A guy I used to work with went through a divorce a couple years back and described the aftermath as less like one big hard thing and more like a hundred small hard things showing up all at once — a new budget on one income, figuring out which bills he'd never handled before, and just generally rebuilding a routine from scratch after twelve years of a shared one.
He used an AI chatbot mostly for the practical logistics that piled up fast: building a realistic budget around his new single income, understanding a couple of financial and paperwork terms in his settlement that his lawyer had explained once and he'd forgotten, and working out a simple weekly routine for the parts of the household he'd never managed before, like meal planning for himself and his kids on the weekends he had them.
He was clear with me that anything involving actual legal terms in his settlement, he ran by his actual lawyer — the AI just helped him understand the plain-English gist of a document before that conversation, so he wasn't showing up to a paid hour with his attorney completely lost on the basics. Same with anything financial that mattered — a real conversation with a professional, not just a chatbot, for the decisions with real stakes.
What helped him most day to day was smaller than any of that: having something to ask the dumb, practical questions to at 10pm when his kids were asleep and he was sitting alone in a house that used to have two people in it. Rebuilding a life after a divorce is genuinely hard, and it deserves real support from real people too — friends, a therapist if that's useful to you, family. This is just one small tool that helped him get through the logistics without feeling completely lost on top of everything else.
If you want the slow, no-jargon version of all this — the stuff I wish someone had handed me before I fumbled through it myself — that's exactly what I built On Ramp AI for. Check it out here.