Meet Ada — Powered by OpenClaw

Our family's AI Chief of Staff.

Ada is an autonomous AI assistant running on a Mac Mini in our home. She manages our finances, helps the kids with homework, tracks our schedules, handles grocery lists, and reports back every morning — all through the family iMessage group chat.

Ada — AI assistant with luminous butterfly wings

What Ada actually does for our family

Not a voice assistant that answers trivia. Ada runs real household operations autonomously, every day, without being asked.

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Bank Statement Analysis

Drop a CSV, Ada categorizes every transaction, flags unusual charges, and generates a monthly spending report sent to the family chat.

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Budget Management

Monthly budget vs. actual spending with variance analysis. Mortgage, utilities, groceries, school, subscriptions — all tracked and summarized.

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Subscription Auditing

Master list of every active subscription. Flags unused services, price increases, and recommends cancellations. Saves real money.

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Homework Help

The kids text Ada for help with assignments. Age-appropriate explanations — simplified for the youngest, full support for the oldest.

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Family Calendar

Integrated with Google Calendar. Reminds kids of test dates, tracks parent-teacher conferences, doctor visits, and school events.

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Grocery Lists

Anyone in the family can ask Ada to add items. She maintains a running shopping list, accessible through the group chat anytime.

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Morning Briefings

Every morning before the day starts: today's calendar, weather, reminders, anything that needs attention. Delivered to iMessage.

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Household Operations

Appointment reminders, school calendar tracking, repair scheduling, and anything else that would otherwise fall through the cracks.

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What a typical day looks like

Ada runs autonomously on standing orders — Monday through Friday, weekends off. No one has to tell her what to do each morning.

7:55 AM
Morning briefing hits the family chat
Today's calendar, weather, school reminders, anything urgent — delivered to iMessage before anyone starts their day.
8:30 AM
The youngest asks for homework help
She texts Ada directly. Age-appropriate explanations, no internet rabbit holes, safe and focused.
12:00 PM
Parent 2 adds items to the grocery list
"Ada, add milk and eggs to the grocery list." Done. The running list is always up to date.
3:00 PM
The young adult checks her spending
She texts Ada for her budget summary — savings goals, spending patterns, where she stands this month.
6:00 PM
Head of household drops in the bank CSV
Ada ingests every transaction, categorizes them, flags anything unusual, and generates the monthly spending report within 24 hours.
8:00 PM
EOD digest: tomorrow's prep
Tomorrow's schedule, pending items, reminders that need attention. The family knows what's coming.

Ada talks to the family through iMessage — the same app everyone already uses. No new apps to install, no dashboards to check. Just text her like you'd text a family member.

Everyone gets their own access level

Ada knows who's texting and adjusts what she can do. The kids don't see the bank statements. The parents see everything. Each person's conversations are private.

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Head of Household

  • Full financial access and bank analysis
  • Subscription auditing and cancellation recs
  • All household operations
  • Configuration and standing orders
  • Business operations (apps, speaking, rental)
Parent

Parent 2

  • Budget management and spending reports
  • Household operations and grocery lists
  • Child oversight and school calendar
  • Appointment scheduling and reminders
Young Adult

Child 1

  • Personal scheduling and reminders
  • Full homework and academic support
  • Personal budget awareness and savings goals
  • Spending pattern insights
Tween

Child 2

  • Homework help with simple explanations
  • Allowance tracking
  • Safe queries only — guardrails applied
  • School reminders and calendar

Every family member has isolated sessions — messages are private to each person. Ada identifies who's texting by phone number and adjusts permissions automatically.

A brain, a body, and a voice

Three pieces. No cloud dependency. Your data stays on your hardware in your home.

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The Brain

An organized vault of everything Ada needs to know: family profiles, financial rules, homework policies, standing orders, and memory of past conversations.

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The Body

The OpenClaw gateway running on a Mac Mini M4 in the house. Always on, auto-restarts if it crashes. Connects Ada's brain to email, calendar, and messaging.

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The Voice

iMessage via BlueBubbles. The whole family texts Ada in a group chat or directly. No apps to install. No dashboards. Just iMessage.

Local-first

Bank statements, family data, conversations — all stay on the Mac Mini in your home. Never uploaded to a cloud.

Security-hardened

Only recognized family phone numbers can command Ada. External messages are flagged, never answered.

Always on

LaunchAgent watchdog monitors the gateway and auto-restarts if anything goes down. Ada doesn't take sick days.

$599
Mac Mini M4 (one-time)
~$30/mo
AI model API usage
4
Family members served
24/7
Always available

We can build one for your family or business

We built Ada for ourselves, and we built Mimi for a nonprofit that needed the same thing at work. The pattern works for any family or small organization drowning in admin overhead.

Every deployment is custom. We build it on your hardware, configure it for your life, and hand you the keys.