Coming Fall 2026.
The first wave of Havens ships this fall. Pre-sales open May 2026 to founding-cohort buyers — lifetime license, 79.99 USD, locked forever, no subscriptions ever.
The desktop intelligence
built to be lived with.
100% local. Voice-forward. Proactive. A premium AI presence that knows your world, anticipates your work, and never sends a single byte to the cloud.
The Living Sphere
A presence you can feel — not a chat window. The sphere is Haven's face, alive on your desktop, reactive to every word and breath of activity.
Seven Visual States
Idle, listening, thinking, responding, executing, muted, error — each with its own breathing rhythm and color signature.
128 Audio-Reactive Bars
A radial waveform driven by real audio amplitude. The sphere doesn't fake it — bars dance to actual voice spectra.
Always-On-Top Window
Frameless 480×480 translucent OpenGL surface. Stays visible across every app, never in the way.
Smoke + Neural Net Shader
WebGL fragment shader: warped FBM noise smoke, 28 internal nodes, neuron firing arcs, center glow. All real-time.
Hover Burst Explosion
Mouseover triggers a sustained boost plus a decaying pulse. The sphere reacts to your attention.
Color Cycling Palette
Five sine-modulated colors breathe through the sphere on a slow rotation. Never the same twice.
A sub-2-second voice loop
Speak naturally. Haven hears, thinks, and answers in under two seconds — fully local, no network involved.
End-to-End Loop
VAD → STT → LLM → TTS → speaker. Every stage budgeted, every millisecond measured.
Barge-In
Speak over Haven and she stops mid-word. The TTS queue clears, the LLM cancels, STT begins immediately.
"Hey Haven" Wake Word
OpenWakeWord, CPU-based, optional. Push-to-talk and continuous modes also supported.
Sentence Streaming
The first sentence plays through speakers while the LLM is still generating the rest. No waiting.
Six Cascading Engines
Kokoro, HavenVOX, Piper, faster-whisper, Vosk, Silero VAD — Haven picks the right one for your hardware.
Quiet Hours
Configurable, default 22:00–07:00. Haven respects when you're sleeping. No alerts, no surprises.
The AICL Brain
A protocol-level intelligence pipeline that classifies, compiles, and contracts every thought before it touches the LLM.
AICL Pipeline
Five stages: classify → compile → contract → infer → decode. 102 ported tests, all green.
PSIP Contracts
Signal-aware response contracts that save 47–61 tokens per response without losing meaning.
FTIP v2 Schema
Minimal 3-value fractional schema, 12 tokens, fires only when the situation calls for it.
14 Intent Categories
File, email, calendar, web, system, automation, info, document, reminder, macro, briefing, conversation, session, unknown.
<1ms Intent Routing
Regex fast-path. Action intents like "open Chrome" skip the LLM entirely and execute in microseconds.
Context Broker
Seven query types, budget allocation, provider assembly. The brain never wastes context window.
The brain is built. Bring it home.
AICL pipeline, signal-aware contracts, sub-millisecond intent routing — all running 100% on your machine.
Memory & World Model
A living knowledge graph of your people, projects, and conversations — searchable in under 8 milliseconds.
World Model
Entity-relation-confidence graph of people, projects, organizations, and topics. Built quietly in the background.
Episodic Memory
FAISS + sentence-transformers, cosine similarity search across every meaningful moment.
RAG Hybrid Search
FTS5 keyword + semantic embedding, fused with reciprocal rank fusion. Returns in under 8ms.
Fact Extraction
Mines conversations for structured facts, commitments, and goals. Quietly, automatically.
Universal Event Store
23 event types, 90-day rolling window, FTS5 indexed. Every signal feeds into one place.
Per-Profile Isolation
world_N.db and memory_N.db per profile slot. One household, six minds, zero leakage.
The anatomy of Haven.
Six layers, pulled apart on the workbench. Every piece accounted for, every connection traced — this is what lives behind the sphere.
Email intelligence
Microsoft Graph and Gmail unified behind one facade. Every message classified, scored, and quietly understood.
Graph + Gmail Unified
Microsoft 365 and Google in one inbox. OAuth2 device code flow, no passwords ever stored.
