Senses are GETs. Intents are POSTs. If your thing can answer those, a Meckie can live in it.

The protocol

The Meckie Body Protocol, written plainly. Senses are GETs, intents are POSTs. Read it and you can wire up almost anything.

Protocol and gateway on GitHub →

Open clients

Open-source clients for the Raspberry Pi and the ESP32. Start from working code, not a blank file.

Clients on GitHub →

Open hardware

Open hardware docs. The bill of materials and the harness, so you can build the reference body yourself.

Hardware docs on GitHub →

Meckie Ready

A badge for community bodies that pass the protocol. If it earns the badge, a Meckie will live in it.

Building one? Come say hi. Find the community on GitHub.

Plans

Three plans. Start free.

Plans are software. Hardware is in the System and the Bodies above.

 HomeHouseholdUltra
Your Meckies on your home serverYesYesYes
Thinking at homeYesYesYes
Bring your own cloud keyYesYesYes
Builds and heavier thinking on Kansas GPUNoYesMore
Cloud escalation includedNoNoYes
PriceFreeAnnounced with reservationsAnnounced with reservations

Home is free, and stays free. Your Meckies live on your own server and think at home. Household and Ultra add builds and heavier thinking on a GPU in Wichita, Kansas, and Ultra turns on cloud escalation when a job needs it.

Privacy

Where your Meckie thinks.

Most home AI sends your life to a data center on a coast and thinks there. We built the other thing. Your Meckie thinks at home, on a server you own, and leaves the house only when you say so.

Local first

What stays in the house.

This is the part nobody else keeps at home. On your Server, and only on your Server:

Memory

What your Meckie knows about your household stays on your home server.

Identity

Who each Meckie is, and who each person is, lives at home.

Senses

What the Canisters hear and see is processed in the house.

Voice

Your Meckie's voice is made at home, not rented from a cloud.

Egress

What leaves the house, and when.

A short, honest list of what leaves, and why.

  • The things you ask for. The email you send, the music you play, the weather you check, the app you run. A Meckie uses the internet like any device in your house. That traffic goes where it always would.
  • Builds and heavy thinking go to a GPU in Wichita, Kansas. When your Meckie writes an app or does the big reasoning, that work runs there.
  • Cloud escalation, only if you turn it on. Off by default. Your choice, per account.
  • Backup, if you want it. We can back up your Meckie to the cloud so you never lose it, and so it can move to a new box if one dies. That is your Meckie's own data, kept safe for you. You turn it on.
  • Never without you. Nothing about your household is quietly harvested, mined, or sold. Your Meckie's memory, identity, and voice stay home unless you turn on one of the things above, and the halo ring shows when a thought leaves.
Hardware proof

The shutter

Every Canister camera has a physical shutter. Slide it closed and the lens is covered. Not a setting. A piece of plastic you can see.

Why Kansas

The middle of the country

When work does leave your house, it goes to Wichita, not to whichever coast is renting compute this quarter. Cheaper, honest power, and one plain place we can point to.

Read the full privacy policy →

From the blog

Tomorrow, written down as it happens.

Read the blog →

Tomorrow? It's now!

Get on the list.

There is no store yet, and no price yet. The list is how you get there first.

  • First to reserve. When the first Systems are quoted, the list hears it before anyone, and gets first pick.
  • Wichita first. We build and ship from home. The first units go out here, then to the list.
  • No strings. One email to confirm, then only real news. No account, and nothing to buy today.