Apps · Childcare, coordinated
A shared home for everything about the children: routines, school, medicine, meals and play, on every caregiver’s phone at once.
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It started because my husband kept asking if I’d already given our son his vitamins, and neither of us could ever remember. Then it was the paracetamol timing. Then it was a National Day outfit I only found out about that morning.
None of it is hard. It’s just constant, and it all sits in one person’s head until that person is ill, or out, or asleep. Everything in Chico is there because of something I needed as a parent.
The problem
Shouted from the kitchen while you’re in the shower. You think you did. Neither of you wrote it down.
How much, how long ago, and is it too soon? Sums on your phone in the dark, with a hot, crying child on you.
Red and white on Friday, and a project due the week after. You meant to remember, and now it’s Friday and there’s no red top.
Grandma’s at the door or the helper’s taking over, and you’re rattling off the whole day from memory with one shoe on.
Who it’s for
Whatever one person logs is already on everyone else’s phone.
Hand over, and whoever has the children can see the plan, how they’re doing and the emergency numbers.
One shared record, so the handover is done before the bag is packed.
A newborn mode with four big buttons and the counts the clinic asks for.
Each child gets their own routines, medicines and school things.
What it does
Smart buttons change with the time of day and how your child is, so logging takes one tap.
Dress-up days, projects and homework, with reminders the night before and the morning of.
Temperatures, symptoms and doses with times, a weight-based dose calculator, and when the next dose is allowed.
Paste a recipe link and plan meals around the routine.
Every ingredient checked against every child’s allergens, and flagged to check.
A smiling bear counts down, so the bear can be the bad guy.
Indoors or out, energy level and time available, and a wheel picks an activity.
Everything logged, on a calendar, for when the paediatrician asks.
Papers, reporting times and what goes in the bag, with reminders that land when they help.
Tell it what you need in plain words. It proposes the change, and nothing is saved until you see it.
Allergies, school details and a one-tap handoff summary for whoever has the children next.
How it was made
Chico is built with agentic assistance, and Chico AI works inside it. The judgement calls about what a family needs, and what it should never do, are mine.
Where it’s heading
Chico is in private beta and free while it runs. Founding families keep the founding price when it ends, from $11.90 a month for one child, with every caregiver free.
Visit yourchico.comPartner with me
Chico is growing, and I’d love to grow it with people who look after families too. If one of these sounds like you, write to me and tell me a little about yourself.
You run a clinic, a school, a helper agency or a service parents already trust, and Chico fits alongside it. We share in what it earns.
You use Chico with your own family and recommend it, and earn a commission on the families who join through you.
You’re a parent who talks about what works anyway. You get early access to new features and a direct line to me.
You’d like to back childcare software built in Singapore by a mother, and hear where Chico is heading.
About an app, copy, training or a talk. I'd love to hear what you're working on.
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