01COO / CPO
김연이
Drawing on experience founding a startup for adults with ADHD, leads service planning and management of key product metrics.
Child development researchers and AI developers, working together
Child development researchers, product planners, and speech AI developers work as one team to understand children’s responses.
Expertise brought togetherChild development · Psychometrics Product · Speech AI
Founder and representative
The problem we want to solve
When parents feel uncertain, we start with the child’s own responses.
The more parents want to understand their child, the harder choices can become. We develop direct-participation assessments and child speech technology together so that a child is not defined by a guardian’s recollection or a single score.
We work to understand children’s speech and behavior more accurately and provide a reference for parents and professionals considering the next step.
김소연Founder and representative, Kaffol Labs
Core team
From research to products used in practice
Psychology, child development, service planning, speech AI, and psychometric research share the same goals and validation standards.
02CTO
양동석
Oversees speech AI and service engineering with 15 years of experience in AI platforms, including NUGU and A. (에이닷).
03Psychometrics researcher
오수연
With a background in psychology at Boston University and a master’s degree in psychology from Claremont Graduate University, handles item development, study design, and reliability and validity reviews.
External expertise
Advisors
Experienced specialists help us review assessment standardization and suitability for clinical settings.
Assessment and statistics advisor숭실대학교
Professor 김상옥
Advises on assessment development, item design, standardization statistics, and joint research, drawing on leadership of 한국아동발달상담학회 and experience standardizing language assessments.
Clinical practice advisor더단단 마인드룸
Director 배다정
Advises on the practical suitability of assessment items and collaboration on standardized psychological assessments, drawing on clinical experience and leadership of a language and psychological development clinic.
Field collaboration
Learning directly from the field
We do not decide everything in a meeting room. We listen to parents, public organizations, and counseling professionals to improve usability and interpretation.
01In operation
Parent community
We run a local parent community and use seminars and early recruitment to understand the decisions parents actually face.
02Field engagement
Public parenting support settings
We met guardians at parenting support events to observe how the product was understood and received.
03Partnership under review
Psychological counseling settings
We have established a basis for working with psychological counseling organizations to review the practical suitability of assessment items and reports.
We disclose organization names, logos, and partnership details only after confirming the scope of collaboration and permission to publish.
How we work
We do not claim what we have not verified.
Child-centered
We put a comfortable, respectful experience for children ahead of technological convenience.
Evidence-based
We keep report statements and product claims connected to actual responses, research status, and validation conditions.
Clear about progress
We distinguish available services, research, preparation, and roadmap plans. Unfinished work is never described as complete.
Review process
Researchers and practitioners review the work together.
We design each item’s purpose and response structure from a psychometric perspective.
We prepare age-based data and statistical analyses while clearly reporting the status of our research.
We examine whether children and guardians can understand and use the product in counseling and educational settings.
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