Quivy · direction 03 of 10

First Light

Dawn as a material. The ground is a slow warm field, apricot into rose into pale gold, and the interface is thin translucent veils floating over it. The agent has no face and no orb. It is the horizon line that brightens gold when it speaks, its words set a size larger in Fraunces, and at the product's most important moment, the reconnection, its message literally rises like the sun. The thread stays the product: cards are messages, and the only off-thread rooms (People, Memory, Settings) open as sheets from a half-disc sun resting on the bottom edge.

The risk and its justification. Gradients are a cliché trigger, so the palette is disciplined: warm dawn hues only, never purple-blue, with marigold and plum doing the accent work instead of cream and terracotta. Light is the concept here, not decoration, which is what keeps the field honest. What that buys is a register no sibling touches: warm, luminous, unhurried, ceremonial.

MuseJames Turrell's light installations: colour as a physical thing you stand inside.
Motion personalitySunrise. Ceremonial 600 to 900ms rises, luminous cross-fades, a horizon that breathes at six-second cycles while it waits.
NavNo persistent bar. A half-disc sun on the bottom edge rises into radial sheets.

First contactAsking for someone's whole life, and earning it in one screen.

9:41
quivy

An assistant that acts before you ask.

Quivy keeps an eye on your messages, email, calendar, photos, contacts and files, then takes care of things early. Everything it learns stays on a small box in your home, or on this phone. Nobody else's computer.

The Quivy box
Sits on your shelf. Holds everything.
S01 · Welcome. One idea, one action. The half-disc sun is the brand and, later, the whole navigation.
9:44
Setting up

Connect your world

Eight sources, one tap each. Nothing to fill in, nothing to type.

4 of 8 connectedPhotos is joining
Gmail
Google Calendar
WhatsApp
Telegram
Photos
joining
Contacts
Tap to connect
Lightroom
Tap to connect
Notion
Tap to connect

Everything lands on the box on your shelf. Nowhere else.

S02 · Connect. Four of eight connected, Photos mid-flight. One tap each, never a form.
9:52
Here's what I found. Keep what's right, correct what isn't, discard what you don't want kept.
You and Marco drifted
Weekly for three years, then quiet for eight months. He moved to Milan last March.
A promise to Priya
You said the Lisbon photos were coming. That was 23 days ago.
Thursday evenings
Your calendar keeps them free. Forty times and counting. Inferred
No shellfish
From a WhatsApp chat last February. I'll steer restaurant picks around it.
200+ contacts, sorted
Family, clients, friends, tradespeople. Tagged by how you actually know them.
S03 · What I found. Useful, not invasive. Every card can be kept, corrected or discarded on the spot.

The threadThe product is a conversation. Cards are message types, not screens.

6:41
quivy
Morning. Three things before nine: Dan on Thursday needs the Q3 drawings, Priya's still waiting on the Lisbon photos, and Marco's in Cape Town next month. All three are below.
Q3 drawings for Dan
5 days out
Lisbon photos for Priya
23 days out
Marco in Cape Town
12 to 20 August
Message
S04 · First run, 6:41. No introduction, no chirp. It already knows her life, and the horizon brightens as it speaks.
18:22
quivy
Three times suit you both while Marco's in town. Thursday keeps your pattern.

Pick a time

Party of four · Salt & Stone, Kalk Bay · 14 to 19 Aug
0:19
The Lisbon set is ready for Priya.

Salt & Stone · Thu 14 Aug · 19:00

Four of you · R1 800 deposit
Approved. Book it.
R1 800 deposit paid
Table held · Ref S&S-1408
Message
S05 · The thread, live. Text, an option card, a voice note, an approval, a receipt and photos in one scroll. Like iMessage, not a control panel.
7:12
quivy
Morning. Five things, one read.
Dan Weiss, Thursday 10:00
Brief ready
Q3 drawings to Dan
5 days out
Lisbon photos to Priya
23 days out
Marco in Cape Town, 12 to 20 Aug
Three times found
Coffee with Bongi
2 months out
Message
S06 · Morning brief, 7:12. Five obligations batched into one calm object, scannable in eight seconds.

The reconnectionThe soul moment. The message rises like the sun, and the horizon never burns brighter.

