VALE

Vale is a voice-first assistant with an intent-based interface for people who work with their hands: they say what they need, Vale does it, without stopping their work. We start with nail technicians. THE PROBLEM Nail technicians, barbers, lash and makeup artists, artisans: hands busy, often gloved, a client in front of them. - What happens during the work (products, time, a health note, what to charge) stays in their memory - By the end of the day much of it is forgotten - Most tools for these businesses have to be learned first and filled in by hand afterwards - They become one more job to maintain, not a help - Records go stale and prices end up being a guess WHAT VALE DOES Nothing to learn. She talks without stopping her work and the record updates itself: - "Starting a gel refill with David" -> opens the session and starts the clock - "Note that David is allergic to latex" -> saves a private note; from then on only Glimmer, on our own GPU, reads it - "Add primer to the shopping list" -> updates the list and stock - "How much does David pay?" -> supplies + work time + share of fixed costs + margin, each part shown on screen - "What do I have on Thursday?" -> reads and edits the agenda - A reference design photo -> Muse Image previews it on the client's own nails, SAM 3.1 checks the preview - The finished nails photo -> Muse Spark describes the design and saves it to the client's history Voice first, not voice only: everything she says can also be seen and edited on screen (agenda, client files, services, etc.). Over time Vale becomes the brain of the business: what each service really costs, what's coming up, what's running low, how far she is from her monthly goal. So she can price for profit, meet her goals and grow. WHY US Alicia Cespedes, my wife, is a nail artist and educator, Vale's primary user and the domain expert behind every flow in the demo; she appears in the video. - In Latin America, Colombia is a clear case: lack of profitability is the #1 reason small businesses close (29%, GEM Colombia 2023) - Beauty services are largely informal (about 65% of hair salons, Confecámaras) - Many are one-person businesses run by women who price by intuition BUILT THIS WEEK - Before the hackathon I had a pricing calculator prototype; none of its code, data or prompts are in this repo - Vale was built from scratch on Meta's models - The repo starts on October 26 with only a license and a README; every later commit is in the public history - Architecture diagrams are in the repo, linked from the README - Works in English and Spanish: one control switches the language and the voice engine - All demo data is invented