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Feature 01 // Your ambient intelligence

Not a chatbot
you open.
An intelligence
that’s always there.

Orb is the living sphere at the heart of Celestos. Say its name — it wakes. Speak a command — it acts and speaks back. Set your mood — it responds to you differently. Connect your real accounts and it becomes the control centre for your email, calendar, code, and more. Make it yours with themes, voices, and a persona you write yourself. Always on. Always one word away.

The Sphere // Your home screen

A living interface that responds to you.

The animated particle sphere is Celestos's visual identity — rendered in real time, reacting to input, shifting when you speak. It's not decoration. It's a status display: active, thinking, interrupted, idle. You know exactly what Celestos is doing just by looking at it.

What you see on the Orb screen
The animated particle sphere — your AI's visual heartbeat
Mode pills at the bottom — tap to switch context instantly
SPEAK button — one tap into voice mode
Type-to-select prompt bar — result in seconds
Model selector — local or cloud, always visible
Think On toggle — watch the model reason step by step
Orb vs Chat — which to use
Orb

Do something now. Quick commands, visible progress, file results, action cards. Better for getting things done.

Chat

Get a full answer. Text, sources, comparisons, explanations. Better for thinking, learning, and long conversations.

[ Orb — ember state · listening ] You: Celestos, how's my morning looking? → Reading calendar · checking email queue → Pulling Spark alerts · checking agent logs Orb: Good morning. Three things need your attention before 10am. Your 9:30 call has a brief ready. Two emails were auto-resolved overnight — one flagged for your reply. RTX alert didn't fire — still above threshold. [ Orb returns to idle · sphere dims ]
Voice // Hands-free from any distance

Say its name. It wakes up.

Set your wake word in Settings — the default is "Celestos." Say it anywhere in the room and the sphere shifts to ember, the microphone opens, and it listens. Speak your request. Hear the result back in a voice you choose. No keyboard. No mouse. No screen needed.

Wake Word

Say "Celestos" (or any phrase you set). Orb lights ember. You're in. Works from across the room — no tap, no click.

Voice Input · SPEAK

Tap SPEAK or use the wake word. Your voice is transcribed instantly and routed like any other request — to Hive, Tracker, Memory, or wherever it fits.

Voice Output · TTS

Celestos speaks results back in a voice you choose from Settings. 10 local voices. Pick one that feels right. Never reads the screen back robotically — it summarises, informs, and moves on.

Ambient intelligence

With the Chief of Staff running, Celestos doesn't wait to be asked. It interrupts with what you need to hear — the Orb turns ember and speaks unprompted.

Mode Pills // Nine specialist contexts, one tap

Switch what Celestos is being, instantly.

The mode pills at the bottom of Orb aren't just navigation — they set the specialist context for your next request. Tap HIVE and your next prompt launches a multi-agent team. Tap EMAIL and Celestos reads your inbox. Tap MEMORY and you're inside your knowledge galaxy. One tap. Different brain.

WORD
SPHERE
EMAIL
HIVE
DREAM
TRACKER
MEMORY
MEMO
SEARCH
WORD

Writing mode. Draft documents, edit, rewrite, format. Celestos becomes a specialist writing partner tuned for long-form output.

EMAIL

Reads your connected inbox, drafts replies, flags what needs attention, and auto-resolves the obvious. Your email, handled.

HIVE

Your next request launches a multi-agent team. Manager, specialists, coordinator — one prompt, a whole team working in parallel.

TRACKER

Your active Sparks and scheduled watchers. Price alerts, competitor monitors, news triggers — all visible and controllable.

MEMORY

Fly into your knowledge galaxy. Navigate concept planets, search your memories, ask what you know about anything.

DREAM

Describe a capability. Celestos builds it, critiques it, iterates up to five times, then forges it as a permanent Skill.

MEMO

Instant capture. Speak or type a thought and it's filed into your memory graph before it disappears.

SEARCH

Web research mode. Celestos searches, browses, and synthesises — returning a clean answer with sources, not a list of links.

Make it yours // Themes, cursors, voices, persona

Your AI workspace. Looks like nobody else’s.

Celestos ships with eleven visual themes, six cursor styles, multiple font options, and a Custom System Persona you write yourself. It's not cosmetic — a workspace that feels like yours gets used more, stays open longer, and becomes part of how you think.

11 Visual Themes
Default
Plasma
Crystal
Meridian
Aurora
Ember
Polaris
Void
Gold
Noir
Cipher
6 Cursor Styles
Classic Starship Holographic HUD Retro Pixel Minimalist Zen Liquid Blob System Native
Custom System Persona

Write your own instructions for how Celestos should behave. Change its communication style, what it focuses on, how it structures answers, how formal or casual it is. It's not a name change — it's a full behavioural rewrite you control.

You are a blunt, fast-moving creative partner. No preamble. Skip the pleasantries. Lead every response with the key insight. When I ask for feedback — tell me what's wrong first.
More personalization
10 local TTS voices — pick who speaks to you
Font picker — JetBrains Mono, DM Serif Display, and more
GIF reactions — animated responses in chat
Custom wake word — set any phrase that feels right
Performance profile — Balance Mode or Deep Thinking
Celestos Connect // Your real accounts, connected

Your email. Your calendar. Your stack. One place.

Connect your real accounts once through the Celestos Connect window and your AI suddenly knows your world. Read email, draft replies, check your calendar, monitor your repos, pull data from your store — all from the Orb, in plain language, with nothing leaving your machine unless you're using a cloud model.

Google
Slack
GitHub
Notion
Shopify
Stripe
Linear
Discord
PostHog
Google · Gmail + Calendar
"What emails need my reply today?"
"Draft a reply to the supplier email"
"What's on my calendar tomorrow?"
"Prepare a brief for my 2pm call"
Slack
"What did the team discuss in #general today?"
"Summarise what I missed while I was offline"
"Draft a message to the engineering channel"
GitHub
"What PRs are waiting on my review?"
"Summarise what changed in main this week"
"Any new issues opened in the last 24 hours?"
Notion
"Add this meeting summary to my Notion notes"
"What tasks are due this week in Notion?"
"Create a new page for this project brief"
Shopify + Stripe
"What were today's sales?"
"Which products are running low on inventory?"
"Summarise this month's revenue vs last"
Linear + Discord + PostHog
"What's my sprint looking like in Linear?"
"Any spikes in our error rate on PostHog?"
"What's been discussed in the Discord server?"
How connecting works
01 · OPEN

Open Celestos Connect from the Settings gear. Each service gets its own isolated connector — OAuth flows stay out of the main UI.

02 · CONNECT

Authorise with your own credentials — not a shared Celestos token. You control what gets access and can revoke any connector at any time.

03 · ASK

Just ask in plain language. "What emails need a reply?" "What's on my calendar?" Celestos reads the connected service and answers from your live data.

Context // The Mood Engine

Your AI reads the room.

Set your state — Joyful, Focused, Anxious, Frustrated — and Celestos rewires how it speaks across every surface. The Mood Engine broadcasts live over an SSE bus: change your mood on your phone and the Orb on your desktop shifts personality immediately. And with the prediction engine, Celestos learns to detect your state before you set it.

Glyph states
Joyful — warmer, playful, more exploratory
Focused — terse, technical, no pleasantries
Anxious — steadfast, calm, grounding
Frustrated — direct, efficient, no fluff
Live across all surfaces

Because it runs over a live SSE bus, your mood state follows you. Change it on mobile via the Mobile Tunnel and it shifts the Orb on your desktop instantly. One state, everywhere.

See Mood Engine →
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