Introducing Dwellsmith

Smart kitchen appliances can already cook. Robot vacuums clean floors autonomously. Humanoid robots are entering homes. But none of them know your household — what needs doing, when, how often, or why it matters.

Before you can delegate work to a machine, someone has to make that work legible. And right now, in most homes, the entire operating system lives in one person's head. That's the problem we're solving.

Today I'm opening up early access to Dwellsmith — the operating system for domestic life.

What is Dwellsmith?

Dwellsmith captures the invisible work that keeps a household running, organized around four domains:

Tasks — Recurring and one-time, with flexible scheduling. What needs doing, when, and who's on it.
Relationships — Stay in touch with the people who matter. Track interactions, set contact frequency goals, see who you haven't reached out to.
Helpers — Cleaners, dog walkers, handypeople, tutors. Log visits, track payments, keep everyone coordinated.
Home Maintenance — Furnace filters, gutter cleaning, appliance servicing. The stuff you forget until it becomes expensive.

Multiple household members share visibility and assign work together. No more one person carrying everything.

AI-Native from Day One

Dwellsmith ships with an MCP server — 13 tools that let AI agents manage your household alongside you.

Connect it to Claude and just talk:

"What's on my plate today?"
"I called Mom yesterday"
"The cleaners came Monday — log it and pay them $150"
"What home maintenance is overdue?"

No forms. No app-switching. Just say what you need in plain English.

We built for the MCP ecosystem because the future of household management isn't another app you remember to open — it's AI agents that work on your behalf, using structured data you control.

The Bigger Picture

Home automation is entering a new phase. The devices are getting capable enough to do real work — cooking, cleaning, organizing. But they're all islands. Each device has its own app, its own logic, its own narrow view of your home.

What's missing is the layer that ties it all together: structured knowledge about how your household actually runs. The routines, the preferences, the seasonal rhythms, the relationships between people and tasks and spaces.

That's what Dwellsmith is building. Today, we make invisible work visible. Tomorrow, we coordinate it across household members and service providers. Eventually, we become the operating system that robots, AI agents, and smart devices plug into — so they work in harmony with your life, not some manufacturer's imagination.

We want to be the brand people trust as home automation goes from expensive early-adopter curiosity to everyday life.

Built in Public

I'm a solo founder shipping fast. Dwellsmith is live at dwellsmith.com — sign up, set up your household through conversational onboarding, and connect Claude today.

Product updates will be posted here as we ship. To follow along or try it out:

Let's make invisible work visible.

— Elle