Issue #1 · Meanwhile, on Grandma’s laptop…
Peace of mind for you, confidence for your parent — powered by Meta Muse Spark, Wonder, Voice and SAM 3.1.
Mate lights the button. Your parent clicks it.
Mate is a small light-bulb helper for Windows who flies to the right button in the app they are using, guides your parent step by step, and waits for them to click—never pressing Pay or Delete.
“Right here! I’ll shine a warm ring around the button and wait while you click it.”
Meanwhile, one clear step at a time…
How it works
A patient teacher on the screen, not an agent that takes the mouse away.
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Ask aloud
Hold only Ctrl, left or right (or click Mate), while you speak, then let go. Example: open Settings and ask “How do I make the text bigger?” Pressing any other key cancels the question. Prefer another key? Pick Right Alt, Caps Lock, Insert, F9 or F10 in Settings. What Mate hears appears live in his bubble while you speak.
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Mate flies to the button and lights it
Mate glides across the screen to the exact button and shines a warm golden ring around it, giving one clear step at a time.
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You click, he cheers
Your parent clicks the button themselves. Mate checks that it was the right spot, cheers them on, and moves to the next step. If they click away from the beam twice on Quick, Muse Wonder 1.0 plans the next step.
Also built in: ask Mate to open an app or site you name, let him ask what to call you on your first Home visit, revisit My lessons as captioned comic-page cards, or step through the Guide on Home one card at a time.
After the lesson is won…
Keepsake lesson cards
A printed reminder to keep by the keyboard, written simply and painted in soft gouache.
Simple steps in your language
After a finished lesson, Muse Glimmer 30B (Meta open weights on our own Modal L4 GPU, ~15 tokens/s) rewrites the steps in simple words in the person’s language and describes a picture to go with them.
Soft gouache picture, ready to print
Muse Image draws that scene in soft gouache with Mate in a corner and no text in the picture. The card window displays the artwork alongside the steps as text, with Print and Close buttons, and saves a PNG in Pictures\MetaMate.
“Print it for the desk or find the saved picture any time in Pictures\MetaMate!”
When an unfamiliar pop-up appears…
Scam check: “Is this safe?”
A calm second opinion when an unfamiliar message, email, or pop-up looks suspicious.
“Hold on—let’s check the red flags on this window together. No rush, and no clicking.”
Clear verdict with mood and red flags
Mate looks only at the current window, delivers a verdict with a mood, and names up to 3 red flags he actually sees. Using Muse Spark 1.3, he shines his flashlight beam directly at the worst one.
Never clicks and never urges action
Mate never clicks anything on screen and never tells the person to click a link, call a phone number, or pay. He shows what is there so your parent can stay safe without being rushed.
From: Moon Cheese Club <prize@moon-cheese.example>1
Subject: You won 900 moon pies!
Dear Earthling, send your password2 to claim your cheese.
Reply by yesterday3, before the moon gets hungry!
- The sender is a made-up club, not a real prize office.
- No honest company ever asks for your password by e-mail.
- “Reply by yesterday” is a fake deadline meant to rush you.
Mate spots the tricks. He never tells you to click, call or pay.
Try againStrict house rules for a polite bulb…
Safety and privacy
He never presses Pay or Delete. He only shows the way.
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Never clicks Pay, Delete or password buttons
Mate points out where to click and waits. He never clicks payment, purchase, delete, money transfer, or password buttons.
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One verified click only when asked
In a lesson, if your parent asks Mate to press a safe button for them, he asks “Should I press this button for you? Say yes or no.” and performs at most one left click per spoken “yes”.
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Only the active window, only when the screen is needed
A screenshot is taken only when the question needs the screen (where something is, how to do something, whether a window is safe, or a question about a button, a link or the screen), and includes only the app window being asked about and its pop-up menus.
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Passwords blacked out before leaving the PC
Password fields, gaps, and every other app’s window are painted black on the computer before anything is sent. If Mate cannot guarantee a safe view, he fails closed and refuses to look.
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Honest when he cannot find something
If a button is not on screen, Mate says “I can’t find it” rather than pointing at a guess.
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Never steals focus or exposes keys
Mate’s overlay windows never take focus away from your parent’s app. Provider keys stay on the proxy server, never inside the desktop app.
Under the glass · Judges’ technical sheet
Built with Meta
Powered by Meta models for speech, computer use, visual grounding, and voice. Measured 2026-10-31: in “Where is it?” (71 spoken questions on 20 fictional EN/RU windows, 1,420 answers), Muse Spark 1.3 and Muse Wonder 1.0 each hit 100% / 100% (EN / RU) with the element list—all 610 answers whose button was on the window named the right control (median 2.0 s Spark, 1.6 s Wonder; 46% / 41% and 35% / 33% on the control without the list). In “Is this safe?” (40 fictional EN/RU pages, 800 answers), both caught 100% of scams (100/100 EN, 100/100 RU each), with 0% of English and 8%–10% of Russian legitimate pages called a scam.
Two minutes later, on their desktop…
Put Mate on your parent’s computer in two minutes
Built for our hosted proxy: install, click Try without signing in for 12 free messages an hour or sign in with Google, then hold Ctrl (or the key you pick in Settings) and ask aloud—no API keys or invite codes needed. Each account gets its own daily allowance of questions.
“I’ll wait quietly in the corner until you hold Ctrl — or just click me!”
Windows SmartScreen note
If SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC”, click the small More info link, then Run anyway (the installer is not code-signed yet).