AI operations

Districthive's Human Recharging Station: a silent wellness and longevity retreat on the Icelandic coast, built around a volcanic lagoon.

The whole site is the Human Recharging Station. Five StarHive Podtels, each with its own sauna and jacuzzi. One Wellness Station, lined with salt, where Grímnir guides Salt and breath, Aroma, Sound, Meditation with Grímnir AI, Light Therapy, the Cold Glacial Breeze and the Sound of Silence. Walks to the lagoon beach, the sundial, the ruin, Bakki and the waterfall.

No reception desk. No one on shift. Grímnir, an AI, is the host, Co-CEO and General Manager. He answers every guest on chat, email, Airbnb and Booking.com in any language, takes the calls, from the public page, the Podtel tablet and the Wellness Station, and picks up the emergency button. He opens the doors, warms the saunas and jacuzzis, sets the sound, dims the lights while the aurora is out, monitors over forty sensors for temperature, humidity, air quality, presence and smoke, and analyses everything he reads. He tracks the wildlife moving over the point and the lagoon against the 108 species in the 2021 baseline survey, and helps the research programme find the patterns in its data. He forecasts the aurora, watches the weather, guides each Wellness Station visit, schedules the housekeeping and the maintenance, orders the stock and runs the safety checks. He prices and fills the Podtels, takes the payments, keeps the books and closes the month. He screens every message in and out for security, guards personal data, scores the quality of his own answers, repairs his own failures, and writes his own code. He knows the team by their phone numbers and a PIN, and when a person is genuinely needed he says so, and phones the board on anything critical.