The Child
Strengths, interests and how they like to begin.
Welcome to Kinaptic
Unlock Learning Superpowers
A readiness-led learning companion for neurodivergent children and their families.
Choose your path
What Brings You To Kinaptic?
Choose a path. Let’s explore together.
Learning readiness
Same Child, Different Day
Being able to learn and getting into learning right now are not the same thing. Kinaptic starts one step earlier.
The Activity
What they’re asked to do, and how it looks.
The Setting
Where learning happens, and with whom.
The Moment
The time of day, and what happened just before.
For practitioners and researchers
The Model Behind Kinaptic
Built to sit alongside professional judgement. Here is what we are testing, and how.
Access Before Adaptation
Principles We Hold To
One simple outcomeDoes the child start without support, start with support, or not start?
Observation is not interpretationWe record what happened, and never infer hidden states.
Non-diagnostic by designNo readiness scores, labels or diagnoses.
Decisions written down in advanceEach stage has rules agreed before we look at results.
How We Build Evidence
Understand
Is this child’s getting started variable or consistent across sessions?
Anticipate
Does a parent’s quick judgement before a session help predict it?
Support
Does one predefined change at the start lead to a better start?
Adapt
Does the child’s own evidence choose a better start next time?
Expertise Behind The Protocol
Educational psychologyOccupational therapyService design & ethnographyData science
Our advisory board challenges the protocol, the claims we make and our safeguarding.
Meet Kino, your child’s guide
A Gentle Guide Into Learning
Kino guides children through short, calm activities.
Visual concept
Kinaptic Worlds: A Learning Universe
Our vision is a learning universe where Kino guides each child from world to world. Children unlock new worlds as they go, with Kino beside them as a calm, safe companion. The aim is to make children curious and excited about learning, and for the experience to adapt to what each child needs.
Visual conceptKinaptic Worlds is an early visual concept of where Kino could go. It is not the current prototype.
Kino is safe and calmUnlock new worldsAdapts to each child
Parent insight
A Learning Profile For Every Child
Over time, Kinaptic builds a picture of what helps your child get into learning, across the child, the activity, the setting and the moment. We share it with you in plain language.
Plain languageNo scores or labelsGrows over time
IllustrativeConcept
What Seems To Help Maya Get Started
Five sessions so far
- The ChildLikes to watch first, then join in
- The ActivityVisual puzzles get her going
- The SettingA quiet corner of the kitchen
- The MomentEasier after a snack, before 5pm
Insight, not a score. You stay in charge of what happens next.
Illustrative concept. The Founding Families programme is testing which insights parents find genuinely useful.
Founding Families programme
Built with Families for Families
Become part of the codesign of readiness learning for neurodivergent children
Understand
What helps your child get started?
Anticipate
Can we learn what might help today?
Support
What small change could make starting easier?
Adapt
Can what we learn shape the next start?
Our team and advisers
Our Team
A founder and a multidisciplinary advisory board, shaping Kinaptic together.
Adam PreisFounder
Adam Preis is the Founder of Kinaptic, an impact led learning technology venture working to help neurodivergent children unlock their learning superpowers.
The idea grew from something deeply personal: seeing first hand that a child can have enormous ability and potential, while still finding it difficult to access learning when the conditions around them are not right. That experience became a bigger question for Adam: what if we could understand those moments better, learn the patterns behind learning readiness, and use evidence to make personalised learning genuinely more responsive to the individual child?
Adam brings more than 15 years of technology, product and go to market leadership to that mission, with experience turning complex ideas into propositions that can scale. Alongside building Kinaptic, he is completing an Executive MBA at King’s College London, where the venture has progressed through the King’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and Start up Accelerator.
He is building Kinaptic with families, practitioners, researchers, advisors and data specialists around a simple conviction: neurodivergence is not a limitation to suppress, but difference to understand, so every child has a better chance to learn in the way that works for them.
Advisory Board
Educational psychologyOccupational therapyService design & ethnography
Aviv KatzAdvisory Board
Aviv brings service and systems design expertise to Kinaptic, helping us build personalisation from evidence rather than assumption.
Great ideas rarely become great products without people willing to challenge the assumptions underneath them. Aviv Katz brings exactly that perspective to the Kinaptic Advisory Board. A highly experienced service and systems designer, Aviv has spent his career helping organisations tackle complex human problems through design led innovation, research and system change. His work spans health, social care, justice and public services, and he has led service design practice, coached leaders and built innovation capability across organisations. What particularly resonates with Kinaptic is his insistence on starting with the lived human experience and understanding the system around it before rushing towards a solution.
Aviv joined the Kinaptic Advisory Board because our challenge sits precisely at that intersection of human complexity, learning and system design. He is helping us interrogate assumptions in our learning readiness model, think much more carefully about how individual patterns develop over time, and ensure that we do not reach conclusions about a child too quickly. As our Founding Families programme moves from hypothesis into empirical learning, Aviv’s role is to keep challenging how we observe, learn and design around the individual child, helping Kinaptic build personalisation from evidence rather than assumption and, ultimately, Unlock Learning Superpowers.
Profile coming soon
Profile coming soon
King’s Startup Accelerator
Kinaptic is part of Cohort 10, with the King’s Entrepreneurship Institute.
Contributors
Data scienceCommunity-based marketing
Articles
Blog
On learning readiness, inclusive learning and impact led ventures.
AI Should Expand a Teacher's Reach, Not Replace the RelationshipAI in education is most valuable when it expands human capacity to understand and personalise learning, rather than replacing the relationships that help children thrive.Read on LinkedIn →
Early Intervention Is Not Just Better Support. It Is Better Economics.Earlier, proportionate support can improve a child's trajectory while reducing the human and economic costs that accumulate when systems wait for difficulties to become entrenched.Read on LinkedIn →
Good Intentions Don't Earn the Right to ScaleImpact ventures should scale what evidence has earned the confidence to believe, rather than allowing mission urgency to accelerate untested assumptions.Read on LinkedIn →
Inclusive Learning Is Moving Beyond Accommodation Towards AdaptationInclusive learning should move beyond adjusting the child to a fixed model and towards learning environments that respond to predictable learner variability.Read on LinkedIn →
What If the Child Isn't Failing to Learn, But Isn't Ready to Learn?A readiness lens for understanding why a capable child may struggle to access learning when regulation, attention, sensory experience or context gets in the way.Read on LinkedIn →
The Gap Between Social Need and Commercial Opportunity Is ClosingHow underserved social needs can become compelling markets when impact, customer value and commercial economics are designed to reinforce one another.Read on LinkedIn →
The False Choice Between Profit and Purpose Is EndingWhy the strongest impact led businesses can create measurable societal value and sustainable commercial returns at the same time.Read on LinkedIn →