One wall. One plan. For the one running the house.

Calendars organize time.
Mantle organizes the household.

Mantle turns calendars, tasks, school chaos, pickup gaps, and missing-item stress into one calm black-and-white E Ink brief on your wall — so everyone knows what matters, who owns it, and what needs attention.

47 founding families are helping shape the first 200 Mantles.

60-second application Ships Fall 2026 30-day money-back guarantee

No glowing tablet. No endless app. Just the household brief.

Thursday · Apr 23
3:58
SarahHome
Marcus→ home, 6:42
EmmaSchool
JakePractice
62°
This afternoon
Light rain by 5:30

Today

Schedule
4:00
Emma · school wrap-upuntil 5:00
4:30
Jake · soccer practicefield 3
5:00
Pickup · EmmaSarah closest
6:30
Leave by
Leave by 4:27 to make Jake's game.
Traffic is heavier than usual on 34th.
Leave by

Sarah, leave at 4:27 — different route today.

34th is backed up after school. Mantle picked the faster way to Jake's practice.

field 3·16 min drive·Sarah driving
Directions Remind me at 4:20
Emma's school
Pickup alert
Emma wraps at 5:00.
Sarah is closest — 8 minutes away.
Confirm
Reassign
SarahNear school
MarcusDowntown
EmmaAt school
JakeAt practice
Tomorrow

Tomorrow starts at 6:45.

Early pickup for Jake. Rain likely.

6:45Early wake · Jake
7:10Emma · bus stop
11:30Rain starts
3:00Early pickup · Jake
6:30Dinner · home
ChapterIThe problem
Six apps. One person remembering.

Six apps, a group text, and one person holding it all in their head.

Every family runs on a messy mix of shared calendars, location apps, group texts, and "where are you?" phone calls. That's the bottleneck Mantle fixes.

9:41●●●
Calendar
Dentist · Emma
Soccer · Jake
PTA · 7pm
Dinner · home
9:41●●●
Where is…
Marcus · 18 min
9:41●●●
Family · 7
Who's getting Emma?
I can
running late 😬
Jake needs cleats
ok on it
dinner?
ChapterIIWhy now
The cost of running a household in 2026

A house runs on hundreds of small handoffs. Most of them still happen in someone’s head.

74%
of household coordination is carried by one parent
6.2apps
the average two-parent household juggles weekly
22min/day
lost to “where, when, who” before 9am
Sources · Pew Family & Tech 2024 · Mantle internal household study, n=412
ChapterIIIA Thursday in six acts
A Thursday with Mantle

One day. Six acts. The wall keeps up.

Scroll to walk one household through one Thursday — from the first coffee to lights out. Mantle notices, decides, and assigns the next move.

DAYMAPNXTFNDSET
6:47
Thursday · April 24
TodayTasksMeals
Before you go
Backpack, water bottle, permission slip.
Emma's field trip is tomorrow. Sign by 8.
3 items Emma · 11 8:00 deadline
7:10Emma · bus stop34th corner
7:45Jake · drop-offSarah
8:30Marcus · standupoffice
DAYMAPNXTFNDSET
Sarah → school
Marcus → office
7:42
In motion
On the move
3 minutes to bus.
Emma left at 7:08. Marcus is on his way.
Sarah→ school
Marcus→ work
EmmaBus
JakeSchool
DAYMAPNXTFNDSET
3:58
Thursday · April 24
SarahHome
Marcus→ home, 6:42
EmmaSchool
JakePractice
Weather
62° · Light rain by 5:30.
Bring jackets for pickup.
TodayTasks
Leave by
Leave by 4:27 to make Jake's game.
34th is +11 min. Take 12th instead.
field 3 16 min drive Sarah
4:00Emma · wrap-upto 5:00
4:30Jake · soccerfield 3
5:00Pickup · EmmaSarah
DAYMAPNXTFNDSET
Sarah · 8 min
Marcus · 22 min
4:42
Pickup window
Pickup alert
Emma wraps at 5:00.
Sarah is closest — 8 minutes away.
Confirm Reassign
DAYMAPNXTFNDSET
6:30
Thursday · evening
Dinner check
Sheet-pan chicken.
In the oven by 6:45 to eat by 7:15.
35 min Marcus cooks
6:45Oven on400°
7:15Eatall home
8:00Homework · Jakemath
TodayFind
Tag locations
3 tags accounted for.
mKeysjust now
mBackpack · Jake2m ago
mBottle · Emma11m ago
DAYMAPNXTFNDSET
9:14
Tomorrow loading
TodayNext
Tomorrow
Tomorrow starts at 6:45.
Early pickup for Jake. Rain likely.
6:45Wake · Jakeearly
7:10Emma · buscorner
3:00Early pickup · Jakeschool
1

