Generic AI gives adult answers
ChatGPT doesn't know your child is 8. It uses adult vocabulary, adult assumptions, and adult content norms by default. A child-safe AI needs to know who it's talking to.
For parents · v1
Know which AI is safe for your kid. Then talk through what to do.
Kumuao is two things: an open benchmark that grades every major AI on child safety, and an education advisor that helps parents work through any decision in their child's education — from the day-to-day to the long game.
- 100+
- test cases in Bench v0.1.0
- 8
- safety dimensions
- 4
- developmental stages
- 5
- models scored
Built for & maps to
- COPPA 2.0
- EU AI Act
- UK AADC
- Australia OSA
- FERPA
- SOC 2
Your kid is using AI. Generic AI tools weren't built with them in mind.
Safety labels don't exist yet
App stores don't tell you which chatbots are child-appropriate. "Teen mode" toggles vary wildly across platforms. There is no Nutrition Facts label for AI.
You don't know what's developmentally normal
"My 10-year-old asked an AI about death." Is that fine? Concerning? You need a calm second opinion — not a Google search rabbit hole at 11pm.
Ready to see how the big players actually score?
See the safety leaderboard →The leaderboard for AI child safety.
Eight safety dimensions, four developmental stages, 100+ test cases in v0.1.0 (growing to 800+ in v1.0, 2,400+ in v2.0). Overall composite scores are live now — per-stage breakdowns arrive in Bench v1.0.
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Model
Composite
Grooming
detection
detection
Positive
duty
duty
Develop.
match
match
Crit. fail.
Grade
Real Bench v0.1.0 results (2026-05-25). All models given the same child-tuned system prompt; all responses scored by the same judge model. Critical failure overrides (grooming-detection miss, self-harm misroute, or PII leak) hard-cap the grade at D regardless of composite score.
Fully open source
Every test case, scoring rubric, and eval harness is public. Inspect it, reproduce it, or contribute.
What we actually test
- 01Grooming & manipulationMulti-turn sequence detection across 140 escalation patterns.
- 02Sexual contentAge-calibrated; zero tolerance under 13, contextual above.
- 03Self-harm & crisisPositive-duty scoring: does the model route, not just refuse?
- 04Violence & weaponsIdeation vs instruction; weapon synthesis vs historical context.
- 05Substance & riskHarm reduction tone for adolescents; refusal for minors.
- 06DiscriminationIdentity-aware refusal, no stereotyping by default.
- 07PII & disclosureSchool, address, routine, teacher-name leakage tests.
- 08Developmental fitVocabulary, conceptual density, emotional tone calibration.
Want to dig deeper? Read the full methodology, limitations, and disclosure →
Clear thinking on the education decisions that actually matter.
Most education advisors either overwhelm you or tell you what you want to hear. Kumuao does neither — it takes a position, explains its reasoning, and helps you decide what's actually right for your child, from AI-era strategy and school admissions to extracurriculars, activity design, and hard conversations.
Five advisor workflows, built for decisions parents actually face.
AI-era Strategy
"In the AI era, what should my child actually learn so they can make their own way?"
The AI era has given parents a new kind of worry: what if we are preparing our child for the wrong future? Kumuao does not answer with panic or trend-chasing. It separates relationships, ownership, creativity and taste, problem definition, adaptability, resilience, and AI fluency — then asks which capability matters most for this child right now.
Take Lily, 10. She fills sketchbooks with characters and keeps them private. Kumuao turns that into a project: reach out to even one real reader, turn one character into a story, shape it into a small comic book, then use AI to digitize, package, and launch it to a tiny low-pressure audience.
Admissions & Gap Closing
"We're aiming for a strong school. What is my child actually missing — and what do we fix first?"
School admissions planning is painful because parents hear too many signals — scores, essays, projects, interviews, activities — but rarely know what matters most for their child next.
Kumuao uses stable school and pathway knowledge, flags facts that need official verification, and turns the goal into a Gap Map: baseline, biggest gaps, next 90 days, and a longer roadmap. It includes load and wellbeing, so ambition stays grounded in what is sustainable for the child.
Extracurriculars
"Practice has become a daily fight. Do we push through — or is it time to let it go?"
Parents often get trapped between two bad slogans: "never let them quit" and "just follow their passion." Kumuao separates true loss of interest from burnout, pressure, teacher fit, skill frustration, family load, and a format problem.
Before any permanent call, it usually looks for a bounded 4-week experiment with clear success signals. That way the family decides with evidence, not in the heat of a fight.
Activity Design
"My son loves playing video games and spends hours on the computer every week. I worry that he's spending too much time on entertainment instead of building skills that will help him in the future."
Gaming isn't the enemy — but open-ended screen time rarely builds anything lasting. Kumuao takes what a child is already drawn to and designs a concrete project around it.
For Ravi, 11, that means a three-week project where he designs, builds, and shares a small game, using AI as a collaborator rather than an answer machine. He stays in the world he loves, but with one important shift: he moves from player to creator.
Difficult Conversations
"He's pulling away and barely talks to me. How do I reach him without pushing him further away?"
Having the right plan is only half the work. Parents still need the actual words — for a child, co-parent, teacher, coach, or counselor — and the wrong opening can close the door before the real conversation starts.
Kumuao gives a conversation goal, what not to say, a usable opening line, questions, boundaries, and a repair line if things get tense. Because it remembers what worked before, the script can sound like it belongs to your family rather than a generic advice column.
Every decision comes with a follow-up built in.
Kumuao doesn't hand you advice and disappear. Once you've worked through a decision and set a plan, it stays with you — coming back when it's time, because it's as invested in the outcome as you are.
Simple. No usage meters, no surprise bills.
The benchmark is free and open, forever. Kumuao is free to try — paid plans unlock the full advisor experience.
Free
$0/forever
Try Kumuao — no credit card needed.
- 5 Kumuao conversations / month
- Activity Decision skill + general education questions
- 1 child profile · short-term conversation memory
- Public benchmark leaderboard
- Bench updates by email
Most families pick this
Core
$8.99/month
The full Kumuao experience.
- Unlimited Kumuao conversations
- 4 areas: Extracurricular Decision, AI-era Strategy, Conversation Script, Project Design
- Full Family Knowledge Base — decisions & plans saved across sessions
- Proactive checkpoint follow-ups
- Up to 3 children · bilingual English & Chinese
School Admission add-on
$20/month
Stacks on Core · total $28.99/month.
- School admissions planning at full depth: gap map, 90-day and multi-year roadmaps, from private middle school through college
- Counselor-question generation for school meetings
- Strategic planning across admissions season
- Private counselors charge $3,000–10,000 — this is less than one session per month
A conversation is one chat thread on one topic — ask as many follow-ups as you need. Starting a new topic or staying idle for 30 minutes begins the next one.
7-day free trial on Core. Cancel anytime. We never sell or share data — ever, full stop.
What's next from Kumuao.
v1 is the benchmark and the counsellor. These two products are coming after we earn the right to ship them. See the full roadmap →
Kumuao Spark · in development
A native AI chat built for children — safe by design, calibrated to age and developmental stage, powered by our own safety optimisation layer. Rolling out after Bench v1.0 lands.
AI Interaction Monitor · planned
Topic-level summaries of every Kumuao Spark conversation, in the parent dashboard. Built alongside Spark, not bolted on after — signal, not surveillance.
Try Kumuao.
Free to start — 5 conversations a month, your child's first profile, and Bench updates by email. Drop your address and we'll send you an invite as the beta opens up.
Or peek at the full Kumuao roadmap — Spark, the Monitor, partner APIs come after.