It started at our own kitchen table.

Like every parent, my wife and I were drowning in school email — long, multilingual, half of it not even about our kids — and still ending up in the class WhatsApp group asking "did anyone else see the thing about Friday?" The school had told us, clearly, once. We just never got a fair chance to absorb it.

So we built the thing we wished existed. I'm an executive at a multinational here in Switzerland; my wife is at home with our children full-time, and she became C’noté's second user. We built it first only for us: a liaison that reads every email, knows which child each thing is about, tells us what matters before it's too late, answers when we ask — in the language we actually read — and refuses to guess. If it doesn't know, it says so.

We use it on our own children, every day, since March 2026. That's not a customer testimonial — it's something we trust more at this stage: we'd never ship our own family a tool that invents things about our kids. Right every time, honest the moment it isn't sure — that standard is the whole product.

Honestly? It's been like magic — to skip the inbox and just trust C’noté. And the hardest part has been keeping it to ourselves. We still sit with other parents drowning in exactly the email we no longer think about, and it feels almost unfair to hold a secret. That's what finally pushed us to open it up.

The careful emails come from teachers who mean them. C’noté exists so that care lands — for every family, in every language, without anyone scanning an inbox at 11pm. We built it for our family, the way a Swiss school's data-protection officer would want it built: entirely in Europe, nothing trained on your data, every claim traceable to its source. Now it's ready for your school.

— The founder family