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Message your laptop.
It finds things, fills in the long boring parts, and puts orders together. Then it stops and asks you before anything is paid for, sent, or deleted.This page is mostly about the second half of that sentence.
What it does
Find things
Ask for a file the way you would ask a person. "The invoice from the tile shop, sometime in March." It searches properly rather than looking at your screen and guessing.
Fill in the boring parts
Forms, applications, repeated data entry. The work that is not hard, only long, and that nobody schedules time for.
Order and book
Groceries, repeat orders, appointments. It puts the order together and then stops and shows you before anything is paid for.
Work while you are elsewhere
Send a task from the train. If the laptop is awake it starts immediately. If it is asleep the task waits, and expires rather than surprising you hours later.
What it will not do
Printed at the same size as the list above it, because you should read both before deciding.
It cannot wake a laptop that is switched off
No software can. A closed or powered-down laptop is unreachable, and anything you send waits until it wakes. We would rather say so than let you find out during something urgent.
It stops at anything with real consequences
Spending money, sending a message, deleting a file, submitting a form. It prepares the action, then waits for you. There is no setting to turn that off.
Some sites will still ask for you
Banks sign you out after a few minutes, and any account with two-factor will want your second factor. A person stays in the loop for those, by design and by necessity.
It can be fooled, and we plan for that
A web page can contain text written to mislead an assistant that reads it. Nobody has solved this. Our answer is that being fooled should not be enough: it still cannot spend, send, or delete without you.
Setting it up
Pair it once
Your laptop offers, your phone answers, and both show the same three words. Matching words mean nobody is in between. You tap yes on the laptop.
Sign in to your own accounts
In a browser window that belongs to the assistant, you log into whatever you want it to use. You type your passwords, not us.
Message it like a person
Plain language, from wherever you are. It tells you what it is about to do and gets on with the parts that are safe to get on with.
The awkward questions
Answered the way we would answer them to a friend who was about to install this.
- Can Havon read what you ask it to do?
- No. Messages between your phone and your laptop are sealed. Our servers pass them along without being able to open them.
- Where do your passwords live?
- In your computer’s own keychain, the same place Windows keeps its saved logins. For most sites you sign in yourself, once, and no password is stored at all.
- Can a website trick it into giving up a password?
- A password is only ever released to the exact site it belongs to. A page pretending to be your bank does not get your bank password, even if it asks convincingly.
- What if someone steals your phone?
- Remove it from your laptop and it loses access immediately. It cannot approve anything, and it stops receiving requests at all.
- What if our own servers are broken into?
- They hold sealed messages and nothing else. Whoever took them could see that your devices talked, and when. Not what they said.
- Can you check what it did?
- Every action is written down in plain language, and the record is built so that editing it after the fact shows up.
It is not finished, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. When there is something worth putting on your machine, we will say so here.