Hacker
Prakhar Gupta
@prxmy
Elsewhere
Parent Line
Flip the Switch HackathonNov 2026
Parent Line: a family safety net for older parents, run by AI agents and the family together in a Telegram group. Digital-arrest scammers win through isolation. They keep an older parent on a video call for hours, tell them not to speak to anyone, and walk them through sending their savings. Even the bank’s confirmation call doesn’t help, because it reaches the one person the scammer controls. The Ministry of Home Affairs told the Supreme Court there were 21,900+ digital-arrest complaints involving ₹647 crore+ between January and August 2026. The NHRC says these crimes mostly affect elderly people. Parent Line tells the family instead. Built on Switch, it turns the family’s Telegram group into a room where family members and AI agents handle the emergency together: Bank watch reads the parent’s bank SMS and raises an alarm when a transaction looks like a scam: a large debit, a new payee, or a late-night transfer. The Guardian agent splits the response into jobs: call Mom, report on 1930, call the bank. It tracks who took each job and chases the ones nobody took. The Clerk agent keeps the case file, drafts the complaint and the letter to the bank, and tracks RBI’s 3-working-day reporting deadline. Ride watch checks in on someone taking a ride alone at night. Call watch turns a missed call from the parent into an SOS. It’s for Indian families with parents aged roughly 50 and over who can call and text but can’t spot a scam while it’s happening, and for the children living elsewhere who want to step in before the money is gone. The parent doesn’t need to install or learn anything. The AI does the watching and the paperwork, and the family does the part only family can: calling Mom.