About Us

Built on Conviction

We believe your smart home should be smart enough to keep your data to itself.

Our Mission

Candor House exists because we got tired of the trade-off: give up your privacy or give up convenience. The big players built smart home ecosystems that listen to everything, record everything, and ship it all to servers you'll never see. We think there's a better way.

Pantheon is our answer — a complete smart home ecosystem where every AI model runs locally, every camera stream stays on-premise, and every voice command is processed without ever leaving your network. Not because we pinky-promise, but because the architecture makes cloud dependency impossible.

We're a small team with strong opinions about privacy, open source, and building things that last. We design our own hardware, write our own firmware, and train our own models. No shortcuts. No compromise.

The Team

Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy

CEO & Product Lead

Daniel leads product vision, machine learning architecture, and software development at Candor House. With a background in AI systems and a conviction that privacy is a fundamental right, he's building the Pantheon ecosystem to prove that smart homes don't require surveillance.

  • Product strategy and roadmap
  • Machine learning model development
  • Software architecture
  • Company leadership
Jake Mueller

Jake Mueller

Hardware & Industrial Design Lead

Jake leads hardware engineering and industrial design for all Pantheon products. From PCB layout to enclosure design, he ensures every device is built to last, looks at home in any environment, and meets Candor House's uncompromising standards for quality and repairability.

  • Hardware engineering and PCB design
  • Industrial design and enclosures
  • Thermal and mechanical engineering
  • Prototyping and manufacturing
Jacob McCarthy

Jacob McCarthy

Sourcing & Operations Lead

Jacob manages sourcing, installation logistics, and packaging across the Pantheon line. He builds and maintains supplier relationships, designs packaging that's sustainable and protective, and develops installation guides and kits that make setup seamless.

  • Component sourcing and supplier management
  • Installation system design
  • Packaging engineering
  • Supply chain operations