Three AI features that quietly run a household

Mentor is a family-life app — bills, insurance, events, tasks and birthdays in one place. We built three AI features into it that do the data entry, surface what's coming up, and answer questions about your own household.

Consumer / family app Next.js · live product 3 AI features shipped Privacy-first (encrypted data)

The problem

Family admin only works if it's effortless

A household-organiser app lives or dies on data entry. Nobody is going to hand-type every bill, every policy renewal, every school event and every birthday — and an app full of empty fields is an app people quietly stop opening.

Mentor needed the boring parts to fill themselves in, and it needed to feel like an assistant that already knows your family — not another form to maintain.

What we built

Three AI features, each removing a different chore

Feature 1 · Inbox → tracked items

AI email scan

With the user's permission, Mentor scans their inbox for the things a household needs to stay on top of — payment-due notices, policy renewals, subscriptions and receipts, invitations and RSVPs, appointments and booking confirmations, school notices, warranties and registration expiries — and turns them into tracked bills, events and reminders. The data-entry chore largely disappears.

Feature 2 · Smart auto-fill

AI suggestions for bills & insurance

Start typing a provider name and the AI proposes the rest — a typical monthly amount, category and due day for a bill; a typical premium, policy type, deductible and renewal month for insurance. The user confirms or edits instead of researching and typing from scratch.

Feature 3 · Ask your household

AI household assistant

A chat assistant grounded in the family's own data. It already knows the members, the open tasks and who owns them, the upcoming bills and events, and the active subscriptions — so questions like "what's due this week?" or "who's handling the car rego?" get answered in context, not generically.

Built privacy-first: household data is stored encrypted at rest, and the email scan runs only with the user's explicit Google consent and a strict rate limit.

The result

Live, in real households

All three features are shipped in the production app. The figures below are pulled from the live system; usage metrics still being instrumented are clearly marked.

3AI features live in production

14registered households on the platform

2active paid (Elite) subscriptions

Data entry, automated. The email scan converts an inbox into tracked bills, renewals, events and reminders — the single biggest barrier to a household app actually getting used.
Fewer empty fields. Smart auto-fill means adding a bill or policy is a confirm, not a research project.
An assistant that knows your family. The chat assistant answers from the household's real data, not boilerplate.

Feature-level engagement metrics are being instrumented and will be published once confirmed: [TBC — emails scanned / items auto-created] · [TBC — assistant queries answered] · [TBC — % of bills added via auto-fill]. We don't publish numbers we can't stand behind.

In the founder's words

[TBC — pending founder testimonial]

Ricky · Founder, Mentor

Have a product that needs real AI features?

We design and ship AI into live apps — not demos. Email scanning, smart auto-fill, grounded assistants, the lot. Tell us the chore you want to kill.

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Figures marked [TBC] are not yet verified and are shown as placeholders — never invented.

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