The Family Lab

One family, figuring out AI
in the open.

We're the McBeths — two parents, three kids, San Diego. This is where we share what we're actually doing with AI: the app we're building, the movie our kids drew, the experiments that worked, the ones that didn't — and the stories that convinced us AI is worth taking the fear out of.

AI for Good · Our Neighbors

Four miles from us, AI is helping save a life.

Delaney is our neighbors' baby girl. She was born with an ultra-rare genetic heart condition and given 48 hours to live. She fought through — and now, where conventional medicine has hit its limits, a team is using AI genomic modeling to design a one-of-one gene therapy built for her exact mutation.

Little Light — the animated movie being made for Delaney

Little Light — the movie we're making for her. Approved by Delaney's family.

NBC 7 Watch: Carlsbad Navy family turns to AI to help save their daughter iHEART Listen: San Diego's Morning News on Delaney's fight

This is the most important AI story we know, and it's happening in our own neighborhood. If you do one thing on this page, do this:

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Shared with her family's blessing.

In the lab now · Characters for Delaney

Put your family's character in Delaney's movie

We're making Little Light — an animated film for Delaney, told entirely in light. The supporting cast is made by families like yours, from your kids' drawings. Free, about 20 minutes, unforgettable.

Baby Cakes — a crayon-drawn violet bearded dragon with bright blue eyes

Meet our first HERO: Baby Cakes. The family lizard, drawn in crayon, alive on screen in 10 seconds. We tested the recipe on our own before asking you.

Make one for her cast →

What we're building

Work in progress — and proudly so

The FamAI app

A family AI hub one dad is building himself — nights, weekends, and a lot of learning in public. Plan the week, learn together, make things. Two rooms are still under construction (Create/Learn and Mind·Body·Heart) — you can watch us build them.

Free until it can't be. No trial, no card, no catch.

60 seconds: how the app works, captions on.

Try it live →
Finished — by three kids and their crayons

The movie

“The Siblings: The Endless Summer” — a 2:19 animated film our kids drew, described, and voiced, brought to life with AI. It started as one question in the app: “Who wants to make a movie with me?”

The Siblings: The Endless Summer — animated film poster ▶
A kid's crayon drawing of Sunshine → The same character, animated

Same character. Crayon → screen.

Watch the story →

Seventy seconds on why we're doing this

Quick backstory, because this film feels strange without it: I spent the summer trying to pause time. Photographed everything. Hoarded the good moments like a squirrel with a camera roll. Time, it turns out, does not negotiate. So I made a 70-second film about losing that fight — and then I built the app above, which hands some time back instead.

Made with AI, like everything else in the Lab. Less chaos, more time — that's the whole point.

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