Magpie
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The assistant that knows how your household works

Your family runs on a hundred things nobody wrote down.

The pickup that cannot be late. Who can cover a Thursday. How long that drive really takes. Magpie learns your household's rules, then tells you which parts of next week do not work, while there is still time to change something.

Request early access See how it works Private by design. What it learns about your family stays yours.
How it works Three steps, and then it runs on its own.
FIRST

You just tell it

No setup wizard, no forms. You talk (who is in the house, who can do a pickup, what time somebody has to be home) and it writes everything down. What it writes lives on a page you can open and edit yourself, whenever you want.

THEN

It watches the week

It reads your family calendar and walks the coming week hour by hour: where everyone needs to be, who is driving, and how long it really takes to get there.

EVERY SUNDAY

It tells you what breaks

Not a list of your events. You already have that. Just the two days that do not work, why, and what each one needs you to decide. Sunday evening, while things can still be moved.

What it does

Reading the calendar was never the hard part.

Holding it all in your head was. Here is the one thing Magpie does today, in full, and what it learns to do next.

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The week check

A 3:00 meeting downtown and a 3:15 pickup across town do not overlap, so no calendar will ever warn you about them. The drive between them is what makes the day impossible. That is the kind of thing Magpie catches.

A Tuesday that looks fine and isn't
2:00 3:00 4:00
Meeting · downtown
20 min drive
Pickup
5 MINUTES SHORT

Two things that do not overlap, and still cannot both happen. That is the whole problem in one picture, and it is invisible to every calendar you already own.

What arrives Sunday evening
Week of March 2

 THURSDAY: this doesn't work
   Flight lands 5:40. Soccer ends 6:30 across town.
   The dog has been alone since 8am.
    nobody is covering pickup. You need a plan.

 TUESDAY: tight
   The 3:00 downtown runs into the 3:15 pickup.
    5 minutes late unless it ends early.

? WEDNESDAY: I can't tell
   Looks clear, but I can't see one work calendar.

Mon, Fri and the weekend look clear.
Say it · or write it yourself
soccer's done for the season
Got it. Tuesdays are free from 5:30 again, so I took it off your rhythm page.
… and here is that page
ALWAYSSomebody is home by six.
DRIVESchool run is 25 minutes, not the 12 the map claims.
WHOEither of us can do pickup. Only one of us drives to hockey.
IF WE CANSunday mornings stay ours.

Everything Magpie knows about your household is one plain page. Change it in conversation, or open it and edit the line yourself. There is no hidden version.

COMING NEXT

Loose ends

The form you said you would send, the appointment you meant to move, the thing you promised your sister. Kept track of, and raised before it is late.

COMING NEXT

What I learned this week

Everything new it picked up, offered back to you as a short list to approve or wave off. Nothing is remembered about your family until you say yes.

ON THE WAY

Looking things up

Camps, doctors, the plumber who can actually come on Tuesday. Kept well away from everything that knows about your family (see below).

How we build it

Something that knows this much about your family has to be built a particular way.

These are not features we added. They are the shape of the thing, decided before the first line of it existed.

The smallest keyring that works

Every part of Magpie gets the narrowest access that does its job, and not one thing more, even where more would have been easier to build.

One job, one wall

The part that reads your calendar cannot reach the part that remembers your family. Each piece gets its own room, and what it can see stops at the door.

The riskiest thing gets isolated first

Anything that reads the open internet is walled off before it ships, not after something goes wrong. The order matters more than the wall.

It never guesses about your life

It will ask you. It will not infer a rule from a pattern and then act on it. A confident wrong answer about your family is worse than no answer at all.

Nothing is kept behind your back

What it learns is offered back before it is stored, and everything it holds is one page in plain English. Open it, read it, rewrite a line, delete the lot.

A record it cannot rewrite

Everything Magpie does is written down somewhere Magpie itself cannot touch. An assistant that can edit its own history does not really have one.

Why we will not ship the useful thing first

An assistant that browses the web is obviously useful. It is also the piece we are slowest with, on purpose. Why? Because a page written by a stranger is the easiest way to talk an assistant into doing something stupid. So anything that reads the open web gets its own sealed room before it gets its first page, well away from what Magpie knows about your children. That order costs us features. We think it is the job.

Early access

Get your Sundays back.

We are opening Magpie to a few households at a time, so each one gets set up properly. The first conversation matters more than the software does.

Request early access Opens an email to earlyaccess@withmagpie.ai. No form, no card. We will write back with a date.
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