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Six chapters. What Vela does, how she does it, what she won't, what's under the hood. No “AI-powered” anything. No promises pretending to be features.
Vela runs in the chat apps your family already uses, plus a dedicated mobile surface for when the chat is too noisy. Below: what's live today, what's finishing, what's coming. We don't pretend things ship that haven't.
The Telegram bot is the proof-of-concept today; the mobile app is the calmer everyday surface arriving next. Both honor the same locks, same Vela, same care.
A voice note, a photo, or a typed sentence arrives in chat. Vela reads it (Whisper turns voice into text; vision reads photos and screenshots). She thinks — what's being asked, who's involved, when, where. Then she files — an event, a task, a shopping item, a reminder — and tells you what she did.
If she's confident, she files first and tells you after. “Filed. Soccer Tuesday 4–5:30 at Riverside.” If she's unsure, she asks first. “I think you mean next Tuesday — yes?” That second case is chapter 3.
The shape of every AI demo: it nails the easy case and falls over on the hard one — silently, with a wrong answer. Vela inverts that. She knows what she knows, knows what she doesn't, and never pretends.
Every feature in the product sits at one of three levels. When you ask for something, Vela picks the right level — and tells you which one she landed at.
When Vela has a tool for the thing — adding events, parsing photos, checking off shopping items — she just does it.
When Vela knows what you mean but can't do it herself — give feedback, change a setting — she explains the steps. She never pretends not to understand.
When the thing exists but Vela can't touch it — account deletion, billing — she acknowledges, explains why, and points you to the right place.
Every piece of data Vela handles is family-scoped. The events your family adds, the photos you forward, the shopping lists you share — all of it lives inside one boundary, identified by a family ID we generate when you sign up. Vela never combines your family's data with anyone else's. She doesn't even see across the boundary.
Adults each get a Vela account. Kids are tracked without accounts — Noah doesn't need a login for Vela to know about his soccer practice. Oma joins your family when she visits, leaves when she goes home (or stays — your call).
You can export everything anytime from Settings — a single zip of events, tasks, shopping, and conversation history in plain JSON. Delete-account sets a 30-day tombstone: you have a month to change your mind; after that, your family's data is gone from our infrastructure for good. Not “soft-deleted.” Gone.
Everything Vela does for them — events, tasks, shopping, nudges — stays inside this boundary. No cross-family visibility. Ever.
The promises that are worth more than the features. Read this paragraph as if it's legal copy: if any of these were ever true, the rest of the page becomes a lie. We don't plan to make any of these true.
The text, voice, and photos your family sends Vela are processed to help your family — never used to train a general AI model. Our model providers (chapter 6) are bound by the same rule under their enterprise terms.
Vela reads your Google Calendar (one-way, read-only) so she can see what's there. She never writes to it. Events created in Vela live in Vela's calendar, which you can view in any app via subscription URL. Apple Calendar and Outlook are next.
No house ads, no partner ads, no "sponsored events." Your subscription is how Vela stays open; advertising in a family tool is the wrong business model and a worse product.
Chapter 3 is the architecture of this commitment. If Vela can't do something, she tells you so and points you to the path that can. Silent failure is a bug, not a feature.
Vela isn't built from scratch — she stands on a handful of well-chosen services. Quiet because it should be: the backstack isn't part of the pitch. But it might matter to you, so here it is.
docs/branding/VENDORS.md; the most recent review was May 2026.M4 is the readable version. The privacy policy is the legal version — same posture, more lawyer.