A family business, with a career in AI behind it.
WattKind is the Watt family, in Queensland. Kris has spent his career helping Queenslanders, the past 10 years in automation and AI inside large Australian organisations. Now he works with businesses and the people who run them, and at home we build small AI tools for problems we've actually lived with.
No investors, no ads, no data sold. Just us, and the problems on our own to-do list.
A career spent making AI useful at work
Kris has spent his career helping Queenslanders, the past 10 years in automation and AI inside large Australian organisations: the platforms, the governance and the change that comes with them. He watched good tools get bought and then left half-used, almost always because someone had to keep them running.
Those years are where the three questions we ask before building anything came from. They're also why he now works with businesses and the people who run them: fixed-scope setup and coaching, starting with the tools they already pay for, with nothing new to carry.
There are two ways to work together. Set up for AI is 1:1 setup and coaching over two weeks. The Opportunity Sprint is two days to find where AI will help a business, and where it won't. He's taking bookings for January 2027 onwards.
"I don't know how to study."
— Sam, one afternoon in 2025
One honest sentence
When my son said that, I remembered feeling exactly the same way at school — told to study, never shown a way in that didn't feel enormous.
So I built him a custom AI study coach. It used his subjects and his interests, asked him short questions, and made starting feel small. It worked. He used it.
Then every school term, I had to rebuild it: new subjects, new dates, new instructions. The tool that was meant to take pressure off the student had quietly created a job for the parent. That friction is what WattKind exists to remove.
What we learned the hard way
Turning that one-off coach into something other families could use, my first instinct was to pull every piece of school information into one place — timetables, portals, worksheets, the lot. It sounds helpful. It isn't.
School information is scattered across subjects, teachers and platforms, and any copy of it goes stale within weeks. We would have built one more incomplete system for a family to check and maintain — exactly the burden we were trying to remove.
So we stepped back. StudyKind uses just enough context to start a useful conversation — a timetable photo, a subject, something the student remembers from class. The school stays the source of truth.
Three questions, asked before any code
1
Have we lived this problem?
If it hasn't cost our own family time or energy, we're guessing — and we don't build from guesses.
2
Does it work on the messy day?
A tool that only works when everyone is organised and rested isn't a tool for our house.
3
Who maintains it?
If the answer is "the most tired parent in the room", the design isn't finished yet.
StudyKind
Study support that meets you where you are.
Where those lessons became a product: short, student-led study conversations with lightweight setup and parent oversight. Our first product, launching in full in Term 1 2027.
Meet StudyKind
HomeKind
Home support that keeps the paperwork.
The same questions, applied to household admin: every device's manual, receipt and warranty date, kept on the phone. Free on the App Store and Google Play.
Meet HomeKindAfter that?
The next product will follow the same three questions. If your house has a friction you'd like made lighter, our Discovery Assistant is how we listen. Running a business with the same kind of friction? The same questions apply at work.
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