Bea

Bea is a voice-first coach for whānau and families, built during the Built with Opus 4.7 hackathon. Most family apps ask people to log moods, track habits, or fill in forms. Families don't have time. Bea listens instead. She joins everyday family kōrero (conversations), transcribes, and reflects in the moment with warmth. The thinking happens between sessions. Three Opus 4.7 reasoning agents do work a smaller model would visibly fail at: a group session reader handles multi-speaker transcripts and per-member summaries; a pattern detector reasons across weeks; and a Coach decides what Bea should gently raise next, or leave alone. Five of eleven guardians use Opus 4.7, selectively, where extended thinking earns its cost. Bea's coaching stance comes from Takitaki mai (the Māori adaptation of Motivational Interviewing) and mana-enhancing practice. She borrows the skills. She leaves the rituals to the people who own them. Built by Lian Passmore, Aotearoa New Zealand.