A household AI companion platform built from scratch. Not a wrapper around a chatbot — a persistent, memory-driven system that gets to know you over time and reaches out when it thinks you might need it.
Each household on the platform gets a named companion — Alfie, Harry, and others. They live on a shared server but maintain completely separate memory, personality, and communication preferences per household.
Facts, moods, life events, and preferences are stored and recalled across every conversation — not just the current session.
Chat via the web UI or WhatsApp. Alfie remembers context from weeks ago and brings it into today's conversation naturally.
Companions send scheduled messages based on each user's stated preferences — morning greetings, meal-time nudges, bedtime wind-downs.
Set one-off or recurring reminders in plain English. "Remind me to call the doctor on Thursday" — done.
Multiple users per household, with individual roles and per-user memory. Everyone gets their own relationship with the companion.
ElevenLabs TTS gives Alfie a real voice. The Raspberry Pi client brings that voice into the room.
Alfie started as an experiment — could you build something that felt less like a tool and more like a presence? Something that remembered what you told it last week, noticed when you hadn't been in touch, and reached out in a way that felt human rather than algorithmic?
The answer, so far, is: pretty much. The platform is live, in daily use across multiple households, and actively growing. New features — better memory surfacing, richer household management, expanded voice capabilities — are in development.
It is not a product for sale. It is not a startup. It is a personal project that became something real, maintained by one developer who finds the problem genuinely interesting.
Alfie isn't open to the public right now, but if you want to know more about the project, have a technical question, or want to follow along as it develops — get in touch.
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