Michael Shollenberger

Michael Shollenberger

Building the AI household OS, solo
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Building Kaevo — the AI household operating system. 25 years shipping software.

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  • Kaevo
    KaevoThe AI chief of staff for your household
    Aug 2026
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    Joined Product HuntJuly 7th, 2026

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9d ago

Kaevo - The AI chief of staff for your household

One place for your family's finances, home maintenance, travel, documents, and estate basics, with an AI that reasons across all of it and tells you the truth. Ask "can we afford it?" and get real math, including a no when it's a no. Budgeting apps see money; Kaevo sees the household around it. Built solo. Free 14-day trial.
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19d ago

What made you build your product? Drop the real story below.

I'll go first.

Six months ago I was running growth for a small team. Seven tools open at once. I'd draft something in Notion, paste it into the CRM, copy the numbers from Analytics into a Sheets report nobody read, then schedule the post in a different tab. Every week the same loop. Nothing talked to each other, so I was the integration layer.

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1mo ago

The most trust-building thing an AI feature can do is say "no" change my mind

Last week I tested an AI feature I'd built with a deliberately tight-finances scenario and asked: "Can we afford a $4,000 trip this fall?" Instead of the encouraging answer I half-expected, it came back with: you'd be ~$3,500 short using non-emergency funds, your monthly cash flow is negative so the gap widens over time, and the emergency fund stays off-limits. Verdict: "Not without a plan."

It refused to be nice. And it was the first output that made me believe someone would pay for the feature because anyone can ship an AI that says "sure, go for it." The value turned out to live entirely in the moments it pushes back with receipts.

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