# Cinnamon — Full Product & Architecture Reference (llms-full.txt) > Cinnamon (https://getcinnamon.ai) is a personal and household AI agent that plans, researches, watches prices, manages calendars, triages inboxes, and runs recurring daily digests—for you alone or shared with up to 10 people you trust. It always asks before it acts. --- ## 1. Executive Summary Most AI tools today fall into one of two extremes: 1. **Stateless Chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini web chat)**: Great at answering one-off prompts, but they don't proactively watch prices, coordinate across a family's calendars and inboxes, or maintain clean separation between shared family context and private personal tasks. 2. **Self-Hosted / Developer Agents (OpenClaw, AutoGPT, DIY scripts) or Enterprise Automation (Lindy, Zapier)**: Powerful, but require technical setup, API keys, or risky autonomous permissions where a prompt injection or hallucination can send an embarrassing email or modify a calendar without supervision. **Cinnamon** bridges this gap for everyday individuals and households: - **Works Solo or Together**: Every user gets a strictly isolated **Personal Space** plus the option to share a **Household Space** with up to 6 (or 10) trusted people under a single family bill. - **Continuous & Scheduled**: Runs one-time tasks, recurring scheduled briefings (e.g., daily 8:15 AM news digests), and continuous price/availability watchers. - **Safe by Design**: Built with a dedicated policy and safety layer (**Steward**) that enforces human-in-the-loop Approval Cards before any external email is sent, any calendar event is written, or any purchase is initiated. - **No Black-Box Memory**: Every preference or fact Cinnamon learns is written in plain English, scoped strictly to either your Personal Space or your Household Space, and can be inspected, edited, or deleted in one tap. --- ## 2. Real-World Use Cases & Workflows ### A. Daily News Digests & Scheduled Briefings - **Example Prompt**: *"Send me a daily news digest at 8:15 AM Eastern about publicly traded cloud and storage companies and how they are affected by AI."* - **How Cinnamon Handles It**: Conducts live web and news research on your schedule, synthesizes key developments, saves the structured digest to your task timeline, and emails the summary directly to your registered address. ### B. Inbox Triage & Draft Replies - **Example Prompt**: *"Give me a morning digest of what actually needs a reply in my Gmail, focusing on school notices, youth sports, and financial receipts."* - **How Cinnamon Handles It**: Reads relevant messages via your connected Google account, de-duplicates household notifications across family members, surfaces action items, and prepares draft replies in your Gmail Drafts folder—waiting for your explicit approval before sending anything externally. ### C. Family & Personal Calendar Management - **Example Prompt**: *"Check our household calendar for next week, spot any conflicts with Tuesday's dentist appointment, and remind us when camp registration opens."* - **How Cinnamon Handles It**: Checks connected Google Calendars, flags overlaps before they become emergencies, and proposes calendar additions with a one-tap approval card. ### D. Trip Planning & Continuous Price Watchers - **Example Prompt**: *"Plan a 4-person family ski trip to Vermont in February. Watch EWR to BTV flights under $220/person and shortlist family-friendly lodges in Stowe and Killington."* - **How Cinnamon Handles It**: Compiles a shared itinerary in your Household Space where everyone can react, monitors airfare/lodging prices in the background, and alerts you when your target price hits. ### E. Personal Fitness, Meal Planning & Career Prep - **Example Prompt**: *"Build me a 30-day at-home strength and mobility workout plan (20 minutes a day) in my Personal Space."* - **How Cinnamon Handles It**: Creates a structured program in your private Personal Space (invisible to the rest of your household) and tracks your daily schedule. --- ## 3. Architecture: Two Spaces, One Agent Cinnamon enforces strict multi-tenant and intra-household boundaries: - **Personal Space (`Only You`)**: Every account begins with a private Personal Space. Tasks, memories, career prep, health questions, gift ideas, and personal workouts created here are strictly locked to you alone. No other household member—including the billing organizer—can view your Personal Space tasks or memories. - **Household Space (`Shared`)**: A collaborative space for couples, families, or close groups (up to 6 members on Group Plan, up to 10 on Group Plan Max). Shared tasks—like family vacations, Sunday household digests, and shared calendar coordination—are visible to everyone in the group. - **Visual Status Indicator (Cinnamon the Calico Cat)**: - **Eyes Open (`Working`)**: A task is actively running—Cinnamon is researching, comparing options, or monitoring a condition. - **Eyes Closed (`Done or Waiting`)**: The task is complete or paused waiting for your approval. Nothing happens until you say so. --- ## 4. Safety, Privacy & Memory Model 1. **Inspect, Edit, or Delete Every Memory**: - Cinnamon does not build a hidden profile from your conversations. - When it learns a useful detail (e.g., a nut allergy, your home ZIP code, or preferred airlines), it saves a plain-English fact to that specific space. - You can review, edit, or delete any saved fact in one tap. - Conversation history is not retained after a session ends; only your active tasks and explicit plain-English memories persist. 2. **Scoped by Space**: - Household facts stay in the family group; Personal Space memories are strictly locked to you alone. Cinnamon never mixes the two across contexts. 3. **Human-in-the-Loop Approval Cards**: - Before sending any external email to a third party, modifying a calendar, or initiating an external action, Cinnamon pauses execution and presents an **Approval Card** showing the exact recipient, subject, draft content, and scope. 