Tiem

The calendar that knows why.

School runs, nap windows, a caregiver's hours, two parents' sanity. Tiem holds the reasons behind your week — and pushes back before a change quietly breaks one.

Free for 3 months · $5/mo after · Bring your own AI

Sample weekly schedule, week of 2026-08-24
Personmon 08-24tue 08-25wed 08-26
Jonparent
  • 17:45–18:15 family dinner
  • 08:10–08:30 tue school drop-off
  • 08:30–13:30 Jon solo morning
  • free 11:00–13:30
  • 17:45–18:15 family dinner
  • 13:00–13:30 wed school pickup
  • 17:45–18:15 family dinner
Maraparent
  • 08:10–08:30 mon school drop-off
  • 08:30–13:30 Mara solo morning
  • free 11:00–13:30
  • 17:45–18:15 family dinner
  • 17:45–18:15 family dinner
  • 08:10–08:30 wed school drop-off
  • 17:45–18:15 family dinner
Ruthcaregiver
  • 13:00–13:30 mon school pickup
  • 13:00–17:15 Ruth afternoon shift
  • free 13:30–14:30
  • 13:00–13:30 tue school pickup
  • 13:00–17:15 Ruth afternoon shift
  • free 13:30–14:30
  • 08:45–17:15 Ruth full-day shift
  • free 11:00–13:00
  • free 13:30–14:30
Adachild
  • 08:10–08:30 mon school drop-off
  • 08:30–13:00 Ada school
  • 13:00–13:30 mon school pickup
  • 13:00–17:15 Ruth afternoon shift
  • 13:30–14:30 Ada quiet rest
  • 17:45–18:15 family dinner
  • 08:10–08:30 tue school drop-off
  • 08:30–13:00 Ada school
  • 13:00–13:30 tue school pickup
  • 13:00–17:15 Ruth afternoon shift
  • 13:30–14:30 Ada quiet rest
  • 17:45–18:15 family dinner
  • 08:10–08:30 wed school drop-off
  • 08:30–13:00 Ada school
  • 08:45–17:15 Ruth full-day shift
  • 13:00–13:30 wed school pickup
  • 13:30–14:30 Ada quiet rest
  • 17:45–18:15 family dinner
Junechild
  • 08:10–08:30 mon school drop-off
  • 08:30–13:30 Mara solo morning
  • 11:00–14:30 June nap
  • 13:00–17:15 Ruth afternoon shift
  • 17:45–18:15 family dinner
  • 08:10–08:30 tue school drop-off
  • 08:30–13:30 Jon solo morning
  • 11:00–14:30 June nap
  • 13:00–17:15 Ruth afternoon shift
  • 17:45–18:15 family dinner
  • 08:45–17:15 Ruth full-day shift
  • 11:00–14:30 June nap
  • 17:45–18:15 family dinner
Live render — this is the actual product drawing a fictional demo family, not a mockup.

You already have a calendar.

It shows you what: 8:10 drop-off, 5:45 dinner, a wall of colored blocks. It knows nothing about why — so every change is a small gamble.

  • Someone nudges a pickup twenty minutes, and suddenly the nap is happening in a car seat. Again.
  • The driving split drifts until one of you is doing six runs a week — and nobody decided that.
  • Your only free window disappears into errands because it was never written down anywhere.

Calendars show what. Tiem knows why.

Same afternoon, two calendars. One is a block of color. The other can defend itself — everything on the right is the real engine, running.

What — any calendar

  • 08:10 school drop-off
  • 11:00–14:30 nap
  • 17:45 dinner

Move anything anywhere. Good luck.

Why — Tiem

11:00–14:30 June nap

Protected by

June's nap is never interrupted

June naps in her own crib all five days. No car transfers, no cut-short naps.

The nap knows why it's there — and every future edit is checked against it.

Try to break a why. It pushes back.

Hand one parent an extra school run and Tiem answers with the rule your family set — calmly, and with the numbers.

What if Friday's pickup moved to Jon?

  • Duty split is uneven: Jon has 5 runs, Mara has 3 ("driving splits evenly between the parents")

Knowing why finds the free time.

Because Tiem understands the week's structure, it can see the gaps — and puts your breathing room on the calendar like it matters.

  • Mara free 11:00–13:30
  • Ruth free 13:30–14:30

How it works

01

Protects

Your schedule is a living set of agreements — a protected nap, an even driving split, a caregiver's hour cap. An edit that would break one is caught before it saves, not discovered at bedtime.

02

Explains

Every event can say why it's there. Expand it and read the rule protecting it — and the reasoning behind the rule — straight off the schedule.

03

Rehearses

Try any change safely in a what-if draft: see exactly which events move, what breaks, and what you gain — then apply it or throw it away.

A lighter kind of AI.

Most AI features bolt a chatbot onto a pile of events and hope. Tiem's assistant sits on a schedule that already knows the rules, the reasons, and the ripple effects — so the engine does the thinking, and the AI just does the talking.

  • Answers from the graph, not guesswork. "Why is the nap there?" is a lookup, not a hallucination.
  • Changes go through the same what-if gate you use. The assistant can propose and preview — applying is always a human's tap.
  • That's why it stays cheap. A thin conversational layer over typed engine calls is how a real allowance fits in $5 a month — and why bring-your-own AI is a setting, not a rewrite.

Can Jon take Friday's pickup?

Not without breaking a rule you set: Duty split is uneven: Jon has 5 runs, Mara has 3 ("driving splits evenly between the parents") Want me to stage it as a what-if so you can see it anyway?

Why is June's nap 11:00–14:30?

It's protected: June naps in her own crib all five days. No car transfers, no cut-short naps.

Scripted demo — but every fact in it is real engine output, the same answers the shipped assistant reads from.

Simple, honest pricing

Free for 3 months — the full product, nothing held back. After that, $5 per month or $50 per year.

Monthly

$5 per month

Starts after your 3-month free trial

Annual

$50 per year

Starts after your 3-month free trial

What's included: a built-in AI assistant

About 40 conversations with the built-in assistant a month, included with every plan — enough to check the week, ask why an event landed where it did, or try a what-if, without watching a meter.

Bring your own AI

Connect your own AI provider and API key and the monthly cap doesn't apply — your usage, your billing, no limit from us. This runs through the same pluggable adapter the built-in assistant uses, so switching providers is a setting, not a rewrite.

Pricing FAQ

What happens when I reach the monthly AI cap?
The built-in assistant pauses conversations until your allowance renews next month. Your calendar keeps working the entire time — every schedule, constraint, and view stays fully available. Bring your own AI provider and the cap never applies.
Who owns my household's data, and can I export it?
You do. Your schedule, people, and history are yours to export at any time, and nothing is shared with or sold to anyone else.
How do I cancel?
Cancel anytime — there's no lock-in and no cancellation fee. You keep access through the end of the period you already paid for.

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Built by erinick

Tiem is made by Erin, founder of opensetconsulting.com, and Nick, founder of endash.us. Two parents who wanted their own week to defend itself.