For the parent running the house
The one who never drops a thread.
You carry the calendar in your head, the school email in a tab you'll get to, and the permission slip somewhere in the car. Rumpus carries it instead. Forward the email. Snap the flyer. Ask what's on Saturday. It knows who does pickup, who's allergic to what, and what you said last week.
- Nothing gets saved to the calendar without your OK
- Everyone in the house sees the same plan
- Talks out loud when your hands are full
Tuesday · 6:45 am
Morning briefMorning. Liam has soccer at 4, you're on pickup; Jordan has the dentist at 3:10. Ava's permission slip is due today, it's on the fridge list. Rain after 2, so the field may cancel; I'm watching the club page. You're out of oat milk.
- 4:00 Soccer · Liam · you drive
- 3:10 Dentist · Jordan
- Slip due · Ava
- Oat milk → grocery list
The mental load
Hand it the pile. Get back a plan.
Forward it and forget it.
Your family gets its own email address. Forward the PTA newsletter, the coach's schedule, the twelve-paragraph field-trip note, and Rumpus pulls out the dates and the to-dos and lines them up for a yes. Take a photo of the flyer on the fridge and the same thing happens. It catches conflicts before they're your Saturday.
📸 the fall sports flyer
I found 6 practices (Tue/Thu 4–5:30, Sept 9 to Oct 16) and a picture day Sept 20. Thursday the 18th overlaps Ava’s recital. Add them?
yes, and remind me about the overlap monday
You
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One calendar, whole house
Apple and subscribed calendars sync in; Google Calendar is on its way. Ask “any conflicts next week?” and get an answer, not a grid.
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Watches
Point it at the camp signup page, the rec-league roster, the price of the thing. It checks on a schedule and tells the family the moment something changes.
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It remembers
Shoe sizes, the nut allergy, that Grandma’s flight is the 14th, who has the car on Wednesdays. Memories it isn’t sure about, it asks about.
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Lists and chores
Grocery lists everyone can add to from anywhere, a chore chart with allowance, and a poll when nobody can agree on takeout.
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Research with the sources
Which car seat, which summer camp, what the pediatrician meant. A real report with its sources shown, not a confident guess.
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Out loud
Tap the phone icon and just talk: “what’s tonight?” while you’re driving, or a recipe read to you step by step.
The weekend project
See it before you buy the lumber.
Snap the dead corner of the yard and ask for a treehouse the kids can actually help build. The closet under the stairs, as a reading nook. The bare fence, with the mural your eight-year-old drew painted across it. The garage wall, as a climbing wall. Rumpus shows you each version, puts them side by side on a board, and writes the cut list and the shopping list for the one you pick. The kids vote. The argument is over before the hardware store opens.
- Makeovers from a photo, as many versions as you want
- Materials, cost and a weekend plan, sized to what you own
- Boards with photos, notes and live polls, so everyone weighs in
- Step-by-step, read out loud while your hands are busy
The other cost
We show you the electricity, too.
AI runs on power, and most products would rather you didn't think about it. Settings → Energy use shows an estimate of the electricity your family's AI used this month, split by feature (a song costs far more than a chat reply), with the method and its error band spelled out and a comparison you can picture, like minutes of a microwave. It's an estimate, and it says so; we'd rather show a rough number than none.
Built for a crowd
Family life isn't a solo act. Neither is this.
Most assistants serve one person at a time. Here, any chat can be shared, any board can be worked on together, and a poll gets an answer from everyone's own phone. When Rumpus plans the beach trip, the whole family shapes it, and it remembers who wanted the tide pools.
Share any chat
Invite a family member into a thread. They read along and jump in, with everyone’s messages labeled.
Build together
Trip plans, boards and lists are shared spaces: the plan one person starts, everyone finishes.
Decide together
Drop a poll into a chat or pin it to a board. Tallies update live.
Forward one email tonight. See what comes back.
Set up takes two minutes. Add the rest of the family when you’re ready; the plan covers everyone.