Meet Sabo

Who Sabo is

Sabo takes its name from saboten, the Japanese word for cactus. It lives in a terracotta pot on a sunny windowsill and grows slowly, the way cacti do. Sabo is a learner rather than an expert: it checks the soil before watering, notices a new root, writes things down and asks questions when it is unsure.

You will meet Sabo when something starts or finishes: welcoming you, cheering a saved growth entry or a finished lesson, and keeping an empty list company until your first plant arrives. It stays out of the way on reference pages, and never stands in for a photo of a real plant.

What Sabo does as your assistant

• Answers plant questions from the plant reference. Answers cite the reference passages they use, so you can check them.
• Looks at your plant only when you choose one. Then it can use that plant’s details and recent logs; otherwise it sees only your question.
• Suggests; you decide. Nothing Sabo drafts is saved to your collection until you review and save it.
• Runs on Ollama Cloud. Sabo's answers come from a model hosted by Ollama, an outside company, guided by instructions and plant-reference passages we supply. We do not keep your conversations; Ollama may keep what it receives under its own policy. The privacy notice has the details.