Before you add it to the family calendar

Families rarely need more things to scroll through. They need the details that shape the decision. KIDO organizes events, camps, and programs as different kinds of plans, then keeps dates, times, ages, prices, locations, availability, and original sources close together.

You can begin with a broad interest such as Sports or Science, narrow to a relevant subcategory, and add age and date filters when the family calendar takes over. The aim is not the biggest pile of results. It is a useful shortlist.

A clean card is helpful, but it should not become a dead end. KIDO keeps a public source link with each normalized record so a family or reviewer can check the provider’s own page for registration details, changes, and fine print.

All 9,894 current normalized records have source evidence and a usable location or explicit online mode. Age information is present for 99.8 percent, a date or ongoing status for 99.9 percent, and a registration link for 99.7 percent.

Family activity information arrives in many shapes: calendars, registration systems, provider pages, feeds, and long seasonal guides. KIDO uses stable feeds and page rules when they are available. AI is most useful for narrower judgment calls, such as classifying a new listing, inside a process that keeps source evidence, checks required fields, and separates review from publication.

The AI Accuracy report is plain about what it cannot claim. There is no honest single AI accuracy percentage yet. A prompt count can show how often a person intervened, but it cannot tell you the chance that a listing is right. The better question is whether its dates, ages, price, location, and link are supported, checked, and safe to publish.

The Data Quality report does not compress everything into one reassuring score. It shows source-run reliability, validation results, field coverage, duplicate flags, and human corrections separately. In the current retained history, 521 of 537 source runs succeeded, while 25 record failures were captured.

A completed run and a completely clean report are measured separately because software can finish and still surface something that deserves attention. A missing public image is not the same as a missing date. A provider may legitimately omit a price. An online program should be marked Online instead of being treated as if its address were broken.

All of this work should disappear into a simpler experience. A family can compare facts on one detail page, open the organization’s other listings, share an option with another caregiver, and save promising ideas into lists for summer, rainy days, or one child’s interests.

If something is unclear, Community Questions & Comments keeps the question attached to the relevant listing, where a verified organization can answer it for everyone. Trust does not mean asking families to believe a database. It means giving them clear details, a path to the evidence, and an honest signal when information is not available.