Asking the Brain

The Kinnomy Brain is one place to ask anything about your home. It knows every record you are allowed to see, how those records connect, what happened before and the patterns in it. This guide covers how to ask, what it answers on its own, and where its limits are.

Open the Brain and type a question the way you would ask a person:

• “What’s going on this week?”
• “Where did our money go last month?”
• “Can we afford a $2,400 trip in March without touching the vacation fund?”
• “Is the chore load fair?”
• “When was the AC serviced?”

Every answer shows the steps it took, charts where they help, links to the records it used and questions you might ask next. You can try it on a sample household on the Kinnomy Brain page.

These work on every plan, without AI, and cost nothing to run:

• A household health score out of 100, with what would help most.
• Spending by category and month, with trends.
• Bill history and bills that jumped.
• Subscriptions with yearly totals, and what cancelling one would save.
• A cash flow forecast for the next 30, 60 or 90 days, with the lowest point marked.
• “Can we afford it?” checks against money coming in and going out.
• Savings goal pace: on track or behind.
• Chore fairness and workload per person.
• Busy days, conflicts and times when everyone is free.
• A maintenance cost forecast, expiring documents and warranties, and birthdays.
• Memory lookups from your own records.

It also knows the rest of the house: what is in the pantry and what you can cook with it, when a pet’s next vaccine is, whose turn it is to walk the dog, what someone wants on their wishlist, photos by place or person, points, rewards and allowance savings, polls, checklists, countdowns, who is driving, subscribed calendars, what your things are worth and car jobs due by mileage. Gifts stay secret: it never shows a gift to the person it is for, and never tells a wisher who claimed their wishes.

The built-in analysis can answer health questions, like “Did Theo take his morning medicine?”, on your device. AI answers only use health records if that person turns on Let the Brain use health records in Settings, Brain. It is off until they do. See Health.

On Household and Household+, the Brain can also answer with an AI model:

• Quick: a fast answer in plain words, grounded in your records.
• Deep analysis: it works through the question step by step, looks things up in your records with its own tools, shows each step as it goes, and ends with a clear answer, charts, the records it used and how sure it is.
• Research: it adds live web search for questions about the world, like prices, how-tos, rules and recalls, with a link to every web source.
• General knowledge: ask about anything, from recipes to tax terms to how a water heater works. It says when it is not sure and never invents facts about your household.

AI answers use Brain credits. Household includes 100 a month and Household+ includes 500. A quick answer costs 1 credit, deep analysis or research costs 3, and document reading costs 1.

An answer can offer one-tap actions, like creating tasks, adding to the shopping list, setting a budget or adding to a goal. Nothing happens until you confirm.

Tell it “remember that Dev is allergic to shellfish” and it keeps that as a fact, for the whole household or just for you. The What the Brain knows page lists every fact and what the Brain can see, and you can delete any fact.

Your conversations are saved for you, private by default. You can share one with the household, give it a title, search them and delete them.

The Brain checks the household every night and surfaces what matters, like a bill that jumped, a goal that fell behind, chores that are lopsided or a warranty that ends soon.

• It can be wrong. That is why every answer links to its sources.
• It only sees what the person asking is allowed to see.
• With no income recorded, affordability answers say they are rough.
• Research uses a web search service, and only runs when you ask for it.
• Household data is never used to train AI models.