How do we get set up?

Joining takes minutes; the setup that matters happens in the first week. There are four steps, and each one unlocks a different part of Kubrio.

Step 1 — Start training Claire

Claire is the first AI Learning Coach for Families, and she gets better the more she knows about yours. Right after you join, tell her about your kid — what they're into, what you're hoping happens, what's been hard. Then schedule her first live voice check-in with your kid at a time that works for your family.

Think of it the way you'd brief a great coach before the first practice: five minutes of context from you saves weeks of discovery for her. Everything she learns shows up later in her weekly notes to you.

Step 2 — Give your kids access

Kids don't have accounts — each kid is a profile under your parent account (see accounts and access). Add each kid, then open the studio for them on whatever device your family uses. It runs in the browser; there's nothing to install.

From that moment the studio is theirs: the apps, the AI Crew, and a portfolio that keeps everything they finish.

Step 3 — Choose the mode: sprints or solo studio

Kubrio works two ways, and the difference is worth understanding before your kid dives in.

Sprints are the social mode. A sprint runs 6–9 weeks with a real deadline at the end — that's the point. Kids build alongside a cohort, with collaboration and the kind of healthy pressure that comes from knowing other kids will see the work. The sprint is composed of weeks, and each week has a focus, but kids can switch projects as apps open up to them — the goal is to introduce them to as many kinds of making as possible across the sprint. It all finishes with Demo Week: a celebration of creativity for the entire sprint period, where kids show what they made.

Solo studio time is creative flow, their way. No deadline, no cohort, no schedule — the studio is always open, and your kid follows whatever they're pulled toward, at their own pace. Many kids do both: the sprint gives the week a spine, and solo time is where they wander.

Neither mode is "better." Sprints teach finishing under a deadline with an audience; solo time teaches self-direction. Most families let the kid feel the difference and choose.

Step 4 — Verify your ID for social features

The social layer — cohorts, Demo Week, seeing and celebrating other kids' work — is only possible because every family behind it is real and verified. Before your kid joins the social features, you verify your identity as the parent. Verification is handled safely by Stripe, the same infrastructure that processes payments for millions of businesses; Kubrio never stores your documents.

That one step is what makes the rest possible: kid-to-kid social interaction with no strangers, no anonymous accounts, and a verified parent standing behind every profile. It's a kind of social experience for kids that simply wasn't possible before. Solo studio time works without verification — this step only gates the social layer. The full picture of who sees what is in sharing and privacy.

Optional — meet the founder

This one is optional, but it's real: every founding family has access to the founder's calendar. Schedule a call and ask anything, at any time — about your kid, about how something works, about where Kubrio is going. We're building this with 100 families, and talking to them directly is part of how.