Chapter 01
The story
KOR'K helps parents of children aged 2 to 7 observe their child's development, using videos of everyday life. It is an aid to observation, never a diagnosis. The Sensor is the next step, and it was the starting idea: capturing those moments without taking out a phone.
The origin
My little brother
KOR'K comes from my little brother. When he was 4, it took two years to get a diagnosis. During those two years, we, his family, saw things every day that nobody else saw: how he reacted, how he played, how he lived in his surroundings. Without knowing what to do with it.
KOR'K is the tool I wish we had had back then. Not to watch over him: to finally be able to tell the paediatrician, “look, this is what we see, every day”.
The vision
A world where no child grows up without being understood.
The name
- KOR
- For Korczak, the educator who put the protection of children at the centre.
- CORE
- The centre, the essential.
- CORTEX
- The brain: understanding how a child grows.
Who I am
The urge to build things came early. At 16, I taught myself web design and development, and launched DDale, my agency, with real clients. I now study business at EDHEC and data and AI at Albert School and Mines Paris – PSL. KOR'K is not my first project, but it is the first one that comes from something personal.
Sources: KOR'K file (30 March 2026); App Store description of the app (July 2026); home page of the Notion HQ.
The need
What KOR'K is for
KOR'K comes before the doctor. It helps a parent who is worried, even vaguely, about their child's development to turn that worry into dated, concrete observations: what the child does, says and shows in everyday life, with the video to back it up.
That moment matters. The French National Authority for Health (HAS) puts it this way: “Whatever the age, any concern parents have about their child's neurodevelopment must be considered a warning sign.” The worry still has to be put into words. The answers are scattered: forums, the health record book, appointments spread far apart. The apps that exist mostly rely on questionnaires that the parent fills in themselves.
I wanted to start from something else: spontaneous videos of real life, which are more concrete and more telling. The parent keeps a dated record, and can bring precise examples to their paediatrician.
What comes next belongs to the doctor: looking, interpreting, deciding. KOR'K helps people observe; it does not say what the child has.
Sources: HAS (French National Authority for Health), “Troubles du neurodéveloppement – Repérage et orientation des enfants à risque” (February 2020), page read on 10 Nov 2026; “Infos projet” sheet (Notion, 26 Sep 2026). The HAS quotation is translated from French.
The age range
Why from 2 to 7
A parent's worry can arise well before the age of 2. The developmental milestones of the US CDC, to which KOR'K Scan links its observations, start at 2 months; the HAS recommendation covers children from 0 to 7.
Starting at 2 is my own choice. Analysing videos of children under 2 was difficult. Being able to reach them is still a work in progress.
The top of the range, 7, coincides with the upper limit of the HAS recommendation.
Sources: CDC, “Milestones”, checklists from 2 months to 5 years (page read on 10 Nov 2026); HAS (French National Authority for Health), “Troubles du neurodéveloppement – Repérage et orientation des enfants à risque” (February 2020), page read on 10 Nov 2026.
Today
KOR'K Scan, online since July 2026
1
Film
The parent films an ordinary moment of about a minute: playing, eating, talking.
2
Describe and place
The AI describes only what is visible and audible, and relates it to the main developmental milestones for the child's age (CDC 2022 and WHO references).
3
One report a month
By area (language, motor skills, social interaction): what is observed, what is emerging, what deserves a second look.
Sources: “Infos projet” sheet (Notion, 26 Sep 2026); application file for the EELISA Prototype Contest (October 2026).
An example
From the video to the paediatrician
1
The filmed sequence
Everyday moments, filmed on the phone by the parent of a 2-year-old. The videos are not shown here: they are deleted after 30 days, and only the report is kept.
2
What the AI describes
For the “Social interactions” area, the month's summary: “The child shows a wish to interact by seeking the attention of those around him to show his abilities and achievements.”
3
The milestone it links it to
“Shows you what he can do (‘look at me!’)”: observed.
4
What the report says
Two ideas for home: “Imitation games (phone, doll, toy kitchen)” and “Time with other children, without forcing sharing”. And, for each area, what would be worth mentioning when the occasion arises, without alarm.
5
What the parent brings to the paediatrician
The month's report, as a dated PDF: the milestones observed in each area (language, social interactions, emotions, motor skills, routines).
6
What stays with the doctor
Everything else: seeing the child, interpreting, deciding. The report says so itself: “Indicative estimate based on the behaviours observed. Does not replace the opinion of a health professional.”
Source: a real KOR'K Scan report (2026, a 2-year-old child), anonymised: no first name, no date. Quotations translated from French.
Tomorrow
Why a device
The device did not come after the app: it was my starting idea. As early as March 2026, my first file describes a diamond-shaped sensor placed in a corner, with a fabric front, “closer to a speaker than to a camera”. Yet I released the app first: a physical object is costly and risky (manufacturing, certification, production), and each step has to reduce the risk and fund the next one.
The Sensor I imagined in March is not exactly the one going to Nuremberg. I saw it under 100 g, with a 160° camera and all the analysis done inside the device. The prototype weighs about 0.5 kg, its camera sees 120°, and the analysis goes through the cloud.
Filming means remembering to take out your phone at the right moment. The most telling moments often happen when nobody is filming. The Sensor is a small device placed in the corner of the bedroom, which captures those moments in the parent's place.
In time, I want the analysis to happen inside the device itself, so that no video leaves the home. That is not the case today. The prototype films and transmits; the analysis is done in the cloud, by KOR'K Scan, exactly as for a video filmed on a phone.
Who films
The parent films with a phone; the device films in their place. The rest of the chain is KOR'K Scan's. Sources: “Infos projet” sheet (Notion, 26 Sep 2026); design journal, step 2.
The line
Observe, don't watch over. It is neither an assessment tool nor a surveillance camera: it is an aid to observation.
The starting point
The constraints I set myself
0.5 kg
for about 12 × 12 × 10 cm: a discreet object that can travel in cabin luggage
A corner
of a room, with WiFi and a mains socket
4 weeks
for a working prototype, at 20 hours a week
€600
at most for the prototype
My rules
- Move forward phase by phase, validating each step before the next.
- Buy nothing without validating it first, and check every price online, with its date.
- Never let anyone believe that the analysis happens inside the device if it does not.
- Treat safety as for a product intended for a child's bedroom.
Source: design journal, steps 0 and 2 (9 Nov 2026).
Milestones
From March to November 2026
March 2026
The first file
The project, the name, and already the diamond-shaped device.
6 July
KOR'K Scan goes live
The app arrives on the App Store.
7 July
Student entrepreneur
The national status, on the favourable opinion of PSL-Pépite.
16 September
Never a medical word
An aid to observation, never a diagnosis, everywhere.
8 October
PSL-Pépite starts
The support programme begins in Paris.
29 October
Selected for Nuremberg
With KOR'K Scan and the Sensor.
9 November
The prototype starts
The first day of the design log.
Sources: KOR'K file (30 March 2026); log book of the Notion HQ (6 and 7 July, 16 September, 8 October 2026); PSL-Pépite email (29 Oct. 2026); design log.
Why now
A first contact with real users
Selected by PSL-Pépite for the EELISA Prototype Contest in Nuremberg, I am presenting KOR'K Scan and this first Sensor prototype to a European audience. KOR'K Scan works in France: what remains is to check that it meets a real need beyond it, and that parents understand it at first glance. For the Sensor, this will be its very first contact with real users: its shape, its place in the home, and the trust it inspires. The event in detail