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Your Skylight, always current.

Parendipity sits alongside Skylight, monitoring your Gmail and keeping your calendar current automatically. Most events sync without you touching a thing.

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Your schedules arrive from
School emails & newsletters
Coach & team emails
League schedules & PDFs
Event & activity reminders
processed by
Parendipity
Extracts, organizes, and syncs automatically
shows up in
Google Calendar
Always current
Skylight
Displays automatically
What is Parendipity?
"What is Parendipity and how does it work with Skylight?"

Parendipity is an AI-powered family logistics layer. It continuously monitors the places your family's schedules actually live — school emails, coach emails, league emails, and attached PDFs — extracts events automatically, and syncs them to Google Calendar. Because Skylight syncs from Google Calendar, your display stays current without you doing anything. Parendipity handles continuous, background ingestion. Skylight handles the display. The two work together.

The difference

Your Skylight, powered by Parendipity.

Skylight is a great platform — and Parendipity makes it even more powerful. Parendipity monitors your Gmail continuously in the background, so your calendar stays current automatically, without you having to think about it.

Schedules live everywhere
One email from school. One PDF from the league. One text from the coach. Keeping up with all of them takes real effort.
Parendipity adds continuous monitoring
Parendipity watches your Gmail automatically so nothing depends on you remembering to forward or trigger anything.
Reschedules are caught automatically
When a reschedule lands in your Gmail, Parendipity catches it and updates your calendar automatically — even if you never open the email.
Coordination in one place
Parendipity adds a coordination layer so pickup and dropoff responsibilities are assigned and visible to both parents — not just in a text thread.
The shift
"Skylight handles what's on your calendar beautifully. Parendipity handles getting it there."

Parendipity and Skylight work together. Parendipity handles the continuous monitoring. Skylight handles the display. Both parents always know what's happening.

Parendipity sits upstream of your calendar and handles the part that used to require your attention — watching your inbox, extracting schedule information, and keeping everything current automatically. Your Skylight just reflects what's already there.

When the input layer is automated, everything downstream — including your Skylight — takes care of itself.

The stack, with Parendipity
1
Parendipity
Ingests, extracts, coordinates
2
Google Calendar
Stores and syncs events
3
Skylight
Displays + full scheduling platform
How it works

Four steps. Nothing to trigger.

Parendipity runs quietly in the background. You don't change how you use Skylight. You just stop having to remember to update it yourself.

1
Connect your sources
Connect your Gmail account. Takes about two minutes. Parendipity monitors your inbox continuously from there.
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Events are extracted automatically
Parendipity identifies dates, times, locations, and changes from your connected sources. No copy-pasting. Most events sync automatically.
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Google Calendar is updated
Events are created, updated, and removed as schedules change. Your calendar stays accurate without you opening it.
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Skylight just shows it
Because Skylight syncs from Google Calendar, everything appears there automatically. Your display is always current.
Before and after.
Same Skylight. Completely different experience.
Without Parendipity
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Check 4 different apps every week for schedule changes
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Spend time each week getting events from emails and apps into your calendar
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Miss the reschedule buried in a coach email
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Schedule changes in your inbox go unnoticed unless you catch them
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Coordinate pickups over text with no shared source of truth
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Spend 30+ minutes a week just keeping the calendar current
With Parendipity
✓
Parendipity monitors connected sources continuously
✓
Events appear in Google Calendar and Skylight automatically
✓
Schedule changes are detected and updated when they arrive in your inbox
✓
Skylight reflects what's actually happening, updated automatically
✓
Assign pickups and dropoffs directly inside Parendipity
✓
Get your time back. The calendar manages itself.
Why it matters

It is not about the calendar.
It is about mental load.

The calendar is the symptom. The real cost is the mental overhead of tracking everything yourself — constantly.

30+
Minutes saved every week
The average family with two kids in activities spends significant time each week keeping their calendar current. Parendipity handles that automatically in the background.
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Fewer missed schedule changes
Parendipity monitors your connected sources continuously. When a schedule change comes through your inbox, it's captured and reflected in your calendar — without you having to notice and forward it.
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Ambient engine keeping everyone aligned
Parendipity works quietly in the background, bringing updates from your connected sources into your calendar — so everyone stays on the same page.
Parendipity + Skylight

Parendipity doesn't replace Skylight.
It powers it.

Skylight is a great platform — and it's on our wall at home. This page isn't a comparison of features. It's about what Parendipity adds: continuous, automatic inbox monitoring that keeps your calendar current without you having to trigger anything.

You keep Skylight exactly where it is. Parendipity works upstream — watching your Gmail continuously so your calendar is always ready, and your Skylight always has something accurate to show.

Parendipity
Continuous inbox monitoring
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Google Calendar
Calendar sync + storage
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Skylight
Display + full scheduling platform
Common questions

Everything you want to know.

Yes. Parendipity syncs your family's schedule to Google Calendar. If your Skylight is connected to Google Calendar, it will reflect those updates automatically. No extra setup required.
No. Skylight stays exactly where it is. Parendipity works upstream — it monitors your Gmail continuously and keeps Google Calendar current so your Skylight always has accurate information to display.
Parendipity connects to Google Calendar via the standard Google Calendar API. It creates and updates events directly. You connect your Google account once during setup, and Parendipity handles everything after that.
It is automatic. Parendipity extracts and syncs events without requiring your approval for every item. For high-confidence events, it just adds them. For anything ambiguous, it flags it for a quick one-tap review. Most of the time, you won't see anything at all.
Parendipity monitors your connected sources continuously. When a schedule change comes through — a new email, an updated game time, a cancelled practice — it detects the change and updates Google Calendar automatically. Your Skylight reflects the update the next time it refreshes.
Parendipity connects to Gmail and monitors your inbox automatically. It also processes PDFs and documents forwarded directly to your Parendipity address. More integrations are being added in beta based on what families actually use.
No. Parendipity does not replace Skylight. Skylight is a great display and scheduling platform. Parendipity adds something specific: continuous, automatic inbox monitoring. The two work well together.

Your Skylight, always current.

Join the closed beta. Connect Gmail once and your family's schedule stays current automatically — no forwarding, no triggers, most events sync automatically.

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