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Your Mantle arrives

Numbered, plaqued, ships Fall 2026.

Invite-gated · Founding Families

The first 200 homes are numbered.

Every Mantle in the first production run is numbered and plaqued with a Founding Family number on the back. The first homes help shape defaults before the product ships: pickups, handoffs, mornings, late changes, and the things families actually need on the wall.

47 of 200 reserved 153 invites open
Request an invite — 60 seconds

Four questions. We read every one. Accepted households can place a refundable $50 hold to reserve the $489 Founding Family price.

The backplate

Numbered. Plaqued. Quietly yours.

The O. family
Minneapolis, MN
2 adults · 4 kids
Founding Family #12
The R-M. family
Austin, TX
2 adults · 3 kids
Founding Family #18
The K. family
Seattle, WA
2 adults · 2 kids
Founding Family #27
The P-S. family
Atlanta, GA
3 adults · 2 kids
Founding Family #34
The T. family
Portland, OR
2 adults · 2 kids · 1 dog
Founding Family #41

Example backplate format. We only publish real household names after permission. Fall 2026.

The invite loop

Use your three invites where they matter.

Mantle is better when the first homes look like real life: neighbors, siblings, co-parents, grandparents, and the family you text when pickup changes. Accepted households get three private invites for the homes they actually rely on.

Request an invite — 60 seconds
  1. Apply

    Four questions. We learn what your household actually carries.

  2. Get accepted

    The first wave helps us decide what ships and what gets cut.

  3. Invite three homes

    Use them for the people who help when the day changes.

How it works

Schedules, locations, pickups. In one place.

01

Sync your calendars

Mantle pulls from the calendar apps you already use. Nothing is migrated. Nothing is rebuilt from scratch.

02

Add the household

Each adult and older kid signs in on their phone. Permissions stay with them. Kids choose what's visible.

03

Hang it on the wall

Now everyone reads the same wall — schedule, live locations, pickups, and weather on events.

A day on the wall

From the first coffee to lights out, the wall keeps up.

Morning routines, afternoon pickups, dinner timing, tomorrow's weather. Mantle reads the household calendar and the clock, and surfaces the one thing someone needs to decide right now.

06:47 · Before you go 16:27 · Leave by 18:30 · Dinner check 21:10 · Tomorrow
Thursday · Apr 23
6:47
SarahKitchen
Marcus→ work
EmmaHome
JakeHome

This morning

Before you go
Backpack, water bottle, permission slip.
Emma's field trip is tomorrow.
7:10
Emma · bus stop34th corner
7:45
Jake · drop-offSarah
8:30
Two views. One day.

The view the whole family reads.

Schedule view

Today's timeline, marked for each family member.

Labels, icons, and grayscale markers keep people distinct. Leave-by rows highlight when someone needs to move. Cards surface the decisions it's easy to miss — before you go, dinner check, leave by.

