Mavo is currently trying to solve a much smaller scope of problems: can it help alleviate some stress that comes from a busy family schedule.

For my family, this means making it not only accessible to me (a developer), but also my wife (who’s not), and potentially other family or helpers (who likely aren’t). That means I’m designing it with accessibility in mind: there’s a full featured GUI so you don’t have to talk to the AI to make changes if you don’t want to, events have built-in owners so you can assign someone or even round robin things and get notified if no one has an event covered, you can share a link with the grandparents to give them details that stay up to date, and, most importantly, you get these things out of the box without having to tinker (but you can go deeper if you prefer).

I’m not aiming for it to be a fully autonomous agent, but I’m definitely thinking about ways to make it more proactive. Events in the system, for example, have an internal notification that can wake Mavo up to check on things without pushing an alert to the house unless it’s needed.