Kairos Studios Amherst, Massachusetts

Kairos Studios is a software studio based in Amherst, MA.

Products

Varia

Varia reads your DNA file from a consumer DNA test or a whole-genome sequence and will reveal your variants which have scientific literature in a journal like NEJM, Cell, or other top caliber, peer-reviewed literature. Varia does not sell supplements or direct life advice; its sole purpose is to be a reliable resource for keeping up with your own genome where it matters to your health and longevity.

Livefreevariagenome.com
Kinlura

A resource designed for anyone finding themselves caring for a parent or loved one, especially remotely. Health reports, labs, doctor notes, medications - this is a burden for anyone trying to manage this in a paper format; even more so if the parents require or benefit from support in organizing everything. Kinlura aims to serve that need and provide a seamless platform where all things relevant to the person being cared for are harnessed in one place on your phone, with complete transparency and a brief you can share with the whole family.

Beta this fall
Amble

A guide to local life in the Pioneer Valley, designed for families - events, walks, farmers markets and places to play, all gathered from public calendars, town sites and libraries into one app. Keeping up with what’s happening nearby usually means a dozen websites and a lot of scrolling; Amble puts it in one place, empowering families to spend more time doing the fun stuff instead of wasting time looking for that fun stuff.

In testingfreeiPhone and Android
Gander

A free civic-information app for residents of Amherst, MA - meetings, the budget, town officials, elections and resident information are all aggregated and formatted for easy navigation. Most of this already lives on the town’s websites, but finding it usually takes more digging than anyone has time for. Gander is purely designed to be a conveyor of public data, no opinion is formed.

Not an official Town of Amherst service.

In testingfreeiPhone and Android

Projects in development

Lift

A hypertrophy tracker built on peer-reviewed research - every exercise in the LIFT catalog is an S or A tier movement, with data to back it up. Exercise routine building, training guide, and detailed data empowers the user to get the most out of their exercise routine without wasting time wondering if their program is effective.

Web app
Unknot

Unknot aims to eliminate the guesswork when it comes to a sore muscle. It can be difficult to know what to do for a sore muscle, or when it’s time to see a physical therapist - Unknot applies proven science to offer guidance for stretching, safe rehab, and when it’s time to see your clinician.

Livefreetryunknot.app
Cirra

A jet-lag planner app. Enter your flights and it builds an hour-by-hour plan for light, caffeine, melatonin timing and sleep to help you adjust as smoothly as possible to a new time zone.

Field testingfreecirra.pages.dev
Lyra

A weather app built to be as accurate as possible, with a particular focus on the upcoming next hour. Lyra only says it’s raining now when radar, a nearby weather station or a lightning strike has actually seen it - anything that comes from a forecast model alone is labeled as a forecast. Every reading shows where it came from and how fresh it is, confidence steps down the further ahead it looks, and it never shows a to-the-minute time it can’t back up.

In testingiPhone and Android
Parquet

A fan-app for all-things Boston Celtics.

In testingAndroid
Morsel

A nutrition tracker built for our own household - type what you ate in a sentence and Morsel logs it against USDA and label data. The AI only matches words to foods; every number comes from a lookup, and anything it can’t match stays visible but out of the totals, so the day’s count is honest about what it doesn’t know.

Personal tool
Vitals

A Mac app for anyone doing real work with AI agents - it answers what an agent session actually cost the machine. CPU, memory, heat and the share of the machine your AI tools are using sit on one timeline next to the sessions themselves, with every number labeled as measured or estimated. It needs no admin password and never touches the network.

Personal pilotApple Silicon Macs
Ballast

A disk-space tool for the Mac that measures what files actually take up on disk instead of trusting what an app reports about itself - one app’s cache claimed 2.58 GB while using 178 GB. Ballast marks what comes back on its own, like app caches, and remembers what you tell it about everything else, so your photos are never mistaken for clutter. Nothing is removed without a preview first, and removals go to the Trash.

Personal toolMac
ImageForge

A Mac image converter for the everyday formats - HEIC, PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF and more, plus PDF and SVG - in one drag-and-drop window. Batch conversion, resizing, presets, metadata stripping and full app-icon sets, all done on the Mac with nothing uploaded anywhere.

Personal toolMac