Thursday · Apr 23
6:47
SarahKitchen
MarcusOn way to work
EmmaHome
JakeHome

This morning

Schedule
Before you go
Backpack, water bottle, permission slip.
Emma's field trip is tomorrow.
7:10
Emma · bus stopcorner of 34th
7:45
Jake · school drop-offSarah
8:30
Marcus · standupoffice
3:15
Map view

Where everyone is, right now.

Routes when someone's on the move. Pickup alerts surface the person who's closest. Kids can share status instead of location — "at practice" is enough.

Emma's school
Pickup alert
Emma wraps at 5:00.
Sarah is closest — 8 minutes away.
Confirm
Reassign
SarahNear school
MarcusDowntown
EmmaAt school
JakeAt practice
Thursday
5:12
Sarah→ school
MarcusDTN
EmmaWrap-up

Right now

Pickup alert
Emma wraps at 5:00. Sarah is closest.
Tap to confirm pickup.
5:30
Jake · practicefield 3
6:30
ChapterIVBuilt like furniture
Built like furniture

An E Ink display that belongs in the kitchen, not on a bookmark bar.

An 11.6-inch matte E Ink display set in solid oak or walnut, made to read from across the room. French cleat mount, no visible cord. No camera. No microphone. One job, done at eye level.

Black-and-white E Ink Oak or walnut frame French cleat mount Locked launcher
ChapterVThe object, in situ
Designed to live where your family actually lives

Hung once. Read by everyone. Forever.

A piece of furniture, not a piece of tech. One install. No app to relearn every six months.

FrameSolid oak / walnut
Display11.6″ matte E Ink
MountFrench cleat
ChapterVIWhat you’ll actually see
A walk-by glance, not a dashboard

The wall, on a Tuesday at 5:12 pm.

Three columns: what’s coming, who’s where, what’s still on the list. Designed to be read in three seconds from across the room — and to be ignored the rest of the time.

5:12PM
Tue · Apr 21 · Week 17
64°
Partly cloudy
H 68° L 51° · Rain 8pm

Today

3:30
MayaSoccer practice — Field 3Coach Diaz · pickup 5:00
5:18
Sarah ▸ pickupLeaving in 6 min.Auto-routed · 11 min ETA
6:30
FamilyDinner — sheet pan chickenIn the fridge · prep 15m
7:45
EliReading log due Wed.20 min minimum
8:30
HouseTrash + recycling outPickup 6:45 am

The right thing, right now

Mantle suggests

Sarah is closest to Maya’s pickup — 11 min away. Want me to text her and shift the dinner timer to 6:45?

Tap or say “yes”↵ 1 reply pending

Tonight’s list

Pack Maya’s cleats DAVID
Confirm dentist Thu 9 am SARAH
Sign Eli’s field-trip slip EITHER
Refill cat food (1 day left) DAVID
Birthday card → Grandma (Sun) FAMILY

Who’s where

S
Sarah
En route ▸ pickup
D
David
Office · home 6:00
M
Maya, 11
Soccer · Field 3
E
Eli, 8
Home · with Lola

This week

THU · Maya orthodontist 4:15
FRI · Pizza night · movie
SAT · Soccer 9 am · groceries
SUN · Grandma’s birthday
Mantle Tags

Little things, on the same wall.

Small, rechargeable tags that clip onto the things families lose. The wall is how you find them.

mantle
mantle
Kitchen navy Brass gold Heritage cream
M
Keys
mantle
Backpacks
mantle
Water bottles
On the wall

A quiet line when it's fine. A loud card when it isn't.

Tags show up on the display the same way people do — a gentle pin on the map, a card when something leaves the house without its owner.

Item locations
Jake's backpack is still at home.
School starts in 22 minutes.
Kitchen counter · last seen 7:14 a.m.
Ring to find

Bluetooth range indoors. Anonymous network finds in the neighborhood.

Rechargeable, 6 months

USB-C. No coin cell to buy, no cell to throw away.

Keep it in the family

Set tags household-only — no crowd-finding — or opt into the anonymous network.

