Flicker — Home & Car Maintenance

Part of the Circuit Forge LLC "AI for the tasks you hate most" suite.

Status: Backlog — not yet started. Peregrine must prove the model first.

What it does

Flicker manages ongoing home and vehicle maintenance: service scheduling, maintenance history tracking, recall monitoring, warranty tracking, and finding trusted local providers before something breaks.

The Northern Flicker is a woodpecker that works on the structures it inhabits — literally a home maintenance bird. "Flicker" also captures what the app does: it surfaces a reminder before you've forgotten, and before the problem becomes expensive.

Why it's hard

Maintenance is hard because:

• It's invisible until it fails: most people don't track what was done or when
• Recalls are your responsibility to discover — NHTSA notifies dealers, not owners
• Warranties have time and mileage limits that are easy to miss
• Finding trusted providers (mechanic, HVAC, plumber) requires social network or luck

Core pipeline

Inventory home systems + vehicles (age, model, service history)
→ Generate maintenance schedule (HVAC filters, oil changes, inspections)
→ Monitor recalls (NHTSA VIN lookup, CPSC product database)
→ Track warranty expiry dates → Alert before coverage lapses
→ Schedule service → Track provider history + rate reliability

Key differentiators vs. Peregrine

• Proactive vs. reactive: surface issues before failure, not after
• VIN-based recall monitoring: NHTSA API, weekly check per registered vehicle
• Maintenance schedule generation: manufacturer specs + actual usage patterns
• Provider reputation tracking: same provider across multiple jobs over years

Product code (license key)

CFG-FLKR-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

Tech notes

• Shared circuitforge-core scaffold
• NHTSA Recalls API: api.nhtsa.gov/recalls/recallsByVehicle
• CPSC product recall database
• Home system inventory: structured YAML (age, model, serial, last service)
• Maintenance schedule templates: per-system type with configurable intervals
• Vision module: scan appliance labels, VIN stickers, oil change stickers