From the CVA AI Lab

AI for Consumers

The big platforms rent you AI that lives in their cloud and learns from your data. We build the other kind — assistants, tools, and agents that run in your home, on your hardware, answering only to you. These are real systems our own family lives with every day.

Runs on your hardware

On a Raspberry Pi, a laptop, a home server — not in someone else's data center.

Your data stays home

Photos, email, and voice are processed locally. Nothing is uploaded to be mined.

You own it

No subscription that can be raised, no service that can be shut down under you.

Running in our home

Built for Our Family First

These systems aren't demos — they run in our own house, every day. We build for ourselves first, because that's the honest way to learn what works.

Sam — the Home Assistant

In production since March 2026 · Raspberry Pi

Your own Alexa — except it's ours, and it's private. Sam wakes to a custom wake word, answers with an LLM brain, and knows the family through retrieval over our own data: email, calendar, weather, cameras, stocks, and the TVs. It speaks through the house, works from a phone app anywhere, doubles as an intercom, and none of the family's conversations are anyone else's training data.

Custom wake word, always listening locally
Retrieval-augmented answers over private family data
Reads email, tracks the calendar, watches the cameras
Phone app + intercom mode from anywhere
Monitored and repaired nightly by its own AI doctor

Private Photo Intelligence

Indexing a lifetime library

Everything you use Google Photos for — searching 80,000 family photos by faces, places, and moments, with a map of where they were taken — but with no storage limits and no uploads. Local Qwen and Gemma vision models read every photo on one laptop.

Smart Screen Control

Running since March 2026

Screen time that actually holds. Each kid unlocks the TV with their own PIN for a timed session; a watchdog re-locks it when time is up, and parents control everything from their phone in plain English.

Ask Your Inbox

Working prototype

Fifteen years of email — tens of thousands of messages and attachments — searchable in plain English. A local Qwen LLM reads and answers the question “what did I work on with Thomas?” on your own computer; nothing is ever uploaded.

Camera Intelligence

Watching over the house

Motion detection on the home's security cameras with AI-written summaries sent straight to Telegram — a package delivered, the kids home from school — instead of a hundred meaningless motion alerts.

Autonomous Trading Agents

Operating around the clock

A fleet of bots that watch prediction markets, crypto venues, and US equities 24/7 — placing orders through broker APIs within strict risk brackets, and reporting every move to our phones over Telegram.

Self-Healing AI

Nightly rounds since June 2026

An AI doctor for our AI. Every night it reads the voice assistant's logs, diagnoses what broke, writes a fix, verifies it, and rolls back if things got worse — reporting to our phone by morning.

In the lab — Find My Kid: smart glasses that spot your child in a crowd and whisper which way to look, with every frame processed on-device and nothing stored. Spec complete, waiting on platform camera access.

In the lab — Fire Detection: camera-based fire detection — spotting smoke and flame through the same security cameras that already watch the house, before a smoke alarm would.

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Try Them Yourself

These consumer apps are already on the public web — open one right in your browser.

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Spelling Practice Lab

Spelling practice that talks. Your child hears the word spoken aloud, types it with autocorrect disabled, and learns the spelling rule behind every mistake — with spaced repetition and a parent dashboard.

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Cambridge Exam Prep

AS & A Level Chemistry past-paper practice, auto-graded against official mark schemes — with handwriting input for working problems the way you would in the exam hall.

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AP Prep

AP Physics 2 multiple-choice practice built from real workbook material — question by question, with instant feedback.

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Seattle Market Pulse

A live Greater Seattle housing dashboard for buyers and sellers — median prices, a 0–100 market signal, rent-vs-buy math, and housing-vs-stocks comparisons. Published under our sister brand, CVA Realty Group.

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Want AI Like This — Built for You?

Everything on this page was designed, built, and deployed by CVA Analytics. We bring the same engineering to client work — private assistants, intelligent tools, and autonomous agents for your home or your business.

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