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yeswekanban

yeswekanban turns learning into a job.

For the kid who's clearly smart but clearly checked out — the one who locks in for a weekend on a hobby and disappears by Wednesday. Kanbi turns the thing they actually care about into paid weekly work.

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Built by a 17-year-old. Live since 06/2026.

Open alpha

yeswekanban is in open alpha — free while we build.

No card, no trial timer. Sign up now and use the whole product for free. When the alpha ends, you’ll pick a plan (or cancel) — we’ll give you a week’s notice by email.

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WhatKanbi is an AI agent, not a chatbot. It interviews your kid, writes a real project plan, and helps them run the day-by-day.

WhoFor the kid who's burned through tutors but stayed up till 2am teaching themselves something nobody assigned.

WhyYou're an employer, not a cheerleader. The work is a job. The portfolio is real.

How it works

Three steps. Your kid does most of them.

01

Tell Kanbi what they want to learn.

Your kid says "I want to build a wooden skateboard" or "learn enough Python to make a Discord bot" or "build a desk for my room." Kanbi asks the follow-up questions a good mentor would, then writes the plan. Real milestones, real deliverables, no busywork cards.

Real plan goal from the live app“Learn how to do carpentry and build a desk”→ Kanbi produced a 7-task week-1 plan in one conversation.
02

You're the boss. Your kid is the employee.

You're not the coach. You're the buyer. Your kid drafts the plan with Kanbi, sends it to you for approval, then goes and works. They mark cards done as they finish them. They attach the evidence. You see the work, not just the claim.

Live week-1 board · 7/7 done
Build a small practice box — your first real carpentry project
Learn power tool safety rules
Sand and finish a scrap piece
Set up your garage workspace
Practice straight cuts on scrap wood with a circular saw
+ 2 more
03

Real money. Real portfolio. Both auto-built from finished work.

Your kid sends an invoice. You approve it. Stripe moves money to their account. Meanwhile every finished card with a photo or file or paragraph attached has already shown up on their portfolio.

Sample invoice line
Week 1 — Practice box (milestone)$25.00
6 prep tasks × $5$30.00
Invoice total$55.00
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Live portfolios

Real kids. Real work. Real URLs.

These are public plan pages from kids running plans right now. No screenshots, no mockups, no representative examples. Click either one. Read the work. If it looks small, it's because I'm small and these are early.

Ohio Carpentry GirlCarpentry + a finished desk
Week 4 · shipping
Personal TesterReal French pastries
Week 1 · in progress

Early test plans from internal use. As real customer plans go public, they'll show up here in place of these.

About the founder

Built by a 17-year-old. Used by his dad.

I'm Graydon, I'm 17. My dad has tried probably 200 things — from tutors to camps to travel to many, MANY long dinnertime conversations. After probably 6 years of this, we were both burnt out of it.

This past summer we tried something new — I worked as an intern under my dad, learning how to program and getting paid for my work. I would get a project plan at the start of the week, and figured the rest out myself, and it was amazing! I felt motivated because I was engaged with my work, and it was frictionless because I was given the freedom to figure things out myself.

All that led me to wonder if I could build something to offer that experience as a service to other kids, so here we are! You can see a real plan here. If something on this page is wrong, email me and I'll fix it.

How the trial actually works

No surprises. No sneak charges. No dark patterns.

Day 0Sign up with a card.

Card on file so the trial actually means something. Start a plan with Kanbi the same hour. No setup fee.

Day 4I email you a heads-up.

Heading into day 4 of your trial — if this isn't for your kid, cancel from Settings in two clicks.

Day 6I email you again.

Last reminder before the first charge. Same two-click cancel link.

Day 7First charge — or not.

$10 (Personal) or $20 (Family). If you canceled by now, the card was never charged.

Pricing

$10 a month for one. $20 for a family.

$10/mo if you're an adult learning something yourself. $20/mo for a parent + one kid. $5/mo per extra kid (must be 13+). One week free, card required up front so the trial actually means something. We email you on day 4 and day 6 before the first charge. Cancel in two clicks from Settings.

Personal
$10/mo

One adult learning one thing.

  • One Kanbi-built plan at a time
  • Public portfolio page
  • All hours and tasks tracked
  • Cancel in two clicks
1-week free. Card required.
Most parents pick thisFamily
$20/mo
+ $5/mo per additional kid (13+)

Parent plus one kid included.

