An AI family assistant that plans with you and asks first

What your Chief of Staff can do

Think of it as the person who already knows the family schedule. Ask "What's on this week?" and it reads the calendar. Ask "What can we make with the chicken thighs?" and it looks in your recipe box. Ask it to draft a week of dinners, build the grocery list, or write a to-do list for Ruby's birthday, and it comes back with a proposal you can approve or change.

• Answer questions about the calendar, meals, recipes and lists, by typing or by voice.
• Quick add: type, talk, or add a photo or PDF of a flyer, and it proposes the events and items for your Inbox.
• Draft the week's meals from your recipes and send the ingredients to the grocery list.
• Propose calendar changes and whole projects (a birthday party, a move) for you to approve, and add to-dos or grocery items when you ask, with Undo.
• Draft an email to a teacher or coach that you edit and send with one tap (sending uses a Microsoft account connected in Settings).
• Search the web and do deeper research when you ask, which you can turn off per agent.
• Read, but never change, the apps you connect: Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Dropbox, Todoist and Notion.
• Remember what you tell it to remember, and forget it when you say so.

It is a planner, not a replacement for your judgment. It can be wrong about a date or misread a flyer, which is exactly why everything it proposes passes through you first.

It proposes, you approve

This is the rule the whole product is built around. Changes to the calendar or the meal plan, edits to list items, emails, new projects and anything it would submit on a website all arrive as a card with an Approve button. Nothing happens until a parent taps it. The one exception is small and reversible: when you ask it to add milk to the grocery list or a to-do to your list, it adds it, and you get an Undo.

So when Sam says "Move Leo's dentist to Thursday at 3 and tell Jordan," the Chief of Staff proposes the calendar change and drafts the message. Sam reviews both, taps Approve on the change and Send on the email. Nothing moved and nothing was sent until then. The same holds in the Inbox: dates pulled from a forwarded school email wait there until you approve them.

Kids never use the Chief of Staff. Each kid can have a read-only Buddy instead, which can't change anything or use the web.

A morning briefing on your phone

Turn on the morning briefing in Settings, pick a time, and each morning your Chief of Staff writes a short briefing and pushes it to your phone: today's schedule (who, what, when), the dinner plan or a nudge if there isn't one, the local weather and what to bring, anything due today, home upkeep that's come around, and a heads-up for tomorrow. It skips sections with nothing in them, so on a quiet Sunday it's two lines.

Jordan reads it over coffee: Maya has a field trip (pack a lunch), rain after 3 (Leo's practice may move), the air filter is due, and tomorrow starts with an early dentist. That's the mental load, handed back in one screen.

Routines and a small team of agents

Routines are things your agent does on a schedule and posts into its thread, like a weekly review of your to-dos every Sunday evening: what got done, what's overdue, and suggested fixes on Approve cards. Set them up in a conversation; the agent manages the schedule and shows you a card to confirm.

Each parent has their own Chief of Staff and can add more agents with a job, say one for meals, one for school and one for travel. Each has its own ongoing thread, its own standing instructions and memories, and the Chief can hand a question off to the right one. A memory you choose to share is used by the other parent's agents too, so "Ruby is allergic to tree nuts" only needs saying once.

Errands on the web, with you in control

Some errands live on websites: checking a camp's registration page, comparing two party venues, filling a form up to the last step. An agent can do these in its own cloud browser while you watch the real browser window live. It stops and asks before any final submit, and you tap Approve to finish. You can take over at any point and drive yourself, and hand control back when you're done.

Two hard limits: the agent never types into password or payment fields, and what you type while you've taken over is never logged. If a site needs a sign-in, you do that part. The privacy and safety page and the privacy summary cover the rest.

Use your own Claude or ChatGPT too

If you already talk to Claude or ChatGPT all day, you can connect it to HouseChief as a custom connector. From there it can look up your family's calendar, meals and lists, and add items to a list or to the Inbox for approval, nothing more. It can't change events, send email or touch settings.

HouseChief picks the AI models that run the Chief of Staff; families don't choose or configure them. For a plain-English look at how to use AI at home without handing over the keys, read using AI safely as a family. To see the agent drafting dinners, see meal planning.