Cinnamon — a personal AI agent your family can actually share

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Cinnamon plans, books, watches and reminds, for you and up to five people you trust. It always asks before it acts.

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From the team that ran AI for billions of users at Facebook, Instagram and Amazon. Try for free — no credit card required, with 25 credits (15–25 tasks) included.

1 · Ask

Cinnamon Ask chat screen proposing a family ski trip plan and asking whether to share with The Riveras or keep in Personal Space

2 · Watch

Cinnamon task detail screen showing EWR to BTV fare watch at $212 per person, shortlisted Stowe Mountain and Killington Grand lodges, and completed steps

3 · Approve

Cinnamon approval request sheet asking permission before sending an availability email to Stowe Mountain Lodge

Plan a trip

Resorts, flights for four, a shared itinerary everyone can react to.

Tidy the inbox

A morning digest of what actually needs a reply. Drafts ready to send.

Run the calendar

Appointments, forms, renewals. Reminders that land before, not after.

Watch a price

Tell it a number. It waits, then tells you when it's time.

Shared and private

Two spaces. One agent.

Everything in the household space is visible to the household: the ski trip, the chore rota, the Sunday digest. Everything in your personal space is yours alone. Cinnamon never mixes them, and it tells you which one you're in.

Eyes open

A task is running. Cinnamon is researching, comparing, waiting on a reply.

Eyes closed

Done, or paused until something changes. Nothing happens without you.

Shared · The Riveras

Cinnamon de-duplicated inbox showing shared household items for The Riveras and private personal items

Personal · Only you

Cinnamon personal space showing a 30-day at-home strength and mobility workout plan with today's 20-minute routine

Safety & Memory

No black-box memory. Every fact is yours to see, edit, or delete.

Cinnamon doesn't build a hidden profile from your chats. When it learns a useful detail—like a nut allergy, your home ZIP, or preferred airlines—it saves a plain-English fact to that specific space. Household facts stay with the family; Personal facts stay private to you. You can review, edit, or delete any memory in one tap, and every external action still stops for your approval first.

Inspect, edit, or delete

Every saved fact is written in plain English. Fix a detail, add one yourself, or delete it in one tap.

Scoped by space

Household facts stay in the family group. Personal Space memories are strictly locked to you alone.

Approve before it acts

Every email draft, calendar invite, or external action stops for your explicit OK before anything happens.

Your data, your rules

No ads, never used to train AI models, and OAuth tokens stay vaulted where prompts can't read them.

Cinnamon Facts and Memory card showing context switcher between The Riveras household and Personal Space, with Edit and Delete controls on saved facts

Get started

Try Cinnamon for free.

Try for free, no credit card required. Every new account gets 25 free credits right away—enough to complete 15–25 tasks depending on task complexity.

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No credit card required · 25 free credits (15–25 tasks) included

Pricing 25-Credit Free Trial Included · No Card Required

Start with a free trial. Pick the plan that fits your space.

Every new account starts with a free trial (25 task credits—enough to complete 15–25 tasks depending on complexity, no credit card required). When you subscribe to a Group Plan, one household subscription covers your shared space plus unlocks every member's private Personal Space for $0.

Personal Plan

1 member (Solo)

$9.99 / month

50 credits/mo · $0.20 / credit

50 monthly task credits for research, planning & watchers

Private isolated workflows & personal memory

Recurring scheduled dispatches & continuous price monitors

Google Calendar and Gmail connectors

Always asks before every send, booking, or purchase

Group Plan

Popular · Up to 6

$19.99 / month

150 credits/mo · $0.13 / credit · Up to 6 members

Family Umbrella: Covers shared group space PLUS all 6 members' private Personal Spaces for $0

150 shared household credits a month across group & personal spaces

Shared credit pool, strictly private personal vaults & memories

One organizer bill — invited family members never enter a card

De-duplicated household inbox, trip planning & daily digests

Group Plan Max

Best Value · Up to 10

$99.99 / month

1,000 credits/mo · $0.10 / credit · Up to 10 members

Power Household: Covers shared family space PLUS up to 10 private Personal Spaces for $0

1,000 pooled credits a month at our lowest rate ($0.10 / credit)

Built for heavy daily dispatches, multi-trip logistics & continuous watchers

Multiple shared project spaces (trips, events, extended family)

Permanent household memory & priority support

Cinnamon, a calico cat with an orange patch over one ear and a black patch over the other

Why Cinnamon?

Named after a feral calico cat who chose us.

