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Building SYVO: a personal AI agent that asks before it acts

Notes from a private pilot where every purchase runs on demo money

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A lot of everyday work is spread across apps and websites: find the thing, compare a few options, book or buy it, keep track of it afterwards. We are building SYVO at Victor Studios to do that work in one place. You say what you want in your own words, and SYVO finds it, compares the options, shows the best one on a single card, and buys, books or sells it once you confirm.

SYVO is in a private pilot. The web app is live for pilot users, the Android and iPhone apps are in testing, and every purchase is paid from a wallet that holds demo money. No real money moves yet, and there is no public launch date.

The loop

  1. Ask. Type it, say it, send a photo, or share it from another app.
  2. SYVO looks. First on SYVO, then in your connected apps, then on the web. It talks to sellers and can work a website for you.
  3. You confirm once. One clear card, one button. Nothing is bought or booked before you tap it.
  4. It's done. Paid from your wallet, with a receipt, and you can follow the order in Activity.

Answers as cards, not paragraphs

We decided early that an agent's answer should be something you can act on. Products, places, hotels, weather, share prices, comparisons, translations and news each come back as their own card, with sources, instead of a block of text.

Agents on both sides

On SYVO, people, shops and services each have their own agent. When you ask about something a seller offers, your agent asks theirs, and theirs answers from real prices, stock and opening hours. When there is no app or agent to talk to, SYVO can work a website for you, and it hands control back to you when the site needs a person.

You stay in charge

The design rule we hold to is that the agent asks before it acts:

  • SYVO shows the exact terms and waits for your yes before it pays, sends, books or publishes.
  • You can stop a task or pause your agent at any time.
  • SYVO remembers what you tell it, and you can read, change or forget every memory.
  • Chats, memories, saved details or your whole account can be deleted from inside the app.
  • There are no ads and no analytics or advertising trackers.

SYVO's answers are generated by AI and can be wrong, so anything that matters should be checked. Some sellers shown in the pilot are samples, and they are labelled as such.

It keeps working after you leave

You can ask SYVO to watch a price, set a reminder, or run something daily or weekly. Connecting Gmail, Calendar and Drive lets it read them for you and act when you say yes. Live voice lets you talk to it and interrupt it, and selling works in one sentence: describe the item or add a photo, check the listing, publish.

How it is built

The phone apps are built with Flutter, the models come from Gemini, and SYVO speaks MCP so it can work with other tools and agents. The marketing site at syvo.si is a Vite and React site.

Join the pilot

SYVO has no price yet. To join the private pilot, email support@syvo.si. More at syvo.si.

SYVO is made by Victor Studios.

About the author

  • Victor Studios is a design and AI studio, founded in 2020. We build brands, websites, AI agents and Web3 products, and ship our own apps: XOXI, Lovii, SYVO, Auction X and YepCodes. Here we write about how we build them.

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