Status: pre-launch. This page describes target design; this document does not establish a deployed service.

Scope: Personal-attached hardware line (brief pending). Not a peer buyer product — see The Product Family.

Helios

Current reading — 2026-09-27

Hardware specifications and dated activation gates describe the first-party Helios proposal. They do not establish current sales, medical validity, privacy enforcement or forgery prevention. Descriptive source evidence is not a measured score or deployment receipt. [I]

This reader boundary does not migrate interfaces, choose unresolved terms or prove deployment. See current status.

Helios is a proposed first-party demonstrator for product twins, service and commerce. Agentz may stage unsigned recommendations and apu.bot may supply reasoning; neither authorizes a purchase. Privacy, capture provenance, ordering and fulfilment require implementation-specific evidence. Hardware and service terms remain separately unresolved.

Historical Helios hardware and commerce proposal — not current sales or guarantees

NOTE (2026-06): Helios is Skyzai's own first-party branded product line, sold into the neutral Nexus market. It is a distinct surface at helios.skyzai.com (helios.you as the external entity TLD) — NOT folded into Nexus. Nexus is the separate neutral replicator-stack data + market-access surface.

Helios is Skyzai's own first-party branded product line.

The pipeline as hardware. Ears, eyes, and mouth for a sovereign organism.

What It Is

Helios is the sensory-motor interface between a DAV and the physical world. Three devices, each mapping into the governed consequence loop (IS, COULD/SHOULD, AUTHORIZE by the Natural Person for their own typed private act or by the signer(s) required by applicable law, the entity's governing instrument, or a valid competent mandate binding the exact public-DAV consequence in a complete valid bound PRISM decision receipt that PRISM records and verifies only, EXECUTE by software deterministically carrying out only that exact bound consequence, RECEIPT, REVIEW):

Device	Form Factor	Stage	Organ	Biological Analog
Wearable	Bone conduction (Shokz form)	IS + SHOULD	APU (ears)	Auditory cortex + prefrontal
Camera	Spatial video (Osmo Pocket 3 style)	IS	Circle (eyes)	Occipital lobe
RELAY	Broadcast node	ACT	Skyzai (mouth)	Motor cortex (speech)

The Wearable: Ears

The Helios wearable is APU's voice in your ear. Bone conduction audio (Shokz-style open-ear design) delivers:

• Council summaries -- when APU's Royal Council reaches a recommendation, the wearable speaks the synthesis. You hear the reasoning, not just the conclusion.
• Threat alerts -- Soma's amygdala function triggers audio alerts when P-score anomalies are detected.
• Murmur pulse -- optional periodic updates on the emergent median's direction.

Biometric sensors embedded in the earpiece capture:

• Heart rate variability (stress detection)
• Skin conductance (arousal/attention)
• Head orientation (attention direction)

These biometrics feed back to APU as proprioceptive signals. The organism learns how its operator responds to different market conditions. This is not surveillance -- the data never leaves the device. It is processed locally and only the behavioral model (not the raw biometrics) is shared with the APU, encrypted, with the user's key.

The Camera: Eyes

The Helios camera is Circle's physical eye. A spatial video camera (Osmo Pocket 3 form factor) that produces:

• Nostr-signed frames -- every frame is cryptographically signed at capture time. The provenance chain starts at the sensor, not at upload. Deepfakes cannot forge the signature because they do not control the hardware key.
• Spatial video -- stereoscopic capture for volumetric reality. Not because 3D is trendy, but because spatial data carries more verifiable information per frame than flat video.
• Circle verification feed -- frames flow directly into Circle's verification pipeline. Physical reality becomes OSINT.

Use cases:

• POS inventory monitoring (see 94-pos)
• Event verification (proving attendance, conditions, timestamps)
• Environmental sensing (weather, traffic, crowd density)

The camera does not stream to a server. It signs locally and publishes to Nostr relays via SPECTRE. The user controls distribution.

RELAY: Mouth

The RELAY device is a dedicated broadcast node. It is the organism's mouth -- the interface through which the DAV speaks to the world:

• Publishes RELAY (1:N) broadcasts to the SPECTRE mesh.
• Serves as a local Nostr relay for the operator's geographic area.
• Routes Circle verification attestations to the broader network.
• Broadcasts POS transaction confirmations to buyers.

The RELAY device is hardware-enforced: it can only broadcast, never modify. It has no write access to the operator's wallet. It has no access to biometric data. It is a one-way valve.

Neither Extracts

The critical design constraint: none of the three Helios devices extract value from the user.

Extraction Vector	Helios Approach
Data harvesting	All processing local. Raw biometrics never leave device.
Subscription fees	Hardware purchase only. No recurring charges.
Cloud dependency	Devices operate peer-to-peer via SPECTRE. No central server.
Planned obsolescence	Firmware is open-source. Community maintains.
Ecosystem lock-in	Standard protocols (Nostr, Hedera, WalletConnect). Works with any DAV.

K* = 0 applies to hardware as much as to software. The device is a tool, not a trap.

