She’s a Claude mom.
An Upper West Side mom-of-two has turned to AI to keep track of all her children’s school communications — and she’s selling her solution to other parents battling the barrage of emails from teachers and administrators.
“I had thought I was the only one failing and getting less organized, but turns out this was a common problem,” Alix Anfang, 41, told The Post.
She knew she needed to do something when, last fall, she got a call from her 7-year-old’s teacher saying she’d forgotten to pick up her young son.
“I had missed an announcement about an early school dismissal,” said Anfang, who also has a 4-year-old. “I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ I am a very type A person, but it was starting to get overwhelming, the amount of emails I got about kid things.”
Vowing never again, Anfang, who leads communications for a major tech company, turned to Claude and had it build her a tool that reads the emails she gets from schools and neatly summarize them every morning in a bulleted email to her and her husband.
“I was just starting to get into AI,” she said.
On May 1 — just in time for the busy parenting season known as “Maycember” — she officially launched her creation as DailyNest, an app “to organize the chaos.” Unlike other family-planning apps, such as Skylight, it’s passive, requiring moms and dads to do nothing except sit back and ignore their emails.
Everyone she’s told about it has responded the same: “I need this.”
She’s already signed up 76 parents, who are paying $24 per month or $240 per year for DailyNest.
One of the earliest users was Becky Katz Davis, 39, who runs events for a tech company and has three kids ages 6 and under in two different schools.
“The amount of emails that come not only from the schools, which is an outrageous quantity of emails alone, but all of the after-school activities, all of the extracurriculars, all of the sports. It’s kind of impossible,” the Greenwich, Conn., mom told The Post, estimating she gets more than three dozen emails about her kids’ stuff per days. “It’s a full-time job, and I have a full-time job already that is very demanding.”
DailyNest saved her last week when her daily summary email told her there was a Mother’s Day brunch at her daughter’s school.
“When I tell you I had no idea that this brunch even existed, I couldn’t even find the original email that said it,” she said. “I must have deleted it, and DailyNest knew it was real.”
Another user, Jordan Kafenbaum, said the emails for her three children, ages 10 under, were getting buried.
“My kids go to two different schools, and the way they communicate obviously isn’t great. There will be a principal’s letter, with an attachment, and if I don’t open it, I miss it,” said Kafenbaum, who lives in Manhattan and works overseeing technicians at a medspa. “Also, they don’t send reminders.”
“So many people are going to buy this.”
Jordan Kafenbaum
DailyNest has already saved her from missing picture day, forgetting to send lunch on a field trip day and neglecting to send in a teacher appreciation gift.
“So many people are going to buy this,” she said. “With moms, everyone is looking to pay someone to make something more efficient.”
Kafenbaum also loves a feature on the app that allows her to assign tasks that are listed in the summary emails to her husband. “If you have three kids the weekends are all about dividing and conquering, so now the email says I am going to take Spencer to basketball while my husband takes Julian to KidStrong.”
Anfang has big plans for DailyNest in the future.
“Another problem people have been talking to me about is their WhatsApp groups and texts, and how it’s really hard to keep up with that,” she said. “I have a lot of ideas of what we can do, like give people this phone number that they can forward things to, and it will go into their DailyNest email.”
In the immediate future, however, she’s tackling something else: summer camp.
“I am confident I can do it,” she said. “But emails from summer camps are a whole different beast.”
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