First Turn Labs
Dadbot
An AI group member that makes friend groups hang out in real life more often.
Dadbot lives inside the group chat people already use. It absorbs the social risk of being the planner, knows when to stay quiet, and turns loose intent into polls, reservations, reminders, recaps, and actual plans.
Adult friendships decay because of coordination friction, not lack of desire. Dadbot is infrastructure inside the chat that already has the relationships.
Product loop
The planner that earns its place.
The core technical bet is not just making an LLM funny. It is teaching an agent to understand social timing: when to suggest, when to joke, when to remember, and when to stay quiet.
Reads the chat in context, detects intent, and decides whether the right move is a joke, a proposal, a memory callback, or silence.
Uses a Should-I-Speak governor, trust ladder, and group mode so it earns permission before becoming proactive.
Moves from vague interest to polls, real options, private booking confirmation, group confirmation, and reminders.
Builds group context from onboarding, chat, dossiers, preferences, inside jokes, and past plans.
Feature map
From messy chat energy to actual follow-through.
Dadbot uses a single-brain architecture so the product does not double-send competing jokes, polls, roasts, and suggestions.
The Should-I-Speak layer weighs direct address, group energy, recency, and budget. It is backed by real transcript fixtures.
Dadbot gets more helpful when the group engages, and gets quieter when ignored or told to chill.
Proactive, Focused, and Assistant modes let Dadbot live in dad, family, and planning chats without the wrong tone leaking in.
Member profiles, onboarding answers, preferences, inside jokes, and local context feed future replies without turning into surveillance theater.
Roster validation, tone checks, quiet hours, budgets, and kill switches make the bot manageable as it gets more capable.
Social coordination
The center of the product is finishing the plan.
Dadbot turns "we should grab dinner" into ranked options, a real poll, a private booking handoff, group confirmation, reminders, and a recap. The same loop works for events, RSVPs, calendars, and recurring nudges.
Polls and reservation options turn vague intent into a concrete next step.
The bot remembers who follows through, favorite venues, and the group's planning style.
Surfaces
A group member, not another destination.
Suggestion capture, ranked real options, group polls, private booking handoff, confirmation, reminders, and recap.
Full lifecycle from proposed to polling, confirmed, reminded, and recapped.
World Cup play-by-play, match scouting, standings snapshots, bracket-pool integrations, and prediction tools.
GIF timing, scheduled drops, image reactions, URL unfurling, and X/Twitter post reading.
Reads and writes calendar events from chat, with reminders that respect quiet hours.
Dossiers, roster editing, message feed, manual sends, kill switches, and retry tools for operational control.
Sports, live game calls, bracket context, prediction tools, and chat-native commentary.
Dossiers, roster editing, message feed, manual sends, retries, budgets, and kill switches.
Current state
Founder-dogfooded, shipping fast.
Dadbot is still early. It is a live production prototype with unusually high product surface area, tight dogfood feedback, and a clear next milestone: more real friend groups.
Talk to us
Want to try Dadbot with a real group?
We are looking for a small number of friend groups who already have the group chat, the intent, and the planning friction.