Half term, the costume, the birthday gift. Hermo raises them while there is still time to do something, not on the morning of, and it goes to whoever holds that part of the household.
That is where everything lands. No app, no notifications to remember to switch on, and your partner does the same from their own phone.
Where you live, how old the kids are, what they are into. It uses what you have told it, and nothing you have not.
Term dates, what is in both your calendars, what is already booked from your confirmation emails.
Weeks before half term, the evening before the guitar lesson. While you can still book something, buy something or pack the bag.
Midweek, three things you could actually do, picked for your family, your weather and what is already in your diaries.
The forecast is fetched before anything is researched, so an indoor weekend gets indoor suggestions and the message tells you which day the rain clears.
Before suggesting anything it reads what is already in each of your diaries, in each of your timezones, plus the shared planner. If the weekend is already full it works around it or stands down with a short note.
When the Friday or Monday is a bank holiday the research covers it too. Easter gets all four days.
Reply asking for cheaper, or for older kids, or for more options, and it goes back and researches again.
See something you fancy and send it across. Hermo holds on to it and brings it back when that weekend or that half term comes round, marked as one of yours.
Clubs fill, terms start, costumes are needed on a Thursday.
It asks how you want to cover the break, a trip, day camps, kids at home or family help, then researches local options with prices, times and ages.
In the fortnight before a new term it checks what the planner is missing and asks for it: your term dates, or the school’s events PDF with the year-group and fixture rows.
It reads ahead in your calendar and turns what is coming into what has to happen first. The costume before World Book Day, the present before the party, the kit before the fixture. It lands as a to-do dated for when the prep needs doing, so it turns up in your morning briefing rather than waiting to be found. You choose which kinds of event are worth prepping for.
The Weekend Watcher, midweek, for the weekend ahead. The Half-term Watcher, weeks before each school break. The School-term Watcher, in the fortnight before a new term starts. And Event Prep, which reads ahead in your calendar and adds the to-do for whatever has to happen first. We add new ones as we find things parents keep missing.
What you have told it: where you live, how old the kids are, what they are into. Then the weather for that weekend, what is on locally, and what is already in both your calendars. Tell it something new and it uses that from then on.
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 paid plans, with a 14-day free trial. The pricing page has the detail.
Say hello on WhatsApp and Hermo starts watching the horizon for both of you.