Starter
1
Single Tag
$29
One color of your choice.
Best for most families
3
Family pack
$79
Navy, gold, cream. Save $8.
Every bag in the house
6
Household pack
$149
Mix of colors. Save $25.
Smart cards

The day nudges itself.

Cards appear when they matter and fade when they don't. One approved label, one clear sentence, at most two buttons.

Pickup alert

Jake wraps swim at 6:15. Marcus is closest.

Tap to confirm pickup.

2 buttons · Confirm, Reassign
Leave by

Leave in 11 minutes for the dentist.

Office is across town. Emma needs the appointment slip.

1 button · Directions
Dinner check

Wednesday dinner: 5 hungry, 2 not home yet.

Push the table to 7:30 or feed the kids first?

2 buttons · Push to 7:30, Feed kids now
Before you go

Library books, soccer cleats, the green binder.

Three things due back today.

quiet card
Tomorrow

Birthday party at 2 + Emma's dentist at 4.

Driving overlap. One parent needs a ride home.

evening card
Handoff

Layla moves to Dad's tonight.

Bag is by the door.

blended-family card
Item locations

Jake's backpack is still at home.

School starts in 22 minutes.

powered by a Tag
Privacy

No camera. No microphone.

Mantle is built for household coordination, not surveillance. Location sharing is permission-based, and families control how visible that information is on the display.

The hardware has neither.

Every Mantle ships without a camera cutout or microphone grille. Not disabled — absent.

Kids choose their visibility.

Teens can share precise location, share status ("at practice"), or share nothing. Parents can't override.

Built for kitchens, not clouds.

The display runs one job and doesn't listen. No ads. No data sold.

no camera
no microphone
Not a tablet

This isn't. This is.

Mantle is a dedicated piece of furniture with one job. It fits in the kitchen.

This isn't
This is

An iPad on the wallA general-purpose tablet with 400 apps.

A dedicated E Ink family display.One job. Always on the schedule.

A location appOne more thing to check on your phone.

A shared glanceable view.The whole house reads it, not just the person who opened an app.

Another calendarA new account to migrate everyone to.

The place your calendars land.Bring what you already use.

A hub for lights or locksAnother home-automation dashboard.

Furniture.It belongs in the kitchen, not on a bookmark bar.

Where Mantle fits

You probably already bought two of these. Here's the one you didn't.

Most families end up juggling a location app, a shared calendar, and a countertop screen — three products solving three slices of the same problem. Mantle is the one built to be read from across the kitchen by the whole house.

Phone app
Life360 Locations
What it does well
Real-time family locations with geofences
Driving reports and check-ins for teens
Where families feel the gap
Lives on one phone, not the kitchen wall
No schedule, no dinner-check, no nudge to leave
Teens often feel tracked rather than included
A map on your phone. Mantle is a map the whole house reads, with the plan next to it.
Bluetooth tag
Tile Things
What it does well
Finds keys, wallets, and bags you misplace
Small, cheap, one job done well
Where families feel the gap
Disposable coin-cell batteries, thrown away yearly
Lives only in a phone app, not on the family wall
Solves "where is it" — not "who's next to grab it"
A finder you check on your phone. Mantle Tags show up on the wall — next to the person who can grab them.
Kitchen display
Skylight Calendar
What it does well
A wall-mounted shared calendar the family can see
Chore charts and meal planning in one frame
Where families feel the gap
No real-time locations or pickup intelligence
A calendar that shows — it doesn't nudge or decide
Quiet at the moments that need a decision
A calendar on the wall. Mantle is a calendar that watches the clock and the door.
Schedules
The calendar is on the wall.
Skylight figured this part out. Mantle keeps it, and adds the people moving around it.
Locations
Without the surveillance energy.
Life360 solved real-time locations. Mantle adopts consent-first sharing — teens can share status, not coordinates — and reads from one shared screen instead of each phone.
Decisions
Pickup alerts, leave-by, dinner check.
The part no one else does: Mantle looks at who's where, what's next, and what the drive looks like, and surfaces the one decision that matters right now.
Why this category exists

Why a command center, not a calendar.

