HM-LR-C1-A0 TOOL-DRILL-CORDLESS-18V GR-WS-S2-M0 FASTENER-SCREW-WOOD-2IN HM-KT-CB3-A2 TOOL-MEASURE-TAPE-25FT HM-GR-S1-F0 KETCHUP-HEINZ-14OZ

HOME INVENTORY LOCATOR SYSTEM

KNOW WHERE
EVERYTHING
IS. ALWAYS.

NOTHING IS LOST. EVERYTHING IS LOGIC.

Your garage has 23 tape measures. Your kitchen cabinet has 11 bottles of ketchup. Your signed David Bowie album is somewhere.

HIL gives every shelf, drawer, and object in your home a permanent address — readable by any AI, printable as a label, searchable forever.

TRY IT FREE → SEE HOW IT WORKS
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It started with
Dr. Piper's cabinet.

Dr. Piper was a country veterinarian in Sharon, Wisconsin. He sorted his hardware by hand — wood screws, carriage bolts, cabinet knobs — into a beat-up army-green metal cabinet.

He's gone now. The cabinet is still there. Nobody wrote down what he built with those screws.

HIL exists so that doesn't happen to your stuff.

PROVENANCE RECORD — ACTIVE
Old Granddad Cabinet
OLG-1 — Shop / North Wall / Cabinet 1
Army-green metal hardware cabinet. Owned by Dr. Piper, veterinarian, Sharon WI. Passed to family ca. 1987. Contents: assorted fasteners, hand-sorted by type. Status: preserved.

// This object has a story. Now it has an address.

— THE PROCESS —

Three Steps.
No Install. No Account.

1
📷

Pick a spot.
Take a photo.

Any shelf. Any room. Messy is fine. Annotate with your pencil if something is hidden behind something else.

IPAD + PENCIL WORKS GREAT
2
🤖

Drop it into
any AI.

Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. Paste the HL prompt. The AI reads your photo and assigns addresses to everything it sees.

NO NEW ACCOUNT NEEDED
3
📍

You own a
record. Forever.

Your inventory lives in your vault. Search it. Ask any AI where something is. Export it anytime. It's yours.

YOUR DATA. YOUR FILE.

— THE TOOL BELT —

Five Tools.
One System.

TOOL 01 — START HERE

Starter Pack

Print your cardinal anchor signs. Cut them out. Stick them up. Your space is now addressed. Five minutes, no thinking required.

OPEN TOOL →
TOOL 02 — THE HUB

Super Tool

Build your addresses, generate labels, create wiki pages, produce HIL exchange records. One tool that does it all.

OPEN TOOL →
TOOL 03 — YOUR INVENTORY

Vault BACKEND SOON

Your permanent inventory. Search everything. Save to the cloud or export to your own device. Data sovereignty built in.

COMING SOON →
TOOL 04 — IN THE FIELD

Field Tool IN DEV

Scan a space, map it, make zone signs, label your carts. Everything you do when you're on your feet with your phone.

IN DEVELOPMENT →
TOOL 05 — MAKE IT YOURS

Sign Studio COMING SOON

Design custom signs for your space. Art Deco, Industrial, Vintage Tin, Workshop, Dr. Piper themes. Print them. Make it permanent.

COMING SOON →

— DATA PHILOSOPHY —

We'll hold it until
you're ready.

No lock-in. No hostage data. Your inventory is yours from day one.

1

We Host It

Start here. Free. We hold your inventory on our servers. Nothing to set up.

2

You Export It

One button. Download your entire inventory as JSON, CSV, or SQL. Take it anywhere.

3

You Own It

Run it on your own hardware. Raspberry Pi, NAS, whatever. We'll help you get there.

SELF-HOST CONTEST — WIN AI TOKENS — JOIN THE CHALLENGE →

— COMMUNITY —

Show Your Setup.
Share What Works.

REDDIT

r/hilsystem

Post your organized spaces. Share workflow tips. Ask questions. Swap ideas. The community that improves the system.
OPEN SOURCE

hlsystem.org

The grammar spec. The developer docs. The open standard that HIL is built on. Free forever. Yours to use however you want.