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ELEMENT 31

HOW IT WORKS

One rule, drawn all the way through.

Genie runs on the sunlight your home doesn’t use — nothing else. This page walks the whole path, from the roof to the receipt, with nothing hidden and nothing promised that hasn’t been measured.

Genie is in development and reservations are not yet open.

THE SHAPE OF A SOLAR DAY

A solar home makes most of its power in the middle of the day — often more than the home can use. Mornings ramp up, evenings fade out, and a dark week can produce almost nothing. The lens between the two curves is the surplus: power that today is exported for little, curtailed, or never generated at all.

That surplus is Genie’s entire fuel supply. It is built around the honest shape of the day: it works hard when there’s extra sun, works less when there’s little, and waits — openly, visibly — when there’s none.

The shape of a solar dayA qualitative curve of a single day. Solar production rises through the morning, peaks at midday, and fades in the evening. Home usage stays roughly level. The area where production exceeds usage is the surplus — the only power Genie uses. A small square beneath the curve, the Genie node, receives that surplus at midday.THE SURPLUS
  • what your panels make
  • what your home uses
  • the surplus — the only power Genie touches

THE PATH, END TO END

One rule holds the whole chain together: your home is served first, always. Genie draws power only when your panels are making more than your home is using, and the moment your home wants that power back, Genie steps aside — instantly, automatically, every time.

That priority isn’t a software setting you have to trust. It is enforced in the machine itself, and Genie’s energy behavior is logged so it can be audited rather than believed.

Everything downstream follows the same plainness: sealed jobs, real customers, and dollars owed only for work that actually sold.

  1. SUNLIGHT

    FALLS ON THE ROOF

    Every clear day, more of it than most homes can use.

  2. YOUR PANELS

    MAKE POWER

    They don’t know or care what happens next; nothing about them changes.

  3. YOUR HOME

    SERVED FIRST — ALWAYS

    Lights, fridge, everything. The moment your home wants power, it gets it. This priority is enforced in Genie’s hardware, not in a settings menu.

  4. THE SURPLUS

    WHATEVER IS LEFT

    The power your panels make beyond what your home is using. Today it is exported for little, curtailed, or never made at all. This is Genie’s entire fuel supply.

  5. GENIE

    RUNS SEALED WORK

    It converts the surplus into computing work — jobs that arrive sealed, run sealed, and leave sealed. No surplus, no work: at night and on dark days it simply waits.

  6. A REAL CUSTOMER

    BUYS THE WORK

    Businesses with batch computing that can wait for the sun. If nobody buys, nothing is owed — and the app says so plainly.

  7. YOU

    PAID IN DOLLARS

    When — and only when — the work your Genie performed is actually sold. Not projections, not credits. Dollars for work.

WHERE IT LIVES

Where Genie lives in a solar homeA line drawing of a house in cross-section. Solar panels sit on the roof. The living rooms are served power first. Genie stands in the utility corner beside the garage, receiving only the surplus, with a small warm glow at its base.
  • panels on the roof
  • the home, served first
  • only the surplus, to Genie in the utility corner

Genie is designed to live indoors like any other quiet appliance — a utility corner, a garage wall, the spot beside the water heater. No antenna farm, no server-room theater.

It keeps to itself. Genie reports its own energy use and health, and nothing else: it does not watch your network, your devices, or you. Work arrives and leaves encrypted over your ordinary internet connection, and Genie makes only outbound connections — it never accepts incoming ones.

Full specifications — size, sound, and everything else — will be published before anyone is asked to confirm a purchase.

THE SAME DAY, TWO WAYS

A SOLAR DAY TODAY

The midday surplus drains away: exported for little, curtailed by the utility, or never generated because the system throttles back. The sunlight was free — and so is what most homes get for it.

THE SAME DAY, WITH GENIE

The same surplus lands in the node and becomes sealed computing work. If a customer buys that work, you’re paid in dollars. Whether that beats your export rate is a question we’ll answer with measured results, not promises.

We are deliberately not putting numbers on this page. Whether Genie beats what your utility pays for exports depends on your home, your panels, and real customer demand — and we will publish measured results from real homes, including the low ones, before anyone pays full price.

THE WORK ITSELF

Genie joins E31 Cloud, a network that pools many small machines into useful computing capacity for businesses. The work is ordinary and commercial — the behind-the-scenes batch computing companies already pay for — chosen because it has deadlines rather than heartbeats. Jobs queued tonight, collected tomorrow, happy to wait for the sun.

Jobs arrive sealed, run sealed, and leave sealed. Genie can’t read them and neither can you; the customer, in turn, can verify exactly what ran. Nobody has to trust anybody, which is how we prefer it.

Your app shows the plain ledger of it: energy used, work performed, work sold, and money owed. When demand is quiet, the app says demand is quiet — a blank day is shown as a blank day, not smoothed over.

And because we only ship machines where real buyers exist to keep them busy, the honest failure mode is the one we’ve designed for: if demand is thin, we pause shipping and say so publicly, rather than quietly diluting every owner’s share of the work.

PUBLISHED BEFORE YOU PAY FULL PRICE

  • The final price.

    Announced once, when it is real — never teased, never 'starting at.'

  • The full specifications.

    Size, sound, connections, and everything an appliance in your home should disclose.

  • Measured performance from real homes.

    Including the disappointing results. If the quiet weeks exist, you will see the quiet weeks.

Reservations are not yet open.

When they open, a fully refundable deposit will hold a place in the first batch — and everything above will be published before anyone pays full price.