  • Everything in Personal
  • Each kid gets their own login and plan
  • Stripe invoicing from kid to parent
1-week free. Card required.

$20/month is probably going to make you suspicious. It made me nervous when I priced it. The honest answer is that the closest premium coaching options for kids who fit this profile run $400 to $2,000+ per month, and most of what you're paying for there is human labor — a tutor's hour, a coach's hour, a counselor's hour. I don't have that cost because the day-to-day plan-running is your kid + Kanbi, an AI agent, not a person. There's no human on standby. If you want a human in the loop, this is the wrong product. If you want the structure those programs provide without the price tag and without another person breathing down your kid's neck, give us a shot. It worked for me, it might just work for you too.

Honest filter

What this is not

It is not tutoring. No human is on standby to sit with your kid and make the studying happen. Kanbi is an AI agent.

It is not the Kanban Method or the #YesWeKanban Agile community. Same words, different thing. The Kanban Method is a workflow approach for software teams, championed by Kanban University. yeswekanban is a learning platform for kids 13+; we use kanban boards as a UX, that's the connection. We are independent and unaffiliated.

It is not a summer camp. It doesn't end in two weeks. It runs ongoing, week by week, for as long as your kid keeps shipping.

It is not a curriculum. There is no course catalog. Kanbi writes a custom plan for whatever your kid brings.

It is not a fix for any clinical thing. I'm not qualified to claim that and I won't. It is a way to run work — which happens to be remarkably effective for me and people with a similar profile.

FAQ

Questions parents ask

How does it actually work?

Your kid tells Kanbi (an AI agent, not a chatbot) what they want to make. Kanbi interviews them for about fifteen minutes and writes a week-by-week plan as kanban cards. You approve the plan. Your kid does the work, marks cards done, and attaches evidence — a photo, a file, a paragraph. When they've shipped enough to invoice, they send the invoice to you. You approve it. Stripe moves money to their account. The public portfolio updates automatically.

Who is this for?

Parents of teens who are clearly smart and clearly checked out at school. The kid who has burned through multiple tutors, abandoned a couple of programs, locks in for a weekend on a random hobby, then disappears. If your kid is thriving in their current setup, this isn't a thing they need. If "we have tried five tutors and you quit every one" is a sentence you have said out loud, keep reading.

What's the trial — what happens after week 1?

One week free, card required at signup. After seven days, the card is charged $20/month (Family) or $10/month (Personal). I email you on day 4 and day 6 before the first charge. Cancel anytime in Settings — two clicks, no email, no phone call. If you cancel before day seven, the card never gets charged.

Who built this?

I did. I'm Graydon, 17. My dad bought it first because he was tired of paying for tutors I dropped. It's been live since June 2026. A handful of families are using it right now. I am the engineer, the designer, the support email, and test subject 0 for the platform. If you email hello@yeswekanban.app you are emailing me.

What if my kid has trouble focusing?

I'm going to refuse to give you the clinical answer because I'm not qualified to give one. What I can say is what the product actually does about it. The cards are small and have to ship something you can see. The kid is paid for their work. The plan is theirs — they helped Kanbi write it, around a thing they actually picked, so the "I don't care about this" tax is lower. None of that is medical care. It is a way to run work that has been the only structure that has kept me — a kid who drops everything — shipping for more than a month at a stretch. Your kid is a different kid. It might not work. The trial is a week so you can find out cheaply.

What kinds of things can kids learn?

Whatever they want to make. Current kids on the platform are building: a wooden desk, a Discord bot in Python, French pastries, a 3D-modeled army, a small e-commerce store. Kanbi doesn't have a curriculum library — it writes a custom plan for whatever you bring. If the thing requires equipment or supervision (welding, power tools, anything chemistry-adjacent), you decide whether that's OK in your house. I don't.

How does the money work — am I paying you, or my kid?

Both, separately. You pay me $20/month for the family tier (or $10 if you're the only learner) for the software — the AI agent, the kanban, the portfolio hosting, the invoicing. Then you pay your kid directly when you approve their invoices, through Stripe. I hold the kid's payout for 48 hours so you can dispute work if it wasn't actually done, then it goes to the bank account they linked. I don't take a cut of what you pay your kid.

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We email you on day 4 and day 6 before the first charge. Cancel in two clicks from Settings.
$10/mo solo · $20/mo family · 1-week free trial