Irish developer launches family coordination app

James Foskin spent more than two decades at PayPal, rising to the level of director before leaving in 2025. He has since used personal savings to build TiAiMe, a software platform intended to manage family logistics through a single interface.

The name TiAiMe combines three elements: Ti for time, Ai for the artificial intelligence engine, and Me for the priority person. The tool is designed for adults who manage professional, caregiving, and household responsibilities simultaneously.

Foskin identified the need for the product by observing colleagues and family members struggle with fragmented digital tools. He noted that many households rely on up to seven separate systems to track schedules, but these applications do not communicate with one another. This fragmentation creates mental overload and requires users to manually reconcile conflicting data.

Before writing the initial code, Foskin conducted interviews with 175 families about their daily scheduling challenges. He found that 84 percent of adult participants described coordinating family and support networks as genuinely difficult. These respondents reported spending most of their time reacting to urgent demands rather than pursuing long-term goals.

The platform functions as an intelligent life partner. It learns user routines, commitments, and family structures through an initial onboarding survey. The system is designed to identify potential schedule clashes and propose solutions before they become conflicts.

A key feature allows users to delegate tasks verbally, similar to interacting with Siri. For example, if a parent is delayed picking up a child from school, they can ask TiAiMe to find an available person in their network. The app identifies a free contact, who then verbally confirms availability to the system. TiAiMe sends the necessary details to that person and confirms the pickup with the parent, eliminating the need for group chat coordination.

Foskin emphasizes that the app prioritizes human authority. The AI suggests actions, but a human must always override the system. Child protection features are embedded by design to ensure privacy within the family network.

The company has spent approximately €60,000 on development to date. A pre-launch pilot is currently underway with 50 families. The full launch is scheduled for November 2026.

Foskin has applied to Enterprise Ireland for a pre-seed start fund, which is currently pending. He is seeking two equity co-founders to serve as chief technical officer and chief commercial officer. He specifically wants to recruit a woman co-founder who can contribute lived experience to the product development.

The first phase of the business targets Ireland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Foskin worked with RaftLabs for technical development and participated in a tech accelerator led by David Slowey. He described the accelerator as a turning point, noting that the focus on building a minimum viable business rather than just a product helped shape the company's direction.