ACE. Applications open for 10 Founding Homes.

You were meant to stop. It's 1:14.

Your room should know when your day is ending. ACE gently dims your lights and, where you have it, cools your room before sleep. No app to open. No routine to remember.

Apply for a Founding Home Private pilot. 10 homes with smart lights. Free while it runs.

22:15Still going. The room is at office brightness and gives you no reason to stop.

You know you should wind down. But your room stays in work mode.

Bright light, a warm room and one more open tab keep your body in daytime long after you wanted to be finished.

Every routine anyone has ever recommended asks you to remember something at exactly the moment you are least likely to remember it. ACE takes the remembering off you and puts it in the room.

How it works

  1. 01

    It learns your usual wind down

    Not a timer you set. ACE watches when your evenings actually end, which is rarely when you planned.

  2. 02

    The room shifts before you do

    Light moves from white toward amber over about forty five minutes. If you have a thermostat, the temperature comes down with it. Slowly enough that you notice the effect, not the change.

  3. 03

    You tell it three words

    In the morning: too early, right, or too late. That is the whole feedback loop. It gets closer every night.

What it is not

Help build the first bedroom that learns your wind down.

The first 10 homes

A private pilot, run properly and kept small. What you get:

  • Free access for the whole private pilot
  • Direct say in how ACE learns your wind down, because with ten homes yours actually moves the product
  • First in line when it opens up
  • Founder pricing for your first year once it launches

To take part:

Smart bedroom lighting you can control from your phone

iPhone for this first pilot

A wearable and a smart thermostat are welcome, neither is needed

Seven nights, then tell me honestly what was wrong with it

Apply for a Founding Home

Why I am building this

ACE started from a simple belief: sleep advice should not create more work. Your home should make rest easier, quietly, without asking anything of you.

You do not need more discipline in the evening. You need a room that stops pretending it is still the afternoon.

Apply for a Founding Home

Ten homes. I read every application myself and reply either way.

The Founding Homes pilot is limited to 10 eligible participants with compatible smart home devices. Pilot access is free. ACE is a pre release product and may change, pause or end as it develops. No payment is required to apply.

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