Berg is organized around households, not isolated individual accounts. Your household membership determines what shared content you can see, which management actions you can take, and which AI or child-safety controls are available to you.
A household is the shared container for calendars, lists, chores, reminders, meal plans, recipes, location visibility, member roster, invite codes, and plan context. Berg treats this as the main collaboration boundary inside the app.
During setup, switch to Create mode, fill in your profile details, choose a household name, and continue. The first person who creates the household is typically the initial admin.
If someone already invited you, use Join mode and enter the invite code. Invite links can also prefill the code after you authenticate.
Berg currently distinguishes between two main household roles.
The same role boundary applies to Smart Import, Smart Scan, Smart Recipe, Smart Plan, household invites, and parent-managed child location or profile-photo settings.
Admins can create managed child members from Settings without requiring a child to own an email inbox or sign in independently. This keeps chores, reminders, money records, profile-photo state, and parent-managed controls attached to a real household child identity.
Household admins can create invites from Settings. Berg also tracks the current plan's member and admin limits, so invite creation can be disabled when the household reaches its allowed seats or admin slots.
