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The furnace filter was due in April. Nobody noticed, because nobody owns it.

Home learns what you actually have (the furnace, the water heater, the car, the dishwasher) then looks up how often each one needs attention and keeps that schedule for you. You don't build the list. You don't look up the interval.

What the house is owed
Item Cycle Status
Furnace filter
90 days
4 months over
Car, 60k service
10k miles
1,090 mi out
Water heater flush
12 months
due in 6 weeks
Dishwasher filter
3 months
due in 3 weeks
Chimney sweep
annual
no record yet

You never wrote this list. Home built it from what you told it you have, and filled in every interval by looking it up.

What arrives Sunday evening
The house, week of March 2
Doesn't work Furnace filter
Four months over. Last changed December 14; the cycle is 90 days.
It's a ten minute job. Pick a day.
Tight Plumber, only Tuesday
He can do Tuesday 1 to 4. Nobody's home Tuesday.
Somebody has to cover it, or it moves to the 19th.
Can't tell Chimney
You have a wood stove but I've got no record of a sweep.
When was the last one?
Why the suite is one thing

The plumber problem isn't a house problem. It's a Tuesday problem. Home knows the job needs doing; Calendar knows nobody's in the house between one and four. Neither is useful on its own.

The boiler service is due
Tuesday 1 to 4 is empty, but so is the house
The 19th works. Shall I hold it?
How Home works
First

It learns what you have

You mention the boiler when it makes a noise. You say the dishwasher is the drawer kind. Home writes down what it hears, on the same plain page as everything else, and asks when it needs a model number.

Then

It looks up the cycle

This is the part you'd never do: finding out that this filter is 90 days and not 12 months, that this water heater wants an annual flush, that the warranty runs out in November. Home reads the manual so nobody has to.

Every Sunday

It puts it on a real day

A job with no day attached never happens. Home raises what's due alongside the week Calendar already walked, so the answer is a Tuesday, not a nagging feeling.

Why this one isn't shipped yet

Looking up a maintenance cycle means reading the open web.

A page written by a stranger is the easiest way to talk an assistant into doing something stupid. So the part of Home that goes and reads a manual gets its own sealed room (no access to your calendar, no access to what Magpie knows about your children) before it reads its first page. It hands back a number, and nothing else.

That wall is why Home isn't the thing we shipped first, and it's the reason it'll be safe to use when it arrives.

What Home doesn't do.

It doesn't book a trade, order a part, or spend money.
It doesn't guess an interval. If it couldn't verify one, it says so and asks.
It doesn't connect to your appliances. There's nothing to install and nothing to pair.
It doesn't keep a list you can't see. Everything it holds is one page you can edit.
Early access

Stop being the person who remembers the filter.

Home opens after Calendar. Households already using Magpie get it first, and we'll ask what you own before it turns on.

No form, no card. We'll write back with a date.