How it works

Three engines. One quiet library.

PeetaBoo is not a smarter baby monitor. It's a small camera and a daily journal that work together: the camera notices, PeetaBoo finds your child, writes down what happened, and keeps what's worth keeping.

The camera
Notices
Records when something moves, keeps only clips with a person in them, and sends those to your private space.
01 · Find
Is that my child?
Learns your child from a few photos and finds them in every clip, double-checking before it's sure.
02 · Understand
What happened?
Writes a short, plain description of what happened, only for clips with your child in them.
03 · Keep
What's worth keeping?
A daily journal on your phone. Bookmark a clip and it never expires.
Engine 01 · Find

Is that my child?

"Is my child in this video?" asked ten thousand times, with a low tolerance for being wrong.

  1. Start with a few photos. Three to five pictures of your child's face, from different angles, are enough for PeetaBoo to learn what they look like.
  2. Find the people first. PeetaBoo looks for people in each clip before it looks for faces, so a face on the TV or in a photo frame never counts.
  3. Ignore blurry glimpses. A face that's too small, too blurred, or turned away isn't trusted on its own.
  4. Check it isn't a sibling or a parent. Family members look alike. PeetaBoo learns who else lives at home so it never confuses them with your child.
  5. Be sure before saying so. One clear look, or several consistent ones, before a clip is called your child's. When it isn't sure, it says so instead of guessing.
  6. Never touch the original. Clips are copied into your library. The recording itself is left exactly as it was.
Engine 02 · Understand

What happened?

"What is my child doing in this video?" answered as an observation, never a verdict.

  1. Only clips with your child go further. If your child isn't in it, nothing is written about it.
  2. It knows your household. Names and roles of the people at home, your child's age, and anything you've said you're curious about, so the notes make sense to you.
  3. It watches the whole clip. Movement, timing, and sound all count, not a single frozen frame.
  4. Plain words, organised. Each clip becomes a few short notes: what happened, who was there, how your child seemed, and the kind of skill involved: moving, using hands, talking, playing with others, figuring things out, or doing things for themselves.
  5. A daily summary. The notes roll up into the day's key moment, how the time was spent, and mood.
  6. Rules that don't bend. No clinical labels. Never a diagnosis. Anything notable is framed as something to bring to your pediatrician.
Engine 03 · Keep

What's worth keeping?

A library, not a hard drive.

  1. Every evening, a journal entry. The day's key moment with its clip, an activity breakdown, mood through the day, and a 7-day trend.
  2. Bookmark means forever. Tap the bookmark and the clip is tagged to never expire. Nothing, and nobody, can age it out afterwards.
  3. Everything else expires on a schedule. Retention is enforced by storage rules, not by remembering to delete things. See the table below.
  4. Your household, your rules. Admins run the household. Viewers, like grandparents, see everything or nothing. Invitations are single-use and expire in 48 hours.
  5. More than one child. Each child has a profile, an enrolment, and their own journal.
Retention

What happens to every clip.

Every clip is kept, kept for a while, or let go, based on two things: whether PeetaBoo found your child in it, and whether you bookmarked it. These are the rules we run.

ClipKept forWhat that means
Bookmarked by youForeverYour first bookmark marks it permanent. Removing the bookmark later never un-marks it.
Your child, clearlyForeverAlways in your library and always playable.
Possibly your child6 monthsShown to you to confirm. Confirm it or bookmark it and it stays.
Not your child30 daysDeleted automatically.
Never processedA few daysIf something interrupts processing, the clip is cleaned up rather than left lying around.
The camera

A small camera of our own.

We started with a store-bought security camera. It taught us the idea works, and it taught us why it couldn't be the product: those cameras keep footage locked inside their own apps and won't hand clips to anything else. So we built our own.

What it does

Notices, filters, and hands off

  • Records only when something moves, so there are no hours of an empty room.
  • Checks each clip for a person right on the camera. Clips with nobody in them are deleted before they go anywhere.
  • Sends the rest securely to your household's private space, then clears them from the camera.
  • Keeps working through an internet outage, holding clips until the connection is back.
What it is

Simple on purpose

A small wall or shelf camera with a wide view of one room, built for the places your child actually plays. No subscription to another company's app, no footage held hostage.

  • Private beta families receive the camera from us.
  • Setup is a photo of your child and a few minutes on your phone.
  • One camera per room; add more as you go.
Privacy

Your footage belongs to your household.

This started as software for one family's footage. The rules we set for ourselves are the rules the product ships with. Your clips are handled inside PeetaBoo's secure, encrypted product, in a private space that belongs to your household.

See it in your own home.

We're in private beta with a handful of families. If you have a kid under three and a room they play in, we'd like to hear from you.

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