Urgency Scoring
Every email rated automatically. Urgent threads surface, low-priority noise gets queued.
Thread Analysis
Full conversation context — who said what, when, and what's still open at the end of it.
Action Item Extraction
Haven reads the email body and pulls out the asks, the commitments, the dates. Zero copy-paste.
Contact Sync
Fuzzy matching across providers. Same person, same record, no duplicate clutter.
AES-256 Token Encryption
OAuth tokens encrypted at rest. Credentials never sit in plaintext on your disk.
Calendar & meetings
Three providers unified. Conflicts caught early. Meetings prepped automatically before they start.
Three Providers
Microsoft Graph + Google Calendar + Outlook COM fallback for legacy desktop installs.
Conflict Detection
Overlapping events flagged proactively, before you ever notice them yourself.
Meeting Prep Brief
Twenty minutes before any meeting, Haven prepares attendees, last interaction, and open items.
Teams Deep Links
One-tap join from any meeting card. No hunting through invites for the right URL.
Time-of-Day Awareness
Haven knows when you're free, busy, or in a flow state. She never interrupts the wrong moment.
Event CRUD
Create, read, update, delete events through natural voice or text. Attendee lookup included.
Stop managing your calendar. Live in it.
Three providers unified, conflicts caught early, every meeting prepped twenty minutes before it starts.
Desktop command
113+ direct-execution commands across 750 patterns. Haven controls Windows the way you would, only faster.
113+ Commands
Around 750 pattern strings across nine execution engines. App control, files, windows, system, the works.
Window Management
Enumerate, focus, snap, position across multi-monitor setups. Move work where it belongs.
Clipboard Intelligence
Read, write, history, format detection. The clipboard becomes a queryable surface.
Screen + OCR
Full and region screenshots, EasyOCR text extraction. Haven can read anything visible on screen.
App Discovery
Windows registry scan, fuzzy name resolver, .lnk shortcut parsing via COM. Every installed app, indexed.
Notification Watcher
Toast monitoring with banking, healthcare, and 2FA patterns blocked at the source. Privacy first.
Files & documents
Sandboxed file operations, real-time indexing, and document parsing across every format that matters.
Sandboxed Ops
List, read, write, search — every operation inside guarded boundaries. No accidents, no overreach.
Background Indexer
Metadata and full-text indexing across your drive, running quietly while you work.
Real-Time File Watcher
Change detection via watchdog. New files appear in Haven's awareness the moment they land.
Document Parsing
PDF (pdfplumber), DOCX, XLSX, PPTX. Every format parsed into searchable, queryable knowledge.
Drive-Wide Search
Natural language query across parsed content. "Find the spreadsheet from last week with the Q2 numbers."
Batch Operations
Copy, move, delete, rename in batch. The grunt work disappears.
Proactive engine + 7 briefings
Fourteen triggers and seven briefing types. Work prepared before you ask. The reason Haven feels alive.
14 Proactive Triggers
Meeting warnings, urgent emails, stalled threads, behavioral patterns, stale projects, and more. 60-second check interval.
Morning Brief
Calendar + overnight emails + top three actions. Waiting when you sit down at the desk.
Email Digest
Every two hours, grouped by thread and project, priority sorted. The inbox stops being a list.
Meeting Prep
Twenty minutes before, attendees and last interaction and open items, surfaced automatically.
End-of-Day Summary
Completed today, outstanding tomorrow, upcoming calendar. A clean handoff between work and life.
Person Brief
On-demand: relationship history, recent interactions, open items. Walk into any conversation prepared.
Project Status
Team activity, tasks, deadlines, momentum. Everything you need to know about a project, instantly.
Session Continuation
Return after a 4h+ gap and Haven restores the last context plus everything that happened while you were away.
An assistant that thinks ahead of you.
Haven anticipates the work before you ask — the morning brief, the meeting prep, the end-of-day summary, all waiting for you.
Personality + learning
Twenty-eight personality moments, three modes, and a behavioral learning engine that tunes Haven to you over time.
28 Personality Moments
Time-based, emotional, social, random, achievement, ambient. Haven feels like a person, not a script.
Three Modes
Full (28 moments), professional (18), minimal (4). Pick the energy level that matches your day.
