TrendLife, the consumer business unit of Trend Micro, has launched Kaleida, an AI companion built specifically for families, combining individual AI profiles with built-in privacy, security and parental oversight.

The launch follows TrendLife’s “AI and Family Life” study, which surveyed 6,695 consumers across Australia, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK and the US in July 2026. The research found parents’ top concerns were the privacy and security of personal information (56 per cent), overreliance on AI among family members (45 per cent), a lack of family-specific features or guardrails in existing AI tools (24 per cent) and the overall cost of AI tools (21 per cent).

“AI is quickly becoming part of everyday family life, but no AI tool has been designed with the family in mind. Every parent wants their family to benefit from AI, but they’re worried about what it might cost them — their privacy, their kids’ ability to think for themselves, or their wallet. Kaleida was built to answer all of those concerns at once,” said Frank Kuo, Chief Consumer Business Officer of TrendLife.

Individual profiles backed by Trend Micro’s security engine

Rather than a single shared account, Kaleida gives each family member their own AI profile under one subscription, with the same protection engine Trend Micro has used across nearly four decades of enterprise security built into every interaction. Its five core features are:

• Family Intelligence (Preview): a separate AI profile for each family member that shares relevant household information such as calendars and plans
• Security Layer: filters phishing attempts, monitors the dark web for the family’s data and generates alerts when a member is targeted by a scam
• Privacy Shield: detects and masks personally identifiable information before it reaches an AI model, while still processing the underlying question
• Learning Buddy: an AI mode for children that encourages critical thinking and gives parents weekly insights into how their children are engaging with AI
• Smart Routing: automatically routes each request to the AI model best suited to it, across multiple models under a single subscription

TrendLife Kaleida is available now in three plans — lite, standard and plus — starting at S$14.00 per month for up to four family members.