A calm, personalized story for tomorrow.
Ready Story helps parents of neurodivergent kids make a picture book about their own child, for the dentist, a first flight or a new school, in under five minutes.
The child's name and photos stay on the parent's device. Request forms only ask for an email.
Parents need the book tonight, for tomorrow.
A social story is a short, literal picture book that walks a child through what will happen. Parents have three options today, and none fit a late-night, phone-in-hand moment.
“The child in the pictures should be their child.”
The design principle every decision came back to.
Parents first.
Professionals next.
Parents and caregivers of neurodivergent kids, about 3 to 10, preparing for a specific event. Grandparents, babysitters and teachers read the same book from the PDF. Special-ed teachers, OTs and speech therapists are the next audience.
Five steps, one book about your child.
- 01
Your child
Eight drawn children across three skin tones, with glasses, a wheelchair and helper lines. Nothing is pre-selected.
- 02
Story
Dentist, doctor, haircut, airplane, new school and more, with new stories added as they are drawn.
- 03
Style
Storybook pictures or simple AAC-style symbols, previewed in a book reader.
- 04
Pages
Edit any sentence, swap a picture for a real photo, add a dedication, reorder pages.
- 05
Finish
Read it through, then $3.99 for a print-ready PDF. Payment opens at launch.
The same flow, one‑handed, in dark mode.
Every step works on a phone, in light or dark. The reader turns pages with large buttons and shows a preview band until the book is bought.
What I chose, and what I gave up.
One price, no account
Chose $3.99 per book, paid once.
Gave up Subscription revenue. It matches how parents use it: one event at a time.
Private by design
Chose The child's name and photos stay on the parent's device. Request forms only ask for an email.
Gave up A saved library across devices.
Drawn per child
Chose Each of the eight kids drawn on every page, not recolored.
Gave up Speed. Every new story takes longer to make.
Respectful by default
Chose Short, literal sentences: what will happen, how it may feel, one way to cope.
Gave up Any "fix the behavior" framing.
A small stack, run with AI agents.
Static pages, a few small functions for payments and email, and nothing that stores a child's name or photo. Pictures made in Figma AI, with Claude agents drafting, reviewing and testing every release before a person approves it.
Four things I noticed watching it end to end.
On desktop the name field and Next button sit below the fold.
The number of options changes with skin tone.
The Symbols preview is hidden until you scroll.
A short empty screen before payment appears.