Mood Matching
Detects user_frustrated, user_excited, user_tired through tone and pacing. Adjusts in real time.
Behavioral Pattern Detection
Tracks what you do, when, and how often. Builds a model of your real working rhythm.
Routine Suggestion
"I noticed you open Outlook every weekday at 8:15 — want me to do that automatically?"
Adaptive Personality
Learns which moments you respond to, prunes the ones you ignore. Becomes more you, every week.
Routines, web & workers
A built-in secure browser, a worker agent loop, plugins, smart home control, and routines for every pattern in your life.
Routines Engine
Six trigger types — daily, weekday, interval, phrase, startup, file watch — paired with nine action types.
Natural Reminders
"Remind me to call mom every Sunday at 6." Haven parses time naturally, no UI required.
Macro Recording
Capture once, replay forever. Repetitive UI sequences become a single voice command.
Worker Agents
Thread pool dispatch, silent terminal, plan-act-observe agent loop with tool integration.
Built-In Secure Browser
Playwright headless Chromium, sandboxed. Haven reads the web for you. Your main browser stays untouched.
Web Search
DuckDuckGo, no API keys, fully local request layer. Haven never phones home.
Knowledge Senses
Wikipedia, weather, finance, holidays, astronomy. Haven knows the world around you.
Plugins · Smart Home · Chrome Ext
Spotify, VSCode, Ollama, Matter/Thread devices, and a Chrome extension WebSocket bridge.
Self-aware, local-first
Six hardware tiers, zero cloud calls, full self-diagnosis and self-repair. The foundation that makes everything else possible.
100% Local Inference
No cloud APIs. Ever. Every model runs on your hardware. Your data never leaves the machine.
6 Hardware Tiers
Auto-detected at every launch. GPU Elite (Qwen 14B) all the way down to CPU Basic (Gemma 1B).
Self-Scan
A live function registry of every capability Haven has. She can answer "what can you do?" with truth.
Self-Repair
Auto-recovery, cache clearing, service restart. If a module fails, Haven attempts the fix herself.
Diagnostics Mode
"Run diagnostics" tests every system: LLM, TTS, STT, email auth, calendar sync, file watcher. Pass/fail/latency for each.
Security
PIN (Argon2id) + Windows Hello biometric + AES-256 token encryption + 90-day audit trail with CSV export.
6 User Profiles
Per-profile databases, fast switch, complete isolation. One household, six minds, no leakage.
Travel Mode
One toggle disables every network call. Haven works fully offline with cached data and last-known location.
Bring Haven home today.
Twenty-three capability domains. Six hardware tiers. One Living Sphere on your desktop. Haven is the assistant that finally feels like presence instead of software.
Why one price. Forever.
We don’t believe in the pipeline that never ends but never truly delivers.
Most software today isn’t sold to you — it’s rented to you. Features get moved behind meters. Prices climb every renewal. The thing you depend on stops being yours the moment you stop paying. That model isn’t a business choice anymore; it’s an assumption everyone forgot to question.
EMPHOS exists to question it. When you buy Haven, you own Haven. The full product. Every update. On your machine. Forever. No tier you have to upgrade to unlock the “real” assistant. No login wall that turns into a paywall the day a new investor needs a quarter to look better. No silent feature removal. No hostage data. Just the product, in your hands, the way buying something used to mean.
79.99 USD is a stand, not a discount.
Haven isn’t cheap because it’s small — it’s priced like this because we believe a complete product deserves a complete price, paid once, with conviction on both sides of the transaction. Cheap things are built to break so you have to buy them again. Haven is built to last so you never have to.
We’re a small team building something we’d want on our own desktops — a presence that lives with you, not a service you log into. If we ever start charging you every month for the privilege of using the thing you already bought, we will have stopped being EMPHOS. That’s the line. Haven is how we draw it.
Buy it once. Own it always. That’s the whole promise. And if we’re right — if good software really doesn’t need a subscription — then Haven is the proof, sitting on your desktop, breathing.
— The EMPHOS team
Coming Fall 2026.
The first wave of Havens ships this fall. Pre-sales open May 2026 to founding-cohort buyers — lifetime license, 79.99 USD, locked forever, no subscriptions ever.