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AI Field Note No. 2 — August 2026

How We Used Claude to Build a Family System

“The most useful AI solutions rarely begin with a perfect prompt. They begin with friction.”

HomeStar began as a family problem, not a software idea.

Our homeschool days needed structure, but every system we tried depended on one person to keep it alive. Weekly planners had to be rewritten by hand. Laminated routines had to be reprinted and rearranged. Chore charts worked until a schedule changed, someone forgot to reset them, or ordinary family life interrupted the plan.

The girls could complete the work, but they still depended heavily on me to know what came

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