Partner brief

Kids' activity studio owners · KudoKids partner brief

Your hour builds character. Home gets the other 167.

Kids show up with attention spans trained by screens that hand out rewards for zero effort. The focus and follow-through you build in class erode at home — and that's where the quiet retention leak starts.

Cosmo

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Partner brief

What it is

KudoKids is safe screen time for kids 3–12 that instills growth.

Live in early access now on the web, iOS, and Android — a growing library of games and routines that turn the screen time kids already get into time that grows them.

HeartKindness, gratitude, and naming what they feel

HeadReading, STEM, and money smarts

GritRoutines, chores, and finishing what they start

Free for every family — routines, the full library of games, and a first companion are included. Premium ($11.99/mo or $99/yr) adds the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras kids earn through their routines — never a wall in front of the learning.

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How it works

Effort in, rewards out — and parents decide what they're worth.

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Set the routine

Parents pick the tasks and responsibilities that matter this week.

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Kids earn Kudo Coins

Finishing tasks earns coins — visible progress, not nagging.

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Parents choose the reward

Coins buy rewards parents set — including off-app screen time.

Earned, not handed over

The Kudo Coin — kids earn it, parents decide what it's worth. Everyday effort becomes rewards a parent actually approves of.

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The cast

Twenty companions, each one cheering your families' kids on.

These are the faces of KudoKids. Every companion has its own personality — and thousands of sayings that guide, encourage, and celebrate each child as they grow.

Every family starts free with the Space world and Cosmo — Premium unlocks the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras kids earn through their routines.

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Studio owners in focus

How it lands in your studio.

In your lobby

Nothing to teach, stock, or license.

Your families are in the lobby week after week. One poster with the QR code from your partner link — families scan it, sign up in minutes, and the effort-first routines you preach carry on at home. No class time, no inventory, no integration.

What parents see

Parents see what their kids are up to

The parent dashboard shows each family what their kid is earning, playing, and learning — now including drawing and short exercises their companion guides them through, from breathing to animal moves.

Routines — a real screen from the app

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Why this matters

Three kids you already know.

The practice fight nobody wins

There's a kid who liked this until it became the thing she gets nagged about. She isn't tired of the activity — she's tired of the argument that comes with it.

Gao et al. (2024), Frontiers in Psychology — support and praise were associated with favorable motivation in young athletes; pressure and directive behavior with unfavorable.

It was never the schedule

When a family quits, the note says “schedule conflict.” It usually wasn't. The child leaves for reasons nobody at the studio heard out loud, because a nine-year-old reports feelings as logistics.

Crane & Temple (2015), European Physical Education Review — in youth sport research, enjoyment and competence were tied to dropping out more often than cost or scheduling.

One hour with a shape, and 167 without one

For many kids, your hour is the only part of the week with a shape to it — a start, an order, a point. The other 167 arrive as drift.

Fiese et al. (2002), Journal of Family Psychology — 50 years of research found family routines positively associated with child adjustment; the authors note measurement limits.

Research behind the design — these researchers have not evaluated KudoKids, and we claim no results for children who use it

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Safe by design

Built to earn a parent's trust — and keep it.

No ads to kids

Children never see advertising inside KudoKids.

No strangers

No chat or contact with people your child doesn't know.

No child data sold

We never sell children's data. Ever.

No AI on kids' screens

The kid experience uses no AI — just carefully designed play.

No ads, everNo child data sold Ages 3–12

Recommended by child-development experts.

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Honest answers

The questions studio owners ask us.

Q

I tell parents to get kids off screens — doesn't recommending an app contradict that?

KudoKids works with the screen time kids already have and gives it a shape: Kudo Coins are earned through real-world routines first, and parents can make device time itself something kids earn. It's built so home screen time follows the same order you teach — effort first, reward after.

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My recommendation is my reputation — I don't sell to my families.

The core app is genuinely free, with no trial cliff, so the recommendation stands on its own — no family has to spend a dime for it to hold up. A commission exists only when a family chooses Premium, and we ask partners to disclose it plainly: a straight one-line disclosure protects the trust that makes your recommendation worth anything.

Q

Is there anything to buy, install, or set up for families?

No procurement, no contracts, no student data. Families sign up directly and the core app is free to use.

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Forward this

Three sentences you can send to your member list.

Parents ask me how to keep what we build in class going at home — KudoKids is the app I point families to.

Kids earn Kudo Coins by finishing real routines and tasks, and you decide what the coins are worth — including screen time.

The core app is free for every family at kudokids.org — and full disclosure: I'm a paid KudoKids partner and earn a commission if a family chooses the paid plan.

Swap in the wording that fits how you talk to your families — just keep the paid-partner line in; a plain disclosure protects the trust your recommendation is built on.

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Next step

Bring KudoKids to the families in your studio.

One 2-minute application. Partners earn 20–25% of Premium ($11.99/mo or $99/yr) as recurring commission for 12 months — 20% standard, scaling to 25% with referral volume — paid automatically through Stripe Connect. The core app stays free for the families you refer.

kudokids.org/partners

Apply now → kudokids.org/partners/join

No ads, everNo child data sold Ages 3–12

Live in early access now on web, iOS, and Android. Recommended by child-development experts.

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