People deserve to know what they’re actually buying.
Not in marketing terms.
In structural terms.
The Home Guardian is built on The Faust Baseline Codex 2.5 — Aletheia. That fact matters, because 2.5 is not a minor revision of 2.4. It is a different posture entirely.
To understand what the Home Guardian gives you, you have to understand the difference between capability and competence—and how that difference shows up between versions.
What 2.4 (Hexis) was designed to do
Baseline 2.4 was built to introduce discipline.
It focused on:
- grounding conversations,
- preventing obvious drift,
- slowing impulsive outputs,
- restoring basic interpretive clarity.
Hexis is effective. It is stable. It does its job well.
But 2.4 was never intended to carry prolonged household-level decision pressure. It was designed as a foundational orientation layer—a way to bring AI interactions back into a sane posture.
That’s why Hexis is priced where it is. It’s a starting point.
What changed in 2.5 (Aletheia)
Baseline 2.5 is where truth-handling becomes explicit.
Aletheia was built to operate under:
- prolonged ambiguity,
- emotionally loaded inputs,
- repeated questioning,
- narrative distortion,
- and pressure to “just give an answer.”
In other words, the exact conditions people are living in right now.
2.5 introduced:
- stronger refusal architecture,
- clearer fact–interpretation separation,
- protection against familiarity drift,
- and a firmer boundary between assistance and influence.
This is not cosmetic. It changes how the system behaves over time.
Where 2.4 stabilizes, 2.5 holds.
That’s why Aletheia is priced at $175 when sold as a standalone codex. It is built for sustained use, not occasional reference.
What the Home Guardian actually is
The Home Guardian is Aletheia 2.5, adapted and constrained for household use.
Not a cut-down version.
Not a teaser.
Not a lesser build.
It is the same 2.5 competence layer, focused on:
- filtering incoming information,
- slowing decision pressure,
- clarifying what is known vs. assumed,
- and protecting judgment inside the home.
The difference is not quality.
The difference is scope.
The Home Guardian is intentionally narrow. It doesn’t try to be everything. It doesn’t chase edge cases or professional use. It does one thing well: keep thinking clean when things are noisy.
Why the pricing looks the way it does
This is where the math becomes clear.
- Baseline 2.5 (Aletheia): $175
- Home Guardian (built on 2.5): $50 one-time
- Difference: $125
That is not an accident. It’s a decision.
The Home Guardian is priced lower because:
- it is bounded to home use,
- it does not include professional expansion layers,
- and it is meant to be owned, not escalated.
At the same time, it is cheaper than Hexis at $89, while being built on a more advanced baseline.
That should tell you something.
You are not buying “less.”
You are buying more discipline, with fewer distractions.
Why this matters right now
People don’t need more tools.
They need fewer, better ones.
Most households are not trying to optimize. They’re trying to avoid mistakes. They’re trying to make decisions that won’t come back to haunt them six months from now.
The Home Guardian exists for that exact use case.
It is not designed to impress.
It is designed to hold its posture when everything else is pushing.
That’s what 2.5 was built for.
Why this is not a bait-and-switch
This needs to be said plainly.
Buying the Home Guardian does not obligate you to buy anything else later. There is no upgrade pressure. There is no hidden ladder. There is no “unlock the real version” moment.
You buy it once.
You own it.
It does the job it was built to do.
If someone later wants the full, unbounded Aletheia Codex for professional or institutional use, that’s a separate decision. Not a requirement. Not a trap.
Final clarity
The Home Guardian is not a discount product.
It is a deliberately scoped deployment of a higher baseline.
Built on 2.5.
Priced for households.
Designed for this season.
People are taking their time with it because they should.
This is not about saving money.
It’s about buying stability at a moment when stability is expensive everywhere else.
If you understand that difference, the value is obvious.
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