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General
What is TimeMe.AI?
TimeMe.AI is the scheduling app built for the whole family. It puts every kid's lessons, practices, club meetings, tutoring sessions, and family events in one place — and gives you an AI (AskAI) that books coaches and tutors, finds times everyone is free, and keeps the week running without you stitching it together yourself.
It works on iOS and Android, for parents, kids, coaches, tutors, club leaders, and school admins. Free during launch.
How is TimeMe.AI different from a regular family calendar?
A regular family calendar (Cozi, FamilyWall, shared Google Calendar) is a passive list. You write things into it. TimeMe.AI is an active coordinator — you tell AskAI what you need (“book Brandon’s basketball with Coach Colin Saturday at 10am”), and the booking, the calendar entry, the parent notifications, and the reminders all happen in one step.
Plus the coach or tutor is actually in the app, not on a separate platform. The session lands on your calendar by default. No copy-paste.
What does the AI actually do?
AskAI is the conversational primary surface. It can: book coaches and tutors directly, schedule family events, find mutual free times across kids and parents, reschedule lessons, set up an entire sports team (roster + practice schedule + parent notifications) in one conversation, search for an expert by what you need, write session notes after lessons, and generate progress reports.
Under the hood, it has around 150 tool actions wired into the family scheduling and booking data. It's not just chat — it can actually do things.
Who is TimeMe.AI for?
Five audiences on the same app: parents coordinating the family week, kids managing their own schedules (yes, the AI talks to kids directly — it's one of the things only TimeMe.AI does), coaches running youth sports teams, independent tutors and music teachers, and club leaders running chess clubs, robotics, drama, AAU directors, etc.
The multi-role architecture means one person can be more than one role (parent + coach, kid + tutor in training) on a single account.
Where did TimeMe.AI come from?
Built by a Bay Area family team: Ben (founder), Brandon (youth sports / 30-team AAU basketball club), Freda (school partnerships / Asian-American parent communities), Katelyn (campus tutors). The product was built around what the families and coaches we already know actually need.
We're independent — no VC clock, no paid acquisition, no growth hacking. We're here to build a tool the families will use for years, not optimize a metric for a Series A.
For parents
How does the AI work for a parent?
You open AskAI and tell it what you need. Examples:
- “Reschedule Maya's piano lesson to next Wednesday at 4pm.”
- “Find a time everyone in the family is free this Saturday afternoon.”
- “Book Brandon's basketball with Coach Colin Saturday at 10am.”
- “What does Maya have tomorrow?”
The AI executes the action (sends the reschedule message, books the session, returns the free time) and updates the calendar. You don't have to navigate to a separate booking screen or write the text yourself.
Can my kids use the AI too?
Yes — and this is something only TimeMe.AI does. Your kids have their own login and their own AskAI surface. They can check what's on their schedule, reschedule a tutor session with you in the loop, ask for next week's practice times, or look at their own progress notes from coaches.
This is meaningfully different from Cozi (no kid role at all), Ohai (kids appear as calendar entries, ToS bars under-13), or Gether (three-adult-role family model with no kid role).
You set what your kid can do alone vs. what needs you to approve. The kid agency model is graduated — younger kids see schedule + ask questions; older kids can reschedule with confirmation.
How does TimeMe.AI handle multiple kids' schedules?
The Family Day View renders one column per kid. Every practice, lesson, club meeting, and family event appears in the right column on the right day. Conflicts (two kids needing to be in two places at once) surface visibly. Parent column is there too — so you see when you're double-booked between “drive Maya to piano” and “sit through Brandon's tournament.”
AskAI is family-aware. “Find a time everyone is free” means everyone in the family, not just one calendar. “Book Maya's piano” books it as Maya's event, not yours.
Do I have to give the AI access to my Google Calendar?
No, but you can if you want. TimeMe.AI works as a standalone family calendar; your TimeMe.AI events can also sync out to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook (so they show up in whatever system calendar you already use), and you can pull external events in if you want a single view.
The integration is optional and one-directional by default. The AI doesn't need access to your work calendar to schedule a piano lesson.
What about my kid's data?
Schedule data (what activities, when, with whom) is what TimeMe.AI uses to make the AI useful. We don't sell it, we don't share it with third parties for marketing, and we don't train external AI models on it without your explicit opt-in.
Anthropic (the AI provider behind AskAI) processes conversations to generate responses; per their policy, that data isn't used to train models by default for our integration. See the privacy policy for the full picture.
For kid-side data (kids under 13), we follow COPPA — parental consent at signup, scoped data collection, no behavioral advertising.
For coaches
How is TimeMe.AI different from TeamSnap?
Three structural differences:
- AI in the mobile coach app. TeamSnap's AI is marketing-only (XbotGo and Pixellot are video partners; not workflow AI). TimeMe.AI's AskAI sets up the team, the practice schedule, and the parent notifications by conversation, on your phone.
