Bea

Mā te kōrero ka ora. Through conversation, we live.

Bea is a quiet AI presence that lives inside ordinary family life. She listens. She notices. And when the moment is right, she reflects back what your family cannot see from the inside.

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The Problem

Every family has patterns nobody inside it can see.

The argument that starts the same way every time. The child who shuts down when they feel rushed. The repair that happens but never gets acknowledged.

You cannot observe a system you are living inside.

Talking about it after the fact never helps you actually change. You need something that already knows what happened because it was there.

That is the gap Bea lives in.

Family life
What Bea Does

Bea is not a parenting app. She is not a chatbot. She is not a replacement for anything that already exists.

She is something new.

Bea listens to the ordinary rhythm of your family life with full transparency. Everyone knows when she is listening. Everyone old enough has their own login. Nobody is surveilled. Everyone has control.

As a parent you can set a vision for the kind of family you want to create and the kind of parent you want to be. Bea helps you pick one thing to work on at a time. She listens, notices your patterns and triggers, and coaches you afterwards using what she actually witnessed.

Unit of Intelligence

The whole family as the unit.

Every other product is built for one person at a time. One parent. One child. One user.

Bea is built for the whole family as the unit. That is not a feature. It is a structural design decision that changes everything about what gets noticed, what gets reflected back, and what it means to help.

The intelligence Bea cultivates is not hers. It belongs to your family. She only makes it visible.

Quiet room
Kitchen light
The Vision

A warm light in the kitchen.

One day Bea will live in a small warm device in the corner of your kitchen. No screen. A soft light when she is listening. Dark when she is not.

Everything stored locally on the device in your home. Not subject to anyone else's terms. Your family's intelligence, owned by your family, on your terms.

We are building toward that. Right now she lives on your phone.

Built By

Hi, I'm Lian Passmore.

I'm a mother of five including triplets, based in Whangārei, New Zealand. I built Bea because I felt like I was failing as a parent and there was nowhere to actually get help with that.

I spent 18 months researching this before I wrote a line of code. 349 coaching sessions with real families. The ethical and cultural frameworks Bea is built on were peer reviewed by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru, one of New Zealand's leading Māori AI ethics experts.

Get in touch at lian@dreamstorm.org

Lian Passmore, founder of dreamstorm
The Build

System Architecture

Safety is not a feature. It is the architecture. Three distinct reasoning tasks ensure data is processed with full transparency.

Next.jsSupabaseClaude Opus 4.7ElevenLabsAzure SpeechVercel
  • Subtext: Reading tone and hesitation during voice check-ins.
  • Memory: Structured summaries are the only thing stored. No transcripts.
  • Insight: Extended thinking finds the patterns nobody has named yet.
The Integrity Standard

The Wall of No

These are not guidelines. They are structural limits built into the code to engineer trust through constraint.

Never record or store audio.
Never store transcripts.
Never diagnose health conditions.
Never take sides in conflict.
Never speak in the heat of a moment.
Never claim to feel emotions.
Never surveil a family member.
Never make it hard to delete.
Waitlist

Join the first families.

Bea is not available yet. We are testing with a small group of families before we open more widely.

lian@dreamstorm.org

Mā te kōrero ka ora. Through conversation, we live.