Most apps that watch families track state. How many days in a row did you log something. Whether you hit your goal this week. A streak counter, a green check, a percentage.
Arcs do something different. They watch trajectory. Where is each person actually heading, given how they've been showing up across many weeks of gatherings? What's getting better, what's quietly stuck, what's fading without anyone naming it?
This is the long view of your family — and it's only possible because Haklo has been listening week after week. After about five gatherings, each member of your family has an arc you can read.
What an arc is
What does an arc actually contain?
A member's arc is a synthesized read of where that person has been over their recent gatherings. It includes:
- A short narrative — a few sentences in plain language about where this person is right now, drawn from what they've been sharing
- Active themes — recurring topics in their priorities and check-ins (work, a relationship, a project, a recovery)
- Things that need attention — priorities they've been carrying that haven't moved
- Notable moments — specific things they shared that the arc considers significant
- Relational shifts — how their relationships with other family members have been moving (warming, cooling, steady)
- Emotional trend — the overall direction of their check-ins (improving, steady, declining, mixed)
Each section can be tapped for a deeper drilldown showing where in the gathering history the signal came from.
"Trajectory, not state" — what does that mean in practice?
Each priority a member is carrying has a trajectory label: improving (↗), stalled (→), or fading (↘). The arc doesn't average these into a single happy number. A stalled priority that's been sitting for weeks shows up as stalled — even if other things in the same arc are going well.
The same applies to relational shifts (warming, cooling, steady) and emotional trend (improving, steady, declining, mixed). The point of arcs is to be honest about what's actually happening, not to flatter.
When arcs become available
How long do I have to wait?
Arcs unlock for your family after five gatherings. This isn't an arbitrary threshold — five weeks is roughly the point at which patterns start to be visible above the noise of any individual week. Before that, the data is too thin to say much that wouldn't be either obvious or wrong.
While you're waiting, you'll see an Arcs card on the home screen showing how many more gatherings you have left until they unlock.
Where do I see them?
There isn't a separate Arcs tab. Each member of your family has their own arc page, reachable from a few places:
- The View arcs card on the home screen
- The recap sheet for a specific member at the end of a gathering
- Eventually, from coaching messages that draw on a particular arc
All of these route to the same per-member detail screen at /member-arc/[memberId].
Who can see whose arc
Can I see other family members' arcs?
Yes. Any adult or teen member of your family can view any other member's arc. Arcs are synthesized from gathering content that everyone present already heard — they're a new lens on shared data, not a new disclosure.
This is intentional. The arc isn't a private journal entry; it's the family's collective memory of how each person has been moving through their weeks together.
What about kids?
Children under 13 don't have arcs generated for them. AI processing of children's content is excluded entirely (see the coaching page for the full explanation of how that works). Teens 13 to 17 do have arcs.
Adult and teen viewers can see any family member's arc that exists. There's no "block this person from seeing my arc" toggle — the whole point of family-wide visibility is that the family is the unit.
What you won't see in an arc
Arc generation uses some internal scaffolding to help the AI write a good arc — for example, signals about what topics to be careful with for a particular person. This scaffolding is never shown to viewers. It's prompt-time architecture, not member-facing content.
If you ever see something in an arc that feels wrong — a label that doesn't match what you've been experiencing, a moment elevated that shouldn't be, a stall that isn't actually stuck — let us know. The arc generator is good but not infallible, and feedback is how the system stays honest.
Plus and arcs
Do I need Haklo Plus?
Yes. Member arcs are a Haklo Plus feature. Free families can run gatherings, see structured records, send Heard notes, and use everything else Haklo offers — but arcs require Plus.
See Haklo Plus for what's included in the subscription and how to subscribe.
What about family-level arcs?
We've designed a higher tier (called Culture in our internal planning) that would add family-level arcs alongside the per-member ones — a synthesized view of how the family as a whole is moving. That tier isn't part of the launch lineup; for now, every Plus family gets per-member arcs and that's the whole arc surface.
A few honest details
What if my arc says something I don't agree with?
Arcs are interpretation, not fact. The narrative is one read of your gatherings; it doesn't have access to the parts of your life that didn't make it into the room. If an arc names something as fading and it's actually a deliberate choice you've made, that's useful information — both about what to share next time and about whether the read is right.
What happens to old arcs?
Each member's arc updates over time as new gatherings happen. The detail screen shows the most recent arc; earlier arcs aren't currently surfaced as a history view. The underlying data — every gathering, every priority, every check-in — stays in your family record indefinitely.
Does the AI see everything to make this?
It sees the gatherings of the family member whose arc is being generated, with the same minor-name protections described in the coaching page. It does not see other families. It does not retain the data after the arc is written. It is not used to train models. The full position is in our privacy policy.
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