Former PayPal Director Builds Family Life App

A former PayPal director is launching a new app designed to coordinate family schedules.

James Foskin left school at 17 and later joined PayPal as one of its first employees in Ireland. He stayed with the company for just over 20 years, rising to director level before departing in 2025 to build his own venture. His new platform, TiAiMe, combines time, artificial intelligence, and the user's priorities into a single tool. The name derives from Ti for time, Ai for the AI engine, and Me for the person using it.

Foskin developed the concept after watching colleagues struggle to balance competing demands. He also observed his wife managing multiple responsibilities while their son was ill and required significant care. "As a leader, a colleague, a coach and a parent, I had an unfiltered view of one of the most persistent problems of modern life: we are more time-poor now than ever before despite advances in technology," Foskin said. He added that families often use up to seven different systems to manage their lives, and these tools do not communicate with one another.

The app works by learning a user's routine, commitments, and family structure through an initial survey. Once active, it can coordinate tasks across a person's network. For example, if a parent cannot collect a child from school, the app identifies someone available in their network. That person confirms their availability verbally, receives the details, and the pickup is arranged without a group chat exchange. "What you get is one school pickup, co-ordinated end-to-end without the time-consuming back and forth of a group chat," Foskin said.

Before designing the product, Foskin spent months speaking with 175 families about their schedules. His research indicated that 84 per cent of adults find coordinating family and support network schedules difficult. Fifty families have participated in a pre-launch pilot program ahead of the full launch scheduled for November.

Foskin has invested approximately €60,000 in developing the platform. A pre-seed funding application is currently pending with Enterprise Ireland. He is also seeking two equity co-founders to fill the roles of chief technical officer and chief commercial officer. He has stated a specific interest in recruiting a woman co-founder who can contribute her life experience to the platform's development.

The company's first phase of expansion targets Ireland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Foskin worked with a technical development partner, RaftLabs, and was accepted into an accelerator program run by David Slowey. Regarding his departure from PayPal, Foskin said, "The shift from a structured corporate environment with its teams, its resources, its monthly salary and its daily rhythm to sitting alone building a company from scratch is something nobody fully prepares you for. The isolation and loneliness of being a solo founder hit harder than I expected."