Mote
Mote is one personal AI that lives in four small robots and moves between them.
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Who Mote is for
Eight of ten funded AI device homepages promise to remember for you, and none shows the AI doing a job on the first screen.
Mote is one personal AI that lives in a family of four small robots and moves between them: a desk rover, a clip-on camera, a keycap and a bedside dock. Only the body Mote is in has eyes and a lime light. Its buyer is an adult who already pays for an AI assistant and wants it on the desk, not in a tab.
The numbers behind it
- ~7,000of about 10,000 AI pins sold were still with their buyers by August 2024. Between May and August, more were returned than bought. 9to5Mac, on The Verge's report, 2024
- 3%of people who use consumer AI pay for it. Menlo Ventures, 2025
- 71%of US adults say more AI will make their personal information less secure. Pew Research Center, 2026
How the brand answers
The board is the family. Every body is asleep except one: the one with white pixel eyes and a lime light. Every few seconds the eyes jump to the next body. Lime only ever means Mote is here.
A day of jobs, one line per body
A cute robot is fun for a week, but I need it to do real jobs.
Today lists what each body did, newest first, and each body wears the face it showed at the time: Rover binned 3 paper scraps at 2:14 pm, Keycap ran two 25-minute focus timers, Clip spotted the 8:12 bus, Dock woke you at 7:00.
Your phone picks the body. The body does the job.
It does what my phone already does, so it'll end up in a drawer.
The app shows which body Mote is awake in and what the other three are doing. Drag the eyes from Keycap to Rover: Rover wakes, Keycap goes dark, and the island says Rover is on its way. The jobs happen on the desk, the strap and the nightstand, where a phone isn't.
The eyes are where Mote is listening
I can't tell when it's listening, so I won't wear it or leave it on my desk.
Only the body Mote is in shows eyes and a lime light; the others are dark glass. The face is also the interface: a 25:00 focus timer, a full bin, an incoming call, then the eyes again, drawn in dots on the same glass.
What's in the brand
- Colours
- Chalk#EEEDE9
- Fog#D9D8D4
- Graphite#2A2C2E
- Glass#0C0D0E
- Pixel white#F4F6F2
- Lime#C6F03A
- Type
- Zen Maru Gothic for words, its rounded ends matching the shells. The face's type is drawn on a 32 by 24 dot grid.
- Logo
- The M is five dots fused together, made the same way as the eyes. In the film the dots split, hop and fuse back into the lockup. The mark still reads at 16 pixels.
- Name check
- No Mote device company found. An unrelated Mote voice-notes tool exists in education. A web search, not a trademark clearance.
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Buy Mote
Sold once. Checkout holds Mote for you for 30 minutes while you pay on Stripe.
Questions about Mote
What do I get when I buy the Mote brand? The Figma file and every asset: the Mote logo and wordmark, the colour and type system, key art, product screens, mockups and the motion board. The brand is sold once, so it comes off Brandbooked when you buy it.
Can I rename Mote or change its colours? Yes, $300 each for a new name, new colours or new type. We redo the logo and mockups to match.
Does Mote come with a domain or trademark? No domain is included. No Mote device company found. An unrelated Mote voice-notes tool exists in education. That is a web search, not a trademark clearance.