TLDR Parents
Penny is an AI-powered family assistant that connects to Gmail and Google Calendar to extract school events, forms, and deadlines from across a family's inboxes into one organized feed. It proactively texts urgent items with source links and answers follow-up questions using full knowledge of the family's email and calendar. Every item is traceable to its original email via a "view source" feature that highlights the relevant detail.
- AI Agents
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Parenting logistics require monitoring multiple family inboxes for school communications, activity schedules, sign-ups, and deadlines, which is time-consuming and error-prone. Important events and forms buried in email are frequently missed, adding cognitive load and stress to already busy parents.
Solution
Penny is an AI-powered family assistant that connects to Gmail and Google Calendar, reads across the whole family's inboxes, and extracts family-relevant events, forms, links, and deadlines into one organized feed. It proactively texts users urgent items with the place, form, and link right in the message, and answers follow-up questions with full knowledge of the inbox and calendar. Every item is sourced: users can tap "view source" to open the original email with the relevant detail highlighted. The service uses OpenAI for event extraction and summarization, sending only family-related message content, and its AI providers are contractually prohibited from training models on user data.
Target Audience
Primary users are parents and guardians who manage school and activity logistics for their families and want to reduce time spent on email and calendar management.
Features
- Cross-inbox scanning across all connected family email accounts, identifying school communications, activity schedules, sign-ups, and deadlines
- SMS-based proactive alerts that deliver urgent events, forms, and links directly in a text message with source context
- Source verification via "view source" that opens the original email with the extracted detail highlighted and attachments preserved
- Natural-language Q&A over the family's email and calendar, enabling parents to ask questions like "does it still start at the same time?" and receive contextual answers
- Google Calendar integration for existing event import and automatic creation of new events on the user's behalf
- AI pipeline using OpenAI for event extraction and summarization, with data isolation and no model training on user content