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“Forgetting to sign my daughter up for Clay Club was the event that broke the camels back. The paper got lost and by the time she reminded me, the class was full and she was so upset.”
Laura Cunningham is CEO and co-founder of Ava — an AI-powered “Chief Household Officer” built to take the daily mental load of parenting off one person's plate. Built alongside more than a thousand parents in her early community, Ava now scans your email, takes your voice memos, and gets things done for you — but never without you saying ‘yes’ first.
TAKEAWAYS
AI Products Need Trust Contracts
AI has a brand problem right now, driven by the fact that it's been built primarily by men in Silicon Valley who are pretty disconnected from the struggles and needs of a typical American household. Having someone who is the diametric opposite of that — a working mother who is living the problem she's building for — is actually really helpful in this domain.
When you're building something as intimate as a product for someone's family life, you really have to have what I call a trust contract.
Part of building that trust for Ava has been being founder-first — building in public and posting about what we're learning as we go.
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