A private AI assistant, by design.

On your finger

• It listens only while you hold. The ring’s microphone gets power only while you hold the button: a switch in the hardware, not a setting that software could change.
• Your voice is not kept. It travels over the ring’s eSIM to our cloud in the EU, becomes text, and the clip is deleted right after.
• The AI sees text, and only what it needs. The text of your question, and the part of your memory that question needs, go to the AI model.

In your accounts

• Connected with your consent. Mail and calendar are connected one at a time, each with its provider’s own consent screen.
• Read to do what you asked. Lychnos reads what it needs for a task, and every action it takes is logged where you can see it.
• Nothing important without you. Sending, accepting, moving and deleting wait for your press.

At home, with Alkyon Later

• Images and sound stay home. Alkyon’s camera images, its sound, the map of your home and who is in the room are processed on the dock, in your home.
• A live view only when you ask. You see what its camera sees only when you ask for it.
• Your rules on the map. No-go zones you draw, such as a bedroom or a balcony, are rooms it does not enter.

Memory you control

Lychnos keeps a short memory so it can help: the people you mention, your plans, your preferences. You can read it, correct it and delete it in the app, at any time. What to expect of any assistant’s memory: AI assistant memory.

Code you can read

The ring’s firmware, the app and the Bluetooth protocol will be published under Apache-2.0, so anyone can check what the ring does with the button, the microphone and the radio. How this website handles data is in its privacy notice; the product will come with its own, listing everyone who processes your data. Why the ring has a button instead of a wake word: hold to talk versus wake words.