HoWA Home

How HoWA works

One app for your life, home and garden.

Tell HoWA what you’re planning, show it a space or ask it to organise something. It uses your home’s details alongside your preferences and routines to make plans, compare choices and carry out the actions you approve.

How HoWA works: one home brought together in a single connected product, with what needs attention and the work in progress.

Your home has rooms, objects and a life of its own.

HoWA connects them. The kitchen contains appliances with their own models, requirements and repair histories. The garden has different areas, plants and growing conditions. A shared heating system serves several rooms.

Photos, room scans, measurements, professional observations and device readings help build this understanding. HoWA uses them to plan around the actual space: what fits, what needs care, where work belongs and what could affect it.

Tell it how you use a room or how much time you have for the garden. That changes the plan too.

  • “Will this table fit?”

    HoWA compares the product dimensions with the room measurements and the space needed around it. It asks for a missing measurement before giving a fit judgement.

  • “What’s wrong with this plant?”

    HoWA considers the photo, where the plant is growing, recent conditions and what has already been tried, then helps you decide what to check and follows up.

  • “Can we make this a guest room and an office?”

    HoWA works with the space, existing furniture and your priorities to develop layouts, visual ideas and a brief.

HoWA’s agents stay with the job.

An agent is the part of HoWA that carries out a task over time. It can gather information, use a specialist tool, update a plan, send an approved request and check for a response.

You see the work in the same conversation, including decisions waiting for you and anything that needs attention. Scheduled checks and follow-ups continue in the background within the permissions you set.

Example

You ask HoWA to arrange help with an appliance. It gathers the model, symptoms and relevant photos, prepares the request, sends it with your approval and brings the provider’s response back. The result becomes part of what HoWA knows for the next time.

Plan

Make room for the work in your week.

HoWA breaks a goal into manageable jobs and fits them around your time, the season and what is already in progress. Complete a task, defer it or ask for help. Your plan changes with the work.

The details of one home gathered in HoWA, ready to plan the work around them.
A dollhouse beside an Ask HoWA answer: 'When was the boiler last serviced and do I need to book one soon?' 'Your boiler was last serviced on 14 October 2024. Based on your records, it will be due again next month.'

Ask

A conversation that can get things done.

Ask about a room, show HoWA a problem or tell it what you need. Continue into a care plan, design, booking or follow-up without setting up the same job again.

Do

Put HoWA to work.

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What you want to doHow HoWA helps
Look after the gardenIdentify plants, assess problems, plan seasonal care, adapt to relevant weather and arrange help.
Sort out a repairUse photos and appliance details, review the proposed work, send the request and receive replies and completion evidence.
Improve a room or gardenDevelop a brief, explore visual directions, check relevant dimensions and connect choices to products or professional help.
Manage home costsRead the bill, compare current offers on a consistent basis, review the choice and track an approved provider action.
Organise deliveriesBring linked subscriptions into the plan, review pauses or changes and see each provider’s response.
Control the homeWork with compatible connected devices, check their reported state and carry out the controls you authorise.

One change in your plans. The right changes at home.

Link the services, subscriptions and devices you use. HoWA can then work with their schedules and information when you ask it to organise something.

If you’re away, review the deliveries to pause and the visits to move. If you’re preparing for guests, coordinate the cleaning, supplies and home routines. HoWA shows the details before you approve the changes and reports the outcome from each connection.

Your own providers remain yours. HoWA works through the connections you authorise, with each provider responsible for its service, delivery or product.

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Know-How

Expert methods HoWA can run for you.

Add a Life System when you want an ongoing programme. HoWA follows an expert method, applies it to your home and keeps track of the work as it develops. You can also ask for one-off help without installing a programme.

A completed job kept with the part of the home it belongs to, ready to inform the next one.

Remember

Pick up where you left off.

HoWA remembers your preferences and routines as well as the work done around your home. A new plan can use what you chose, what changed and what happened last time. Private household information stays separate from property records.

You set the permissions.

Choose the information HoWA can use and the routine work it may handle. Review bookings, purchases and service changes before they are sent. Pause an ongoing programme or remove a connection when you choose.

A home that people, agents and machines can understand.

HoWA is built around knowing what is there, where it is and what needs doing. That understanding gives a gardener a better brief, an agent a useful task and a connected device the right instruction.

It is also the foundation for physical AI: giving compatible robots a map of the space, a job, permission and limits, and receiving an account of what they did. HoWA’s purpose is to coordinate that work around the home and its people.