HIP, Household Intelligence Platform
The modern home has connected devices. It still has no shared memory.
Most AI products are organized around one account. A household is not one account. It is a group of people with different rights, private information, shared obligations, and decisions that carry across time.
That distinction matters when a family is coordinating care, managing money, or simply trying to remember what was decided and who is responsible. The missing piece is not another assistant. It is a governed context layer that can hold personal and shared information without confusing ownership or authority.
HIP is a proposal for that layer: household-owned context, explicit authority, and model routing that treats privacy as a constraint rather than a preference.
The household owns the context. HIP is designed to govern how that context is stored, shared, corrected, and used. The current prototype demonstrates parts of the governance and routing model. Production custody, hardware-backed enforcement, and external certification remain to be built and validated.
Model quality is improving quickly, and useful open-weight systems now trail the closed frontier by months on some benchmarks. That makes the model increasingly replaceable for many household workloads. The organized history of a particular household is not replaceable in the same way.
Today that history is fragmented across applications, accounts, messages, calendars, and individual memory. Each product sees only its own slice. HIP proposes a governed layer underneath the applications so the household can reuse context without giving every application unrestricted access to it.
The thesis is simple: the household should own the accumulated understanding; applications should receive only the authority and information required for a specific task.
Broadband operators have three assets that are difficult to assemble elsewhere: a billed household relationship, a network into the home, and a distributed footprint of powered, secured facilities. Charter and Comcast are already moving AI infrastructure toward the network edge. That does not prove the HIP business case, but it makes the operator path credible enough to test.
One early application is family care coordination: helping households manage appointments, medications, decisions, and responsibilities that now live across texts, calendars, portals, and individual memory. AARP valued unpaid family caregiving at $1.01 trillion in 2024. That measures the scale of the work, not HIP's market.
HIP is not presented here as a finished platform. The prototype demonstrates persistent household-scoped memory and elements of deterministic governance and model routing. Identity hardening, production custody, certification, operator integration, and commercial economics remain open work.
If you are an operator, investor, or builder working in this area, I will share the full thesis privately: the architecture, operator case, prototype status, risks, and work still required.
Built by someone who ran the platforms this argument is about. Comcast X1. Canoe Ventures. Twenty-five years in cable, software, and ad tech.