STILL HABITAT
A living library of the wildlife on your land
Cricket · Acoustic Intelligence
LISTENING...
A living library of the wildlife on your land

The wildlife on your land,
in its own voice.

Cricket listens day and night and names what it hears: birds, owls, mammals, amphibians, insects. So you know what's actually there.

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115 species and counting Real-time on-device AI Birds, owls, mammals, amphibians, insects Continuous 24/7 listening Pinned to your land's map Audio you can play back A record that builds season over season Designed in the East Bay Hills Field-tested in California oak and vineyard country Made for the people who live with the land
For Properties

Built for places where
the land matters.

Cricket is going onto a small number of Bay Area properties in summer 2026. Below is what it actually does once it's on the ground.

Eco-lodges & retreats
Your guests want to know what they're hearing at 5am. A quiet kiosk in the great room shows the night's detections: the great horned owl over the east meadow, the coyote chorus at 2am, the first dawn-chorus warbler. Conversation starter, naturalist program, and a reason to come back.
Vineyards & working farms
Starling pressure block by block. Owl-box occupancy confirmed year over year. Nocturnal damage logged with timestamps. The biodiversity record SIP, Demeter, and ROA buyers ask for, built continuously, not the week of the audit.
Conservation & science
Steady, hands-off listening without a researcher on site. Cricket runs unattended for months, identifies species on the device itself, and hands you clean, labeled detections for your dataset. Works for land trusts, university field stations, restoration projects, and conservancies. For academic deployments, data exports are available in CSV with timestamps, GPS coordinates, confidence scores, and audio references.
Private land & legacy properties
If you've spent years caring for a piece of land, you already know what's there. Cricket gives you a record. For your kids. For the next owner. For the simple pleasure of knowing exactly which night the saw-whet owl came back.
How It Works

Real listening.
No cloud.

Most monitors stream audio to a remote server. Cricket runs its own models directly on the hardware. The moment it hears something, it knows. And nothing has to leave your property for that to happen.

01
Listen
A weatherproof node listens continuously. Larger sites mesh several nodes together over LoRa so a 200-acre property covers as cleanly as a 5-acre one.
02
Identify
A model trained on thousands of species runs locally on the device the moment something is detected. No internet needed. No audio ever leaves your property.
03
Share
Detections appear on a live map with GPS, confidence scores, and short audio clips — all accessible through Catbird, the companion app. Build a guest-facing kiosk, a stewardship report, a research dataset export. Whatever the site needs.
Recently Heard

Live from Still Habitat.

Acoustic detections from Cricket nodes in the field, updated in real time. Each card is a species identified on-device from a sound clip — no cloud, no latency.

    Live from Still Habitat · Acoustic detections · Updated every 30s
    Property

    Six distinct habitats,
    continuously monitored.

    Cricket nodes cover each area. The heat bars below reflect detection activity in the last 24 hours — you can see where the birds are right now.

    Catbird · Live Demo

    See Cricket’s detections, live on your phone.

    Catbird is the companion app for Still Habitat’s active field sites. Open it now and you’ll see today’s species detections by area, confidence scores, audio clips, and a live map — exactly what a researcher or land manager would see in the field. No login required.

    Open Catbird →
    Scan to open on your phone
    QR code to open Catbird
    catbird.steadyacre.co/catbird
    How We Build

    Quiet principles,
    not slogans.

    Open by default
    The hardware and software are documented. If something goes wrong, you or a local technician can fix it. No proprietary locks.
    Runs without the cloud
    Everything happens on the device. Rural internet is real. Cricket doesn't need it, and neither do you.
    Field repairable
    Commodity parts. Published schematics. A failed node should be a 30-minute fix in your workshop, not a box you have to ship back to a vendor.
    Your data stays here
    Detections live on your property. They're never sold, shared, or peeked at. Not now. Not with a subscription. Not ever.
    About

    Built by one person,
    and a lot of heart.

    East Bay Hills field site
    East Bay Hills · Active Field Site

    Still Habitat is a solo project by Jack Beautz, a software engineer and hobbyist naturalist based in the Bay Area.

    I built Cricket because I think the land people farm and live on deserves more attention than it gets. A healthy ecosystem isn't just a nice thing to have. It produces richer soil, better pollination, cleaner water, and food that actually tastes like something.

    The biodiversity you hear at night is a direct measure of how alive a place is. Farmers, vintners, lodge owners, land trusts, and people who simply love a piece of ground are the best-positioned people in the world to protect that. Most of them already care deeply. I wanted to build something that gives them a clearer picture of what's out there.

    Everything here is designed and built by me: the hardware, the models, the dashboard. If you're a property owner, land manager, researcher, or just curious, I'd love to hear from you.

    [email protected]
    Field Season · Summer 2026

    There's more out there
    to hear.

    First pilot sites going in this season.
    Pilot Inquiries · Summer 2026

    Work with Still Habitat.

    I’m placing a small number of Cricket installations on Bay Area sites this summer — properties, parks, research plots, and field stations. Whether you’re a land manager, researcher, or property owner, tell me what you’re working on and I’ll reply within 48 hours.

    Or email me directly →
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