Everything you're about to ask.

Yes. Kairo is independent and very new. We're building in public, focusing on getting the calm-and-clear fundamentals right before scaling features. You can see what we're shipping on the /founders page and the changelog will live on the marketing site once we cut a 1.0.

The first 1,000 people who sign up and actually use Kairo — at least 7 distinct active days within their first 14 — get a permanent founding-member badge on their profile and an option to leave a review on the /founders wall. The badge is awarded automatically. It's a one-time recognition of the early community, not a discount or a price-lock.

Students juggling classes, founders & operators running a small team, families coordinating a household, and anyone trying to coordinate a calmer life. The product adapts to which mode you pick (Academic, Operations, or Personal) and Teams turn it into a shared environment when you need others involved.

Three different things. A WORKSPACE is a personal mode for your account — Academic, Operations, or Personal — that tunes how Kairo looks and talks. A SPACE is a PRIVATE container you own alone: a course, a project, your family planning, a client folder. A TEAM is a COLLABORATIVE shared environment with other people — multiple members, announcements, subgroups, discussion. You can have many Spaces and many Teams; Workspace is just the mode they live inside.

Your personal SPACES are yours alone — calendar, notes, tasks, files. Nobody else can see them unless you share an individual item one-to-one. A TEAM is a separate, shared environment with its own calendar, tasks, notes, announcements, subgroups, resources, and contacts. You can belong to many Teams while keeping your personal Spaces entirely private; nothing crosses over without you explicitly sharing it.

Notion is doc-first: pages, databases, blocks. Kairo is time-first: calendar, tasks, and notes wired into your actual hours. We're not trying to replace your wiki — we're trying to be the place where your week lives. Use both; they don't compete.

Google Calendar and Apple Calendar are excellent at showing events. Kairo connects to those calendars (so your events still flow through) and adds the layers they don't: AI capture from any text, linked notes and tasks per event, travel intelligence, collaborative workspaces, and a unified view across multiple calendars. We're additive — not a replacement.

Motion and Reclaim auto-schedule your day aggressively. Kairo doesn't. We show you where the conflicts and the open space are, suggest moves, and let you decide. Auto-rescheduling is opt-in per event — never the default. The goal is calm and control, not algorithmic micromanagement.

Those are heavy project-management tools built for teams of 20+. Kairo is for individuals and small teams (up to ~150 members in a Pro Space) who want the calendar, notes, tasks, and AI in one place — without the project-management overhead. If you're running a 200-person engineering org with sprints and OKRs, use Linear. If you're a student, founder, or small team running the next 90 days, Kairo's lighter.

ChatGPT is general-purpose. Kairo's AI is contextual — it sees your calendar, tasks, and notes (when you ask) and answers in terms of your actual time and commitments. Quick Capture turns paragraphs of text into structured calendar entries. Copilot remembers what you've been working on. It's a focused assistant for time, not a chatbot.

No. Connected content (calendars, notes, integration data) is used to power YOUR view of Kairo — never sent to third-party model training. Anthropic and OpenAI receive only the minimum context needed to answer a specific request, and our contracts with both prohibit training on customer data. See /legal/ai-disclosure for the specifics.

Each Workspace is a view that rolls up a slice of your life. Academic gathers your course Spaces — classes, syllabi, exams, study sessions. Operations gathers project + client + team Spaces — sprints, meetings, follow-ups. Personal covers routines, household, errands, life admin. Same underlying data — same calendar, same tasks, same notes — just grouped so you can look at one slice without the rest of life shouting at you. Switch any time from the sidebar.

Yes — Settings → Workspace. Your data stays put; the surface just rearranges around the new emphasis. We don't move anything or delete anything when you switch.

Both are personal modes that adapt Kairo to a different rhythm. Student Workspace centers on classes, assignments, exams, syllabi, and LMS integrations (Canvas, Blackboard, Google Classroom, Moodle, Brightspace). Operations Workspace centers on projects, clients, agendas, briefs, and follow-ups — the AI extracts decisions and action items from documents instead of parsing syllabi. They share the same underlying calendar, tasks, and notes; only the framing changes.

Project rollups, client pages, meeting agendas, decision/action-item extraction, follow-up tracker, contacts surfaced from @mentions in your notes. The AI handles the same document parsing as Student Workspace but never calls anything a 'syllabus' — it talks in terms of briefs, agendas, and docs.

Course spaces, syllabus PDF extraction, exam tracker, due-soon list, lecture-aware notes, LMS feeds, study quizzes, and flashcards. The discount (~20% off) applies to your personal subscription when your email is a .edu address. The LMS integrations are part of Pro.

Each note lives in a notebook (a folder) or a Team. Notes have rich text, sketches, attachments, comments, and AI tools (YouTube import, Smart Notes recording, one-tap quizzes — all Pro). Personal notes are private until you 1-to-1 share them. Team notes are visible to everyone in the Team. Notes can be linked to a calendar event so they pop up when the event runs.

Tasks have a title, optional due date, optional workspace assignment (personal or team), priority, and links to notes or events. The Tasks page surfaces a momentum strip with your day's completion arc and a streak counter. Tasks created inside a Team are visible to the Team; personal tasks aren't shared by default.

