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What if There was an AI Chore Chart That Saves Relationships?

  • Writer: Indu Arimilli
    Indu Arimilli
  • Aug 29
  • 2 min read

Updated: Oct 8

By Indu Arimilli | August 2025


My roommate and I are great together — same playlists, same love for Trader Joe’s snacks.

Everything’s perfect… until the trash starts overflowing.

So, in the name of peace (and product design), I present, AI Roomie, an AI-powered system to automate chores and emotional awareness.


Research

Before building, I did a little ethnographic study — aka, watching how long we ignore the recycling bin.

To quantify the chaos, I:

  • Logged every completed chore in Notion (because data > denial).

  • Tracked timestamps to spot patterns.

  • Ran a basic sentiment analysis on our roommate chat messages.

Result? Tone spikes in passive aggression every Sunday night at 10:23 PM. (The data never lies.)

So I framed the core insight like a PM:

Problem Statement:

Shared living spaces fail when emotional tone and task fairness aren’t monitored in real-time.

Goal:

Build a tool that keeps chore distribution transparent and conversations kind.


MVP: AI Roomie

Your emotionally intelligent household assistant.

Core Features:

  • Chore Rotation Engine: Assigns tasks fairly based on availability and workload.

  • Conflict Tone Detector: Uses sentiment + sarcasm detection to catch passive-aggressive messages.

  • Peace Dashboard: Visualizes fairness trends and overall roommate “vibe score.”

User Story: “As a roommate, I want chores to be distributed fairly and conversations to stay positive so our apartment doesn’t implode before midterms.”

Metric of Success: Reduce “argument-triggering messages” by 40% within one month of use (measured via tone detection logs).


Prompt to Build the MVP

“You are an AI roommate assistant named AI Roomie.You receive a dataset of messages between roommates and a list of chores with timestamps.Your task is to:

  1. Detect passive-aggressive or sarcastic tone in messages (e.g., ‘Wow, SOME people forgot the dishes again 🙃’).

  2. Assign or reassign chores fairly based on each roommate’s recent contributions.

  3. Generate one short message that maintains a calm tone and suggests a resolution (e.g., ‘Hey! Let’s reset the chore chart this week to stay balanced.’).

  4. Output results in a chat-friendly format suitable for a mobile interface.”


Visual Prototype

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My Conclusion

AI can’t do your dishes, but it can protect your friendship from passive-aggressive dishwashing diplomacy.


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