A family chief of staff that reads school email and texts parents the next day's plan every evening
Fambot is an AI agent you reach on SMS. To start, create an account. It reaches out on a schedule.
How Fambot works
Fambot reads the school email so the parent does not have to. You connect Gmail and Google Calendar once, tell it the children's names and schools, and each evening it texts a plan for the next day: what to do, what to bring, what is coming. You reply in the same thread to ask a question or hand something off.
It acts on the calendar and nowhere else. It finds the dates buried in newsletters and sign-up emails, adds them, and moves them when plans change, and its trust page lists what it will never do: send email for you without an explicit go-ahead, or touch calendar events you did not ask about. Its FAQ is blunter: it never sends emails on your behalf.
Its trust page names every vendor and what each is sent: OpenAI, Anthropic and Google for the models, with family-related email and calendar entries sent and deleted within 30 days; Twilio and Linq for the texts; Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud for hosting. It says email it does not judge family-related is neither stored nor sent to a model.
Children never hold accounts, and the parent consents for them, which is where its answer about people who never signed up stops.
It launched on 1 September 2026, free in beta. A free and a paid tier are promised, with no figure yet.
What Fambot costs, and how you start
| Channels | SMS |
|---|---|
| How you start | Create an account |
| Who starts it | On a schedule |
| Is there an app | Optional app An app exists but is not how you start |
| Categories | Family |
| Can do | Calendar and scheduling,Reminders,Task management |
| Connects to | Gmail, Google Calendar |
| Pricing | Free while in beta, no credit card. Its FAQ says a free tier and a paid tier will follow and the free tier will stay; no figure is published. |
| Number type | Not stated on its own pages |
| Contact number | None published |
| Documentation | None linked |
| First message, pre-written | None published |
| Runs on | Twilio and Linq, both named for delivering its texts (source) |
| Browses with | Not disclosed |
| Number carrier | No number to look up |
| Status | Beta |
Does Fambot train on your conversations?
| Trains on your conversations | States it does not“AI providers are not permitted to train on your data.” |
|---|---|
| Data of people who never signed up | Not addressed“If you're a parent or guardian setting up Fambot for your household, you're consenting on their behalf to that information being handled as described on this page.” |
| What it holds when you connect an account | A scoped token OAuth only, revocable from the provider's side“Connections use OAuth, the standard secure sign-in your provider runs. Fambot never handles or stores your password.” |
| If you cancel | Disconnecting erases the account, per its FAQ. A deletion request is handled typically within a few days, with some records kept where the law requires or to prevent fraud, and the AI providers delete what they received within 30 days. |
| Model providers named | OpenAI, Anthropic, Google |
| Jurisdiction | Not stated in the policy |
| Security document | Published. A trust and safety page in plain language: every vendor named with what it is sent, how long it keeps it and where it is, OAuth only, encryption in transit and at rest, logged access to production, and the two deletion clocks set out separately. |
| Asks before acting | Never sends email on your behalf without your explicit go-ahead, and never changes or deletes calendar events you did not ask it to touch. |
| Prompt injection | Not mentioned anywhere public |
| Bug bounty | None published |
| Availability | Not stated |
Fambot’s own pages answer 8 of the 9 questions this site asks of every listing. Not answered: says where to report a bug. More than most of its kind: 2nd of 6 family.
Quoted verbatim from Fambot's trust and safety page, which answers what its privacy policy of 8 August 2026 leaves out on 2026-10-03, and what a document says is not the same as its legal effect.
Who makes Fambot
| Company | Fambot, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Founders | David Reich, Greg Karlin, Jason Morrow |
| Based in | San Francisco, California |
| Funding | $3.5M pre-seed co-led by NextView Ventures and Baukunst, with Correlation Ventures, Karman Ventures and Founders Network, announced at launch on 1 September 2026. Source: fambot.com |
| Investors | NextView Ventures, Baukunst, Correlation Ventures, Karman Ventures, Founders Network |
| Traction | More than 1,000 families at launch on 1 September 2026, per its own release. |
From Fambot’s own pages at fambot.com, last read 2026-10-03.