Digital readiness for families
Parental controls try to manage behavior. Readiness builds judgment.
Rooted Reality runs locally in your home. Local AI watches the patterns. You and your kids do the talking. With readiness milestones, so the work has a visible finish line — not a subscription that renews forever.
Built for kids and teens, 6 to 17. Running on Windows today. macOS coming. Mobile waitlist open. Early access is guided and request-based.
Local AI watches the patterns you can't — without sending anything to the cloud.
Your family does the talking that matters — with a shared language for what's actually happening.
Readiness milestones mark real progress — the work has a finish line, not a forever subscription.
Your first week
How readiness starts
Set up the household
Pick your first Windows desktop, the kids you want to cover, and the household shape you want — one kid, two, or a full family. Start narrow. Expand later.
Turn on local intelligence
Install the desktop companion and optional browser companion. Local AI starts watching the patterns on-device — nothing leaves your home.
Start your first readiness conversation
By week’s end you’ll see the first pressure windows, the first judgment-building scenarios for your kid’s age band, and the first step on the readiness arc — something to talk about together.
Week one in a single view
A week's attention at a glance
After seven days of local signals, a single ring shows the week's total, every app and site broken down beside it, and a focus timeline that reads exactly when attention rose and fell.
How the launch works
See how the current launch works for families.
Product, privacy, demo, and the guided setup path.
Supportive oversight
Calm visibility for households guiding kids and teens.
Family is the primary launch path right now. Setup is guided so the first households start on supported devices, with new and unknown apps and sites to review and practice drills for real-life scenarios.
New and unknown apps and sites
See newly discovered sources and decide what deserves a conversation.
Practice drills
Build confidence for scams, impersonation, and manipulative AI before the real moment.
Need the policy landscape? Explore the public laws map.
Traditional tools focus on restriction.
We focus on readable signals.
OS controls and block lists matter, but they do not explain how a session changed shape. Rooted Reality works in a different lane: local-first behavioral signals, guardian context, and readiness practice.
Local-first privacy
Behavior signals are captured on-device. Personal content is not uploaded to the cloud.The most sensitive digital behavior belongs with the household, not inside a remote dashboard.
Human signals
We surface compulsive loops, switching pressure, and drift before they flatten into a single total.Time limits alone miss the difference between a directed session and a diffused one.
Guardian reasoning
When a signal appears, guardians get context for a calm response instead of a bare alert.The goal is supportive oversight, not a stream of fear-based notifications.
Real-time discovery
Unknown apps, sites, and sources can be surfaced when they first appear locally.Families should not have to wait on a central catalog before seeing a new environment.
Supportive oversight
Family is positioned around signals, summaries, and visibility rather than hidden surveillance.The launch path is meant to support parents guiding kids and teens, not to mimic a commodity blocker.
Readiness practice
Households can pair visibility with readiness scenarios that train judgment, not only compliance.Restriction can create space, but practice helps a teen recognize pressure when it shows up again.
What this makes possible
Understand not just where time is spent, but how a session actually unfolded.
Surface compulsive loops and drift patterns before they harden.
Give guardians the context to respond calmly instead of reacting to a single alert.
Flag new digital environments when they first appear locally.
Carry visibility across Windows desktop activity and the connected browser companion at launch (macOS coming).
Practice recognizing manipulation tactics and pressure patterns before they show up in the wild.
Guided Family setup for the first households.
Family is the primary launch path. It is built for households guiding kids and teens, with local-first signals, guardian summaries, and readiness practice.
Public pricing stays visible for transparency. Early access is still request-based so each household starts with supported-device fit, guided setup, and a clear first-week plan.
Current launch posture
Family setup is guided right now so early households get hands-on onboarding.
Individual remains listed as a launch plan, but self-serve stays off until code signing, legal, and payment approval land.
Running today: Windows 10/11 desktop with the Chrome/Edge browser companion.
Coming next: macOS — actively in build, not shipping yet.
Waitlist open: iPhone, iPad, Android, and Chromebook.