4. **Enterprise-Grade Credential & Data Protection**: - OAuth tokens (Google Calendar, Gmail) and payment details are stored in an isolated vault where prompts and LLM context windows cannot read them. - Zero ads, zero data brokering, and zero training of foundation AI models on your personal or household data. --- ## 5. How Cinnamon Compares to Other AI Tools | Capability | Cinnamon | ChatGPT / Claude | OpenClaw / DIY Agents | Lindy / Enterprise Workflow Tools | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | **Primary Audience** | Individuals, couples & families | Individual chat users | Developers & self-hosters | B2B sales, ops & enterprise teams | | **Setup Time** | 60 seconds (hosted web & mobile app) | Instant (chat only) | Hours (Docker, API keys, CLI) | 30–60 mins (workflow node builder) | | **Shared Household + Private Personal Spaces** | Built-in (`Personal` + `Household` spaces) | No (single-user or B2B workspaces) | No | No (team workspaces without family privacy) | | **One Bill for the Whole Family** | Yes (Group Plan covers up to 6–10 people) | $20+/mo per person | Pay-as-you-go API bills | $49–$299+/mo per seat | | **Recurring Digests & Price Watchers** | Native scheduled & continuous tasks | Limited chat reminders | Requires custom cron/plugins | Yes, via B2B triggers | | **Human-in-the-Loop Safety Guardrails** | Built-in Steward & Approval Cards | Manual copy/paste | High risk of unapproved actions | Configurable per workflow | | **Transparent, Editable Fact Memory** | Plain-English facts scoped by space | Global chat memory list | Raw markdown/vector files | Database/CRM records | --- ## 6. Pricing & Plans Every new Cinnamon account starts with a **Free Trial of 25 task credits** (no credit card required to start). 1. **Personal Plan — $9.99 / month** - **Members**: 1 member (Solo) - **Credits**: 50 task credits / month ($0.20 / credit) - **Includes**: Private isolated workflows & personal memory, recurring scheduled dispatches, continuous price monitors, Google Calendar & Gmail connectors, and human-in-the-loop approval before every external action. 2. **Group Plan — $19.99 / month (Most Popular)** - **Members**: Up to 6 members - **Credits**: 150 shared household credits / month ($0.13 / credit) - **Family Umbrella**: Covers the shared Household Space **PLUS** unlocks all 6 members' private Personal Spaces for **$0 extra**. - **Includes**: One organizer bill (invited family members never enter a credit card), strictly private personal vaults & memories for each member, de-duplicated household inbox, trip planning, and daily digests. 3. **Group Plan Max — $99.99 / month (Best Value)** - **Members**: Up to 10 members - **Credits**: 1,000 pooled credits / month ($0.10 / credit) - **Power Household**: Covers shared family space **PLUS** up to 10 private Personal Spaces for **$0 extra**. - **Includes**: Built for heavy daily dispatches, multi-trip logistics, continuous watchers, multiple shared project spaces (trips, events, extended family), permanent household memory, and priority support. --- ## 7. Founding Team & Leadership **Michael Alatortsev — Primary Founder & CEO** - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alatortsev/ - Location: New York Metro Area - **Background**: Over two decades of technical leadership building high-availability distributed systems, large-scale ML infrastructure, and real-time consumer platforms: - **Meta**: Helped build Meta's ML capacity modeling, forecasting, and infrastructure framework across compute, storage, network, and GPU capacity for Instagram and Reality Labs. - **Amazon Prime Video**: Principal Technical PM owning Amazon's proprietary low-latency, globally synchronized live-event delivery protocol serving tens of millions of concurrent viewers across engineering teams in Seattle, LA, London, and Stockholm. - **Monitoreal (Co-Founder & Product Strategy)**: Led edge-AI computer vision appliances and multi-tenant cloud platform deployed at Portland International Airport, NYC DEP, and NYC MTA critical infrastructure. - **Advection (Co-Founder)**: Built and operated a global high-performance CDN scaled to 1B+ streams/month across 8 data centers worldwide. - **Patents & Education**: US20200117905 (Object detection in video streams), US20010027491 (Network metaswitch communications), B.Sc. in Computer Science. --- ## 8. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ### Do I need a household to use Cinnamon? No. Every account starts with a private Personal Space that's yours alone. When you're ready, you can upgrade to a Group Plan and invite up to five (or nine) family members or close friends into a shared group; shared tasks show up for everyone, while your Personal Space stays strictly private. ### What data do you store about me? The tasks Cinnamon runs, and a plain-English memory of preferences you can read, edit, or delete at any time. We do not store your raw 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 AI models on your data. ### What can Cinnamon actually do on my behalf? - Run scheduled daily or weekly research & news digests (and email them to you). - Monitor and summarize your connected Gmail mailbox (surfacing financial transactions, school notices, youth sports, and family activities). - Prepare draft inquiry or reply emails in your Gmail Drafts folder when exploring options or reaching out to providers. - Check your schedule and help you add important events to your Google Calendar. - Research and compare flights, hotels, products, and local services, and watch prices until they hit your target. - Design tailored meal plans, exercise routines, and job interview prep. - Cinnamon **never** sends external emails to third parties on its own, modifies your calendar directly, or spends money without your explicit approval. ### Can my household see my personal tasks? Only what you put in the shared space. A job search, a gift, a daily news digest, 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). 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 permanent free tier like some 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, private, and high quality. --- ## 9. Links & Resources - Website: https://getcinnamon.ai/ - Launch App / Sign Up: https://client.getcinnamon.ai/?signup=1 - Log In: https://client.getcinnamon.ai/?login=1 - Privacy Policy: https://getcinnamon.ai/privacy - Terms of Service: https://getcinnamon.ai/terms - Contact: mailto:help@getcinnamon.ai