HLS Labs

Calm software for real family life.

We're a small product lab that builds tools to watch the chaos so you don't have to — starting with the five calendars your family actually lives by.

Our projects

What we're building.

One at a time, finished properly.

Private beta this fall

Family OS

Every schedule your family lives by, watched for you.

School, sports, and work calendars sync themselves. A deterministic change engine catches every moved practice and cancelled lesson — and the right parent hears about it the moment it happens.

Family OS Today — each family member gets their own lane, with the next event pinned at the topFamily OS Today — each family member gets their own lane, with the next event pinned at the top

How we build

Three rules we don't break.

01

Facts, not guesses

Dates, times, and places are deterministic data — parsed, diffed, and traceable to their source. AI can write prose around facts. It never gets to invent them.

02

Calm, not clingy

No streaks, no badges, no engagement bait. Good software reduces the number of things you have to check. It doesn't add one more.

03

Trust is the feature

Provenance on every event. A receipt for every notification. Privacy-minimal profiles for kids. Your data exports whenever you want it to.

About

Founded by three parents who kept finding out in the pickup line.

HLS Labs was founded in 2026 — an engineer, an operator, and a builder who were tired of learning about schedule changes after they mattered. We're bootstrapped, deliberate, and building for the long haul.

hello@hls-labs.com