18:47
quivy
You and Marco, 2013.
You and Marco used to talk most weeks. It's been eight months. He's in Cape Town 12 to 20 August, and three times suit you both. Want me to hold a table?
S07 · The reconnection, 18:47. Nobody asked for this message, so it arrives the way first light does: the horizon ignites, the old photograph rises, the offer follows in the same breath. Replay control top right.
19:02
quivy
Three times, three places. Thursday keeps your pattern.
Kalk Bay
Salt & Stone
R450 each · R1 800 for four
Seafood room. Noted: no shellfish, so the line fish is yours.
Bree Street
Marrow
No deposit
Groups of four book by phone only.
V&A Waterfront
Pier 42
R300 each · R1 200 for four
S08 · The option set. Three times across three places, deposit per head and the four-person total on the card. The Thursday pattern is marked, not pushed.
21:40
quivy
Marco's not on Quivy, so there's no agent on his side. I've messaged him on WhatsApp. Now I'm waiting on a human.
Waiting on Marco
via WhatsApp
3h 12m
WhatsApp message sent
09:42
Seen by Marco
10:15
Reply still coming
He's human. These things take a minute.
If he's quiet, I'll nudge him tomorrow at 09:00.
Message
S09 · Patience, 21:40. No spinner of doom. The horizon breathes at a six-second cycle while it waits on a human, with what's tried and what happens next in plain sight.
22:07
quivy
Salt & Stone
Thursday 14 August · 19:00 · Kalk Bay
R1 800 deposit · R450 each · four of you
Bookings are set to suggest and approve, so this one is your call.
S10 · The approval, 22:07. What, when, how much and on whose authority, readable in under two seconds. The trust moment of the product.
22:09
quivy
Done. Proof below, and the way back if plans change.
Booked
Salt & Stone · Thursday 14 August · 19:00 · four people
Deposit paid
R1 800
Calendar
Held for you and Marco
Ana
Noted on the booking
Confirmation
S&S-1408-04
Plans changed?
Full refund if released by Tuesday 12 August, 18:00.
Message
S11 · The receipt. Booked, paid, held in both calendars, Ana noted, confirmation reference. Undo is one tap with the refund terms stated plainly.

The day itselfTalking faster than typing, loose ends tied, two hours of warning.

20:15
quivy
Saturday 12:30 is still open at all three places.
Actually, one thing:
0:07
…and ask Marco if Ana can do the Saturday instead
S12 · Voice, live. The waveform breathes with her voice, the transcript streams as she talks, and send is one tap.
12:30
quivy
The Lisbon photos have been sitting for 23 days. I've picked three. One tap and they're with Priya.
To Priya Naidoo
WhatsApp · waiting 23 days
Message
S13 · The broken promise. Twenty-three days, zero shame. A loose end and the fix in the same breath, photos already chosen.
8:00
quivy
Dan at ten, two hours from now. The short version:
Dan Weiss
Today 10:00 · client

You last met on 4 March, so lead with the personal. Rosa started school in January. You still owe him the Hendrik intro, and the Q3 drawings are open.

Rosa started school in January
Worth asking about
The Hendrik intro
Owed since March
Q3 drawings
Open 5 days
Message
S14 · The pre-meeting brief, 8:00. A warm summary, not a dossier. The personal note leads; the open loops follow.

People and proofRelationships as a first-class view, and the memory screen that proves the privacy claim.

17:45

People

Drifting
Marco Feretti
Eight months quiet · in town 12 to 20 Aug
You owe
Priya Naidoo
Lisbon photos · 23 days
Dan Weiss
Q3 drawings · 5 days
Bongi
Coffee · 2 months
This week
Dan Weiss
Thursday 10:00 · brief ready
Marco Feretti
In town from the 12th
Steady
Thandi Mokoena
Weekly, never lapses · no nudge needed
S15 · People. Who's drifting, who you owe, who's this week, who's steady. Opened from the sun: the half-disc rises into a full disc and the radial sheets fan out.
21:12

Memory

Everything I know, and where I learned it. It lives on the box on your shelf. Delete anything and it's gone.

