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Create your family & onboarding

Getting started takes about two minutes. You sign up, a short onboarding chat learns the basics about your family, and then you're ready to drop things in and ask. Every new family starts with a free month on the Couple plan, no credit card required. Below is the whole flow, step by step, exactly as you'll see it.

Sign up

You can create an account two ways:

  • Continue with Google, the fastest path. Google's verified email is used, so there's no extra confirmation step.
  • Email and password. You're signed in straight away and go on to the onboarding chat. We also email you a link to verify your address: click it whenever you like, or ask for another under Settings → Account.
One person, one family. Each adult gets their own login (and their own preferences and calendar colour) but you all share the same family data. Your partner signs up separately and joins your family.

Meet the onboarding chat

Instead of a long form, a guided chat walks you through four small steps. It reads your situation as it goes (Google sign-in, an existing family, a pending invite) and only asks what it still needs. A progress bar across the top tracks where you are.

  1. 1Your name. What the assistant should call you.
  2. 2Your family. Your partner, invited to join, and your kids, added with no account needed. KinLife names the family for you and picks up your timezone from your browser automatically.
  3. 3Your mobile / WhatsApp number. So reminders and WhatsApp messages can reach you. Skippable.
  4. 4Connect a calendar. Google or Apple Calendar, or skip for now. This is the last step.
The onboarding chat opens with a friendly greeting and asks your name. The four-step progress bar sits up top.
The onboarding chat opens with a friendly greeting and asks your name. The four-step progress bar sits up top.

Step 1: Your name

Tell the assistant your first name. It's how KinLife will address you from then on, in chat and in reminders. Once you answer, it moves straight on to your family.

Step 2: Your family

KinLife names your family for you (you can rename it any time) and asks two quick questions. First, who shares the load: send your partner's name with their email or mobile number and KinLife invites them, or reply “just me”. Then the kids: their names and ages, and KinLife adds them to the family with no account needed, or reply “no kids”. You can add or change people later from Members.

Try something like: “My partner is Renee, her email is renee@kinlife.ai” and then “Mia 8, Leo 5”

KinLife then tells you who it invited and who it added (for example, that Renee has been sent an invite and Mia and Leo are in) before moving on.

KinLife confirms the family is created, says it has emailed an invitation to the partner, and asks if anyone else should join.
KinLife confirms the family is created, says it has emailed an invitation to the partner, and asks if anyone else should join.
Adults you invite become pending invitations, not instant members. Each one accepts from their own login: an email invite from its link, a WhatsApp invite by replying YES. That's what keeps every adult's login and preferences their own.

Step 3: Your mobile number

Next the assistant asks for your mobile number so reminders and messages can reach you on WhatsApp. To link it, KinLife shows a short code (KINLIFE and six digits) to send from your phone to KinLife on WhatsApp, with an Open in WhatsApp button that fills it in for you. This step is optional: say you'd like to skip it, or tap Skip for now, and KinLife moves on to the last step. You can always add your number later in Settings → Account. See Email & WhatsApp for more.

Step 4: Connect a calendar

The final step gives your events somewhere to live. Pick Google Calendar or Apple Calendar (iCloud) to connect now, or choose Skip for now and connect later. Whatever the first adult picks locks the family to that provider, so everyone stays in sync.

The calendar step offers Google Calendar, Apple Calendar (iCloud), and a Skip for now button.
The calendar step offers Google Calendar, Apple Calendar (iCloud), and a Skip for now button.

For the full calendar walkthrough (RSVPs, two-way sync, sharing), see the Calendar guide.

You're all set

That's it. KinLife confirms your family planner is ready and hands you off to the Add page, where a one-time intro invites you to paste a social post or schedule something.

The closing message: 'You're all set. Your family planner is ready.' before KinLife opens your dashboard.
The closing message: 'You're all set. Your family planner is ready.' before KinLife opens your dashboard.

Your invite code & family email

Once your family exists, two things are minted for it:

  • An invite code that you share so your partner can join. See Invite & manage members.
  • A family email address (yourfamily@email.kinlife.ai). Forward newsletters, coach emails, or notices here and the assistant reads them. See Email & WhatsApp.

First things to try

  1. 1Connect your calendar. So events have somewhere to live. Calendar guide.
  2. 2Invite your partner. Share the invite code, or send an invite by email or WhatsApp.
  3. 3Upload a document. Drag in the term calendar or snap the fridge notice, then ask KinLife to put its dates on the calendar.
  4. 4Ask the assistant something. Try “what does next week look like?” or “make a shopping list for taco night”.

Pausing & resuming

Onboarding state is saved as you go, so you can stop and pick up later on another device. You can even do the whole thing on WhatsApp: message KinLife from your phone, reply YES when it asks, and your account is created right there in the chat. When setup is done, KinLife sends you a one-time sign-in link on WhatsApp so you can add Google or a password and use the web app too.