Integration

The three devices form a complete sensory-motor loop:

Physical Reality --> Camera (IS) --> Circle verification --> Agentz deliberation --> Wearable (SHOULD) --> Human decision --> RELAY (ACT) --> Network

This is the pipeline instantiated in atoms: perceive, deliberate, act. The organism extends through Helios from pure digital into the physical world without compromising sovereignty at any point in the chain.

The Commercial Pipeline

Helios is not only a hardware concept. It is a virtual commerce front — the organism's first test of the complete DAV consequence pipeline (IS → COULD → SHOULD → typed authority receipt → EXECUTE → RECEIPT → REVIEW) applied to physical goods.

Phase 1: Merchandise (NOW)

Branded goods and accessories sold through the full pipeline. Low complexity. High margin. Tests order book commerce, AR/VR product viewer, AI ad generation, and zero-inventory partner distribution. The target still requires the applicable buyer and seller authority receipts; no AI or commerce rail becomes a signer.

Phase 2: The Wearable (NEXT)

Bone conduction open-ear + continuous biometrics. Built AFTER the merchandise pipeline works. The wearable is the product. The pipeline is the prerequisite.

Phase 3: The Camera (FUTURE)

Stereo spatial video with Nostr-signed observations. Built after the wearable proves the biometric-to-Nexus loop.

Virtual Sales Infrastructure

Capability	Description
AR/VR Product Viewer	Full 3D models (WebXR for browser, native for Vision Pro / Quest). AI agents can browse the catalog.
AI Body Rendering	Upload photo → AI renders product on YOUR body, personalized to Nexus Phenotype data
AI Ad Generation	Autonomous drafting pipeline: lifestyle photography per demographic, APU-generated copy, ReFu-predicted timing. A Natural Person authorizes their own typed private spend; public-DAV spend requires a complete valid bound PRISM decision receipt from the signer(s) required by applicable law, the entity's governing instrument, or a valid competent mandate binding that exact spend. PRISM records and verifies only; software deterministically carries out only that exact bound spend.
Order Book Commerce	Products sold via standing limit orders (buy + sell). FBA 60-second batch auctions. MEV-immune.
Partner Distribution	No warehouse. Nearest distribution partner ships. The organism coordinates inventory, never holds it.

Revenue Model

Stream	Mechanism
Product margin	Ultra-premium hardware and merchandise. Small volume, high margin, zero waste.
Hardware sales	One-time purchase. No subscription. No recurring charges. No cloud dependency.
Pipeline proof	Helios validates the entire DAV commerce loop — success here unlocks POS for all merchants.

K* = 0 applies to hardware: transparent cost breakdown shown to customer. No hidden markup. Products are liquid assets on the order book (PaaS: upgrade, refurbish, resell).

Dated source status — not a fresh deployment check

The retained table is a source snapshot. Scores, alpha claims and hardware progress require their own pinned receipts before being represented as current observed operation.

Metric	Value
P-score	0.03 (Phi = 0.30, V = 0.10)
Phase 1 (Merchandise)	Shopify plugin alpha. Pipeline specified. Not yet selling.
Phase 2 (Wearable)	Hardware specification phase. Protocol interfaces defined (Nostr signing, SPECTRE mesh, APU audio synthesis). Physical engineering in progress.
Phase 3 (Camera)	Specification only.
Brand	HELIOS by Skyzai. Ultra-premium. No logos on products. Carbon fiber. Graphene. Merino.
Blocker	Phase 1 must prove the pipeline before Phase 2 hardware investment.

Gates

Gate	Criteria	Status
G0	3D model of first merchandise item + AR viewer working	Not fired
G1	First item sold through full pipeline (order book + typed buyer/seller authority + delivery receipt)	Not fired
G2	100 items sold. AI ads running. Distribution partner confirmed.	Not fired
G3	Wearable prototype. Biometric data flowing to Nexus.	Not fired

Evidence Tiers

Claim	Current evidence boundary
Spatial awareness / bone-conduction rationale	External precedent requires its own source; no device-specific safety proof here
Signed frames	Cryptographic attribution under key controls, not factual truth or universal forgery prevention
On-device biometrics	Proposed privacy constraint; implementation/enforcement not established here
Shopify alpha	Source-artifact claim; requires a pinned reproducible receipt before an observed-run upgrade
AR/VR viewer	Design/specification [D]; not current implementation proof

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Historical predecessor wording — retained on 2026-09-27, not active rules

The displaced passages are preserved verbatim for lineage. This retention date is not their original authorship date.

Predecessor passage 1

|-------|----------|--------| | Bone conduction preserves spatial awareness | Established physics (Shokz et al. demonstrate market viability) | [E] External precedent | | Nostr-signed frames prevent deepfake forgery | Cryptographic provenance chain — hardware key inaccessible to forgers | [I] Internal design | | Biometric data stays on-device | Architectural constraint (BLE to phone only, no cloud upload) | [I] Internal design | | Shopify plugin alpha exists | Code artifact | [E] Implementation evidence | | AR/VR product viewer functional | Not yet — specification only | [S] Speculative |