# Agentic Corporation

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Robert Washburn](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/Huskyauto)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/Huskyauto/pause-and-nourish
- **Demo video:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYyGBMksaYk
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4054

# Pause & Nourish — a tool kit for life

A voice-first second brain for the moment the urge to eat shows up.

I'm Bob Washburn, 61, an HVAC contractor in Illinois. I started at 504 lb and have lost more than 240 lb over two and a half years. The app distills what worked — a 227-entry knowledge base of my own quotes, moves, patterns, and recoveries, mined from 218 daily videos — into a simple loop: Notice, Pause (90 guided seconds), Choose (eat / something else / wait — every choice legitimate), Learn (one learning, in your own words).

Built Oct 26 – Nov 4, inside the event window: a local-first PWA with free-form spoken conversation (Talk), a one-tap SOS pause, spoken story intake, a calm-time playbook (the Shield), check-in, Statistics with a weekly review, and on-device journaling. Its 47-move repertoire (MODALITIES.md) covers 25 kinds of moments: the brain proposes and leads one concrete move out loud — breathing, grounding, urge surfing, hearing your own why, your reframe, your daily lines. Steps and pacing are fixed data; the model chooses and composes — it never invents technique. A native Android companion pairs over a digest-only, single-consume, owner-gated protocol: a screen-off headset press plays the user's recorded cue. Only user-confirmed journal patterns enter the brain's context. Explicit crisis and eating-disorder statements are matched by a fixed word rule over the user's own words — not emotion detection — and answered with a fixed signpost to human support (988; National Alliance for Eating Disorders helpline). 80 tests.

Meta AI does the thinking and hearing. Muse Spark 1.2 composes every conversational line and selects every guided move, only from the user's own story, playbook, and journal, and only from the 47 catalog moves. Muse Voice Transcribe hears every spoken answer. Muse Wonder writes the weekly review from digest facts only.

Speech out uses the device's own built-in voice (operating-system text-to-speech, not an AI model): Meta's API offers no text-to-speech endpoint, and every word spoken is composed by Muse Spark 1.2.

Safety posture: a lifestyle habit tool — not a diet app, not therapy, not a nutrition coach. It never plans meals, judges food, or gives dietary advice; never detects or infers emotions (state is user-declared only); it reflects the user's own words and does not advise, diagnose, or prescribe. Disclosures live in the app (/about).

Limitations: the pairing ceremony works but is fiddly — one-tap pairing is the top roadmap item. Latency, measured Nov 3: a composed Talk reply lands in about 4–5 seconds (full round trip ~10 seconds; a moment opener ~12 seconds); on Muse Spark 1.3 the reply alone took 18–19 seconds — why the moment path runs 1.2. Solo build, solo tester: the founder is the first user.

Live app: https://pause-and-nourish.vercel.app

## More from Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon

- [BonSafar](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4051)
- [Kitsa](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4052)
- [CLEVERS](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4053)
- [Dreamwalk](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4055)
- [WonderLab](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4056)
- [Tinker](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/4057)

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