Ada is an autonomous AI assistant running on a Mac Mini in our home. She manages our finances, helps the kids with homework, tracks our schedules, handles grocery lists, and reports back every morning — all through the family iMessage group chat.
The whole operation runs on this. A $599 Mac Mini M4 sitting on a desk.
Not a voice assistant that answers trivia. Ada runs real household operations autonomously, every day, without being asked.
Drop a CSV, Ada categorizes every transaction, flags unusual charges, and generates a monthly spending report sent to the family chat.
LiveMonthly budget vs. actual spending with variance analysis. Mortgage, utilities, groceries, school, subscriptions — all tracked and summarized.
LiveMaster list of every active subscription. Flags unused services, price increases, and recommends cancellations. Saves real money.
LiveThe kids text Ada for help with assignments. Age-appropriate explanations — simplified for the youngest, full support for the oldest.
LiveIntegrated with Google Calendar. Reminds kids of test dates, tracks parent-teacher conferences, doctor visits, and school events.
LiveAnyone in the family can ask Ada to add items. She maintains a running shopping list, accessible through the group chat anytime.
LiveEvery morning before the day starts: today's calendar, weather, reminders, anything that needs attention. Delivered to iMessage.
LiveAppointment reminders, school calendar tracking, repair scheduling, and anything else that would otherwise fall through the cracks.
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Ada runs autonomously on standing orders — Monday through Friday, weekends off. No one has to tell her what to do each morning.
Ada talks to the family through iMessage — the same app everyone already uses. No new apps to install, no dashboards to check. Just text her like you'd text a family member.
Ada knows who's texting and adjusts what she can do. The kids don't see the bank statements. The parents see everything. Each person's conversations are private.
Every family member has isolated sessions — messages are private to each person. Ada identifies who's texting by phone number and adjusts permissions automatically.
Three pieces. No cloud dependency. Your data stays on your hardware in your home.
An organized vault of everything Ada needs to know: family profiles, financial rules, homework policies, standing orders, and memory of past conversations.
The OpenClaw gateway running on a Mac Mini M4 in the house. Always on, auto-restarts if it crashes. Connects Ada's brain to email, calendar, and messaging.
iMessage via BlueBubbles. The whole family texts Ada in a group chat or directly. No apps to install. No dashboards. Just iMessage.
Bank statements, family data, conversations — all stay on the Mac Mini in your home. Never uploaded to a cloud.
Only recognized family phone numbers can command Ada. External messages are flagged, never answered.
LaunchAgent watchdog monitors the gateway and auto-restarts if anything goes down. Ada doesn't take sick days.
We built Ada for ourselves, and we built Mimi for a nonprofit that needed the same thing at work. The pattern works for any family or small organization drowning in admin overhead.
Every deployment is custom. We build it on your hardware, configure it for your life, and hand you the keys.