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Pre-seed · April 2026 · Confidential
The stories we tell
shape the people we become.

Personalised children's books built from real family memories, grounded in developmental psychology, beautiful enough to last a lifetime.

Founder
Matt Fern
Website
kindredbooks.ai
Stage
Pre-launch · Sydney, AU
The moment a story begins.
02 · The Science
Imagine: real memories, beautifully written, watercolour illustrated.

Decades of child psychology confirm it: the stories children hear about their own life are one of the most powerful forces shaping who they become. Nobody has built the product that acts on it.

Fivush · Emory

Elaborative reminiscing shapes a child's autobiographical memory, identity, and resilience.

Komisar

Sustained parental presence in the first three years builds secure attachment , the foundation for long-term mental health, resilience, and emotional regulation.

Siegel · UCLA

Shared storytelling integrates both brain hemispheres, building emotional regulation and resilience.

03 · The Market
Two enormous markets.
Zero products at the intersection.
~$140B

Children's entertainment
Generic by design

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~$30B

Personalised gifts
Growing to ~$60B by 2033

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Products at the intersection
Personal + developmental

AI Timing

Personalised illustration economically viable for the first time

Parent Anxiety

Rising concern about AI slop, screen addiction, and generic digital content for children

Cultural Moment

Developmental psychology entering mainstream parenting culture globally

04 · The Product
Your family's real memories.
Beautifully told.
01
Upload photos
A holiday, a birthday, an ordinary Wednesday afternoon
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02
Kindred builds the story
10-agent pipeline, calibrated to your child's developmental stage
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03
Review & approve
Two human gates before a single image generates
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04
Receive the book
Watercolour-illustrated. Real family faces. Delivered to your door

Not a generic story with a name swapped in. A story that could only ever belong to them. Under 5 minutes from photo upload to illustrated book.

05 · The Living Book
The book evolves as your child does.

Language and reading level adapt automatically at each stage. Like Audible, the more books in the library, the more invested families become in growing it. Retention is built into the product.

0–18m
Sensory
Attachment focus
1–3 yrs
Episodic
Memory begins
3–5 yrs
Adventure
Agency & resilience
5–8 yrs
Narrative
Inner life emerges
8–12 yrs
Reflective
Themes & meaning
Reading level

Vocabulary, sentence complexity, and emotional register calibrated to your child's current stage

Psychology-led

Every update grounded in developmental research. Not just simpler words, but richer meaning for the right stage

Retention built in

The library of a child's life is not something a family cancels. Every sibling is a new account.

06 · Validation
Parents want this.
The data confirms it.
4.69
Solution score · live survey
4.4/5
10 in-depth interviews
A$56
avg hardcover WTP
71%
open to follow-up
6/7
problem scores above 4.0
4.86
top problem score

"About how I was a foster child, now I get to raise my son the way I wished I was raised."

Mum, 3 months old · In-depth interview

"The simple things: daily routines, family dinners, after school sport, board game nights."

Mum, children 8 & 6 · In-depth interview

"A family holiday with both sets of grandparents, one set lives in Italy."

Mum, child 2y 9m · Live survey
Every story starts somewhere.
07 · Business Model
Credit-based subscription.
Compounding LTV.

Imagine driving home from a family day out. That evening, your child's digital book about the experience is already waiting, ready to read at bedtime.

The subscription turns every real experience into a story, in real time.
$8.99/mo
Entry sub · 1 credit/month
$10.99/cr
Retail single credit
>80%
Gross margin on digital
A$966
5-yr family LTV (conservative)
Single purchase
Digital · 1cr · $10.99
Softcover · 6cr · $65.94
Hardcover · 8cr · $87.92
Subscription
$8.99/mo · 1 credit
$16.99/mo · 2 credits
$23.99/mo · 3 credits
Living Book incl.
Gifting
Baby showers
Birthdays
Christmas
Gift a sub too
08 · Why We Win
Family trust is the moat. Everything else builds it.

Building a trusting relationship with a family, across years of their child's life, cannot be replicated by any competitor.

🧠
Leading Psychologists

Prof. Robyn Fivush (Emory) + Dr. Erica Komisar. Named, credentialed, uncopyable.

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Science & Craft

Psychology at every layer of the pipeline. Writing grounded in the Donaldson, Jeffers, Mem Fox tradition.

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Safety & Credibility

Photos deleted post-creation. No AI training use. Two human review gates before every delivery.

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ISO 27001 Certification

In roadmap. Enterprise-grade data security. The only children's book platform to pursue it.

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Institutional Partnerships

Raising Children Network, trusted parenting organisations, and psychology practices. Trust earned through institutions.

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Compounding Irreplaceability

Platform learns more about your family with every book. A library of lived experience cannot be replicated elsewhere.

09 · The Founder
Built from a personal love.

Matt Fern · Founder, Growth for Purpose

Matt Fern
Founder & CEO

Founder of Growth for Purpose, a growth, lifecycle, and product activation agency for D2C consumer apps. Specialism in health, mental health, and family. Deep expertise in product activation, engagement, and retention. Kindred came from reading to his two-year-old son every night.

The pipeline works. The category is untapped. The gap to launch is weeks, not months.

GFP clients include
Heidi Health Mamamia · AU's #1 women's platform Talked · AU's #1 therapy app SleepWellBaby · AU's #1 baby sleep app Human Health +15 others

"Taught us a tremendous amount and made a big, highly measurable impact."

Ben Berger, CPO @ Wisr Finance

"A knack for focusing on the most important thing at any given point."

Dr. Thomas Kelly, CEO @ Heidi Health

"Immediately turned an amateur Growth function 180 degrees."

Mohammed Ismail, Sr PM @ Heidi Health

"GFP transformed our approach to engaging with our app users."

Trent Tinker, CTO @ WhiteFlag
Psychology Advisory

Prof. Robyn Fivush (Emory) · Dr. Erica Komisar · Formalisation in progress

10 · The Ask
A$250k. Accelerate to Xmas 2026.
Use of funds
👩‍💻1–2 full-time engineers
🎙Influencer seeding ahead of gifting window
📣Paid ad spend testing
🤝Brand partnerships
🔒ISO 27001 certification
Instrument

SAFE note to accelerate us to certification, trust, security and partnership scale in advance of the Christmas 2026 shopping season.

Children become the stories they're told.