We design learning, care coordination, and communication tools from the ground up for neurodiverse individuals, and for the families, schools, and care teams who support them.
Most software is built for neurotypical users first, then adapted for everyone else. We build in the opposite direction, and not because it made for a good design philosophy. Our own children are neurodiverse. We live these challenges every day, which is why every product we make starts with accessibility and gives the people using it real control over their own data and how AI is used with it.
Every screen can be adjusted before it's used: reading mode, motion, contrast, text size. A learner who needs a different setup doesn't file a request or wait for an update. They change it themselves, and it stays changed.
Students, parents, and care teams decide what data is shared, with whom, and how, including exactly how AI is allowed to use it.
Create an account for FPK University today and the same account will open FPKX, and everything we build after it. Nothing you set up now has to be set up again later.
Children and adults who think differently often think in pictures first, not words. We build our curriculum and product design around that strength, using a research-backed visual-thinking pedagogy that treats neurodivergent traits as a different, often powerful, way of thinking, not a deficit to correct.
We help learners build strong mental pictures of words, numbers, and ideas: a skill at the root of confident reading, spelling, and maths.
The same visual-thinking abilities linked to dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, and autism are also linked to creativity, pattern recognition, and problem-solving. We design for the strengths.
This approach already shapes how FPK University builds its courses, and it will shape every product we bring into the FPK Operating System.
We each came to this the same way: as a parent of a neurodiverse child, watching schools, therapists, and clinicians work in complete isolation from one another. There was no collaborative system. So we built one.
"Irish-American health-tech startup aims to rewire patient journeys" Euractiv covered FPK-X's showcase at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C., as part of an Enterprise Ireland delegation. Read the article →
A self-taught developer who learned to code out of necessity when he couldn't find adequate tools to support his autistic son. Before software, he spent 20+ years building and scaling real-world businesses, including growing a fibreglass division at MasterCraft from zero to $75,000/month.
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25+ years in youth and family development, neurodiverse learning, and therapeutic design. Founder of Help Me To Parent, a leading Irish parenting support service. Leads FPK's business strategy and the implementation of the Empowering Learning methodology across the platform.
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CFA charterholder with 20+ years in investment analysis and fund management, including scaling an international equity strategy from $400M to over $2B. Oversees FPK's financial strategy, investment readiness, and capital planning.
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The Midwest's flagship venture gathering, hosted by JumpStart. We'll be meeting with venture investors and connecting with universities and research partners interested in neurodiverse-first learning technology.
Event site →Philadelphia's annual gathering at the intersection of technology, inclusion, and accessibility, right at the heart of what Future Proof Knowledge builds every day.
Event site →An international trade mission hosted by Invest Barbados, connecting Irish businesses pursuing global expansion with government officials, industry leaders, and investment partners across the ICT and financial services sectors.
Two Future Proof Knowledge products are live right now. Anyone can create an individual account today; school and education-body pilot programmes begin Autumn 2026.
A personalised learning platform for neurodiverse students: adaptive courses, progress analytics, a live interactive hub, and built-in study tools.
Care coordination and progress tracking that puts parents in control: organise IEP goals, assessments, and therapy notes in one secure hub.
Recent thinking from the teams building FPK University and FPKX, published weekly and readable right here without leaving the page.
Dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, and autism are all linked to strong mental-imagery abilities. Here's how FPK University builds courses around that strength instead of designing around a deficit.
Most reading and maths instruction assumes a single "normal" way of processing information: linear, phonetic, sequential. For a large share of neurodiverse learners, that's not how their minds actually work, and it never was a flaw to correct.
Research into visual-thinking pedagogy shows that strong mental imagery, the ability to build a vivid picture of a word, number, or idea, is at the root of confident reading, spelling, and maths for many learners who struggle with phonics-first approaches. It's also linked to creativity, pattern recognition, and spatial reasoning, the same traits that show up disproportionately in engineers, designers, and founders.
FPK University's courses are built around this from the ground up: concepts are introduced as pictures first, words second. A learner builds a mental image of a word before they're asked to sound it out. The result, in our pilot classrooms, has been learners who describe themselves as "bad at reading" starting to describe themselves as visual thinkers instead: a strengths-first reframe that changes how they approach every subject afterward.
IEP meetings involve input from teachers, therapists, and clinicians who rarely talk to each other. Here's how FPKX keeps every goal, assessment, and note in one place parents actually control.
Every fall, parents of neurodiverse kids relive the same problem: the speech therapist has notes the school doesn't see, the school has an IEP draft the paediatrician hasn't reviewed, and the parent is the only person in the room who's supposed to hold it all together, usually from memory.
FPKX exists because our founders lived this exact problem before they built a product for it. The platform gives parents a single hub for IEP goals, therapy notes, and assessments, with granular control over who sees what. A parent can share a specific assessment with a new therapist without handing over the entire file, or pull together a clean summary before a meeting instead of digging through email threads and paper folders.
Care coordination shouldn't depend on one exhausted parent's memory. That's the problem FPKX is built to solve, and it's the same philosophy that will eventually connect FPKX to the rest of the FPK Operating System.
Dyscalculia is often treated as "bad at maths" rather than a different way of processing quantity. Here's the visual-first approach FPK University uses to change that story.
Dyscalculia affects roughly as many people as dyslexia, but gets a fraction of the attention, and the instructional response is usually more repetition of the same approach that already isn't working.
FPK University's maths curriculum leans on mental imagery the same way its reading curriculum does: learners build a physical, visual sense of what a number represents before they're asked to manipulate it abstractly. Quantity becomes something you can picture and move, not just a symbol to memorize rules about.
For a lot of our early learners, this is the first time maths has felt like something they can actually see themselves getting good at, rather than a subject that was never going to click. That shift in confidence tends to carry over into every other subject that depends on numerical reasoning.
FPK University and FPKX are the first two products in a larger system we're building called the FPK Operating System: one account, one accessibility layer, and one set of privacy protections across everything Future Proof Knowledge makes.
Be the first to know as we bring our products together into one connected system.
FPK University and FPKX pilot programmes for schools and education bodies open this autumn. If you're interested in bringing neurodiverse-first learning and care coordination tools to your students or clients, we'd like to talk.
