The same engineering we apply to compliance monitoring for businesses, pointed at a problem that hits closer to home.
TATER Family is a separate line of products for households, built by the team behind the TATER compliance platform. It starts with the problem we could not solve as parents with the tools already on the market: knowing what our kids were actually doing online, not the keyhole view an API happens to expose.
Family activity monitoring. A lightweight agent on each child's PC captures the foreground app, window titles, URLs, downloads, and screenshots that are OCR'd so every word on screen becomes searchable. Risk alerts by email or SMS, per-app time budgets that actually enforce, and scheduled blocks for school hours and bedtime.
See what it captures →The shared calendar, chore chart, and meal plan that runs the household — on your phone, your laptop, and a wall display running on whatever tablet is already in the kitchen drawer. Forward a school email or photograph a crumpled flyer and it becomes calendar entries you simply confirm. No $300 screen to buy.
Chores that rotate on real math, so “whose turn is it” has an answer. Stars that settle themselves every week instead of relying on a parent to remember. And because we run the agent on the device, finishing your chores can turn into screen time that is actually granted — not promised and then argued about at 8pm.
The paperwork nobody wants to own: medical expenses and receipts, household spending, subscriptions quietly renewing, gift cards going unused. Forward it once and it files itself.
Every parental monitoring tool sees the surfaces it was built to see. The conversations that matter have moved to surfaces most of them never look at — document comment threads, chat DMs, and web clients for apps that were supposed to be mobile-only. Because those tools work through APIs, they can only see what each platform chooses to expose. TATER TOTS works at the device level: if your child can read it, the agent can capture it.
| Where conversations actually happen | API-based tools | TATER TOTS |
|---|---|---|
| Email in the browser | Partial | Yes |
| Chat threads and channel messages | Partial | Yes |
| Comment threads inside shared documents | No | Yes |
| Web clients for social and messaging apps | Partial | Yes |
| Anything else visible on screen (OCR) | No | Yes |
| Time budgets enforced on the device | Partial | Yes |
| Search every message and screenshot | Partial | Yes |
| Self-hosted option — your data, your server | No | Yes |
Monitoring software earns trust or it deserves none. These are commitments, not settings.
No stealth mode, no hidden install, not as an option and not on request. A child can see what is being recorded, described in plain language.
Nothing sold, nothing shared, no advertising model. Run it on our service or host it entirely on your own server.
The family calendar and chore chart never show captured content. Screenshots and messages stay behind their own product and their own sign-in.
Monitoring a nine-year-old and a seventeen-year-old should not look the same. Visibility is designed to wind down as a kid earns independence.
TATER TOTS is available today. The rest of TATER Family is being built in the order that helps most.
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