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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 meets your family where you already are. Today, that's Telegram and Messenger (both live and in beta — the same Vela you can talk to today) and the Vela mobile app (finishing — iOS first, Android after; the one the waitlist is for). Same Vela in all of them — same memory, same care. The mobile app is the quieter, calmer surface. Telegram and Messenger are Vela-in-a-text-thread — plain, fast, already working.
A voice note, a photo, or a typed sentence arrives in chat. Vela reads it (voice becomes text; photos and screenshots are read for the dates, names, and deadlines inside them). 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.
When you ask for something, she does it, walks you through it, or tells you exactly where it lives — and she always tells you which of the three you're getting.
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 sealed boundary: your household's own. Vela never combines your family's data with anyone else's. She doesn't even see across the wall.
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 — a single zip of events, tasks, shopping, and conversation history in plain JSON. To delete your family's data, email us; we permanently remove it from our systems within 30 days. Gone means gone.
Everything Vela does for them — events, tasks, shopping, nudges — stays inside this sealed boundary. She literally cannot look into another family. Not a policy — a wall.
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. We never train on it, and our AI providers' API terms state they don't either.
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.
This is the readable version. The privacy policy is the legal version — same posture, more lawyer.