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Not an assistant.
A Familiar.

A personal AI agent that triages your inbox, preps your days, runs your research, and remembers what matters.

A Familiar shows up before you ask. It takes five minutes to start and nothing to maintain.

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How a Familiar differs from chat

A chatbot waits to be asked

Chat answers.

You: What am I forgetting today?

Chatbot: I don’t have access to your calendar or email — but here are some general tips for staying organized.

Your Familiar’s already on it

A Familiar shows up.

Your Familiar: Morning — three things. Your 9:00 with Priya: the brief lands at 8:30. Camp registration opens at noon; the link’s in your inbox. And the dentist at 4:00 is only on the family calendar.

You manage everything. Nobody manages you.

The school portal, the contractor, the pediatrician who only calls back at 2:00. It’s an operations job on top of your real one, and it runs after 6 pm. Executives hand it to a chief of staff. Familiar does the legwork and brings back the choice to make.

A typical day: family time from 6 am, the real work from 9 am, and after 6 pm the second job: scheduling, follow-ups, research, the list. Familiar does the legwork on that part.

To your clients, you just seem on top of things.

Thursday is a minimum day, and the only place it’s written down is the school newsletter. Juniper, Jess’s Familiar, sees that pickup collides with her noon call with a client, drafts a note asking Dana to move it, and sends it once Jess taps Send.

Sending is coming soon

  1. Thursday is a minimum day, with dismissal at 11:30, and the only place it’s written down is the school newsletter. Jess’s calendars show a 12:00 check-in with Dana Kim, a client.
  2. At 7:02 that morning, Juniper, Jess’s Familiar: “Today’s a minimum day. Pickup is 11:30, and it’s only in the school newsletter.”
  3. Juniper: “Your 12:00 with Dana overlaps. I can ask her for 2:00. Here’s what I’d send.” A draft to Dana Kim follows, from Juniper’s own address, [email protected]: “Hi Dana, could we move today’s check-in to 2:00? Same link. Thanks, Juniper, on behalf of Jess.”
  4. Jess taps Send (sending is coming soon). The note lands in Dana’s inbox from Juniper, and Juniper confirms: “Sent.”
  5. Dana replies “2 works.”, and the call moves to 2:00, clear of the 11:30 pickup.
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What it does while you’re doing your job.

  • Inbox, read ahead of you

    What needs you, what it drafted, what can wait. You start with the three, not the three hundred.

  • Every calendar, read as one

    Work, family, the shared one from school. When two things overlap, it says so before the day starts, and it books or moves things when you ask.

  • Documents, edited in place

    It finds the file, makes the edits you ask for, or writes the first draft. Google Docs and Word.

  • Research that comes back with an answer

    Not ten tabs. The two camps with a spot open, the contractor’s reviews, when registration closes.

  • Memory you can see

    What it remembers about you is written down where you can read it, correct it, or tell it to forget. One memory, on your phone or at your desk.

  • Check-ins on your schedule

    A roundup before you open anything, a brief before the meetings that need one, a Friday digest if you want one.

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A capable agent on a short leash

Read what you connect. Touch only what you’ve allowed.

On its own

  • Reads your accounts.
  • Drafts replies.
  • Looks things up.
  • Remembers.

Leaves to you

  • Pressing send.
  • Spending money.
  • Anything you haven’t allowed.

Never

  • Rewrites its rules.
  • Disables a guardrail.
  • Touches a service you haven’t connected.
  • Acts without logging it.

Today your Familiar can’t send an email or spend money on your behalf. Sending is coming soon, and it will always wait for your tap. When it books, moves, or accepts a meeting, your calendar sends the usual invite or reply. Credentials are encrypted, and your data is never used to train AI models.

Name yours

So it starts with a name.

Names we’d happily answer to, from Shakespeare to the phonetic alphabet. Shuffle until one sounds like yours.

Biscuit

Cozy · Warm

From Old French bescuit, twice-baked; the soft American bun that took the name is first recorded in 1818.

Biscuit has something warm ready before you think to ask.

We’ll note Biscuit and reach out when there’s room.

Built with people doing two jobs.

None of them want to run software. All of them have real work to hand off.

  • Running a household that has more moving parts than most companies.

  • Running a one-person firm where the admin is the second job.

  • Writing something long while everything else keeps asking for a reply.

  • Anyone whose inbox is the to-do list, and the to-do list is the inbox.

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Meet yours.

In folklore, a familiar is a companion that acts on your behalf: loyal, capable, a little uncanny. Yours takes its shape from how you work, and no two are the same.

We’re onboarding a small cohort by hand. Five minutes of conversation, a quick connect, and your Familiar starts reading. Nothing to maintain; your part is deciding.

When we write, tell us what your second job looks like. We read every one.