kept's answer:

Most home apps focus on inventory for insurance purposes -- cataloging what you own and what it's worth. kept solves a different problem: operational reference knowledge. the stuff you need on a Tuesday afternoon when you're standing in the hardware store.

• furnace filter size
• the painter's number
• which brand of sneaker your kid wears in what size

kept is built for the moment you need the answer, not the moment you file a claim.

kept's answer:

Home inventory apps own the insurance documentation use case. kept owns the much more frequent one -- the 20 questions a week you can't answer about your own home.

• faster to add things
• built around retrieval not cataloging
• AI surfaces what's relevant before you even know you need it

kept's answer:

Homeowners and parents who run a household -- people who are actually organized but whose information lives in texts, emails, junk drawers, and their partner's memory. not forgetful people. meticulous people with a system problem.

kept's answer:

I hired a great painter. He showed up when he said he would, charged what he quoted, left the place cleaner than he found it. A year later my wife asked if I had his number. I checked everywhere. We never found it.

That was part of a larger pattern -- I had the information, it just didn't exist anywhere findable. So I built kept.

kept's answer:

• Supabase
• Gemini AI
• Progressive Web App
• upcitemdb barcode lookup
• Resend