- Family calendar integration. TeamSnap shows you your team's schedule; TimeMe.AI shows the parent your kid's entire week (basketball + piano + tutoring + family events). Parents adopt readily because the value isn't just about your team.
- Free. No per-team subscription. A coach running 3 teams on TeamSnap Ultra pays ~$450/yr. A 30-team club director pays $599–$1,299/yr on TeamSnap for Business. TimeMe.AI is free during launch.
What about payments? Can I collect AAU fees through the app?
Not in the launch window. Payments are part of the Phase 6 roadmap and not live yet. For now, TimeMe.AI positioning is scheduling + coordination + family integration — we're not asking you to switch your payment processor.
If you're collecting AAU stipends today via Venmo, Zelle, or TeamSnap Pro, keep doing that. TimeMe.AI doesn't break your existing payment flow.
Do I need league or club permission to use TimeMe.AI?
No. AAU has no app exclusivity. Individual coaches are free to choose any communication and scheduling tool for their team. Even within a club using TeamSnap for Business, individual coaches sometimes run additional tools alongside.
That said, if you're a club director running multiple teams, the highest-leverage move is club-wide adoption. We're happy to walk you through how that pitch lands with your other coaches.
Can I run my private training side business through TimeMe.AI?
Yes — and that's one of the design intents. Your PlanIt page is your free booking page for 1:1 private training. Set your availability, parents on your team book a session in two taps, and it lands on their family calendar by default.
The team coaching relationship feeds private bookings naturally — same parents, same trust, same app. The cost displacement vs Calendly Pro ($10–$16/mo) is ~$120–$192/yr on top of the TeamSnap savings.
What if only some of my team's parents are on TimeMe.AI?
Schedule changes from TimeMe.AI sync to system calendars (Google, Apple, Outlook). Parents who haven't installed yet still see the practice on their phone — just without the AI surface and direct messaging.
Most coaches we've talked to find that once one or two parents are in the app and saving time, the rest follow within a season. The free pricing removes the “not worth another app subscription” objection.
For clubs (school + AAU)
Does TimeMe.AI work for non-sports clubs?
Yes. The team data model is generic — chess club, robotics, drama, choir, STEM program all work today on the same surface. ONLY 1 (build the team by conversation from your phone) and ONLY 5 (kids talk to AI for their own schedule) both apply.
What's different for school clubs vs sports clubs: usually the adult is a volunteer parent or a teacher, the schedule is school-calendar-aware, and the family expectation is “this is one of seven things my kid does this week” rather than “this is the main team commitment.” All compatible.
Can a school's chess or robotics club use TimeMe.AI?
Yes — for free, with no school integration burden. The club advisor (teacher or parent volunteer) sets the club up the same way a coach does. Member families get the club's schedule in their TimeMe.AI calendar alongside everything else their kids do.
The school doesn't have to host, manage, or pay for anything. See For Schools for the institutional partnership conversation.
How does TimeMe.AI handle a multi-team club?
Multi-Team Broadcast lets a club director or admin send one announcement to every family in every team — in their TimeMe.AI calendar context, not as a generic blast. “Spring tournament weekend logistics” reaches the 30 teams' families with the message landing on their kid's relevant team schedule.
This is a genuine differentiator vs TeamSnap for Business or SportsEngine, where multi-team announcements are admin-side broadcasts that often miss parents who aren't checking the app for that team specifically.
For tutors and experts
How does PlanIt compare to Calendly?
Calendly is best-in-class for solo professional booking with deep features (round-robin assignment, workflow automation, complex availability rules, intake forms, paid scheduling). PlanIt is intentionally lighter — the wedge isn't feature-parity with Calendly Pro, it's family-context-integrated booking.
The PlanIt page lives in the same app where the family is already managing their week. Parents book a tutoring session and it lands on the family calendar by default — no copy-paste, no third-party page, no “wait, what was the link?”
If your tutoring practice needs Calendly Pro features specifically, use Calendly externally and link from your TimeMe.AI profile. PlanIt is the right primary choice for most independent tutors who serve families with multiple activities.
Does TimeMe.AI take a cut of my session fees?
No platform fee on bookings during launch. You set your rate. Parents pay you directly (Venmo, Zelle, Stripe, in person — whatever you do today). TimeMe.AI is not in the payment loop.
Long-term, our monetization roadmap is a family-side credit-pack model — families buy a coordination pack that's fungible across activities — not a platform fee on individual experts. We won't extract margin from your session rate.
How do parents find me?
Two surfaces. AI Expert Search: when a parent asks AskAI “find me a piano teacher who comes to Cupertino” or “I need an algebra tutor for my 8th grader,” the AI surfaces relevant experts based on your profile, location, and the family's needs. Direct PlanIt link sharing: you can share your PlanIt page directly with families you already know — text, email, social, etc. — same as a Calendly link.
The discovery feed is gated behind real profile completion — we won't surface empty-profile experts to families.
