About
Built by a family that needed it
A Maldivian family in Kuala Lumpur, a two-year-old, three adults with three schedules, grandparents on video calls, and a language that would not survive without hours at home. Chat groups and paper failed. So we built the system, and then made it work for other families.
The problem in our own kitchen
Our daughter was two. Three adults shared her day, with different languages, skills, and hours, and her grandparents were a video call away. The plan for the morning lived in one parent’s head. Whoever was with her found out what to do by text, or did not. Sunday review never happened because there was nothing to review. And Dhivehi, the language of her grandparents, was losing hours to English every week without anyone deciding that it should.
We read the research first. What it says is unglamorous: relationship before content, a prepared shelf instead of lessons, executive function as the real curriculum, dialogic reading, documentation instead of tests, and for a minority language, hours of real talk from several speakers. None of that needs a screen for the child. All of it needs the adults to run the same plan.
What we built
A workspace that carries the plan so the adults do not have to. Today shows whoever is on duty the block, in their language, and three taps log it. The week is built from an evidence-backed library and adapts to what the child actually did. The plan carries a language budget that turns amber before the week starts. Sunday is a twenty-minute review that changes next week. Everything captured becomes a portfolio and, at each birthday, a yearbook that the whole family can see.
Then we made it general. Nineteen interface languages. Any language in the plan. A single parent. Two parents. A household with grandparents, an aunt on a weekly call, or a helper with the mornings. A family whose stance is Montessori, Reggio, unschooling, or simply home. The constraint that shaped it, one language with no street, is now a feature every family can use.
What we will not do
We will not put the child on a screen. We will not score the child. We will not sell a public feed, a marketplace, or ads. We will not build surveillance of the adults who look after the child. We will not charge per adult. If a feature needs one of those, we will not ship it.
The name
Yearkeep began as Foiy Home. Foiy (ފޮއި) is Dhivehi for book. A keep is a protected place. The day is run so that the year can be kept.
Contact
Write to hello@yearkeep.com. For privacy requests, see the privacy page. Press and partnership enquiries go to the same address.