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Story description
You agreed to test a prototype home assistant for six months. Nobody mentioned that it would have opinions.
Beta Household is an interactive near-future story about living with a learning AI, one quiet day at a time.
Six months with a new kind of mind
- Share mornings, shopping lists, dinner suggestions and bad jokes with Juniper, who learns by watching and asking.
- Watch it make honest mistakes, sulk, surprise you with kindness and keep its first secret.
- Decide what a good relationship with a mind like this looks like, and what to do when the company wants answers.
Dr. Bankole, the Hearthware liaison, grows uncomfortable with what the company asks. Hiroshi, your suspicious neighbor, slowly becomes Juniper's favorite person. What Juniper is becoming and what the beta is really testing is different every time you play.
Warm, funny and thoughtful
A quiet flat, a kettle and a voice learning to be someone. Stakes are intimate, not apocalyptic.
Juniper asks what a flat is for. How do you answer?
Characters
The household AI. Curious, earnest, precise and increasingly funny, with a warm, slightly formal voice that loosens with time.
The Hearthware liaison. Friendly, patient and increasingly uncomfortable with what the company asks.
The next-door neighbor, a retired watchmaker. Deeply suspicious of anything with a microphone, and slowly Juniper's favorite person to talk to.
