And you're trying to get an A every single time. We get it — because we're doing the same thing. ProjectKidsCamp exists to take the hardest part of parenting off your plate: figuring out where your kids should be, when, and how the hell to make it all work.
Parenting today is a logistics job. The average parent spends seven hours a weekjust driving kids to activities. Not coaching, not watching, not cheering — driving. Two out of three working parents say it regularly disrupts their job. Forty-two percent of the heaviest drivers say it puts their career at risk.
And it's not like it used to be. Your kid isn't doing one sport per season anymore. It's a sport, plus music lessons, plus tutoring, plus summer camp — all at different locations, different price points, different registration windows. Youth activity costs are up 46% since 2019. Camp prices alone rose 23% last year.
Now multiply that by two kids. Or three. Different ages, different interests, different schedules. And somehow it all has to fit into one family's calendar, one family's budget, and one parent's car.
That's the part nobody's solving. Every other camp site out there is a directory. Search, filter, bookmark, good luck. They made it easier to find camps. They didn't touch the actual problem — which is making it all work.
We didn't set out to build another camp directory. We set out to build the thing that should have existed ten years ago: a system that actually thinks through your summer the way you would if you had unlimited time and zero stress.
Our AI doesn't just search. It reasons. Tell it you have a 6-year-old who loves bugs and a 10-year-old who lives for basketball, and that you need them at camps close enough together that you're not crisscrossing the city at 8 AM. It'll figure it out. Not because we told it a list of rules, but because we built it to think about what works — and what doesn't.
That's the difference between a search engine and an agent that's actually working for you.
What sets us apart
01
A 5-year-old and a 12-year-old don't just need different camps — they need different kindsof experiences. We factor in age-appropriate variety, not just age eligibility. The goal isn't filling weeks. It's building a summer that gives your kid what they actually need at this stage.
02
If you have three kids, you don't have three separate scheduling problems. You have one family-sized puzzle. We think about proximity between camps, overlapping drop-off windows, and whether the same organization runs programs for different age groups — so you're not living in your car.
03
The perfect camp means nothing if it adds 45 minutes to your morning. Distance isn't a nice-to-have filter — it's a constraint that shapes everything. We treat it that way.
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Eight weeks of the same soccer camp isn't a summer plan. Kids need variety — creative weeks, physical weeks, slower weeks. We build plans with balance in mind, not just availability.
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Seventy-eight percent of mothers say they handle more of the scheduling than their partner. Sixty-two percent of parents say parenting is harder than they expected. We're not here to add another task to your list. We're here to take one off.
When people hear “AI,” they think chatbot. That's not what this is.
We run AI agents that work behind the scenes on two levels. First, they scrape hundreds of camp websites every single day — pulling session dates, pricing, age ranges, enrollment status, and schedule details directly from the source. When a camp fills up at 2 PM, we know by the next morning. When prices change, we catch it.
Second — and this is what makes us different — our AI doesn't just organize data. It plans. Tell it about your kids and it builds a scored, week-by-week summer schedule. It weighs enrollment status, interest match, age fit, budget, and location. It catches the things you'd miss at midnight with twelve browser tabs open.
The power isn't in asking it questions. The power is in what it figures out that you didn't know to ask. That's the “you don't know what you don't know” problem — and that's exactly where AI is better than a search bar.
1,764
Camps listed
24,179
Sessions tracked
6
Activity categories
Daily
Data updates
We don't charge parents. Not for searching, not for planning, not for the AI — none of it. No premium tier, no “unlock full results” paywall.
We take a different approach. We're building a knowledge base — not just of camps, but of what actually works for families. What combinations of activities keep kids engaged. What scheduling patterns reduce stress. What age-appropriate variety looks like in practice. That knowledge has value, and we'll find ways to sustain the platform without putting a price tag between parents and the help they need.
This was a deliberate choice. The families who need this most — single parents, families juggling multiple kids, parents who can't take a day off to research camps — are the last ones who should be paying for it.
Trust
Every camp is listed the same way. We don't accept money to rank one camp above another. Results are based on fit, not ad spend.
Every listing is scraped directly from the camp's own website. We don't rely on third-party feeds or user submissions. When we can't verify something, we say so.
When pricing hasn't been confirmed for the current season or a field is missing, we label it. You'll always know what's verified and what's pending.
This isn't a venture play by people who don't have kids. We built this because we needed it. The frustration is personal. The solution is too.
Because kids are a project. The best project you'll ever work on — and the one you never turn in. Not when they're 5, not when they're 15, not when they're 25. You're always trying to get it right. We named it that because we wanted to be honest about what this actually is: an ongoing, never-finished, always-evolving effort to give your kids the best possible version of growing up. And we're here to help you do it.
Currently available in
Portland, Denver & Houston
More cities on the way. Get notified when we launch in your area.
You figure out dinner. We'll figure out the summer.