I build systems that don't assume you're having a good day.

Founder of VirWave. 2x TEDx speaker. Neurodivergent — building what I couldn't find.

rebuilding in public.

Portrait of Kate Julia
London · Global

Why I build

I'm neurodivergent. I've been in systems that couldn't read me and called it my failure.

That's where VirWave came from. That's where most of my work comes from. I stopped waiting for better systems to exist and started building them.

Emotional infrastructure Neurodivergent by design Systems that stay human Identity as a living thing

also: 18-minute TEDx talks & five named AI agents.

What I've made

The work, told honestly.

Relationship Identity Platform

VirWave

A living portrait of who you are in relationship — built from how you actually feel, not how you test. Seven archetypes. Emotional wavelengths. A system that grows more accurate over time.

my love letter to nervous systems.
Public Talks

TEDx, twice

Two talks: Credibility is Regulated and The Myth of CALM — both arguing that emotional regulation isn't a personal skill. It's infrastructure.

Talks releasing soon →
18 minutes of things I actually believe.
Policy + Systems Reform

A4 Safety Alliance

Board member. Advocacy and systems reform focused on institutional accountability and child safety — the kind of work that doesn't end, only gets sharper.

the one I keep fighting for.
Children's Digital Wellbeing

Fundamentally Children

Regulation panel contributor. Screens are nervous systems too — the work is about making sure the ones kids grow up inside are built to know that.

because screens are nervous systems too.

In good company

Organisations, events, and collaborations.

UCL TEDx UCL TEDx HultLondon UCL Hatchery Fundamentally Children A4 Safety Alliance Deloitte KPMG Foster School of Business Wayne State University Claude Yoga Alliance Kidding Around Yoga Founding Her — UCL UCL Founder Under Pressure

Let's build systems for humanity.

The one idea I keep building from

If I cry, I am unstable. If I don't cry, it didn't happen.

If I love working, I don't like being a mom. If I don't work, I can't put food on the table.

— from both TEDx talks

Currently

Dispatches from real life. Updated most months.

WTF about

The fact that emotional regulation is still treated as a personal failing when it's a systems design problem. I said it on stage at TEDxUCL. I'll keep saying it until the systems change.

From the TEDx

Modern systems are built for a fictional human — rational, calm, consistent, cognitively available on demand. That human doesn't exist. I have the data. And the talk.

Watching

The Mentalist.

Pop Mart

Current obsession: Moldy Muffin.

Not on the CV

The parts I usually leave out of the bio.

  • Built a creative capture system called SPARK because ideas arrive everywhere, all the time, and I didn't want to lose any.
  • My AI agent team has names. ARIA, SIGNAL, BRIDGE, GROVE, NOVA. Yes, I know.
  • Currently in a Healing Adventure Era. It has its own Excel sheet. Don't ask.
  • I keep an astrology relocation chart next to my life plan.

Lately

London, mostly. Alive, always.

On an escalator, mid-step, grinning
escalator diaries
On the Millennium Bridge with St Paul's behind
home ↓
Under a flowering archway, arms up
lilac fits
KOMO News coverage of A4 Safety Alliance
komo news → A4 safety
Silhouette against a city skyline at golden hour
golden hour
Candid portrait of Kate Julia at a gallery
off the record
Kate demonstrating the VirWave app
the app, live
Kate on stage at TEDxUCL
TEDxUCL
Kate at TEDx HultLondon
TEDx HultLondon

Come say hi

Speaking · partnerships · research · letters about nothing in particular.