I'm Qi'an, the founder of QiLogic.
I don't think finding a good home should come down to luck or gut feeling. I think it's a logic — the logic of how people and space interact. So I put modern data logic and the traditional study of built environments together into a decision system you can use more than once. Whether you're renting, buying or about to renovate, I want it to help you avoid the risks you can't see, and to find, in the most rational way available, a place you can settle into.
The first place we owned
I was sixteen when my family finally bought a home. It was brand new, and it had a draught running straight from the front door to the window opposite, a beam pressing down over a doorway, and a stairwell dropping away right beside the entrance. All I knew to do was ask my mother to put a cabinet in the draught's path and swap the sofa and the television so nobody sat with their back to the door. The rest of it — a desk facing away from the door, a beam over a bed, a window lined up with a bedroom door — I simply didn't know needed handling. We lived with all of it for years.
In 2004 I moved out, and for the first time the place I lived in was entirely my decision. I started arranging it around feng shui, and noticed something: once I was sleeping and settling well, my head cleared. Studying, work, everyday problems — all of it took less out of me. And when I felt steadier, people responded to me differently too.
Why a tool, and not a consultancy
I still remember what house-hunting was like when I was younger. Every move, every rental, and the first place I bought meant walking through a lot of homes in a short time. There was never room to properly ask whether this one actually suited me — and with rent or a mortgage pressing, more often than not I just took the cheaper one.
Home matters to most people. Buying one can be the decision of a lifetime, and for renters, living badly makes it that much harder to turn a situation around. A lot of difficulties are avoidable; they happen because the place someone lives in doesn't let them recharge, leaves them uneasy or sleeping poorly, and then they make the wrong call at the moment it counts.
But getting a consultant to walk through your home is hard enough as it is — and far harder when you're still inspecting, or renting. So what I wanted to build was a tool with a simple interface that anyone can afford, and that explains itself in words anyone can follow.
How it works
Everything that gets calculated — the Flying Stars chart, Kua numbers, the period a building belongs to — is worked out by the system from lookup tables that were verified beforehand. The AI doesn't calculate, and it doesn't decide what's auspicious. Its only job is to take verdicts that were already settled and apply them to your rooms and the people living in them.
I want you to be able to use it before you buy or rent, to choose the place that suits you best. And if you already live somewhere, or you're about to renovate, to arrange that home around you and your family. Even when the place you're in falls short, what you do with the layout, the furnishing and the objects in it still makes a real difference.
The site is built around homes for now. Where I'm taking it next is helping people buy.
I don't think feng shui is mysticism. I think it's the logic of how people and space interact — which is where the name QiLogic comes from.
I know feng shui, and I write code — QiLogic's chart-casting method is one I verified by hand against the classical texts.