One unified timeline of personal + Team events with day/week/month views. Events can carry attachments, locations, attendees, and linked notes. Travel & commute intelligence (Plus and Pro) pre-loads leave-by times. You can scope the calendar to just personal, just one Team, or everything together.

Three layers: (1) Free 1-to-1 shares — send a single note or event to one specific person. (2) Teams — everything inside a Team is shared with all Team members and subgroups by default. (3) Public read-only links — generate a short link from any note or event you own. You stay in control: revoking a share is one click, and shared items show who has access.

Yes for reading and editing. Kairo is local-mode-first: changes persist to your device immediately and reconcile when you're back online. AI features that need the server (Smart Notes, YouTube import, the Copilot) need a connection.

The web app already works on mobile browsers — installable as a PWA on iOS and Android. Native mobile apps are on the roadmap; we're focused on the calm web experience first.

Free creates 5 Spaces + 1 Team, and can join 3 Teams (5 members hosted total, 2 subgroups). Plus creates 25 Spaces + 5 Teams, joins 15 Teams (25 members hosted, 10 subgroups per Team). Pro creates unlimited Spaces + 15 Teams, joins 50 Teams (150 members hosted, 50 subgroups per Team), and unlocks the advanced hosting layer — automations, roles, and permission tiers.

Yes — anyone can join a Team they're invited to. The Team owner's plan controls how many members and subgroups the Team supports; each member's personal plan controls their personal features (AI quotas, personal storage, etc.). Free users can join up to 3 Teams.

No. Personal upgrades stay with you (more AI, more storage, premium features). Hosting upgrades go to the Spaces YOU create (more members, more subgroups, automations). They never bleed into each other — that way you don't accidentally pay for someone else's whole Space when you only meant to pay for yourself.

Smaller circles inside a Team — like a class within a department, or a squad within a startup. Subgroups have their own discussion, tasks, and shared resources, but stay connected to the parent Team's roster and admins. Free Teams get 2 subgroups, Plus gets 10, Pro gets 50. Each subgroup can be public to the whole Team or private to a listed set of members.

Free covers calendar, tasks, notes, 1-on-1 sharing, Quick Capture parsing, and basic quizzes from your notes. Plus adds one-shot AI utilities — YouTube → notes, Smart Notes recording, syllabus AI extraction, travel intelligence, document summaries — plus more storage and the ability to join teams others host. Pro adds the conversational layer: Kairo Copilot, AI in notes (summarize · brainstorm · ask), AI-generated quizzes, host advanced team workspaces with roles and automations, plus max AI throughput.

Yes — annual billing is about two months free compared to monthly. The plan card shows the effective per-month price so you can compare directly.

Yes. Free covers calendar, tasks, notes, 1-to-1 sharing, and Quick Capture forever — no trial, no surprise wall. We charge for AI capacity (Plus and Pro) and for hosting larger Teams (Team Plus and Team Pro). If the free plan stops being free we'll change this answer.

Exactly 20% off — Student Plus is $6.40/month ($64/year) and Student Pro is $12.80/month ($128/year). The discount applies as long as your .edu email is verified. Verification stays valid for 12 months; re-verify before it lapses and the discount continues seamlessly.

Sign up with a .edu email and the discount auto-applies. You can also apply a student code manually in Settings → Billing. Verification stays valid for 12 months — we ask you to re-verify after that, and if it lapses your discount pauses (you stay on Plus/Pro but at the regular price until you re-verify).

Canvas, Google Classroom, Moodle, and D2L Brightspace — live course sync is part of Pro. Today on Plus and Pro you can upload a syllabus PDF and Kairo turns it into events, tasks, and notes automatically. As the live LMS sync rolls out, Pro accounts will be able to point Kairo at their course feed and have syllabi, assignments, and due dates flow in continuously.

No. Your notes, calendar, tasks, and team content are never used to train models — yours or anyone else's. We only send the slice of context needed to fulfill a specific request, and we don't retain prompts for training.

Yes — limits scale with your plan. Free gets a small monthly AI allowance for Quick Capture. Plus gets expanded conversational Copilot throughput. Pro gets the highest tier with the largest context window and the most monthly capacity.

Paste a YouTube link into a note (or use the YouTube button on the editor toolbar). Kairo fetches a clean transcript, generates a 7-point summary with timestamps, and creates a multi-choice quiz from the content. Everything is inserted into the note, and the quiz is saved alongside so you can retake it. Pro feature — beta testers and admins get it for free.

Hit the Smart Notes button in any note and press record. Kairo captures the room (lecture, meeting, call) through your microphone, transcribes live using your browser's speech recognition, and updates a rolling summary every 8 seconds. When you stop, the transcript + summary are inserted into the note. Audio is processed locally where the browser supports it; nothing is uploaded for training. Pro feature.

Click the Quiz button on any note. Kairo extracts key concepts and definitions and generates a 6-question quiz with multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short-answer questions. Take it, see your score with explanations on missed questions, retry as many times as you want. Quizzes are saved to your library. Pro feature.

Yes, at any time. Settings → Data lets you export notes, tasks, calendar entries, and uploads. Notes export as Markdown; calendar as ICS; uploads as their original files in a ZIP. No paywall on export.

We immediately remove your data from production and start a 30-day grace window for accidental deletions. After 30 days, backups age out and the account is gone for good. Team-owned content stays with the Team unless you also delete the Team.