Cinnamon is our cat: orange over one ear, black over the other, white everywhere else, green eyes, and quietly in charge of the house. While we were building an AI agent for families, she was the obvious name for the project. The name stuck, and so did her colours: the cream, the orange and the black on this page are hers.

She is also how the app tells you what it's doing. When the cat's eyes are open, Cinnamon is working on something for you. When they're closed, the task is done or waiting, and nothing happens until you say so. Like the real one, she asks before she jumps on the counter.

Founding Team & Leadership

The team behind Cinnamon.

Built by infrastructure veterans and systems architects with decades of experience delivering distributed platforms and AI systems to hundreds of millions of users.

Michael is the founder and CEO of Cinnamon. He brings over two decades of technical leadership building high-availability distributed systems, large-scale ML infrastructure, and real-time consumer platforms. Michael specializes in taking complex systems from 0-to-1, with an operational focus on privacy-preserving architectures, accelerator economics, and dependable agentic workflows.

Prior to founding Cinnamon, Michael built Meta’s ML capacity forecasting and management framework for Instagram and Reality Labs through global GPU constraints, owned core streaming protocols serving tens of millions of concurrent live viewers at Amazon Prime Video, and co-founded edge-AI video analytics company Monitoreal (deployed across airports and critical transit infrastructure) as well as global CDN pioneer Advection (scaled to 1B+ monthly streams).

Professional Experience & Track Record

Meta Technical Program Manager

Helped build Meta's ML capacity modeling, forecasting, and infrastructure framework across compute, storage, network, and GPU capacity for Instagram and Reality Labs; supported long-range planning and allocation decisions at the executive level.

Amazon Prime Video Principal Technical PM

Owned roadmap and execution for Amazon’s proprietary low-latency, globally synchronized live-event delivery protocol, aligning engineering teams across Seattle, LA, London, and Stockholm serving tens of millions of concurrent viewers.

Monitoreal Co-Founder & Product Strategy

Led edge-AI computer vision appliances and multi-tenant cloud platform from concept to enterprise deployments at Portland International Airport, NYC DEP, and NYC MTA critical infrastructure.

Advection Co-Founder

Built and operated global high-performance CDN scaled to 1B streams/month across 8 data centers worldwide, managing 24×7 NOC operations, carrier peering, and a 25+ person engineering organization.

Patents & Education: Object detection in video streams (US20200117905) · Network metaswitch communications (US20010027491) · B.Sc. Computer Science

Active Founder & Principal Operator

Why Our Team Background Matters

Consumer AI requires enterprise-grade discipline.

Household tasks involve real family calendars, medical appointments, school forms, and utility bills. We architect Cinnamon with strict multi-tenant data boundaries, zero unauthorized cross-principal data leakage, and a verified approval loop before any action is executed.

FAQ

Questions people ask first.

Do I need a household to use Cinnamon?

No. Every account starts with a private space that's yours alone. When you're ready, invite up to five family members or close friends into a group; shared tasks show up for everyone, your private space stays private.

What data do you store about me?

The tasks Cinnamon runs, and a memory of preferences you can read, edit or delete at any time. We do not store your conversation history with Cinnamon once a session ends. Passwords and payment details are never stored where Cinnamon can read them. We don't show ads and don't train models on your data.

What can Cinnamon actually do on my behalf?

Monitor and summarize your connected Gmail mailbox (surfacing financial transactions, school notices, youth sports, and other family activities), prepare draft inquiry emails in your Gmail Drafts folder when exploring options and reaching out to providers, check your schedule and help you add important events to your calendar, research and compare products and local services, design tailored meal plans and exercise programs, and help you prepare for job interviews. Cinnamon never sends emails on its own, modifies your calendar directly, or spends money without your direct action.

Can my household see my personal tasks?

Only what you put in the shared space. A job search, a gift or an appointment in your personal space is invisible to the group, and Cinnamon never mixes the two. You choose where each task lives when you start it.

What does it cost?

Every new account starts with a free trial (25 task credits—enough to complete 15–25 tasks depending on complexity, no credit card required). After your trial, plans start at $9.99/month for the Personal Plan (50 credits/mo for 1 member), $19.99/month for the Group Plan (150 shared credits/mo for up to 6 members), and $99.99/month for Group Plan Max (1,000 shared credits/mo for up to 10 members). Both Group Plans include every member’s private Personal Space for $0.

Why isn’t there a free tier like other assistants offer?

Because “free” usually means you’re paying with your data. We don’t harvest your personal information or use it to train ad targeting. Instead, Cinnamon is funded by the people who use it, which lets us run a sustainable business and keep the experience fast, responsive, and high quality.