Why this exists
Parent to parent, why I built this.
Tarun Chaudhary
Founder · VERiQ · Parent
Twenty years shipping real products (ex-Amazon, on the Alexa team, 30-plus launched), and a parent of an 11- and 14-year-old facing the same screen, the same questions, and the same worry you are.
The answers on offer for our kids came down to fear or a shrug, and neither was useful. So this is the thing I wanted for my own two: a way to put a real tool in their hands and teach them to be the one in charge of it.
Why listen to me on it? Not because I say so, because I'm making the same call you are, and because the method here is the same one I've used to ship real things for two decades.
See how the method works →Safety, consent, privacy
The honest answer, and the practical one.
A child who can see through AI doesn't need to be walled off from it. That's the deeper safety argument, and it's the point of the whole program. The operational side is straightforward: small supervised group, parental consent at signup, minimal data kept, and a build environment the founder runs and controls. The specifics are covered below.
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Parental consent at signup
A short form. Plain language. No dark patterns.
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Minimal data
Your child's name, a parent email, and what they're into. Nothing more.
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Supervised sessions, cameras on, the founder always present
No breakout rooms with unknown adults.
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No external sharing of your child's work without your say-so
Their build, their call.
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One named, accountable adult
The same person every week, never a rotating roster of contractors.
Hold a seat
A small group. A real shipped build. A deposit you can get back.
$100, refundable until the cohort is finalised 10 days before the first session. We cover any card processing fees, your full $100 back.