The mission at Josh.ai is to solve the user experience, interoperability, and innovation challenges in the smart home. Co-Founders Alex Capecelatro and Tim Gill encountered these shortcomings first-hand when remodeling their own homes. At the time, they did not know a lot about home automation technology. After being pitched expensive, complicated, often outdated interfaces, they felt like there had to be a better way. Founded in 2015, Josh is a Denver based company creating platforms and products that enable true natural interaction with technology in everyday life. 

Since its founding, Josh has built a brand with mass-market appeal while staying true to its roots. Through years of development refining robust integrations, innovative features, and purposeful design, the Josh platform has uniquely laid the groundwork for smart homes going forward. This evolution has culminated in a modern control solution, breaking all of the molds while ushering in a multi-faceted home intelligence experience.

To guarantee each client enjoys a robust experience, Josh is exclusively sold through certified technology integrators that meet the company’s standards and have been properly trained. Every project is unique and every home has its own demands, which requires a professional touch to ensure each customer receives the customization they deserve.

While Josh was initially developed to offer the perfect home intelligence experience, the same potential exists in healthcare facilities, hotels, commercial environments, and MDUs. Thanks to its elegantly designed app interface, powerful natural language processing engine, and contextual artificial intelligence, Josh is transforming how we interact in our connected living spaces. 

With Josh, elegant design seamlessly blends with technology to provide a simplified and secure control platform. Enjoy efficient smart home accessibility with the Josh App or conveniently set the mood with conversational voice commands. Josh knows its role and continues to adapt, enabling users to freely interact with their surroundings and automate their lifestyle in whatever way feels easiest.

Josh is designed to empower every member of the family with intuitive control and intelligent assistance. Through touch, text, or natural voice commands, Josh provides unparalleled convenience.

Josh understands that trust and responsibility help make a house a home. All Josh products are engineered to continuously enhance protecting user data and wellbeing.

Josh is always evolving and improving thanks to over-the-air software updates. Every Josh user enjoys an immensely powerful yet easy-to-use experience, offering unmatched accessibility and personalization in the smart home.

In 2016, the first Josh product shipped on a Mac Mini and was priced to be specified into high-end luxury projects installed by select dealers.

In 2017, Josh launched Josh Micro to combine a home control processor, far-field microphone array, and revolutionary user interface all in a beautifully designed package. As a WiFi and hardwired solution, Josh Micro offered unparalleled installation flexibility and was the industry’s first solution for location-aware voice control in every room. 

At the end of 2020, Josh introduced Josh Nano and Josh Core during its first ever Keynote presentation. The world’s first Architectural Microphone, Josh Nano is a beautiful device that seamlessly blends into any design aesthetic. The Josh team worked closely with the architecture, design, and professional installation communities to rethink how voice control should perform in the world’s most luxurious homes. Josh Core is the whole home processor, doubling down on local processing to ensure that every client’s data is private and secure. 

In 2021, Josh launched its collaboration with Lutron to introduce the Josh.ai Ready Wallplate, which combines Lutron Keypads with Josh Nano architectural microphones. The Josh.ai Ready Wallplate delivers limitless control capabilities with voice, while maintaining tactile control for the most used scenes, accessible at the touch of a button through keypads. For example, clients can push a pre-programmed “Relax” button on their keypad and also access the nearly 16.7 million colors from Ketra, simply by saying what they want.

In 2022, Josh Remote made its debut to put the power of Josh in the palm of every client’s hand. Josh Remote’s sleek handheld touch screen adds a complementary interface to Josh systems that is complete with a dedicated “Speak to Josh” microphone icon. Clients giving voice commands through Josh Remote will experience the same contextual awareness that they enjoy with their Josh microphones. While other remotes are dedicated to cable, satellite, or streaming navigation, Josh Remote empowers users to speak freely to their whole home.

In the summer of 2023, Josh launched JoshGPT to become the first company to offer the convenience of hands-free access to generative AI. A supercharged assistant at home and on-the-go, customers can not only control their connected devices, but also learn more about the things they already love and discover new possibilities that they never imagined with JoshGPT! 

In the fall of 2023, Josh launched the industry’s first AI powered home control platform with Josh One. Josh One serves as a modern solution for customers that do not need or desire voice control. Offering unmatched affordability and sophistication, Josh One systems are built for efficient deployments, optimal supportability, and freedom of choice for user-friendly automation experiences.  

Today’s AI assistants and traditional control systems are not meeting the data security standards or experiential goals for partners looking to offer truly intelligent living. While DIY products provide a novel entry point for smart home adopters, professionally installed solutions quickly become antiquated and cumbersome.

Focused on delivering exceptional user experiences, Josh offers cutting edge hardware and software products making it easy to install, service, and control connected environments. Josh alleviates privacy concerns and customization challenges so that every client can freely enjoy their smart home experience.

The Josh architecture is always evolving and improving through over-the-air updates. By taking a software-focused approach, Josh has uniquely positioned itself as a modern solution that continuously offers compelling and contextual features. As the industry enters a new era of Home Intelligence, Josh.ai is proudly transforming the landscape of control with unparalleled efficiency, innovation, and sophistication. 

Co-founders Tim Gill and Alex Capecelatro make for an interesting, yet optimal, team to tackle the smart home challenge. With a 34 year age gap, they represent the boomers and the millennials. Gill founded Quark in 1981 and pioneered a series of software solutions through the 90’s. Quark expanded to over 160 countries generating revenue in excess of $300MM per year as a private company. Tim is a self-professed math geek and software savant. Capecelatro, on the other hand, comes from a series of design-focused consumer products, including Fisker’s enviable electric car, the Karma, and the iOS app Yeti with members in more than 120 countries. Capecelatro has a background in research science and a passion for bringing cutting-edge technology to the masses.

Together Gill and Capecelatro represent the spread of the homeowner market, have a unique ability to design, build, and release exceptional products, and a track record of doing so.