Skylight is the family calendar everyone sees at a glance on the kitchen wall. Hermo is the AI that reads your inbox, asks you on WhatsApp, and fills that calendar without you having to type. They share Google Calendar, so events Hermo creates show up on your Skylight on the next sync.
Skylight is the glass on the wall. The 10″, 15″, or 27″ screen in the kitchen where your family checks what’s on today, what’s on this week, and what chores got ticked off. It’s the surface the whole household sees without unlocking a phone.
Hermo is the brain that fills it. It reads the school emails as they arrive, asks you on WhatsApp when it needs a detail, remembers the rest in Familypedia, and writes the family events directly to your Google Calendar.
The bridge is Google Calendar. Hermo creates the event there; Skylight syncs from there. Together, the inbox stops being your private problem and starts being your family’s shared picture.
A 10″, 15″, or 27″ touchscreen in the kitchen where every family member can see what’s on today and tick chores off, without anyone unlocking a phone.
Star-powered chore charts for the kids. Color-coded lists. A photo screensaver when the device is idle.
Everyone in the household sees the same week, on the same screen, at the same time.
Hermo connects natively to Gmail through Google-audited OAuth. It reads the school newsletter, the GP confirmation, the holiday-club deadline, and writes events to Google Calendar automatically. No forwarding required.
Voice note Hermo from the car. Ask Familypedia for the NHS number on your way to the doctor. Both parents see the same shared to-do list and morning briefing on WhatsApp.
Watchers fire ahead of half-term, weekend ideas land every Friday, and the morning WhatsApp briefing shows up before the day starts.
When Hermo reads a school newsletter and finds “World Book Day Thursday,” it creates the event in your Google Calendar natively, the same as if you’d typed it in yourself.
Skylight’s two-way Google Calendar sync pulls down anything that lands in your Google Calendar (and pushes back any edits made on the Skylight itself). Events Hermo creates appear on the wall on the next sync.
On the Skylight at breakfast. On the morning WhatsApp briefing. On their phones in their existing Google Calendar app. Nothing duplicates, nothing slips.
Skylight added its own AI assistant (“Sidekick”) on the Skylight Plus plan. Sidekick imports calendar events from school emails you forward to it. So there’s some overlap. Here’s how they differ.
With Sidekick, you forward the email yourself. If you don’t forward it, the event doesn’t appear. Hermo connects to Gmail through Google-audited OAuth and reads the inbox natively, so nothing depends on you remembering to forward.
Sidekick lives in Skylight. Hermo lives in WhatsApp, the same WhatsApp your family already uses. You can voice note Hermo from anywhere, your partner can ask Familypedia their own questions, and the morning briefing arrives where you actually read messages.
Sidekick handles calendar events. Hermo handles calendar events too, plus Familypedia (the queryable household memory), Watchers (proactive surfacing for weekends, half-term, holiday clubs), and the partner-sync that means both of you have the same picture without you having to tell them.
If you’ve already got Skylight Plus and use Sidekick, Hermo replaces the forwarding step and adds the household-memory and WhatsApp layers on top.
Connect it to your Google Calendar account in Skylight’s settings (Connect Online Calendar → Google). Requires Skylight Plus for the sync feature.
Connect it to the same Google account via Google-audited OAuth. Full inbox-reading is on Hermo’s 3rd Parent plan; the shared calendar and to-do list are on the free Starter.
Hermo writes events to Google Calendar. Skylight reads from Google Calendar. The two products never need to know about each other directly: Google Calendar is the bridge.
Connect your inbox, message Hermo on WhatsApp, and watch the Invisible Load become a list both of you can see.