Fred Family

A Private AI for the Whole Family

The short answer. Every family is quietly acquiring AI — a chatbot account here, a homework helper there — and every one of those is a child's inner life typed into somebody's server. Fred takes the family in the other direction: one AI, installed on the family machine, with a private PIN-locked room for each person, a parents' console for running it, and a locator that never tells a data broker where your kids are. The household's questions stay in the house.

Rooms

One Fred, one room each

The optional Fred Family upgrade (+$99 one-time, unlocked inside Fred) gives each person in the house their own room: their own conversation with Fred, behind their own PIN, on the machine in your home. Your daughter's questions about friendship drama, your son's essay drafts, your own late-night what-am-I-doing-with-the-business thread — separate rooms, separate threads, one household assistant who knows the difference.

Parents create and manage the rooms from a console on the dashboard — the household's AI is administered by the household, with each room's conversation staying behind its PIN.

The Fred Family rooms console on the dashboard — parents create and manage PIN-locked private rooms for each person — The parents' console: rooms are created and managed at home, not on a corporate admin panel.

Beacon

Where the family is — told only to the family

Beacon is the part that makes visitors stop: a live street map of the family, places with arrive-and-leave announcements ("Maya arrived at school"), and a find-my-phone radar with a ring button. What makes it different from every locator app on the store is one architectural sentence: every position is stored and drawn only on your own machine. No location company, no ad network, no server logs of a nine-year-old's daily route. Beacon has its own page if this is the feature that brought you here.

Beacon on the Fred Android app — the family on a live map, with every position stored only on the household's own machine — The family map lives in the family's pocket — and nowhere else.

What families use it for

A week in a Fred household

Homework, honestly. Research help and explanation in a kid's own room — with the family able to decide, at the dashboard, what the household AI may and may not do.
The household brain. "When's the dentist?" "Draft the note to the landlord." "What did we decide about summer camp?" — asked from any room, or by text over WhatsApp/Telegram from any phone, including iPhones.
Arrivals, without asking. Beacon announces school arrivals and home-agains; the ring button finds the phone under the sofa cushion.
The parents' own thread. Money admin, work drafts, planning — in your room, behind your PIN, off your kids' screens.

The honest part

What we won't pretend

AI is not a babysitter. Fred inherits the behaviour of the AI model you choose and the rules you set; parental judgement stays the load-bearing wall. We built the private rooms because families deserve privacy — not because software replaces parenting.
Thinking travels on your key. Conversations stay on your machine; when cloud AI thinking is needed, the request goes directly from your device to your chosen provider on your own key. Six Days West never sees it and collects no telemetry.
Platforms: the family machine runs Windows 10/11 or Ubuntu-class Linux; the phone app (voice, Beacon map, rooms in your pocket) is Android — though any phone can text Fred over WhatsApp or Telegram.

Pricing

The household, covered

$99+ $99 Family, both one-time

Fred is $99 once — every agent, the dashboard, the Android app, the owner's guide. Fred Family is the one optional upgrade, +$99 one-time, unlocked inside Fred: private PIN-locked rooms for the whole house and Beacon. 14-day refund window.

Get Fred — $99

One-time purchase · licence key by email in minutes · Family unlocks inside Fred

FAQ

Questions people ask

Does each family member get their own space?

Yes. Fred Family adds a private, PIN-locked room for each person in the house — their own conversation with Fred, on the family machine. Parents create and manage the rooms from a console on the dashboard; each room's conversation stays behind its PIN.

What is Beacon?

The family locator: a live street map of the family, places with arrive-and-leave announcements, and a find-my-phone radar with a ring button. Every position is stored and drawn only on your own machine — no location-data company in the loop.

Is this safe for kids to use?

Fred inherits the safety behaviour of the AI model you chose, and the family machine is configured by you — permission matrices and approval gates included. It's a family tool under parental judgement, not a babysitter; we'd tell you if we thought otherwise.

What does Fred Family cost?

It's the one optional upgrade: +$99 one-time on top of Fred's $99, unlocked inside Fred rather than through a public checkout. No subscription for either.

Why not just give the kids a chatbot account?

Because then their conversations live on a corporate server under terms none of you control. On the family machine, the household's questions, homework help, and locations belong to the household.

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