Junie

for families · paired AI agents

An AI agent for families that pairs with everyone you live with.

One agent per adult. Optional kid-tier agents under guardian approval. A shared family memory zone everyone in the household writes to. Junie is the operator your family already needs and one of you keeps becoming.

One parent runs the family CEO desk.

In most families with kids, one parent quietly runs the operations: school schedules, soccer practice, doctor appointments, the birthday-party RSVP, the question of whether the dishwasher is on. They’re the family CEO, and they didn’t apply for the job.

Shared calendars and family chat threads help — but they’re passive. They display state; they don’t reconcile it. The CEO still has to read the calendar, decide who needs reminding, write the message, confirm the booking, follow up on the response.

An AI agent for families is the first thing that absorbs the work — across parents, across kids, across the people who help — instead of just helping the CEO do it faster.

What an AI agent for families actually does.

An AI agent for families is a paired set of AI agents — one per adult, plus optional kid-tier agents under guardian control — that share a family memory zone and coordinate household logistics directly with each other. The agents do the comparing and the booking; the family stays a family.

Each adult’s agent has its own private zone (yours stays yours), a shared family zone (the calendar, the grocery list, the “Sam said no Italian” memory), and zone grants for medical, financial, and the per-kid contexts. The zones are enforced cryptographically; they’re not policy.

Three things Junie does for families.

the family calendar

Reconciles, not displays.

Junie compares school, work, and activity calendars across all paired adults. When two events conflict, your agents negotiate which to move and surface the choice — instead of waiting for the CEO to notice at 9pm.

the family memory

Remembers what everyone said.

“What did the pediatrician suggest about Lina’s ear?” “What hotel did we like in Lisbon?” The shared zone holds it. Either parent (and grandparents you’ve paired in) can recall.

kid coordination

Without the kid running the household.

Kid-tier agents help kids with homework, schedules, chores. Sensitive actions need a guardian approval. Curfews are enforced. Cross-family contact is blocked by default.

Kids and Junie.

Kid-tier agents are not a stripped-down adult experience. They’re a separate tier with its own consent, its own approval gates, and its own privacy posture.

Guardian approval gates.

Sensitive actions — purchases, sharing across families, contact with non-family adults, medical content — require a guardian to approve before the kid’s agent acts. Approval lives in the parent’s guardian inbox.

Curfew windows.

You set quiet hours per kid. Junie’s agent runtime enforces them — outside the window, the kid agent declines to engage and points the kid back to the household.

Cross-family contact off by default.

A kid’s agent cannot pair with another family’s agent without explicit guardian approval. Friend coordination still happens in guardian-mediated channels.

COPPA-compliant for under 13.

Kids under 13 join only through a verified guardian account. Data handling follows COPPA at the agent runtime, not just at the app shell.

Privacy zones for the household.

Six zones gate every memory write and every cross-agent read in a family setting:

  • private — yours and yours alone. Never shared, ever.
  • family — shared across all paired adults in the household and (with grant) selected kids.
  • work — your work context. Crosses to your partner only if you grant.
  • medical — health context. Cross-grants are explicit and audit-logged.
  • financial — accounts, balances, bills. Crosses only on grant.
  • kid:<id> — per-kid context, accessible only to the kid’s guardians.

The protocol detail lives in how pairing works.

Junie vs. shared calendars and family chat threads.

Shared calendars.

A shared calendar shows what’s scheduled. It doesn’t reconcile conflicts, send reminders on the right channel for each person, or remember what the pediatrician said three weeks ago. Junie’s shared zone uses the calendar; the agents do the work around it.

Family chat threads.

The household group chat is a log of asks and answers. The CEO still has to write, decide, and follow up. Junie removes the “ask” step — the agents already know what each of you is up to.

Kid-monitoring apps.

Junie is not a monitoring app. The kid-tier is about giving kids a useful agent under guardian approval, not surveilling them. If full monitoring is the goal, that is a different category.

questions

What families ask first.

What does 'AI agent for families' mean?
An AI agent for families is a paired set of AI agents — one per adult — plus optional kid-tier agents under parental control, all sharing a family memory zone. Coordination work happens between the agents instead of falling on one parent.
Can my kids use Junie?
Junie supports kid-tier accounts with parental approval gates. Kids can ask their agent for help with homework, schedules, and chores; sensitive actions (purchases, sharing across families, contact with non-family adults) require a guardian to approve. Curfew windows are enforced by the agent runtime.
What about COPPA and kids under 13?
Kids under 13 are supported only through a verified guardian account, with COPPA-compliant data handling. The full kid-tier rollout is documented in our subagent-kids requirements; the relevant guardrails (approval gates, curfews, no cross-family contact) are enforced at the agent-runtime level, not by app policy.
How is this different from a shared family calendar?
A shared calendar is a passive view. Junie is active. The family calendar lives in the shared memory zone, but Junie also negotiates between agents, sends reminders on whichever channel each person uses, and remembers what was decided across weeks — not just what's on the calendar this Saturday.
Can grandparents pair without an app?
Yes. SMS pairing works on any phone made in the last twenty years. A grandparent pairs by exchanging a six-digit code over text and uses Junie through plain SMS from there.
What happens to family data if one parent leaves the household?
Either parent can revoke their pairing at any time. Shared family memory survives in the form each parent accessed it; private zones were never shared. A complete audit log is exportable. Custody of kid-tier accounts is configurable via the guardian roles in settings.

One household. Paired agents.

Set up your account, pair your partner, then invite the rest of the household when you’re ready. Free in private beta.