Hermo is one assistant you both talk to, with one set of family facts behind it. Talk to it in WhatsApp, no new app to learn.
Where personal assistants get stuck
You use ChatGPT for the family admin and it genuinely helps. But whatever it works out lands in your chat, on your phone. Your partner still has to ask you. You need a family assistant.
Familypedia holds the things that normally live in one person’s head: the policy number, the school reference, the dentist. Either of you can ask it from WhatsApp, so whoever filed it stops being the only one who can find it.
The to-dos, the habits, the week ahead, the shopping list. You are both looking at the same thing, so neither of you has to brief the other on what is coming.
Fair Play cards show who currently holds what, and when a card next rotates. Ownership stops being something you have to remember or negotiate from memory.
The structural difference
Hermo is built around a household. That is not a feature gap, it is a different shape, which is why it does not close as those products get better.
| A personal AI assistant | Hermo | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it knows | One person, and gets better at knowing them | The household, and everyone in it |
| Where the facts live | In the chat history of whoever asked | In Familypedia, which either parent can query |
| What your partner sees | Whatever you remember to forward them | The same to-dos, knowledge base and calendar, at the same time |
The part that decides whether it works
Every shared household system dies the same way: one person sets it up, the other never downloads it. Hermo is in WhatsApp, so there is nothing to join.
They ask it a question the way they would text a person. There is no interface to get used to, which is usually the real reason the second person stops.
The partner who used to ask where things are can now just ask Hermo. The one who always knew stops being interrupted for facts they happen to carry.
A voice note from the school gate, a photo of the flyer that came home in the bag, or just a message. It does not matter which of you does it, because it lands in the same place either way.
Yes, that is the design. The free Starter plan and the £4 Helper plan each cover two people. The top plan covers as many people as the household needs, which matters for grandparents, a nanny or an au pair.
No. Hermo lives in WhatsApp, which they already have. That is usually the difference between a household system that gets used by both people and one that quietly becomes one person’s app.
Yes. Familypedia is the household knowledge base and either of you can query it from WhatsApp. Whoever filed the information stops being the only person who can retrieve it.
No. The Fair Play cards board shows who holds what and when a card rotates, so ownership is visible. Hermo does not calculate who is carrying more, suggest a rebalance, or mediate between partners. Visibility, not arbitration.
A personal AI assistant is built around one person. Yours learns your week, your partner’s learns theirs, and what either of you told it lives in a chat history the other cannot open. Hermo is built around the household instead: one knowledge base, one planner, one board, and both of you talking to the same assistant.