How Companion helps
Companion quietly scans your co-parenting messages.
A date, an expense, or a deadline worth saving.
Nothing is sent to your co-parent. You always decide.
Companion runs on your side of CoreParent. It never messages your co-parent and never acts without your tap, so the help is yours alone.
What CoreParent Companion does
CoreParent Companion works quietly in the background of your co-parenting. As messages come in, it looks for the things that usually slip through: a schedule change, a doctor's appointment, a reimbursement request, a decision that needs both parents. When it spots one, Companion offers a single tap to add it to your calendar, log it in expenses, or save it to your record.
It reads paper too. Photograph a receipt or a school flyer with Snap & File and Companion proposes the expense or the calendar dates inside it, ready to confirm and, for shared costs, ready to request reimbursement. Companion also assembles a prep brief before exchanges and keeps track of what you are still waiting on, so nothing quietly falls off the list.
You are always in control
Companion drafts; you decide. It never sends anything to your co-parent without your say-so, and you can hide any item from Companion at any time. Every suggestion is a proposal you accept, edit, or dismiss. CoreParent Companion is there to reduce the mental load, not to take the wheel.
Court-ready, by design
When CoreParent Companion helps you log an expense or keep a message, it lands in the same certified, exportable record the rest of CoreParent uses. The day-to-day help also builds the documentation you may need later, with no extra work. See how records verify.
It knows your parenting plan
Ask Companion who has the kids for a holiday, or whether a trip fits your plan. Its trip check reads your plan's notice and trip-length rules, counts your co-parent's overnights the trip would take, and drafts the vacation request for you to review. Expenses it spots follow your plan's split by category, ready to send as a shared expense request.
Comparing apps? See how CoreParent compares with OurFamilyWizard, TalkingParents, AppClose, and Custody X Change.
Vent first. Send the calm version.
Some messages need to be written twice: the one you feel, and the one you send. When a draft reads hot, Companion offers a calmer rewrite that keeps every fact, every request, and every boundary, just without the ammunition. Brief, informative, friendly, firm. You decide with a tap whether to use it, and your co-parent only ever sees the version a judge could read.
Incoming heat gets the same treatment: Conflict Shield reads hostile messages first and hands you the part that matters.
In Spanish, end to end
Elsewhere in this category, AI features ship in English only. CoreParent Companion works fully in Spanish as well as English: the one-tap suggestions, the calmer rewrites, Conflict Shield's summaries, and document capture all match the language you use in the app. Para la versión en español de esta página, visita /es/companion.
Built for the era of discoverable AI chats
Many parents draft hard messages in a general chatbot first. Family-law attorneys now warn against it: those conversations sit outside your custody record, courts have treated them as discoverable in litigation, and the prompts parents typed have surfaced in discovery. Read our plain-English guide.
Companion was built for this reality. It does its work inside your private CoreParent account, it never messages your co-parent, your children's profile names are replaced with neutral placeholders before anything reaches the AI provider, and what you choose to keep lands in a certified, tamper-evident record. We publish exactly how it works at Your Data and AI, disclosure no other app in this category offers.
Common questions
Is CoreParent Companion safe with my data?
CoreParent Companion is AI-assisted. It reads your messages to offer suggestions, it never sends anything to your co-parent without your confirmation, and you can hide any item from Companion. For everyday features like message analysis and calmer rewrites, our servers replace your children's profile names with neutral placeholders before anything reaches the AI provider, and restore them in what you see. You stay in control of what it sees and what it does; the full disclosure is at thecoreparent.com/your-data-and-ai.
Does Companion message my co-parent for me?
No. CoreParent Companion drafts and suggests; you review and choose what to send. Nothing goes to your co-parent without your okay.
What does CoreParent Companion cost?
CoreParent Companion's everyday AI help is included with CoreParent, free tier included. Elsewhere in this category, AI features cost roughly $8 to $32 per month per parent. See the pricing page for current plans.
Is Companion available in Spanish?
Yes, fully. Suggestions, calmer rewrites, Conflict Shield, and document capture all work in Spanish. AI features elsewhere in this category are English-only.
Is it safe to use ChatGPT for co-parenting messages?
Be careful. General chatbot conversations sit outside your custody record, courts have treated them as discoverable in litigation, and the prompts parents typed have surfaced in discovery. Companion does the same drafting work inside your private CoreParent account, with your children's names aliased before anything reaches the AI provider, and nothing is ever sent without your confirmation. See thecoreparent.com/blog/is-chatgpt-safe-for-co-parenting.
