How Hesed.love works for your family

You shape the tone.

You don't talk to your kids through the app — they have their own Coach who already knows your family's foundation. What you do instead is upstream:

• Anchor scriptures the whole family is built on — Lamentations 3:22-23 is prefilled; you can add up to three.
• Daily rhythm — your home's morning and evening hours, surfaced in every Coach conversation.
• Per-child Influence — a daily word for each child, a weekly theme, counsel pinned to specific tracks (e.g. "for her Speaking & Writing path: keep ending on the question, not the answer").
• Goals + Experiments — covenant goals (SMART) and lightweight experiments (PACT) per child per track.
• Covenant memory — moments worth keeping. Your kids' Coaches surface them when they're relevant.

Their conversations are theirs.

Teens (13–17) sign in to their own Coach at hesed.love. What they talk about — schoolwork, friends, faith doubts, the day that didn't go right — is theirs. You don't see the messages. You don't see the questions. You don't see the answers.

That's a deliberate posture, not a limitation. The Coach is a calm thinking partner; the kid has to trust it's actually theirs for it to be useful. We tell them this in the system prompt, in the welcome card, and in their invitation email. We mean it.

If something serious comes up, we tell you.

A server-side classifier reads every kid Coach turn and watches for nine categories of distress — from "general distress" all the way through "self-harm thoughts," "imminent danger," and "abuse disclosure." If a signal fires, you get an email and a banner on your home page within seconds. You see:

• The category (e.g. "self-harm thoughts")
• The date
• A suggested next step — calm guidance, never panic, sometimes named hotlines like 988 or Childhelp 1-800-422-4453

You never see the conversation. The Coach also tells the kid, naturally, on their next turn — so they're never blindsided.

Younger kids stay parent-mediated.

Children under 13 don't sign in to their own device account. You still set up their profile, write their daily word, log their progress, and track their goals — but the Coach reaches them through you. Open the "Coach for [their name]" view in your own app and the Coach will speak with their context — their age, their school, their tracks — for you to read aloud, share, or use as you think through their week.

Faith-default. Family-shaped.

Hesed.love is built by a Yoruba-Nigerian Christian family in Calgary. The default tone is declarative — long life, marriage, generational legacy. Anchor scripture is Lamentations 3:22-23: "The hesed of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."

If your family doesn't share the faith default, the Coach softens. The seven tracks (Academics, Speaking & Writing, Citizenship, Athletics, Languages, Culinary & Life Skills, Character & Grit) work either way.