The app
Reflect + Connect. Twelve breathing patterns, a four-layer emotional portrait, and seventy-eight relational pairings that give you language for how to show up.
- Live · iOS + Android
- Twelve breathing patterns
- Four-layer portrait
Live on iOS & Android
VirWave is AI-native relational wellness.
The daily practice of wellness apps, the intelligence of AI companions, and the language of personality frameworks — combined into one product, mapped to the people you love.
Backed & built with
What we're building
The app is the wedge. The universe is the moat.
The live product is the adult wellness app. Alongside it: a transmedia IP world and physical companions that all tie back to the same portrait. One universe, three surfaces, compounding.
The world
Opowatha. Four realms, twelve archetypes, and a transmedia bible connecting the adult portrait to a children's IP. The long-term IP moat.
- IP bible complete
- 12 archetypes · 4 realms
- Kids and adult layers
The companions
Board games, plush, printed guides that carry the world off the screen. Physical objects that bridge families into the digital portrait.
- Board game
- OAM plush
- Printed guides
Team
Founder-led. Technical. Advised by the people who wrote the rules.
Kate Julia · Founder & CEO
Registered yoga teacher (RYT-200) with specialisations in kids' and trauma-informed practice. TEDxUCL speaker. UCL Hatchery alumna. Advisory-panel seat on the Children's Digital Wellbeing Framework. Founder of A4 Safety Alliance, a child-safety and domestic-violence nonprofit.
- RYT-200 · kids & trauma
- CDWF Advisory Panel
- A4 Safety Alliance founder
Sebastian · Technical partner
Full-stack. Built the live production stack solo — React Native, Supabase, RevenueCat, Claude. Ships the app every week.
- Sole engineer, live product
- React Native · Supabase
- Built on Claude
Advisory & standards
The founder sits on the Policy & Regulation Advisory Panel of the Children's Digital Wellbeing Framework — the Innovate UK-funded cross-sector standard for children's digital design, led by Fundamentally Children, the UK's leading independent authority on children's play and wellbeing.
- CDWF Policy & Regulation Panel
- Fundamentally Children
- Innovate UK-funded standard
Receipts
Shipped, not slideware.
Live on App Store & Google Play
MVP shipped March 2026. Real subscribers on RevenueCat. Weekly release cadence.
UCL Hatchery
Founder-in-residence at UCL's startup incubator. Peer review from academics who publish on wellbeing and neurodivergence.
TEDx published
Founder's TEDx talk is live. Fifteen minutes on emotional regulation and relational wellness — the thesis every product surface is built on.
CDWF Advisory Panel
The founder holds a seat on the Policy & Regulation Advisory Panel of the Children's Digital Wellbeing Framework — the Innovate UK-funded standard for children's digital design, led by Fundamentally Children.
RYT-200 yoga teacher
The founder is a 200-hour registered yoga teacher, specialised in kids' and trauma-informed practice. Every breathing pattern in the app was designed by a practitioner, not an engineer.
Trauma-informed by design
Every default assumes the user might be dysregulated, trauma-affected, or neurodivergent. Nothing shocks, pressures, or shames. Product decisions are shaped by the founder's clinical training in trauma-informed practice.
A4 Safety Alliance
The founder is also the founder of A4 Safety Alliance, a nonprofit for child safety and domestic-violence awareness — active on Wendy's Law and Kayden's Law advocacy.
Evidence-informed
Built on Big Five, Gottman, Enneagram, attachment theory, Plutchik's wheel, and slow-breathing research. Synthesised, not invented.
“Wellness apps teach you to breathe. AI companions give you a stranger to talk to. Personality tests tell you what you are. We put all three together, mapped to the people you actually love. That's the product.”
Get in touch
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