What can a connected assistant write?

To-dos on the shared list, habits with a weekly target, named lists, the week's meal plan, recipes from a link or pasted text, and who holds a Fair Play card.

It cannot send, reply to or delete an email, book or pay for anything, write calendar events directly, or read your WhatsApp groups.

Does connecting replace WhatsApp?

No. You still message Hermo the way you already do. A connected assistant is a third way in rather than a different product. The assistant connection is on the paid plans.

Where’s the plan I made in ChatGPT?

Connect it once. Your assistant plans with what Hermo already knows, and the plan lands as to-dos you will actually be reminded about.

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Claude

We’re doing Jonah’s party. Help me plan it.

Read from Hermo

•Jonah turns 5 on 14 March

•Dev holds Birthday Celebration (Your Kids)

•Rowan holds Gifts (Family)

•Family get-together already on that weekend

•Rowan away with work the weekend before

The 14th is already spoken for, so I have put it on Saturday the 21st.Venue first, invitations three weeks out, cake and bags the week of, and nothing landing on Rowan while she is away. Twelve things, split between you. Shall I put them in Hermo?

Landed in Hermo

•New list: Jonah’s party, 12 to-dos with dates

•Venue, invitations, cake and party bags to Dev

•The present to Rowan

How it works

One connection. Then just ask.

Connect it once

One URL from your Hermo settings, pasted into Claude or ChatGPT. Nothing to install and no config file to edit.

Ask for something real

Plan the half term, draft the week’s meals, break a project into steps. In your own words, in the assistant you already use.

Hermo gives it context

What is already on the list, what is in the calendar, who holds which area. So the answer fits the household rather than a blank page.

It writes it back

Into the shared planner, where your partner sees it too. Not stuck in a chat window only you can find.

What to ask it

A good plan that stays in the chat is no plan at all.

These are the ones people ask for most, and each of them ends with something in the household rather than something on screen.

“Break this project into a plan.”The move, the extension, the kitchen. Comes back as its own list in Hermo

“Plan our summer holiday.”Passports, kennels, the airport run. Its own list, dated, split between the two of you

“Set up a summer reading plan for both kids.”Comes back as habits with a weekly target, so you can see who actually kept it up

“Here’s my new diet plan. Do the week’s meals so it works for me and the family.”Your plan, plus the recipes and calendar Hermo already holds. Proposes the week as a table and writes nothing until you say yes

“Here are our family meeting notes.”Turns a transcript into handovers, rota changes and action items

“How are we doing?”Read-only: what is on the list, what got done, who holds what

It knows the household before it starts.

Your areas and who holds them, what is already planned, what you have cooked lately. An assistant without that is guessing, and you end up retyping the half it got wrong.

The output is not a message.

It is a to-do on the right area, a week of meals, a named list, a habit with a weekly target. Things that then behave like everything else in Hermo.

Your partner gets it too.

Whatever lands goes to the shared household view, so the person who never opened the chat still sees the outcome.

The actual contract

What a connected assistant can and cannot touch.

It can write

•To-dos, on the shared list

•Habits, with a weekly target

•Named lists, created and filled

•The week’s meal plan

•Recipes, from a link or pasted text

•Who holds an ownership area

It cannot

×Send, reply to or delete an email

×Book anything or pay for anything

×Write calendar events directly

×Read your WhatsApp groups