Photo Saaru — Plan 3/4 lumière douce
Saaru.
A plant that takes care of itself.
An interior object made of fiber-reinforced concrete that waters and nourishes a plant for a month.
No app. No cloud. No subscription.
Limited edition of 200 units.
Campaign launch: September 2026.
Four out of five plants die within a year of purchase.
Not out of neglect. But out of lack of time.
Out of forgetfulness. Out of being away for a few days.
Because the lighting wasn't quite right,
because the soil has been dry for three weeks.
We've tried apps.
We've tried connected sensors.
We've tried self-watering pots.
Nothing really worked — and the plant remains in
its brown plastic pot from the garden center.
Macro matière béton
An object, not a gadget.
Hand-poured fiber-reinforced concrete or oiled oak.
42 × 30 × 40 cm. Five kilos.
Made in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France.
Numbered series, 1 to 200.
A month without thinking about it.
The water reservoir lasts four weeks.
The nutrient reservoir lasts six months.
The pump is silent.
You add water when the indicator blinks.
Situation salon — pas d'écran
No app. No account. No cloud.
Saaru doesn't connect to anything.
No data leaves the pot.
When an update is available,
you scan the QR code engraved on the pot.
A web page guides you. A few minutes.
In four steps.
You receive Saaru
The pot, the repotting kit if you added it, a card with your serial number, and a paper guide.
You repot your plant
You transfer your plant (or buy one from a garden center). Standard potting soil, clay pellet drainage.
You fill the reservoirs
Tap water in the large reservoir. Standard liquid fertilizer in the small one. You plug in the USB-C cable.
You forget about it
Saaru takes care of the rest. You check the water level again in a month. One single notification: the blinking light when it's time.
You receive Saaru
The pot, the repotting kit if you added it, a card with your serial number, and a paper guide.
You repot your plant
You transfer your plant (or buy one from a garden center). Standard potting soil, clay pellet drainage.
You fill the reservoirs
Tap water in the large reservoir. Standard liquid fertilizer in the small one. You plug in the USB-C cable.
You forget about it
Saaru takes care of the rest. You check the water level again in a month. One single notification: the blinking light when it's time.
Campaign launch: September 2026.
Sign up to be notified 48h before pre-orders open and benefit from the Inner Circle rate: -25% on the limited edition.
One email before the launch.
One on the day. Nothing else.
Saaru exists because a pot shouldn't need an app.
Saaru means "sap" in Tamil — what circulates inside the plant, invisible and vital. It also describes what the object does: taking care of what is invisible.
Household objects have filled up with screens, notifications, accounts to create, updates to accept. A plant needs none of that.
Saaru does three things: waters, nourishes, measures. Everything happens in the pot. No data leaves. No server is consulted. There's no app to download, no account to create, no subscription to pay.
When an update is available, you scan the QR code engraved on the pot. The web page guides you. A few minutes, once a year or so.
The pot is made of fiber-reinforced concrete or oiled oak. It's handmade in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France, in numbered series of 200 units. It weighs five kilos. It makes no noise.
It's an object, not a gadget. It doesn't need to evolve to stay relevant.