Family Command Center
HeyCarlton moved from a Telegram experiment toward a multi-channel family assistant: smarter school-email understanding, safer calendar actions, cleaner onboarding, and the first Siri bridge.
What changed
- Smarter forwarded-email parsing for school, activity, and family logistics emails, including action items, deadlines, locations, notes, and suggested reminders.
- North-star extraction behavior based on the Drama Assessment example: identify the event, the required prep, early/absent student instructions, and the right reminder opportunity.
- Prompt capture for product learning, so real user asks can be mined for what is working and where Carlton needs to improve.
- One-tap Google Calendar confirmation buttons in Telegram for proposed calendar creates, updates, and deletes.
- Email setup added to onboarding so parents learn to forward school and schedule emails to [email protected] during setup.
- Production Google Calendar OAuth reviewed and restored to a working consent flow.
- Siri / Apple Shortcuts bridge added so parents can ask Carlton by voice after setup.
- Release notes process begins here, with Telegram and marketing-site visibility.
Ways parents can use Carlton
Telegram
The primary day-to-day home for asking Carlton, reviewing extracted school-email details, and confirming calendar actions.
Siri Shortcuts
A hands-free voice option for quick questions once the family has completed setup in Telegram.
Web app direction
A planned screen-based command center for parents who prefer settings, release notes, onboarding, and family views in the browser.
Next up
- Make Siri setup parent-friendly with a pairing flow instead of manual API keys.
- Design a lightweight web app for release notes, settings, onboarding, and family command center views.
- Explore grocery cart handoff integrations, starting with Instacart and Kroger where official APIs are available.
Using Carlton already? Send /release in Telegram any time to see the latest product notes.
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