Invite-gated beta
Runs the house so nobody has to carry it in their head.
Forward the school email. Snap the flyer. Chateoux turns the weekly firehose into one checked, source-cited family calendar — on your phone, in Google or Apple Calendar, and on the kitchen counter.
The invisible job
71%
30.4 hrs
8–10 hrs
The school PDFs, spirit-day emails, permission slips, signup links, snack rotations, and practice changes get noticed, re-typed, and double-checked by one person — across five to eight apps. That job doesn’t need a better place to be written down. It needs to be taken over.
How it works
1
Feed it anything
Forward school email to your household address, snap the flyer, upload the PDF, drop the team schedule. Five ways in, zero re-typing.
2
It reads with receipts
Every event, deadline, form, and fee is extracted with a per-field confidence score and a link back to the exact source document.
3
You confirm the 5%
Anything below a strict confidence bar — a smudged date, an ambiguous "next Friday" — waits for a 20-second review. It never guesses onto your calendar.
4
The house can see it
One calendar of record syncs to Google and Apple, and Kitchen Mode puts today + 48 hours on the tablet by the toaster — per-person lanes, readable from six feet.
Priced against the human alternative
A human household manager runs $75,000–$150,000 a year. Calendar apps ($3–7/month) store your load without moving it. Chateoux sits deliberately in the middle: real work taken over, at 1–4% of the human cost.
Household
$79/mo
The calendar of record, full ingestion, Kitchen Mode, both parents.
Household+
$149/mo
Everything in Household, plus the execution layer as it ships — appointments, errands, forms.
Estate
$249/mo
For households with staff: sitter and staff scoped views, multiple properties, priority support.
Beta households are comped. Final tiers are set at general availability.
The privacy stance
- No humans in the loop. No Chateoux employee reads your email or sees your family’s data as part of any flow, ever.
- Parents hold the account. No child accounts, no data collected from children — kids are lanes on a calendar, not users.
- Encrypted where it matters. Allergies and medical notes are field-level encrypted; access is scoped server-side. A kitchen tablet or shared link sees a bounded slice, never the household.
- No trackers. Zero third-party analytics SDKs. Product analytics are first-party and de-identified, and are never joined to children’s records.
The full policy, in plain language: chateoux.ai/privacy.
Questions, answered honestly
What does Chateoux actually do?
You forward the school email, snap the flyer on the fridge, or drop in the team schedule. Chateoux reads it, extracts every event, deadline, form, and fee — each with a confidence score — and maintains one family calendar of record that syncs to the calendars you already use. Anything it isn’t sure about waits for a 20-second review, never a guess.
How is this different from Cozi or Skylight?
Those are places to put the load — you still do the noticing, typing, and checking. Chateoux is built to move the load: ingestion is automatic, accuracy is confidence-gated, and the roadmap runs toward completing real-world tasks (booking, ordering, registering) with verifiable receipts. It’s priced against hiring help, not against a $7/month calendar app.
What if it gets a pickup time wrong?
This is the rule the whole system is built around: a time, date, or location that doesn’t clear a strict confidence bar never reaches your calendar — it goes to a review queue with the original document beside it. Every fact on your calendar shows its source ("because the Sept 12 newsletter said…"). Nothing uncertain ever syncs out, structurally.
Do my kids get accounts?
No — never. Parents hold the account. Kids appear as lanes on the family calendar and the kitchen display, nothing more. Chateoux collects no data from children, and sensitive family details (allergies, medical notes) are encrypted at the field level.
Are there humans reading my email?
No. No Chateoux employee is in any flow, ever — that’s a founding law, not a policy. Extraction is done by software, review is done by you, and the companies that put humans in the loop (at $149–$249/mo) are the graveyard we built this to avoid.
What does the beta include?
School-and-activity ingestion (forward, upload, snap, paste), the confidence-gated family calendar of record, Google Calendar sync plus an Apple-compatible subscription feed, and Kitchen Mode for the tablet on the counter. Beta households are comped — pricing applies when the execution layer arrives.
A note from the founder
I built Chateoux because the job of running our home lived in my head — every permission slip, every practice change, every “wait, is spirit day this Friday or next?” The tools I tried gave me new places to type things. What I wanted was for the noticing itself to be someone else’s job — without a stranger in my inbox, and without ever wondering whether the pickup time on the calendar was a guess.
So those are the two promises: your family’s data is handled like it’s ours, and nothing uncertain ever lands on your calendar. Everything else is engineering.
— Gabrielle Foster