Aligna builds a way to share the work behind family plans
Aligna is building an app for families who want to share the planning as well as the chores. It brings schedules and household information together, with AI-assisted tools intended to turn messages into events and responsibilities. That distinction matters because finishing a task is only part of the work. Someone may also need to notice it, decide what happens and make sure it does. Founder and CEO Reddhi Patel traces the idea to her own family's difficulty coordinating responsibilities across group texts, calendars and notes. Aligna advertises a free beta, with support for two-partner and single-parent households during that stage.
The planning behind the chores
A 2024 study of 322 mothers of young children in different-sex couples gives context to the problem. Participants reported a greater imbalance in planning household work than in carrying it out.
The researchers described the work as preliminary: their sample was relatively well educated and high income, and it relied on mothers' reports rather than both partners' accounts.
A shared view, with paid capacity
Aligna's approach is to make some of that coordination visible to more than one person. Its published plans describe a shared calendar and, on paid tiers, tools for turning emails and messages into events and chores and rebalancing responsibilities.
For a family, the attraction could be having the information behind a task alongside the task itself, rather than relying on one person to pass it along. The proposition depends on households finding that shared view useful in practice.
Aligna's published model starts with a free plan for up to two family members. Its proposed Together plan is listed at $14.99 a month for four included seats and 150 AI assists a month; additional seats are listed at $3 per seat per month, with up to six seats in total.