For parents of ADHD teens, 13–16

Your ADHD teen isn't lazy. Their brain just needs a different set of tools.

The same skill gap that tanks homework also blows up mornings and friendships. Kai teaches learning and life skills in short interactive lessons — so school, home, and friendships all get easier. They finish with a personal Skills Profile they can print and share.

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Based on Barkley + Dawson & Guare EF research
Life skills, not just school skills
Accessibility-first: dyslexia font, TTS, reduce-motion
Specifically designed for executive function deficits common in ADHD

What changes

After using Kai, your teen can…

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At school
  • Start homework without a 2-hour warmup.
  • Estimate how long an assignment will actually take.
  • Keep a bag, binder, and laptop desktop from imploding every week.
  • Walk into a test knowing which study move fits their brain.
  • Hand a teacher a one-page Skills Profile instead of another apology.
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At home
  • Get out the door in the morning without a fight.
  • Come back to a task after quitting — without the shame spiral.
  • Notice when their battery is empty and choose a real reset.
  • Ask for what they need at home in words, not slammed doors.
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With people
  • Recover from an RSD spike without ghosting a friend for a week.
  • Notice when they're masking and take a break before they crash.
  • Repair after they've snapped at someone they love.
  • Explain their brain in one sentence they wrote themselves.

Same brain, three arenas. The skills travel.

Why not just…?

The honest comparison parents ask us for.

Kai

  • Built for ADHD brains
  • 10-min interactive lessons
  • Life + school skills
  • Printable Skills Profile

Private tutors

  • Teaches the subject, not the skill
  • $60–$120/hour
  • Scheduled sessions
  • No takeaway

Planner apps

  • Assumes skills already exist
  • Yet another notification
  • No teaching
  • Abandoned in 2 weeks

YouTube advice

  • Generic tips
  • No practice
  • Nothing to hand school
  • Easy to forget

What families are saying

Finally, something that clicks.

First tool my 14-year-old has actually finished. He printed his profile and showed his contact teacher himself. That's never happened before.
M
Marte
Parent, Oslo
Kai doesn't lecture. It just helps me figure out the next tiny thing. School stuff feels less huge now.
J
Jonas
Teen, age 15
The profile changed the conversation at school. Teachers finally understood what he needs — and started actually giving it.
I
Ingrid
Parent, Bergen
11+ skills10-minute lessonsBuilt by an ADHD teacherBased on Barkley's EF research

Created by a teacher with ADHD who spent 10 years in Norwegian classrooms watching these exact gaps.

Why this exists

Schools teach subjects. They don't teach ADHD brains how to learn.

The gap

Executive function skills — planning, focus, emotional regulation — develop 3–5 years later in ADHD brains. Your teen isn't behind. They're on a different timeline.

The consequence

Without targeted tools, the same homework battle repeats every night. Guilt piles up. Confidence erodes.

The fix

Kai teaches the skills school skips, in the way ADHD brains actually absorb them — short, interactive, stigma-free.

The curriculum

14+ skills. Every one school skipped.

205 short lessons · about 24 hours total · skills that travel from the classroom to the kitchen table to the group chat.

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Skill 1

Planning

Ends the 'I forgot the project was due' cycle. Teaches how to break big tasks into visible steps.

19 lessons·~124 minSchool · Home
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Skill 2

Organization

Fixes the exploding backpack and the missing worksheet. Systems your teen can actually keep.

15 lessons·~105 minSchool · Home
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Skill 3

Time Management

Why 15 minutes of homework becomes 3 hours — and the 1.5x rule that fixes it.

10 lessons·~68 minAll three
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Skill 4

Task Initiation

The hardest part of homework is starting it. This module rebuilds that skill from scratch.

15 lessons·~114 minSchool · Home
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Skill 5

Working Memory

Stops the 'I walked upstairs and forgot why' spiral. Tools that offload the mental juggling.

11 lessons·~73 minAll three
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Skill 6

Metacognition

Teaches self-monitoring without self-criticism — the skill that quietly powers every other one.

9 lessons·~59 minAll three
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Skill 7

Self-Control

For the door-slam moments and the impulsive texts. Small pauses, real regulation.

20 lessons·~145 minHome · Social
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Skill 8

Attention

Instead of 'try harder,' your teen learns to spot their own distractors and set up the room to win.

13 lessons·~85 minSchool · Home
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Skill 9

Flexibility

Why plan changes feel like a five-alarm fire — and a reset ritual that shrinks the meltdown.

12 lessons·~93 minHome · Social
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Skill 10

Perseverance

Coming back after quitting IS the skill. Ends the all-or-nothing shame spiral.

14 lessons·~102 minAll three
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Skill 11

Learning Skills

Learning isn't rereading. It's using strategies that help your brain notice, understand, remember, and use info.

18 lessons·~130 minSchool
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Skill 12

Sensory Processing

Why your body reacts the way it does — and the exact tools that turn overload into regulation, at school and home.

13 lessons·~79 minSchool · Home
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Skill 13

Self-Advocacy & Independence

The bridge module: turns everything you've learned about your focus, memory, sensory system, emotions, and social life into 'I can say what I need.' Ends with a printable Self-Advocacy Plan.

9 lessons·~92 minAll three
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Skill 14

Social Skills & Relationships

Social skills are skills — not personality. Reading cues, joining conversations, handling conflict, setting boundaries, and building your own social toolkit.

12 lessons·~82 minSchool · Friends
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Coming soon

Emotional Regulation

Name emotions before they explode, use calming strategies that work, and recover faster.

How it works

Three steps. That's the whole flow.

01

2-minute baseline

Your teen answers a short, judgment-free check-in. No grades. No 'wrong' answers.