For schools
What is the school being asked to do?
Nothing. Really. The school does not host, manage, pay for, integrate, or maintain TimeMe.AI. Families sign up directly on iOS or Android; clubs and tutors set themselves up. The school's only role — if they choose — is to share TimeMe.AI as a resource with parents.
What we'd love (not required): a PTA newsletter mention, a flyer in the back-to-school packet, a slot at curriculum night. Optional.
What does the school get out of partnering?
A coordination tool that reduces the “please remind families about X” load on the school office. Less ad-hoc coordination over email and Konstella threads. Families who can actually keep track of chess + robotics + drama + math team + STEM club + sports + music + tutoring without losing the school's events in the noise.
For schools with active club programs, TimeMe.AI is the layer that connects family-level coordination to club-level coordination without making the school the integration point.
How is student data handled?
The school does not provide TimeMe.AI with student rosters, contact data, or any school records. Families add their own kids to their own TimeMe.AI accounts. We don't ingest student information systems, school directories, or admin databases.
For kids under 13, we follow COPPA: parental consent at signup, scoped data collection, no behavioral advertising. See the privacy policy for full handling. Happy to walk a school admin through this in detail — partnerships@timeme.ai.
Privacy + data
What happens to my family's data?
Schedule data (what activities, when, with whom, where) is what TimeMe.AI uses to make the AI useful and to run the calendar features. We don't sell it. We don't share it with third parties for marketing. We don't train external AI models on your data without your explicit opt-in.
Full data handling is in the privacy policy. We're happy to answer specific questions: hello@timeme.ai.
How does the AI use my conversation history?
Your AskAI conversations are stored so the AI has context for follow-up questions and so you can scroll back through what you asked before. Conversations are scoped to your account — other family members on your TimeMe.AI account don't see your AskAI history by default.
The Anthropic API (which powers AskAI) processes your messages to generate responses; per Anthropic's policy, that data isn't used to train models by default for our integration.
Are kids' messages with AI private from parents?
By default, kids' AskAI conversations are private to the kid — same as a journal. Parents see what shows up on the family calendar (schedule changes the kid made) but don't see the conversational back-and-forth.
For younger kids, parents can opt to see the kid's AskAI history through the family settings. The default leans toward kid privacy because the alternative undermines the kid's reason to use the AI surface at all (which is the ONLY-5 differentiator).
Pricing
Is it really free? What's the catch?
It's really free during launch. No credit card. No trial that auto-converts. No upsell pressure mid-feature.
The honest catch: this is the launch window. The core scheduling + AI surface stays free permanently, but a premium tier for power users will roll later in the roadmap. We're being explicit that “free during launch, premium later” (not “free forever”) because we don't want to make a promise we can't keep on the long-term monetization side.
Will current free features become paid?
The core scheduling + AI surface stays free permanently. The features families and coaches use every day — family calendar, AskAI for booking and scheduling, PlanIt booking pages, team setup, parent notifications, cross-activity coordination, kid agency — remain in the free tier.
Premium features that land later will be additive (new things you can opt into) rather than walls around existing features. We won't pull functionality you rely on into a paywall.
But doesn't [X] do this already?
But doesn't TeamSnap have AI?
TeamSnap's AI is in video and highlights through partnerships with XbotGo and Pixellot. That's useful for parents browsing post-game footage. It's not workflow AI — it doesn't set up the team, schedule practices, herd RSVPs, or run parent notifications by conversation.
This is one of four weaker incumbent AI shapes in the category. TimeMe.AI's wedge is AI as the primary conversational creation surface for the coach, on mobile. None of TeamSnap's AI is there.
How is this different from Ohai or Gether?
Ohai and Gether are parent mental-load AI assistants. They're built around the “Chief Household Officer” (Ohai's term) doing parent-facing AI coordination. Kids are managed subjects, not users. Ohai's ToS explicitly bars under-13 users; Gether's family model is three adult roles (Owner / Partner / Carer) with no kid role.
TimeMe.AI is the only product where kids talk to AI directly to manage their own schedule and progress. Plus the integrated marketplace (coaches and tutors actually in the app, not as text contacts) and the multi-role architecture (parent + kid + coach + tutor + club leader on one platform) are categorically different.
What about Calendly for the coach side?
Calendly is best-in-class for solo professional booking. If a coach or tutor needs Calendly Pro's deep features (workflow automation, complex availability rules, paid scheduling), they should use it. But Calendly assumes one-person-one-role — it doesn't see the family dynamic.
TimeMe.AI's PlanIt is the right primary booking page for experts whose customers are families with multiple activities. The booking lands on the family's calendar by default. The expert is discoverable through AI Expert Search. The family doesn't have to bounce to a separate Calendly link and figure out where to write it down.
Still need to talk to someone? Email hello@timeme.ai for general questions, partnerships@timeme.ai for schools and clubs, or press@timeme.ai for press inquiries.