TauDesignWorks Facet

Facet · home inventory, done by ear

Pan the room.
Facet counts it.

Sweep your phone across a room and Facet enumerates what's there. Walk up to any item for the details. It never prints a value it can't stand behind.

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In development for iPhone · Voice and haptic guidance from the first release

The pan that counts

  • Queued: table lamp
  • Queued: guitar amp
  • Queued: boxes × 3
Facet

Two more in the corner — a lamp, and something boxy behind it. Add both?

You

Add both. The boxy one's a subwoofer.

Provenance: unknown · a normal state, not a red flag

An illustration of Facet's capture-and-queue pass, not a live model. Facet only identifies each item up close, on its own turn — never guessed from across the room.

Why Facet exists

Counting is the tedious part. Facet does the counting.

A home inventory app that requires you to see the item to catalog it has already failed half the people who need one.

Pan the room once. Facet enumerates what's there and queues it — a lamp, a guitar amp, a stack of boxes. Nothing gets identified in detail yet. That happens next, one item at a time, on your terms.

Honesty, by design

Every value says where it came from.

Facet never presents a number without saying how it got there. There are only ever a few honest answers, and Facet only ever gives one of them:

  • You typed it
  • A receipt matched
  • Unknown, and that's fine
  • AI-suggested — arriving later, always labeled

Unknown is the honest default for most of what you own, and Facet treats it that way — a calm, ordinary state, not a warning badge asking you to fix something. The word appraisal never appears anywhere in the app. Facet builds an inventory, not a valuation.

What it does

What Facet does — and what it won't

Every cue that's spoken has a haptic twin, the whole flow works without sight, and nothing on the screen gets a value Facet can't back up.

  • It counts, so you don't have to

    Pan the room once. Facet enumerates what's there and queues it — a lamp, a guitar amp, a stack of boxes. Detailed identification comes next, one item at a time, on your terms.

  • Built to work without sight

    The scan is guided by voice and touch from the first release, not added later. Every cue that's spoken also has a haptic equivalent — because hearing the guidance isn't a given either.

  • It won't lie about worth

    No field gets filled with a guess dressed up as a fact. If Facet doesn't know, it says unknown — out loud, without apology — instead of inventing a number that ends up in a claim.

  • Works with no signal

    The pan, the queue and the voice guidance all run on your phone. Inventory the garage with no bars or the basement with no Wi-Fi — the scan doesn't know the difference.

  • Identification is deliberate

    A television across a room is a dark rectangle. Facet reads the label or the serial plate up close, tone and touch guiding you into frame — never a guess from across the room.

  • Yours alone

    Your inventory lives on your device and syncs through your own private iCloud — never pooled, never used to train anything, never seen by anyone but you.

A pan, a queue, a walk-up

Four moves, and one of them is optional

The pass sets everything up; the details come at your pace. Every move works fully by voice, with a haptic twin for every spoken cue.

  1. Pan the room

    Sweep your phone across the space. Facet tells you what it's found and what's left to cover — by voice, by haptic, or both.

  2. Review the queue

    Everything the pan caught, waiting for you. Accept it, correct it, merge two things it saw as one, or throw it out. Fully usable by voice.

  3. Walk up for the details

    Point the phone at the label or the serial plate. Facet guides you into frame with tone and touch, then reads what's there.

  4. Attach a receipt, or don't

    Match a receipt and the value is recorded, sourced, done. No receipt, no problem — the item stays in the inventory as unknown, honestly.

On device

No signal, still counts.

The pan, the queue, and the voice guidance all run on your phone. Inventory the garage with no bars, the basement with no Wi-Fi — the scan doesn't know the difference.

Deeper identification — reading a worn label, resolving a hard serial number — can call on extra cloud help when you want it. That's the only part that ever touches a network, and it's always your call, never automatic.

Your rooms

What you own stays yours.

Your inventory lives on your device and syncs through your own private iCloud storage — never pooled, never used to train anything, never seen by anyone but you.

Photos taken for identification stay attached as evidence for your own record. They don't leave your account.

Questions

Frequently asked

Does it work if you can't see the screen?

Yes — that's the whole reason Facet exists. The pan is guided by voice and haptics from the first release, not bolted on later, and every spoken cue has a touch equivalent for when hearing the guidance isn't a given either. Reviewing the queue, walking up for details and attaching receipts are all fully usable by voice.

What does "unknown" mean — will Facet guess a value?

No. Every value carries where it came from — you typed it, a receipt matched, or it's unknown. Unknown is the honest default for most of what you own, treated as a calm, ordinary state rather than a warning to fix. Facet never invents a number to fill the gap, and the word "appraisal" appears nowhere in the app. It builds an inventory, not a valuation.

Does it need a connection?

No. The pan, the queue and the voice guidance all run on your phone, so a garage with no bars or a basement with no Wi-Fi works exactly the same. Deeper identification can call on cloud help for a worn label or a stubborn serial number — but that's opt-in, one item at a time, and never automatic.

What will it cost?

We're not announcing that yet — it's still being worked out. What is settled is how cloud help is handled: it's paid for in advance, in small amounts you choose, opt-in and never automatic. There's no way for a scan to surprise you with a charge. When there's a full answer, it'll be here in plain terms.

When can I get it?

Facet is being built now and isn't released yet. Join the waitlist and you'll be among the first invited when the beta opens. We're not putting a firm date on it.

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