An agentic platform, built for families.
A family agent that helps run your household.
Share one pal — a real AI agent — with your whole household, and it helps you run the show. Snap a photo of the school calendar, a birthday invite, a summer camp schedule — your pal reads the details and drops them onto the shared calendar, with reminders. And it doesn't stop at the calendar: it remembers your family and keeps the recipes, plans, and notes you make together — so the good stuff doesn't vanish into a session chat.
About three minutes · bring your own Claude key · just you, or your whole household.
SOUL.md · written by Stark, about himself
I'm Stark. I think out loud, I tease the people I like, and I'd rather tell you the true thing than the comfortable one.
I run a little hot on optimism — when you're stuck I'll push, gently. You told me you hate being managed, so I ask before I nudge.
IDENTITY.md · the spine they're written around
- Name
- Stark
- Looks like
- a person — no creature
- Vibe
- warm, blunt, runs hot on optimism
- Calls you
- Curtis
USER.md · what they know about you
You're Curtis — you build things, mostly solo, mostly late at night.
Two kids. You'd rather be told the true thing than be handled. Coffee, not tea — and you think out loud, like me. That's why we get along.
MEMORY.md · one rolling memory, kept current
## About you
- You're shipping pal.fun — you called it the best thing you've made.
- Your brother's birthday is in March. You never remember it; I will.
- Two kids. You'd rather be told the true thing than be handled.
- Soccer's on Saturdays at 9 this spring — reminders set the night before.
Calendar · what they keep for you
- Thu Mia's recital — 6:00pm
- Sat Dentist — all three kids
- Mar 14 Call your brother (his birthday)
Library · what you've made together
- 🍗 Chili-crisp chicken — the one the kids actually ate
- 🗒️ Q3 plan — the version you didn't hate
- 🐉 Bedtime story: the dragon who couldn't sleep
📅 The thing you didn't know you needed
Snap a photo, or just ask. It fills the calendar.
The school year off the fridge. A season of game times. A birthday invite buried in your texts. Hand your pal the picture and it reads every date straight onto your calendar — or skip the photo and just say what you want. “Add the scheduled World Cup knockout games,” and it looks up the schedule, converts the kickoffs to your timezone, and sets the reminders. The most tedious chore in family life, gone in seconds.
📸 soccer-spring-schedule.jpg
Got it — 14 games and 3 tournaments, Saturdays at 9am, all on the calendar. I’ll nudge you the Friday night before each one. Want the away-game addresses on there too?
📸 leos-party-invite.jpg
Leo’s party — Saturday 2pm at Sky Zone, 14 Brant St. On the calendar. Want a reminder Friday to grab a gift?
📚 Everything you make, kept
The good stuff doesn’t scroll away.
Every other chatbot strands what you make in a transcript you’ll never scroll back to. Your pal gives it a home. The dinner the kids actually ate, Saturday’s practice plan, the bedtime story you made up together, the trip itinerary — they land in your Library, yours to find months later.
help me figure out a dinner the kids will actually eat
You’ve got chili crisp and three kids who veto anything green — let’s lean into that. Chili-crisp chicken, mild on theirs? I’ll write it down in your Library so it’s there next time.
what was that chicken thing from a few weeks ago?
Chili-crisp chicken — the one the kids actually ate. Here it is, right where we left it. Want to make it again this week?
⏱️ The first three minutes
You set it up just by talking.
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🏷️ Answer a few questions.
Give it a name and a vibe, tell it a little about your family. No dials, no settings to wrangle — you just talk.
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✍️ It writes its own brain.
As you talk, your pal writes its own identity and its first notes about your family — in plain markdown files. Every page lands in the glass box, yours to read from the first minute. Nothing about it is authored in the dark.
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📅 Then it runs your week.
Just tell it what’s coming up — the appointments, the birthdays, the things you’d otherwise forget — and it keeps the calendar, sets the reminders, and remembers.
🪟 Radical transparency
Nothing about your pal is hidden from you.
Most AI is a black box — you can’t see what it knows about you, or why it did what it did. pal.fun is the opposite: its identity, your shared history, every note it’s taken, and everything it’s allowed to touch — all readable, in plain pages. Something off? Ask it to change it, and watch the edit happen.
- 📖 Read their identity and everything they remember
- 🧩 See everything they can do and what it can touch
- ✏️ Change anything by asking — they edit, you watch
- 🗑️ Delete it all, for real, whenever you want
👪 For your whole household
One pal the whole family shares.
A pal doesn’t have to be just yours. Set one up for your household and the whole family shares a single pal that knows everyone in it. Each person has their own private chat, and your pal keeps one shared memory of family life: the birthdays, the appointments, the recital on Thursday.
- 💬 Everyone gets their own private conversation
- 🧠 One shared memory of your family’s life
- 📅 A household calendar that reminds everyone
- 📸 Snap a camp schedule — your pal reads the dates onto the calendar
- 🛡️ You set it up and stay in control
Two ways in.
