Marlborough, MA — 2026-08-27
PrivateChief Opens $1,000 Integrator Referral Program — and Publishes Its Compatibility Gaps
The managed household-AI service runs on Home Assistant, connects to Control4 and Lutron systems, and states plainly that it has no supported path for Savant.
PrivateChief (https://www.privatechief.com) has opened a referral program for custom home-technology integrators, paying a flat $1,000 for every household placed, and has published a compatibility table on its website that names the control systems it cannot reach alongside those it can.
PrivateChief is a managed AI chief of staff for households and small businesses. Each client gets a named, conversational Chief that manages calendars, projects, documents, research, errands and family logistics, and controls the home as well. It runs on a small appliance installed in the residence rather than in the cloud, and is sold as a managed service at $149 a month for a household, $299 for a business and $399 for both, with white-glove setup quoted per job.
The company is also stating publicly, for the first time, what sits underneath it: every installation runs a private Home Assistant instance on the in-home appliance. That is the device layer, and PrivateChief inherits its reach across Matter, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread and IP devices. Clients never administer it; standing instructions live in the PrivateChief product, where a family member can see, edit and delete them, rather than in automation files.
The compatibility table published at privatechief.com/integrators is unusual in naming the gaps. Control4 is supported through Home Assistant's Control4 integration, reaching the controller locally on OS 3.0 or later for lights, media rooms, shades and climate — local only, as remote 4Sight access is not a supported path. Lutron is supported across RadioRA 2, RadioRA 3, Caséta, RA2 Select and HomeWorks QSX, covering dimmers, switches, scenes, shades, fan control, sensors and Pico remotes, with the company noting that HomeWorks QS is not QSX and is not covered. Crestron is listed as case-by-case, since no first-party integration exists and the working route is a community component over XSIG. Savant is listed as having no supported path today.
The commercial arrangement is deliberately a referral rather than a resale. The integrator makes an introduction; PrivateChief carries out the design session, hardware specification, installation, family onboarding, monitoring, updates and ongoing support. There is nothing for the integrator to stock, certify, warranty or carry on their books, and no support obligation returns to their service desk.
Attribution is handled by hand, with no codes and no tracking links. An integrator registers once; when a client books a consultation, PrivateChief asks who introduced them, and the firm named receives the credit. The fee is a flat $1,000 per household placed, with no tiers or percentages.
Integrators can register at privatechief.com/integrators. The same page carries the full compatibility table and a live demonstration Chief that runs in a browser without a signup.
