HOME INVENTORY LOCATOR SYSTEM
NOTHING IS LOST. EVERYTHING IS LOGIC.
Your garage has 23 tape measures. Your kitchen cabinet has 11 bottles of ketchup. Your signed David Bowie album is somewhere.
HIL gives every shelf, drawer, and object in your home a permanent address — readable by any AI, printable as a label, searchable forever.
At 17, he stood up at graduation in Sharon, Wisconsin and said men should never sell their influence to the highest bidder. Then he spent his life as a country vet who took chickens and handshakes instead of money — because the work needed doing.
He collected everything. Benjamin Franklin stoves. Spool beds. A lifetime of things that mattered.
When he died, the family held an auction. They walked away with $1,200.
The things didn't have stories attached. So they sold for nothing.
HIL exists so that doesn't happen to your family's stuff.
— THE PROCESS —
Any shelf. Any room. Messy is fine. Annotate with your pencil if something is hidden behind something else.
IPAD + PENCIL WORKS GREATClaude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. Paste the HL prompt. The AI reads your photo and assigns addresses to everything it sees.
NO NEW ACCOUNT NEEDEDYour inventory lives in your vault. Search it. Ask any AI where something is. Export it anytime. It's yours.
YOUR DATA. YOUR FILE.— THE TOOL BELT —
Print your cardinal anchor signs. Cut them out. Stick them up. Your space is now addressed. Five minutes, no thinking required.
Build your addresses, generate labels, create wiki pages, produce HIL exchange records. One tool that does it all.
Your permanent inventory. Search everything. Save to the cloud or export to your own device. Data sovereignty built in.
Scan a space, map it, make zone signs, label your carts. Everything you do when you're on your feet with your phone.
Design custom signs for your space. Art Deco, Industrial, Vintage Tin, Workshop, Dr. Piper themes. Print them. Make it permanent.
Two generations old or more. Give your heirloom a permanent record. The tractor that never left. The drill that still cuts. Submit it. Keep it forever.
— THE LIBRARY —
In 1882 Ellen Swallow Richards — the first woman admitted to MIT — argued that a household runs on principles, not products. The industry spent 140 years proving her right by selling you the same principle in 47 different bottles. The Library finishes her argument.
Ten raw ingredients replace forty branded products. The science behind why they work. An address for where they live. Free forever.
Know what you own. Know what you can do. 28 standard kits, three skill tiers, and a free Capability Prompt you can drop into any AI today.
Stop replacing. Start restoring. Five base ingredients replace 40 specialty products. Techniques for tools, wood, leather, and cast iron.
Own less. Own better. Where to find quality tools cheap, when to DIY vs hire, and the pre-1970 rule nobody tells you about.
Tell the system what kits you have. It tells you what you can build, fix, and do — and the one addition that unlocks the most new capability.
Manufacturer schedules. Fannie Mae baseline. Know what your home needs, when it needs it, and what skipping costs. Free forever.
THE LIBRARY IS EXPANDABLE — COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME — r/hilsystem →
— DATA PHILOSOPHY —
No lock-in. No hostage data. Your inventory is yours from day one.
Start here. Free. We hold your inventory on our servers. Nothing to set up.
One button. Download your entire inventory as JSON, CSV, or SQL. Take it anywhere.
Run it on your own hardware. Raspberry Pi, NAS, whatever. We'll help you get there.
SELF-HOST CONTEST — COMING SOON — FOLLOW ON REDDIT →
— COMMUNITY —
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