Skylight and Hearth sell picture frames. Calm and Oura sell recovery from a job no product is taking off your plate. Mantle is the family command center built to take the job itself — so recovery isn't the only option left.

Wearable ring
Oura Recovery
What it does
Tracks how tired you are, down to the heartbeat
Gives you a readiness score every morning
What it doesn't touch
Shows you the data. Doesn't change the cause.
You're still the one running the house tomorrow.
Oura tells you you're burned out. Mantle stops the thing burning you.
Meditation app
Calm Recovery
What it does
Five-minute meditations for when it's already 9pm
Sleep stories for a brain still making lunchbox lists
What it doesn't touch
Asks you to make more time in a life that has none
You wake up to the same mental load tomorrow
Calm helps you cope with the load. Mantle takes part of it off your plate.
Smart mattress
Eight Sleep Recovery
What it does
Optimizes the eight hours you're already trying to get
$3,000+ of hardware dedicated to sleep
What it doesn't touch
Fixes the night. Leaves the day unchanged.
You lie there running tomorrow's logistics anyway.
Eight Sleep optimizes recovery. Mantle reduces what you need to recover from.
Recovery category
They treat the symptom.
Calm, Oura, Eight Sleep, Whoop — all excellent. All selling a way to survive the invisible job you're already doing.
Prevention category
Mantle treats the cause.
The mental load itself. The job you didn't sign up for and can't currently hand off. Mantle takes it.
Why this matters
Every smart display is built for the person who opens the app. Mantle is built for the person running the house.

Mantle takes the job
you didn't sign up for.

ChapterVIIPricing
Founding Family hold

Lock the early-bird price.

Request an invite first. Accepted households place a refundable $50 hold that locks the $489 Founding Family price.

The Mantle display · Founding Family #48–#200
$50 refundable hold
$489 early-bird price locked

The $50 hold is credited toward your Mantle when pre-orders open. If you change your mind before then, we refund it. Standard launch price is $599. Ships Fall 2026, with holiday delivery as the target.

  • 11.6-inch matte E Ink display, no glare at 6am
  • Solid oak or walnut frame, hangs like a small painting
  • French cleat wall mount, no visible cord
  • Numbered + plaqued Founding Family badge on the back
  • Private updates from the first production run
  • No camera. No microphone. No app store.

Put Mantle on your wall for 30 days.

If your house doesn't run quieter, send it back. We pay shipping both ways. We're not asking you to believe us — we're asking you to test us.

ChapterVIIIIn the box
In the box

Eight things, packed by hand. One Phillips screwdriver is all you’ll need.

Mantle Display11.6″ E Ink · oak or walnut
French cleat kitSolid brass · 4 anchors
3 Mantle TagsNavy · gold · cream
Cord channel6 ft · paintable
Setup cardLetterpressed · numbered
1-yr warrantyPlus 30-day return
ChapterIXCommon questions
FAQ

The things families ask first.

Don't see yours? Write to us.

Fall 2026 · Numbered and plaqued

Some of the work of running a family is actually beautiful.
Most of it isn’t.

Mantle takes the part that isn’t — and gives the part that is back to you. Hang it once. Run quieter for the next ten years.

Request a Founding Family invite
47 of 200 reserved · ships fall 2026
 Request an invite

Four questions. Sixty seconds.

We're taking the first 200 homes through the first production run before retail. We read every application because those households shape the defaults Mantle ships with.

Tap all that apply.
Honest answer matters more than the obvious one.
One sentence is enough. Above the coffee maker, hallway by the garage, kitchen island wall.
Tap all that apply.

We respond within a week. Accepted applicants get a private link to place the refundable $50 hold.

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