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An accessibility technology platform · founder-facing AI advisory

The founder knew the product and had a fixed budget to build it with, without the engineering background to buy it safely. OpenKit advised on the AI side of it, from the first prototype through to choosing the developer who would build the platform.

The Wakari platform: its marketing site above the review dashboard, shown in a browser window against a sculpted terracotta backdrop

Overview

Wakari is an accessibility technology platform. The idea was to replace a spreadsheet-based questionnaire with something people could answer in their own words, and the founder had the product clarity for it without an engineering background. The budget was fixed and had to cover the whole build, which put weight on every early decision.

OpenKit's part was strategic AI consulting and an implementation roadmap, shaped around keeping the founder in control of what the budget was spent on.

  • The idea earned its place on throwaway prototypes, before any development budget went out.
  • The founder came out of it able to read a quote and challenge a recommendation.

Advisory only

Strategic AI consulting and an implementation roadmap for the founder

Fixed budget held

The work stayed inside the original fixed budget

Platform live

Wakari launched after OpenKit's work finished, built by the developer the founder chose

Approach

How the advisory ran

OpenKit worked through the decisions in the order the founder had to make them, starting with whether the idea held up at all.

Prototypes that tested the idea cheaply

A custom GPT and low-code prototypes put the spreadsheet-to-conversation idea in front of real people.

AI vocabulary for a non-technical founder

OpenKit went through how language models work, where they fail and what they cost to run, which is the vocabulary a founder needs to brief a developer without an engineer translating.

A framework for choosing a build partner

OpenKit wrote a red-flag framework for judging development partners, so the founder could test a pitch against evidence.

A staged route the budget could carry

Scope documents and a staged validation route the founder could hand to a developer, with each stage proved before the next one was paid for.

Controls

What the advisory used

  • Custom GPT prototype path
  • Low-code prototyping
  • Proof-of-concept evaluation
  • Vendor-management framework

OpenKit certifications

  • ISO 27001
  • ISO 9001, UKAS-accredited
  • Cyber Essentials

Controls on this project

  • WCAG 2.1 AA target

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