Holiday camps fill up before you’ve thought about half-term. Saturday morning arrives with nothing on it. Hermo’s Watchers surface what’s coming at the right horizon, weeks before things become a crisis, on WhatsApp, to both of you.
Hermo’s Watchers run in the background and surface things on WhatsApp at the right horizon, while there’s still time to act.
Watchers fire at the right horizon, not on the morning of. They run in the background and surface things on WhatsApp when there’s still time to act. You don’t ask them. They show up.
Midweek, three curated activity ideas for the weekend ahead. Picked for your family, in your area, with the weather in mind. Sent on WhatsApp, to both parents, with days to spare. So Sunday morning doesn’t arrive with “what are we doing today?”
Weeks before each school break, not the week of, Hermo flags that it is coming and asks how you want to cover it: a trip, day camps, kids at home, or family help. It researches local options with prices, times and ages, and it already knows what you have booked from your confirmation emails. You stop finding out too late.
In the fortnight before each term starts, Hermo checks what the planner is missing and asks for it: the term dates, or the school’s events PDF with the year-group, class, sport and trip rows. One upload, and the term is in your calendar.
Hermo reads ahead in your calendar and turns what’s coming into the prep that has to happen first. The costume before World Book Day. The present before the party. The kit before the fixture. It arrives as a to-do on the shared list, and you can tell Hermo which kinds of event are worth prepping for.
Weekend ideas arrive on WhatsApp. Half-term and school-term reminders come on WhatsApp and land as a to-do on your shared list. Event prep goes straight onto the list. No app to check, no notification to remember to enable.
Four. Weekend Watcher (three ideas midweek, for the weekend ahead), Half-term Watcher (fires weeks before each school break), School-term Watcher (in the fortnight before a new term starts), and Event Prep (reads ahead in your calendar and adds the prep to-do). We add new ones as we identify what parents keep missing.
It learns what your kids like, their ages, what’s nearby, and what the weather is doing. The suggestions get sharper over time.
Put them in the calendar and Hermo notices. If the weekend is already booked, it either works around what’s there or stands down with a short note instead of a full list of ideas.
No, Watchers are on the Helper plan (£4/month, less than £1 a week) with a 14-day free trial.
Connect your inbox, message Hermo on WhatsApp, and watch the Invisible Load become a list both of you can see.