Now onboarding families in NL & DE

The family
assistant that
lives in your
WhatsApp

Keeping you out of each other's hair — and into each other's arms. (He'll also quietly notice which of you is doing everything.)

Currently being tested by our Beta families.

F
Jansen Family
Fred, Lotte, Tom
Fred

Here's your week 📋

Maya's soccer
Tomorrow, 4:00 PM (East Field)
🎁
Dinosaur gift for Sam's party — Friday
🦷
Added “Schedule dentist” to your shared to-do list.
09:42
You are literally saving my marriage.
09:43 ✓✓
Fred
One reply at a time 😉
09:43
Tom claimed Wednesday pickup 🎉
first time all month
Why Fred exists

One parent shouldn't be the only one who knows.

50% of parents want to share the load equally. Only 9% manage to. Not because anyone's unwilling — because family information flows through one inbox, one calendar, one person's head. Fred sits between the two of you and holds the same picture of the week in front of both.

Keeps the family calendar

"Soccer moved to Thursday" becomes a calendar event on both phones — and a nudge the night before.

Reads school emails so you don't

Forward it. Fred pulls out dates, to-dos and deadlines, and puts them in front of both of you.

Flags clashes early

Both busy on Wednesday at 16:00 and someone needs pickup? Fred asks who's got it — on Sunday, not at 15:55.

Monthly load-balance

Shows who carried what this month. Not to keep score — to make the invisible work visible.

Connects to Parro & Social Schools

Practices, trips, closures — they land in your family group without anyone refreshing an app.

Built for two, not one

Every other assistant has one user. Fred is built for the two of you — that one architectural choice is what makes it work.

What you get with Fred

Less admin. More of the good stuff.

Fred takes the logistics off your plate. Enabling you to enjoy your family — time together, peace of mind, and a partner who sees the work.

"The mental checklist finally clocks out."

More time together — and with the kids

When Fred handles who's-doing-what, evenings stop feeling like handover meetings. Dinners turn into conversations, weekends into actual weekends, and bedtime stories aren't rushed through a running to-do list in your head.

"Finally, we're both the parent who knows."

Peace of mind — because the load is actually shared

Fred holds the same picture of the week in front of both of you. The default parent stops being the only one who remembers. The other parent stops feeling out of the loop. Sharing the load gets easier when you both see it.

"So that's what Tuesdays look like."

Recognition — the invisible work made visible

Once a month, Fred shows who carried what. Not to keep score — so the work that never gets named finally gets seen. Quiet labor, named out loud. Appreciation, where it's been quietly earned.

The research says the quiet part out loud

Couples who share the routine stuff fight less and
love each other more.

Fred isn't relationship therapy. It's the infrastructure underneath a relationship that doesn't need therapy every Tuesday.

50%

of parents want to share the load equally — only 9% manage to

CBS Emancipatiemonitor, 2024

25%

of divorces cite household task disputes as a primary cause

Harvard Business School

“Couples who share routine housework… report higher levels of relationship satisfaction… and less relationship discord.”

— Daniel L. Carlson, Professor of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah (study)

Up and running in five minutes

No app. No dashboard.
No new habit.

Fred joins the conversation where your family already talks. The only thing that changes is that someone in the group chat suddenly remembers everything.

01

Add Fred to the WhatsApp group

One new contact. Both parents create a group with Fred in it. That's the product.

02

Forward a couple of emails

School newsletter. Soccer schedule. Dentist confirmation. Fred pulls out the dates and asks who's handling what.

03

Fred runs the week

Sunday brief. Midweek nudges. Conflict alerts. Tasks that get claimed, not just reminded.

Privacy & trust

Your family's data
is not for sale.

You're handing us your children's names, school schedules, and family routines. We take that seriously — and we say so plainly.

Hosted in the EU

All data is stored and processed on EU-based infrastructure, protected under GDPR. Your family's information never leaves Europe.

Fred only sees what you share

Fred processes only the emails you forward and the calendars you connect. It never reads your private WhatsApp messages, photos, or anything you haven't explicitly shared.

Personal info stays out of the AI

Before anything is sent to the language model, all personal information — names, addresses, contact details — is generalized. The AI never sees your family's identifiable data.

What Fred never does

No ads. Ever. No tracking, no profiling.
No reading your private WhatsApp messages.
No storing data outside the EU.
No vague "we may use your data to improve our services" loopholes.

A full plain-language privacy policy is available — no legalese.

Who's behind Fred

Built by parents,
for parents.

Fred isn't built by people who read about the mental load. It's built by people who live it — every school email, every Wednesday scramble, every Sunday evening plan.

Theresa Gessner
Theresa Gessner
Co-founder

Mother of two, ex-Coolblue operations. Spent her career making complex systems feel simple for customers — and her evenings doing the same for her family. Fred is the product she wished existed.

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Job Tasche
Job Tasche
Co-founder

Product builder. Saw the same pattern in every family: two willing parents, five apps, no system that brought it together. Fred is the coordination layer he's been wanting to build.

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