Notes from the build

This is not attempt number one

The idea is from 2019; the domains, verifiably, from one week of September 2022; the code that finally shipped is from 2026. The surviving draft is the evidence.

Decision log 0 — written down to be argued with

Seven decisions that shaped everything else: archive first, deletion wins, one understanding, nothing unconfirmed, operator access by grant, exit as a tested code path, open weights first.

Why our family got the first Sathi

Before there was a product there was a notes-to-self thread, a household that lives in four languages, and a rule: nothing is offered outward until it is genuinely more trustworthy than the incumbents for the people closest to us.