Nina doesn't eat shellfish
From WhatsApp · 2 February 2024
Deleted. It relearns nothing from this.
Marco moved to Milan
From email · 14 March 2025
Deleted. It relearns nothing from this.
Prefers Thursday evenings
Inferred from your calendar · 40+ instances
Deleted. It relearns nothing from this.
Ana is a paediatrician
From WhatsApp · 8 June 2025
Deleted. It relearns nothing from this.

Nothing here leaves your home.

S16 · Memory, dark. The hero screen: every fact carries its provenance, and deleting is a live, undoable act. The claim is proven here, not in the copy.
16:20

Autonomy

How much rope, per part of your life. Change it any time.

Ask me first
Nothing moves until you say so.
Suggest and I'll approve
I do the legwork, you make the call.
Just do it
I handle it and tell you after.
Messages & replies
Calendar & scheduling
Bookings & spending
Files & photos

Bookings sits at suggest, which is why the R1 800 deposit came to you first.

S17 · Autonomy. Rope per domain in plain language, each level explained in one sentence in the agent's voice.

Surfaces and limitsThe lockscreen, the price, and an honest no.

Tuesday 12 August
07:12
quivy · morning brief07:12

Dan Thursday, Q3 drawings, Priya's photos, Marco in town, coffee with Bongi. All five wait in the thread.

quivy · now1m ago

Marco replied on WhatsApp: Thursday works, and Ana's in.

S18 · Notifications, dark. Two visibly different classes: the batched brief is one quiet stacked object; a human replying is warmer, brighter, and carries the next action.
11:05
Three ways to run Quivy. Same agent either way, and your life stays on hardware you own.
Quivy Home
$279 once · $24 a month

The always-on box. It sits on your shelf and holds everything: memories, files, threads.

Quivy Lite
$12 a year
Stays on this phone. A lighter reach.
Your own hardware
$24 a month
Runs on a machine you already own.

No trials that turn into bills. No countdowns. Change or cancel whenever.

S19 · Upgrade. The box as the obvious yes, priced honestly. No countdown timers, no fake discounts, no pressure.
13:15
quivy
I can't hold Marrow from here. They only take group bookings by phone.
Marrow
Bree Street · opens at 09:00
Pier 42 instead
V&A Waterfront · R300 each · holds right now
Message
S20 · The honest no. The limit explained, the next best thing offered, and both buttons do exactly what they say.

Tokens

CSS custom properties, defined on :root for light and [data-theme="dark"] for dark. Lift verbatim.

Colour · light

--field-hi#FFF1DE
--field-a#FFE9D2
--field-b#F7D3C8
--field-lo#F6CFA9
--veilrgba(255,250,243,.44)
--ink#3A2233
--ink-2#6D4C67
--gold · agent#D98E32
--rose#D96C5F
--ok#2E6445
--warn#9C5A1A
--bubble-me#3A2233

Colour · dark

--field-hi#251425
--field-a / b#1C1220
--field-lo#2A1523
--veilrgba(243,228,219,.07)
--ink#F3E4DB
--ink-2#C9A4B0
--gold · agent#E8A858
--rose#E0786A
--ok#7FB98F
--warn#E0A05A
--bubble-me#4E3049

Type

Display · --t-hero
First light, held.
Fraunces 500 · 34/1.1 · -0.015em
Title · --t-title
Three times suit you both
Fraunces 500 · 21/1.25 · -0.005em
Agent voice · --t-agent
You and Marco used to talk most weeks.
Fraunces 400 · 18/1.5
Body · --t-body
Everything it learns stays on a small box in your home.
Inter 400 · 17/1.45
Meta · --t-meta
From WhatsApp · 2 February 2024
Inter 500 · 12.5/1.4 · sentence case always

Spacing

--s1 · 4
--s2 · 8
--s3 · 12
--s4 · 16
--s5 · 24
--s6 · 32
--s7 · 48
--s8 · 64

Radius

--r1 · 12
--r2 · 18
--r3 · 24
--r4 · 30
--rp · pill

Motion · "sunrise"

--d1 · press
140ms · transform only
--d2 · state
240ms
--d3 · entrance
440ms · staggered 80ms
--d4 · ceremony
820ms · the reconnection
--ease-rise
cubic-bezier(.22,1,.36,1)
--ease-swell
cubic-bezier(.16,1,.3,1)
--ease-soft
cubic-bezier(.45,0,.15,1)
breathe · patience
6s cycle, infinite