How Boone works.

Before you connect

You need a family, and Boone is invitation-gated. Two ways in:

1. Someone invited you. Open the link in that invitation. It is single-use, it expires after 14 days, and it puts you in their family, where your family's records already are.
2. Nobody invited you. Start a family of your own. You sign in, give it a name, and you are its owner.

If you have an invitation, use it rather than starting a family. Starting one first leaves you owning an empty family with nothing in it, and there is no way to merge the two.

You also need an assistant that speaks MCP. Boone never calls an AI model itself, so your own subscription does the thinking — and because Boone both reads and writes, your plan has to allow connectors that take actions, not only ones that search. Which plans those are changes, so check with the host rather than trusting a list here: Claude's requirements and ChatGPT's.

Connecting

The connect page has the one short message to paste into a new chat, a button that copies it, and what each assistant needs before the paste will work.

You will be asked to sign in and to approve the connection. After that, ask Boone to introduce itself and start talking.

What you can ask Boone to do

All of it is conversational — say it in your own words and your assistant works out which part of Boone to use. The names below are what your assistant will show you when it asks permission.

Getting your bearings

• Meet Boone — what it is, what it will not do on its own, and what your family controls.
• Where to start with Boone — a guided first conversation, if you want one. Ask for it; it is never forced on you.

The things on your plate

• Note something that needs doing — mention it in passing and Boone holds onto it.
• Show what's on your plate — a ranked, grouped view of what is actually open, not everything you have ever said.
• Close something out — done, or no longer worth doing.
• Correct or change an item — fix a title Boone misheard, move a date, change who owns it.

What Boone remembers about your family

• Remember something lasting — a goal for the year, a constraint on Tuesdays, a decision you have made, or a standing fact about your household.
• Show what Boone remembers — everything it has saved as a lasting fact about your family, in full.
• Recall the family's context — what your assistant reads before helping with a decision, so its advice is grounded in what you have actually told it.
• Delete something Boone remembers — gone, along with the copies of it in Boone's own records. One known gap: two things saved from a single sentence can each keep the other's words. See the privacy page.
• Take a copy of everything — the whole lot: your list, your roster, your invitations, your saved facts and the history of changes, delivered in numbered parts you can save.

Who is in your family

• See who's in your family — members and invitations nobody has answered yet, kept as two separate lists.
• Invite someone into the family — owners only.
• Cancel an invitation you've sent — useful the moment you notice a typo in an address.
• Take someone out of the family — owners only.
• Leave your family — any member who is not an owner can, and nobody has to approve it. An owner hands the family over first, or deletes it if they are the only one left.
• Hand the family over to someone else — makes them the owner.
• Delete your family and everything in it — owners only, permanent, and it takes every member's records with it.

Telling us something is wrong

• Send feedback to Boone's team — your words reach us directly, with two anonymous identifiers for your family and your account and nothing else. This is the one thing that leaves your family, so Boone always asks first and the privacy page says exactly what goes.

Why Boone keeps asking

Boone asks before saving something lasting it worked out for itself, and before anything it cannot take back. It is deliberately not a confirmation on everything: being asked six obvious times in a row is how people learn to say yes without reading, and the seventh is the one that matters.

So the rule is roughly:

• You asked for it directly? Boone does it and tells you.
• Boone worked it out from something you said in passing? It asks first, every time.
• It changes who can see your family's records, or it cannot be undone? It always asks, and no phrasing changes that.

When Boone asks, saying yes applies exactly what it offered — not your assistant's second rendering of it. If you leave the question and come back much later, the offer will have lapsed and Boone will make it again rather than acting on a stale one.

What Boone won't do

• Turn every sentence into a task. Most of what a family says is conversation, not a to-do.
• Save something lasting that it worked out for itself, without asking you first.
• Make the big calls for you. It will lay out what a plan runs into; the decision is yours.
• Present a shaky memory as fact. If it is not sure it heard you right, it says so.
• Show your family's records to anyone outside it, or show you another family's.

Two of those the server actually enforces, and it is worth knowing which: your family's records are unreachable from outside your family, and anything lasting that Boone inferred rather than being told is held back until you say yes. The rest are how Boone is asked to behave, and your assistant is the one behaving — good rules, not guarantees.

Limits today

Things worth knowing

• A family is one planning unit, not everyone you are related to. The test is whether you plan the same logistics together. Two co-parents in two homes are two families, even though they share children.
• An invitation shares everything, going back to the start. Someone who joins can see what your family told Boone before they arrived, and there is no way to un-share it. Invite people who are doing the planning with you.
• Removing someone ends their access, not their contributions. What they added stays with the family, still attributed to them.
• Your assistant runs the conversation. Boone owns the records and the rules; how the questions are worded to you is your assistant's doing.

If something goes wrong

Tell Boone. Ask it to send feedback and your message reaches us directly, with no name, address, or part of your conversation attached — just what you wrote and two anonymous identifiers, for your family and your account, so we can tell reports apart.

For anything else, including a security issue, email support@iamboone.app.