You shouldn’t have to remember when Kate’s passport expires.
A calm home for the documents your family runs on — passports, school forms, insurance cards, immunization records — that watches the dates so you don’t have to.
Hold your founder spot — $1 today Charged on launch day. Cancelable anytime. Refundable if we don’t ship.
0 of 40 founding families. When the first 40 fill up, slots 41–100 open at the same price. Then it closes.
You’re the family’s mental file server.
The passport’s somewhere. The insurance card’s last year’s. The pediatrician’s number is in the phone of whichever parent is currently away. Theo’s epi-pen prescription is in the binder — and you are not at the binder.
You’ve been the one who knows. For years. And the price of being the one who knows is that nobody else has to.
You’ve tried Cozi. You’ve tried a Notion template. You’ve tried a paper planner. They each lasted three weeks. Saturday’s binder-organizing project is on next weekend’s list, the way it’s been on every weekend’s list for two years.
This is not a personality flaw. This is a tooling problem. A 6-person household runs on 27 documents, four schools, two cars, three doctors, and an orthodontist. It does not fit in your head. It was never going to fit in your head.
We built one thing first: the family file cabinet.
FamilyOrb is a per-household subscription that holds your family’s important documents and watches the expiry dates for you. You upload them once — passports, insurance cards, school forms, vehicle registrations, immunization records, the rest. We extract what matters: who it belongs to, when it expires, what the renewal window looks like. Then we leave you alone until something needs your attention.
We don’t do meal planning. We don’t do calendars. We don’t do chore charts. Not yet. Calendar overlay comes Q4, family wiki Q1 next year — but only after the file cabinet is the most-trusted thing on your phone. We’d rather promise less and deliver more than the other way around.
Within five minutes of signing up, you’ll see something like this.
You’re set. Here’s what we found.
Looking at the 5 documents you uploaded:
— Maya’s passport expires August 14, 2026 — that’s 84 days. Standard renewal takes 6–8 weeks; we’ll nudge you May 21st.
— Theo’s epi-pen prescription is dated June 2025; most pharmacies require a refill within 12 months. We’ll remind you next week to check with Dr. Patel.
— Your auto insurance card lists a policy that ended March 31. The card on file is stale. [Upload current →]
Quiet emails, Sunday evenings. No 11pm pings. No app to open unless you want to.
[Add Jamie] [Share with grandma →]
That’s not a tour. That’s the actual product, working on your actual documents, in the first session. The sooner we surface what’s about to lapse, the sooner you can stop holding it all in your head.
Three steps. Then we leave you alone.
Upload once.
Drag-drop a passport, snap a photo of an insurance card, or forward a school PDF to your household’s email-in address. Twenty-five megabytes per file, every common format.
We read the dates.
Our AI extracts the document type, the owner, the expiry, the renewal window. You confirm or correct in one tap. Done.
We watch the calendar.
Ninety days out. Thirty. Seven. One quiet email, Sunday evenings, with what’s coming up. Never an 11pm push notification. Never a marketing email dressed as a reminder.
The Founding Family offer.
The first one hundred families who join lock their price for life. After that, founder pricing closes — for good.
$1 today. That’s the hold. It tells us you’re real and tells you we are. No charge until launch.
$149 a year, locked for life. When we ship — late summer 2026 — your $1 hold converts to $149. That price never moves. Standard pricing is $199/year and rising. You stay where you are.
Forty, then a hundred, then closed. First forty families are the founder cohort. Slots forty-one through a hundred open at the same locked price the moment the first forty fill. After a hundred, founder pricing is gone. Permanently.
What you get for being early:
- A founder badge in the product (small, calm — not a banner)
- A private founders-only community + a quarterly 30-minute call with Dave
- Two weeks of early access to every new module before public release
- One free year added to your price-lock for every paying founder you refer
0 of 40 founding families so far. Joining you puts us at 1.
Hold your founder spot — $1 today, $149/year locked for life
Charged on launch day. Cancelable anytime before. Fully refundable if we don’t ship by November 1, 2026.
A few honest things.
Your documents are yours.
Encrypted at rest. TLS in transit. No ad targeting. No data sale, ever. One-click full-vault export — every original file, plus a metadata CSV — at any time, no questions. We’d rather lose the customer than the trust.
Built by an operator, not a startup.
I’m Dave Finkelstein. I run a small consulting and infrastructure shop in New Jersey. I have four adult kids and a wife who teaches high school math, and I’m building the version of this tool I wished I’d had ten years ago — when the school nurse called and the prescription was in a binder I wasn’t near. I read every email that comes in. — Dave
What we’re not building (yet, or ever).
Not a meal planner. AnyList is excellent at this. Use AnyList. We’ll integrate with it next year.
Not a kid-task chore chart. That’s a different product. We don’t compete with it.
Not a calendar app — yet. Calendar overlay is on the Q4 roadmap. Today, FamilyOrb is the document cabinet your family probably forgot to build.
We could ship more, faster, by spreading thin. We’re not going to. The whole point of FamilyOrb is that it works — quietly, in the background, without becoming another app you have to maintain. That happens by saying no to most things.
Questions we’ve actually been asked.
- What if you don’t ship?
- If we don’t deliver a working product by November 1, 2026, every founder is fully refunded — no email required, no exit survey. The $1 hold is a commitment from us as much as from you.
- Why $149 a year? That seems low for SaaS.
- Two reasons. First, the founder cohort is paying in feedback as much as money — we want a small, engaged group who’ll tell us what’s broken in the first ninety days. Second, $149 is anchored to what families already pay for adjacent tools (YNAB is $109/yr; Trustworthy starts at $120/yr). Standard pricing post-launch is $199/year, which is closer to where this category lives.
- When are you adding [calendar / meal planning / family wiki / kid-mode]?
- Calendar overlay: Q4 2026. Family wiki (allergies, sizes, doctor info, share-with-grandma snapshots): Q1 2027. Kid-mode views: Q2 2027. AnyList integration: Q3 2027. Founders see each module two weeks before public release. We don’t promise things we haven’t started building.
- Is my data safe?
- Encrypted at rest with per-household keys. TLS 1.3 in transit. We don’t run ad networks, sell data, or share with third parties. You can export your full vault — every original file plus a metadata CSV — in one click, at any time. If you cancel, we delete on a 90-day window unless you ask sooner.
- Can my partner or our caregiver have access?
- Yes. One household includes two adults with full access, up to eight scoped members (kids, dependents, in-laws living with you), and one caregiver read-only seat — for grandma during a long weekend, or a babysitter for an evening. Caregiver access is time-bound (default 30 days, renewable). No per-seat upcharges.
- What happens to my $1 if I cancel before launch?
- You can cancel anytime before launch day with one click and a full refund — including the dollar. After launch, the $149 charge is also refundable for thirty days, no questions.
- Why “founder pricing”? Aren’t you just creating fake scarcity?
- The cohort is real — 40 founders, then 100, then closed. The price-lock is real — your $149 stays $149 even when public pricing rises. The benefit to us is straightforward: a small early cohort gives us the highest-signal feedback at the lowest acquisition cost, which is the only reason a software company can charge less in year one than year five and still survive. After 100, founder pricing is gone. We won’t reopen it.
0 of 40 so far.
If you’ve read this far, the only question left is whether your family runs on more than what fits in your head. If it does, the founder cohort is open.
The hold is a dollar. The price is locked for life. The product ships in late summer.
Hold your founder spot — $1 today
Charged on launch day. Cancelable anytime. Refundable if we don’t ship.
Not ready to commit? Get the Family Document Audit (free) — the 27-document checklist that started this project.