Shared AI for Families: How One Assistant Manages Everyone

What if your entire family had one AI assistant that knew everyone's schedules, remembered everyone's preferences, and could coordinate the household — while still giving each person their own private experience?

That's the promise of shared AI. And it's closer than you think.

How Shared AI Works

A shared family AI isn't a single chat that everyone types into. It's an AI that understands your family as a unit while maintaining individual privacy. Each family member gets:

• Their own private conversation — personal questions, individual tasks, private scheduling
• Access to shared knowledge — the family calendar, household preferences, shared notes
• A group chat — where the whole family can interact with the AI together, plan activities, and coordinate

The AI adapts its behavior based on who it's talking to. Adults get the full assistant experience. Children designated as minors get age-appropriate responses and safety controls. The admin (typically a parent) controls permissions and monitoring.

Real-World Family Scenarios

Morning Coordination

Dad asks Ori: "What's on the family schedule today?" Ori responds with everyone's commitments — school pickup at 3, soccer practice at 5, and a reminder that it's recycling day.

Mom asks Ori: "Send a message to the family group — I'll be late for dinner tonight." Ori posts the message in the family group chat.

The teenager asks Ori: "Help me study for my biology test." Ori becomes a study buddy, quizzing them on cell biology with encouraging feedback.

Shared Knowledge in Action

Every family has shared knowledge that no one person tracks fully — the Wi-Fi password, the plumber's number, which kid is allergic to what, where the passports are kept, when the car registration expires.

With Ori, you can add knowledge that's available to everyone in the group. Add "The Wi-Fi password is CoffeeBean2024" once, and any family member can ask Ori for it. Add "Jake is allergic to peanuts" and Ori factors that into meal suggestions.

This creates a living family knowledge base that grows over time — no more "where did we put that?" or "what's the login for the streaming service?"

Group Chat

The family group chat with Ori is where coordination happens naturally. Plan a family trip together. Debate where to eat on Friday. Ask Ori to settle an argument with facts. Create a shared grocery list that anyone can add to.

The AI participates in the group chat like a helpful family member — answering questions, offering suggestions, and keeping track of what was decided.

Credits and Billing

One of the practical benefits of a shared AI is cost. Instead of paying for multiple individual subscriptions, a family group shares a credit pool.

With Ori, the group admin manages the plan. Family members can use personal credits or group credits for their conversations. This means one subscription covers everyone, with the admin controlling how credits are allocated.

Privacy Within a Shared System

Shared doesn't mean no privacy. Each family member's individual conversations with Ori are private by default. The AI knows the family context, but it doesn't share one member's private conversations with another.

The exceptions are explicit and configurable:

• Shared knowledge — items added to the group knowledge base
• Group chat — messages sent in the family group
• Safety monitoring — flagged content for designated minors (transparent to the child)

Everything else stays private. Your teenager's homework help session is theirs. Your personal scheduling is yours. The AI maintains these boundaries automatically.

Why This Matters Now

AI usage is becoming as fundamental as internet access. Within a few years, every family member will interact with AI daily — for work, school, planning, and communication. The question is whether that happens through fragmented, uncoordinated tools with no safety controls, or through a single, family-aware assistant that makes everyone's life better while keeping the youngest members safe.

Ori is designed for the second future. One AI. One family. Everyone's needs met.