About Kaira
Built from grief, practical work, and the conversations families rarely get to have early.
Kaira exists for the people trying to keep life moving after a death, and for the people who want to make that future work easier before it arrives.
From the founder
Why we are building Kaira
My name is Adé, co-founder of Kaira. I started building this at Harvard Business School after my grandmother passed away.
She had held our family together after my grandfather died. When she passed, everyone was grieving and everyone was scattered. We had to coordinate across countries, make practical decisions, and still find a way to honour her life properly.
I watched my parents carry the work in long nights and early mornings: calls, providers, family decisions, paperwork, and the quiet heartbreak of clearing a room. It was not one task. It was a whole life of follow-up arriving at once.
Kaira is being built for that moment. Not to make grief efficient, but to keep the practical work from consuming every bit of attention a family has left.
What shaped the product
We kept listening after the idea.
I spent time as an intern at a Boston funeral home to understand what families ask for when the need is immediate, what professionals can realistically carry, and where support drops off after the appointment ends.
My co-founder and I have also spoken with many families, funeral directors, attorneys, estate planners, care professionals, and industry experts. Advisors including Professor Tom Eisenmann and Ian Brady have helped pressure-test the company, but the product has been shaped most by repeated conversations with people doing the work.
The first week is not the whole problem
Families need urgent help, but the practical work keeps returning in calls, accounts, documents, mail, benefits, and family coordination.
Professional care ends before the work ends
Funeral homes, hospice teams, attorneys, and care professionals want families supported, but their teams cannot become the family command center.
Trust comes from restraint
People do not need a louder product in grief. They need privacy, plain language, and one useful next step at a time.
What Kaira does
The practical work, while families stay close to the people who matter.
Kaira helps families organize the calls, documents, accounts, household details, and shared responsibilities that follow a death. It gives the work a place to live and helps people decide what to do next.
For people preparing in advance, Kaira helps record wishes, organize accounts and documents, write future letters, and make the plan easier for the people who may one day need it.
The tone is simple: less confusion, fewer scattered threads, and a practical next step when a family has very little room left.