A dad, his 15-year-old son, and their AI team.

Where it started.

Phuc's family is spread across languages, ages and screens. The kids speak English. Their grandmother, Bà, is most at home in Vietnamese. Getting everyone on a video call was never the hard part. Knowing what to do once they were all there was.

A trivia night fixes that. But somebody has to host, and the host does not get to play. So Phuc asked: could an AI host the night, so that every person on the call gets to be on a team?

Where his son comes in.

Phuc's son is 15. He wanted a real buzzer quiz he could run with his friends, and a way to study for the SAT and his classes that was not flashcards alone. He plays the games first, says what is boring, and helps decide what gets built next.

The AI team.

The two of them direct a team of AI agents, each with one job. One writes questions from named sources. A different one checks every answer against its source. Lumi writes host lines in her own voice, and another agent reviews each line for kindness and can veto it. A referee, which is plain code, keeps the score.

No agent approves its own work, and people approve what goes out.

Why people play.

To keep in touch: a night on the calendar with family and friends who live somewhere else. To learn together: study games for school, and a source behind every answer. To compete: quiz bowl, with teams and a scoreboard.

What we believe.

• AI does not have to isolate people. It can help them connect, learn and laugh. Before the host says anything, we ask: whom does this make the player talk to? If every answer goes to the AI, we missed a chance.
• Truth beats persuasion. Every fact has a source. When the AI can be wrong, it says so, and you can challenge it.
• The night ends on time. Then people go back to each other.

How we will know it is working.

Success: the round ends and someone says “one more”. Failure: a wrong score, a made-up fact, or a player who felt left out. We check for those three failures first.