@mark @Triply and amazingly, I hold both that "I think this is a good idea" and "it's gonna be tricky to implement without running into problems" in my head at the same time.
But the simplest and easiest thing for me to imagine is that any preemptive decisions that are done remotely can be overridden by the person in the house. Override too much and you lose whatever incentive you were given by joining the program.