Alto Education
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We are an Australian-Czech startup on a mission to solve the problem of lasting behaviour change to enable users to become who they want to be - to have habits that fulfil them and limit those they don't want. We are working on an application that helps people change their habits for the better, starting with studying.
What we do:
We believe one of the biggest problems facing people today is that they are not in control of their behaviour. Most spent hours every day engaging in behaviours they would rather leave behind and cannot get themselves to do things they deep down want to do - read more, learn more, exercise more, eat better and so on. We want to fix this. What we want is to give people more control over their behaviour, give them the ability to spend time on the things that make them into the person they want to be.
Where we are at: We are building an app where the goal is to create a set of tools that can be wrapped into a personal plan for different behaviours you want to foster. We are testing the concept first on studying (think essentially continuous improvement) and over time we plan to expand into more behaviours.
We started working on this about 12 months ago. We spent a few months exploring the problem space, talking to lot of people about their behaviour change issues and came up with an approach.
We tested our approach in a manual feasibility study with 3 cohorts of testers that showed very promising results. Then we started building beta of the app, which we are now testing with several cohorts of testers.
Who we are:
There are two of us in the team, Anna and Andy (if your name starts with A we can call ourselves the triple A team, but this is not essential ). Andy is originally from New Zealand and Anna is from the Czech Republic. You can check out our LinkedIns here for all the usual details - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-wetherell/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-bohac/.
How we work:
We work entirely remotely. Andy is for example in Canada right now and Anna in Australia (with plans to return to Czech in spring 2024). We place a lot of focus on autonomy and freedom in how we work and believe that is how people do their best work - when they can be their real selves.
What we are about: We are somewhat obsessive self-optimisers. We try to optimise how we sleep, eat, move, work and more on all imaginable axes. Our motto is about trying to go to bed each day a bit better than when we woke up.
