One evening after the kids went down, a well-intentioned husband opened the shared family calendar to enter next year's school schedule, and proceeded to break every rule of the elaborate system one of us had carefully (manually!) built at the start of the year. Three kids, one dog, busy life. Five Google calendars, each with its own protocol, none of it written down anywhere except one person's head. That night we started building a system that could hold the rules for us. It still runs. Teaching other parents to build their own is how Open Hours started.
These tools are useful and imperfect. First attempts fail, setups break, and results are partial before they're good. We show our work, including what didn't work, because that's the only version worth trusting.
You're deciding what a tool can see about your family. We treat that as a serious question, not a checkbox. Every session covers what's connected, what isn't, and how to keep it that way.
We're not collecting tricks. We're teaching a repeatable way to set up systems, so the next one is easier than the last.
Catey is a strategist and operator for consumer retail and wellness businesses, and a mom of three. A lifelong ops nerd, she has been forcing systems on her family since day one, and is happy to finally have AI as an assistant that (mostly) follows directions.
Allie spent years working in finance before getting curious about AI and quickly getting hooked. She loves how much time it saves and how much more clearly it helps her think, and is happiest sharing the useful things she learns along the way.
Katie is a recovering lawyer, with a background in M&A and highly regulated industries. She recently fell in love with the efficiency of AI and the organizational gains it can provide to even the easiest of tasks, leaving her more time to pursue her dual passions of wine and cooking.