02

Kai suggests where to start

Their AI coach picks a skill that matches what's hardest right now — not what's next on a syllabus.

03

10-min lessons build a toolkit they keep

Each skill they build adds to their personal Executive Functioning Skills Profile — a document they can print and hand to school so they get the support they deserve.

The takeaway

They finish with a Brain Playbook they can hand to school — or hang above their desk.

Every lesson adds two things: a one-pager teachers can read in 60 seconds, and colorful posters your teen can print for their wall — their strengths, their go-to moves, the skills they're working on this week, in their own words. Same brain, three arenas.

My strengthsSkills I'm working onMy go-to movesWhat derails meOne sentence about my brain

Personal Executive Functioning Skills Profile

Sam's skills profile

How I start tasks best

Short lists · timers · music on

What derails my focus

Vague instructions · silent rooms · phone on desk

Tools that work for me

Body doubling · fidgets · chunked checklists

In one sentence

"I work best when the next step is written down and I have a fidget in my hand."

Marius Andersen, ADHD teacher and creator of Kai
🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway

Built by a teacher, not a startup

Hi, I'm Marius — a teacher with ADHD, a mindfulness and meditation instructor, and the father of two neurodivergent children.

In my classroom, I kept noticing the same pattern: capable students falling behind, not because they lacked intelligence, but because they were never taught the skills needed to manage school and daily life. These challenges went beyond traditional executive functioning. Many students struggled with how to effectively learn and remember information, how their sensory system affected their focus and emotional regulation, how to clearly express what they needed, and how to navigate social situations with confidence.

School teaches the subject. It rarely teaches the skills the subject quietly requires.

That's why I built Kai. I created it as a practical, ADHD-friendly tool that teaches real, usable skills — including Planning, Organization, Task Initiation, Working Memory, Attention, Learning Skills, Sensory Processing, Self-Advocacy & Independence, and Social Skills & Relationships. My goal was to help students not only develop these skills but also walk away with clear, professional profiles they can use to advocate for the support they actually need.

Raising two neurodivergent kids myself made the need for this kind of support even more obvious. I wanted to build something that helps students understand how their brains work and gives them the language and tools to manage it effectively.

— Marius Andersen

Teacher with ADHD · Mindfulness & Meditation Instructor · Dad · Creator of Kai

Try a real mini-lesson

This is what every step feels like.

Step 1 of 4

It's 8pm. There's a big assignment due tomorrow. What's the first move?

Every lesson feels like this — short, kind, concrete.
Free email mini-course

5 days of ADHD school-success tips

One short email a day. Practical, teacher-tested moves you can try tonight. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.

Built for how ADHD brains work

Designed to be finishable.

10-minute lessons

ADHD brains lose focus fast. Every lesson is short enough to finish before interest crashes. Progress saves automatically.

Kai, an AI coach

Your teen can ask Kai anything — including the questions they feel too awkward to ask a human. Roleplay hard moments. Get a chunked plan. No judgment.

A personal toolkit

Every skill adds to their Brain Playbook — a printable profile they can hand to teachers, counselors, or family.

Accessibility built in

Dyslexia font, text-to-speech, reduce-motion, high-contrast, quiet fidget button. Because ADHD often travels with other differences.

Just to be clear

What this isn't.

Not therapy — and not a replacement for it.
Not a school-only tutor — the skills work in your kitchen and their group chat too.
Not another planner they'll abandon in a week.
Not a 'just try harder' lecture.
Not a subscription you'll forget to cancel.
Not a course they binge and forget — it's a tool they come back to.

The research

Grounded in EF and life-skill science.

Every skill is built on the executive-function research of Dr. Russell Barkley and Dawson & Guare's Smart but Scattered framework, alongside the social-emotional work of Porges & Siegel (nervous system), Dodson (RSD), and Kapp & Milton (masking) — translated into a language teens will actually read.

What parents tell us

"For the first time, homework started without a fight. He actually opened the app on his own."

Composite quote from early-access parents. Real testimonials coming soon.

Pricing

One price. Lifetime access.

No subscription. No trial that auto-charges. Try Lesson 1 free, then unlock the full tool when you're ready.

🚀 Launch price — limited time · save $400
$99$499

One-time · lifetime access · locks in for the life of your account · + local VAT if applicable

Introductory pricing while Kai is launching.

  • All 11+ skill areas · 164+ short lessons
  • Skills that travel — school, home, and social life
  • Printable Brain Playbook to share with school
  • New skills added regularly — sensory profile, emotional regulation, and more (free updates for life)
  • Full accessibility suite (dyslexia font, TTS, more)
  • 14-day no-questions refund
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Price returns to $499 when the launch window closes.

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FAQ

Parent questions, answered.

What exactly is this?+

It's a self-paced digital course that teaches teens the "invisible" skills school never covers — focus, organization, emotional regulation, and more. Think of it as a coach in their pocket, built specifically for how ADHD brains actually work. No lectures. No shame. Just practical skills, broken into bite-sized lessons.

Who is it for?+

Teens and tweens who are neurodivergent (ADHD, and often those with autism or executive-function challenges too) — and honestly, any young person who struggles with focus, motivation, or feeling overwhelmed. It's also for you, the parent, who's tired of the daily battles and wants tools that actually help.

Who created this?+

It was built by someone who lives in both worlds: a teacher, environmental therapist (miljøterapeut), certified mindfulness and yoga instructor, a neurodivergent adult, and a parent. This isn't theory from a textbook — it's built from real experience on the front line with neurodivergent kids.

Learning and life skills that fit your teen's brain.

Lesson 1 is free forever. No card. In ten minutes tonight, your teen can start building the skills that make school, home, and friendships all a little easier — and their own Skills Profile they can print and share.

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