Inspiration

Real life doesn’t come as tasks or calendar events.

Things appear as messages, voice notes, emails, and half-formed thoughts. A real assistant doesn’t ask you to structure them — it remembers and decides when to interrupt.

Lily was built to bridge this gap.

What it does

Lily is an AI reminder assistant that works like a real personal assistant.

Users simply tell Lily things — in text, voice, or documents. Lily does three things:

Remember → Decide → Remind

Multimodal understanding allows Lily to operate in unstructured, real-world contexts instead of predefined task formats.

How we built it

Lily follows a judgment-first assistant loop:

  1. Multimodal intake
    Text, voice, emails, documents

  2. Intent & context extraction
    Task vs context, urgency, dependencies

  3. Decision-based reminders
    When to interrupt — not fixed schedules

Challenges we ran into

  • Avoiding over-reminding
  • Interpreting vague instructions (“later”, “when ready”)
  • Knowing when not to act

The hardest problem was restraint, not capability.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • No calendars or task lists required
  • Natural, multimodal instruction by default
  • Users can hand things off instead of managing them

What we learned

Multimodal AI isn’t about more input. It’s about less user effort.

A good assistant interrupts less, but better.

What's next for Lily

Reminders are only the foundation.

Lily is evolving from awareness → action.

From reminders to actions

Many tasks are network-executable:

  • follow-ups
  • form submissions
  • document updates
  • workflow triggers

Lily detects which tasks can be safely executed and acts when conditions are met.

Action layer

  • Action eligibility detection
    Human-required vs AI-executable

  • Trigger-based execution
    Replies, updates, dependencies — not schedules

  • Tool-based actions
    API-driven, permissioned, auditable

  • Human-in-the-loop fallback
    High confidence → act
    Low confidence → remind

Vision

Lily isn’t another reminder app.

It’s an agent-ready life assistant.

Eventually, Lily won’t remind you something needs to be done.

It will already be done.

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