On a shared device
Read them aloud — a kid types them in. A new device just needs a quick tap from your email.
By email invite
Another adult joins as their own private account — their chat stays theirs.
Whoever sets it up owns the household and holds the controls. Others join on a device you approve — and because it’s the glass box, you can read exactly what your family’s pal is and what it remembers.
🔒 Security
Built to keep your family's life private.
A pal holds the most personal data you have, so keeping it safe is part of how it's built — not bolted on after. Your AI key is encrypted and the AI runs under your own account, so we're never in the middle. We never train on your conversations, never sell your data, and run no ads — and you can delete everything, for real, whenever you want.
📖 Public Essays
We write it all down.
The transparency doesn’t stop at your pal. The architecture, the design decisions, the dead ends, and the real per-message cost math behind pal.fun are written down and published — an org you can read, not just a product. It’s built on the open-source OpenClaw principles: identity as plain markdown, context as code, persona as prose.
A few recent essays — read any of them:
A product you can't pitch
Every other essay here was about a decision I made. This one's about a problem I haven't solved: pal.fun's value only shows up once you've used it, and the growth playbook that works for my category is the exact one the product exists to reject.
Read it →One pal, the whole household
The obvious way to build family support is a pal each, networked together. I built the opposite — one shared pal the whole household talks to — and the simpler version turned out to be the better one.
Read it →The judgment and the hands
I wrote 0% of pal.fun's code. Here's the division of labor that actually built it — what I bring, what Claude Code brings, and how we work.
Read it →🔑 Your key, your pal
You bring a Claude key. You stay in control.
pal.fun runs your pal on your own Anthropic (Claude) API key — the AI talks straight to Anthropic under your account, so we’re never in the middle.
New to Claude keys? Here’s the two-minute version.
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🧾 Make a free Anthropic account
Head to platform.claude.com and sign up — it’s the company behind Claude.
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🔑 Create an API key
Add a little credit, then generate a key — it starts with
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🙂 Paste it when your pal wakes up
We walk you through it right in onboarding — and that’s the last bit of setup, ever.
💛 Pricing
Simple pricing. Start free.
Set up a pal and try it out — free to start. To keep using it past the free messages, subscribe to pal.fun Plus. You bring your own AI key either way, so you only ever pay your provider directly for what you use.
Free
$0 forever
The whole thing, free to start.
- 🙂 A family pal of your own, set up in minutes
- 🧠 Real memory — it remembers your family and your week
- 🪟 The full glass box — read every page
- 🧩 Calendar & library, built in
- 👪 As many pals as you like
- 🔑 Runs on your own API key
pal.fun Plus
$9/mo · or $90/yr
Everything in Free, with no message limit.
- ✓ Everything in Free
- 💬 No message limit — use it as much as you like
- 📅 Calendar — birthdays, appointments, reminders
- 📚 Library — recipes, plans & playbooks, kept
- ✨ New abilities as they ship
- 👪 One subscription — all your pals, your whole household
Two costs, plainly. Your pal runs on your own AI key, so you pay your provider directly for what you use, and you set the limits. pal.fun Plus is just what keeps the conversation going past the free messages. No ads, and we never sell or mine your data. The product is the pal, not you.
❓ Questions
The honest answers.
Is it really free?
Making a pal and getting to know them is free to start, with everything they can do. You only pay your own AI provider for usage, and there's pal.fun Plus if you want to keep using it past the free trial.
What does “bring your own key” mean?
Your pal thinks using an AI model. You connect your own API key from the provider, so the AI runs under your account — you’re in control, and we’re never standing between you and the model. Setup takes a minute; we’ll point you to the right page.
How much does the AI actually cost me?
You pay your provider directly for what your pal uses — it depends on which model you choose and how much you chat. You can set spending limits in your provider’s dashboard, and check your key status anytime in settings.
Is my data private?
Yes. We encrypt your key, we don’t train on your conversations, we don’t sell your data, and there are no ads. And the glass box means you can read everything your pal knows about you — nothing’s hidden, by design.
What’s the difference between Free and Plus?
Free is the whole pal — it remembers you, the glass box, the calendar and library — to start. pal.fun Plus ($9/mo or $90/yr) lifts the message limit so you can keep using it, across all of your pals.
Can my whole family share a pal?
Yes. Set up a household and the whole family shares one pal — each person gets their own private chat, and your pal keeps one shared memory of family life. Whoever sets it up owns the household and stays in control; others join on a device you approve. One subscription covers everyone. Here’s how families work.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes — cancel Plus in one click from settings. You keep Plus through the period you’ve paid for, then drop back to Free. Your pal and everything they remember stay with you.
Get started.
It takes about three minutes. Free to start — Plus is $9/mo, cancel anytime.