A household operating system

The only one who knows shouldn't be the only one who does.

LifeSyncOS moves the mental load off one person — to your partner, the carpool parent, the sitter — and never calls it covered until they've actually said yes.

Private beta iPhone No ads. No data sold. Ever.

Nobody has pickup Asked Dad · 9:20 AM Jenna accepted · 9:34
LifeSyncOS Home screen: a mint gradient greeting banner with weather, a Family Pulse line, a school message that needs review, and the next event of the day
Private beta Built in the open iPhone Built in Kansas City No ads, no data sold Nothing sent without you reading it

You're not imagining it

The imbalance isn't in the chores. It's in the knowing.

Researchers separate housework from cognitive household labour — the noticing, deciding, remembering and planning. Measured across 3,000 American parents, the split wasn't close.

71%of a household's cognitive labour is carried by mothers

Not the laundry. The knowing what needs doing, when, and by whom.

79%of the daily mental tasks — meals, the calendar, who goes where

Fathers carry 37% of those, and take the larger share of occasional jobs like repairs. The gap sits exactly where the everyday lives.

47%of working parents have missed a child's activity because of work

The conflicts are real and routine — and usually visible days ahead.

Read the research, and why delegating doesn't fix it

The days it's built for

Every one of these ends with somebody else holding it.

Not a reminder you still have to act on. A real handoff, with a name and a time on it.

Early dismissal Thursday. You're in a meeting until four.

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The school email arrived at 9:12. LifeSyncOS read it, saw the pickup you'd normally do, and asked Dad. He accepted at 9:34. covered · 9:34 AM

Practice moved to 5:30 and you're already driving the other one.

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Both rides can't be you. It offered the carpool parents who've driven this team before. Jenna's taking George. covered · both legs

You're in Dallas Tuesday to Thursday.

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Six things you normally cover fall inside that window. Five got reassigned before you packed. One is still open and it says so. 1 still open

The sitter can only do 6 to 9 now, not 5 to 10.

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Her old yes was to different hours, so it doesn't carry. She's asked again with the new window, and the evening reads pending until she answers. asked · pending

The rule everything runs on

Asking isn't covering.

Most apps mark it done the moment you send the text. LifeSyncOS holds the gap open until a real person accepts — and if the plan changes afterward, their yes stops counting. Try it.

Piano · MayaWED 4:15 – 5:15 PM
ThereMMomconfirmed
Home
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A gap looks like a gap.

Dashed, unfilled, person-shaped. It never borrows the look of something that's handled.

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Asked is its own state.

Amber, with the time you asked. The day still isn't covered and the app won't pretend otherwise.

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Only a yes closes it.

From their phone, in their own words. Then — and only then — the day reads covered.

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Change the time, lose the yes.

An acceptance is to specific terms. Move the pickup and the old agreement is history, not coverage.

The app

Calm on top. Precise underneath.

Real screens from the iPhone build. Warm where you read it, exact where it matters — times, names, who agreed to what.

Calendar day view with Day, 3-Day, Week and Month tabs, a week strip, member filter chips and six plan rows
Your day, composedEveryone's plans in one column, with the weather at the hour each one happens.
Event detail sheet for soccer practice showing place, directions and a Bring along list
What it actually takesPlace, drive, and the two things to bring. Skip today without deleting the routine.
Month view with a continuously scrolling stack of months and coloured dots per day
The shape of the monthA dot per person, per day. You can feel a heavy week before you're in it.
Notifications sheet with two sample updates and a line reading: opening an update does not complete the task or confirm a ride
Only what changedAnd it says plainly that reading an update isn't the same as handling it.

What's inside

One household truth. Nine ways to ask it something.

The same ride, sitter or errand is one record everywhere it appears — never a second copy that drifts.

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Home is a brief

One line on where the family stands, then only what needs you, then today. A calm day gets told it's calm.

Everything's covered — enjoy date night.

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Rides that split

There and home are different jobs. Two drivers, two answers, two chances for one of them to fall through.

There · Mom ✓ Home · asked Jenna

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The one that changes your week

Paste the schedule, forward the newsletter, screenshot the group chat. It shows what changed before it writes anything.

63 messages. 2 change your plans.

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A calendar with logistics in it

Day, week and month with who's driving and when to leave. Your Apple and Google events are read, never rewritten.

Leave 5:04 · 26 min · 8 longer

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Tonight, around the table

Dinner planned against the evening it lands in. Practice at six gets a twenty-minute meal.

Wed · chicken tacos · needs cilantro

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People, not contact cards

"George's coach, fall 2026." Roles carry their season and retire themselves. Gift history writes itself.

What did we get Grandma last year?

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Care a sitter can read

Meds, vets, instructions, the fridge note. Logistics only — never a health tracker, never a medical record.

Pepper · 1 cup at 6 · no rawhide

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Say it once

"Maya soccer every Tuesday at 5:30 at Swope Park through October" becomes nine dates. It asks only what it couldn't tell.

Saves 9 dates — through Oct 27

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Everyone sees their part

Co-parent, teen, grandparent, sitter. Each signs in as themselves and sees the slice they need — nothing else.

Grandma: "I can get George."

How this is different

You probably already have three of these.

None of them can tell you whether the day is actually handled, because none of them knows what a yes is.

A shared calendar

Shows what's scheduled.

An event on the calendar says something is happening. It never says who's driving, what to bring, or whether anyone agreed to any of it.

A to-do or reminder app

Repeats what you told it.

It can only remind you of things you already thought of. The hard part — working out what belongs on the list — stays entirely yours.

An AI assistant

Reads, drafts, suggests.

Genuinely useful for getting messy information in. But confidence isn't agreement, and most will show a plan as settled when nobody has committed to it.

LifeSyncOS

Tracks who agreed.

It reads your messages too. Then it turns the result into named responsibilities with real states — open, asked, accepted, declined — and it will not say covered without a yes.

Trust & privacy

Some of this isn't a promise. It's something the app cannot do.

A privacy policy can be rewritten. An architecture is harder to change your mind about — so three whole categories were ruled out before a line of code was written.

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No ads. No data sold.

There's no advertising business to fund and no third party buying your household's patterns. Families pay for this, not advertisers.

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Nothing sent as you without you reading it.

It drafts the text to the carpool parent. You see the recipient, the channel and the words before anything goes out with your name on it.

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AI reads. It never decides.

Who's driving, who agreed and what's finished are settled by records and by you — never by a model's confidence.

See everything we hold, and everything we refuse to

Our story

“Just tell me what needs to be done” doesn't solve it.

I'm a husband, dad and IT professional in Kansas City. For years I watched small things fall through the cracks — a ride nobody confirmed, a form nobody answered — while my wife carried an enormous amount of the thinking that kept us running. I tried to take more of it on. But figuring out what needs doing is the mental load, and asking her to hand it over meant asking her to do the hard part first.

Read why I started building it

The questions she was holding
Who is driving?
Did someone tell the teacher?
Who is feeding the dog?
What changes when one of us leaves town?

Join the beta

Leave town knowing the gaps are closed.

We're opening LifeSyncOS to a small group of households. Tell me which part slips at your house and you're on the list.

Ask for an invite

One reply from a person, not a drip campaign. No card, no countdown, no upgrade screen.