✦ The Family OS Automation Kit

Stop managing your family
from your head.

The templates get your routines and meals on paper. The Automation Kit is the layer that makes them run themselves — every morning at 8, each person in your house gets a text with their own day in it, the store list writes itself from a screenshot, and the car reads you what you were about to forget. Built from the tools already on your iPhone. No new apps, nothing that renews.

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Get the Automation Kit, $29 See what's inside
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Cassie Douglas Co-Founder, The Family OS
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1 house of 7Where every one of these runs daily
What's inside

Nine sections, in the order to set them up.

Seven of these are links you open on your iPhone and tap once. The rest are the calendar, the list and the phone settings those shortcuts read from — set up once, written out step by step. Start with the morning text and add one section a week.

01

The morning text

Every morning at 8, a text with the day and what is due. Partner Sync sends the household version to you and your partner — today's events plus anything due from the list you share, and it keeps coming until someone checks it off. Kid Sync sends each kid their own day, their chores for today, and any missing assignments. Two shortcuts, three things to set.

Partner Sync · Kid Sync
02

The calendar it reads from

One calendar per person, a fixed color each, shared with the right people, and sports schedules subscribed instead of typed. The setup that makes "when is practice" a question nobody has to ask a parent.

Apple Calendar or Google Calendar
03

The list it reads from

One shared Reminders list for anything with a date, one store list for the whole house, and the one rule that keeps the store list honest.

Reminders · Siri
04

Recipes

Screenshot a recipe from anywhere and it files itself into Notes and puts its ingredients on your store list. A second shortcut opens your saved recipes, you pick what you're cooking, and the ingredients land on the list.

2 shortcuts · Apple Intelligence
05

Before you leave

The grab-and-go list that usually lives in your head, read out loud the second you start the car. It only speaks when there is something on it.

1 shortcut · CarPlay or location trigger
06

On my way home

When you leave work, your phone reads live traffic and texts the family the clock time you'll actually pull in. A second shortcut on your home screen does the same from anywhere else, in one tap.

On My Way Home · the ETA menu
07

Phone settings

How a phone stays on silent all day without ever missing the school.

Emergency Bypass · Scheduled Summary
08

The weekly meeting

The fifteen minutes that fill in everything the automations read from. How a family of seven runs it, twins included.

09

If something is not working

The fixes, in one place. Most are a single tap.

Also in the file: the Screenshot Cleanup shortcut, which walks you through your old screenshots ten at a time.

See it working

Pick meals. The grocery
list builds itself.

One of the seven shortcuts, running for real. Choose the week's recipes from your saved list, and the ingredients land in Reminders as separate items.

A real screen recording from Cassie's phone. Three moments cut together, nothing sped up, nothing mocked up.

Before you buy

What you need, and what you don't.

An iPhone with the Shortcuts app that came with it. The two recipe shortcuts run on Apple Intelligence, so they need an iPhone 15 Pro or newer. Everything else in the kit works on any iPhone that runs Shortcuts. The calendar section works with Apple Calendar or Google Calendar, and the people receiving the texts can be on Android.

You do not need a Claude, ChatGPT, or any other AI account. No new apps, no subscription, nothing that renews. The kit arrives as one PDF by email. Every shortcut installs from a link in one tap, with placeholders where your own names and lists go, and a page on what each piece does so you can change it. The shortcuts are iPhone only. There is no Android version, and we would rather say that here than after you have paid.

Where to start

The morning text first. Then one thing a week.

The kit is written in the order to do it. Set up the morning text, let it run for a week, then add the next section. Tell the house what you set up — an automation only works when the people in it know what to expect.

Mom relaxed at kitchen table with coffee, the result of running household automations
From parents who've set it up

The mental load shift is real

These are the workflows Cassie runs in her own household of 7. They work because they're built around tools parents already have, not new apps to manage.

“Got it working, and I appreciate you so much. This is such a genius product.”
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Caitlyn Set up the Automation Kit
“I came across this at 1:46 am. I have been up for the last two hours, my brain on replay of what needs to get done, who has to go where and do what. This will be like my pocket assistant, giving me room to breathe.”
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Satima Found The Family OS on TikTok

Haven't read the Implementation Guide yet? Start with the $9.99 Implementation Guide, the complete system guide that covers the why behind all of this.

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