Everyday life, made a little simpler.

From your daily skincare to feeling settled at home, we build small, thoughtful apps for the things that matter in life. Each one starts with a real need and is shaped around the person using it.

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How we work

People first. Features made to fit.

We would rather do one thing well, made to fit and properly organised, than ten things that only look impressive. A lot of everyday life still runs on guesswork: a pile of skincare you check bottle by bottle, a feng shui reading that rests on one master's word. We want to turn what is scattered and hazy into tools that are grounded, recorded and written in plain language.

Start from real life

Every product starts in our own home. We wanted a clearer way to make our space feel comfortable to live in, so we built QiStar. Our family's skincare kept piling up, and the ways to combine it all kept getting more complicated, so we built SEQUOR to bring order to it.

Simple by default

Open it and it makes sense. Both apps work the same way underneath: they start from published data and specification tables, apply clear rules and calculations, and turn the result into advice you can follow. Nothing is improvised by an AI, which cuts out the confident but wrong answers AI can “hallucinate”: ask the same question and you get the same answer every time. The complexity stays behind the scenes, so what you see stays calm and clear.

Always growing

Launch is only the beginning. We keep building up product data and ingredient lists, so the information gets more accurate and better organised over time. We gather product information, never your personal data. Both apps already have more updates lined up, and they will keep growing with your feedback.

Products

Two apps today. More on the way.

Each product has its own home on the web. Here is where they start.

Feng shui

QiStar

Feng shui is the traditional Chinese practice of arranging a space so it feels balanced and comfortable to live in. It is not a precise science, but it carries centuries of observation and record-keeping, and while practitioners are costly and vary widely, most work from the same few classical texts. QiStar builds on those shared foundations, mainly the Flying Star school with Eight Mansions alongside, turns them into a consistent, systematic reading and explains every result in plain words.

  • Free for everyone, with no ads
  • Runs entirely on your device. We never collect or upload your data
  • Includes a Chinese lunar calendar and almanac for choosing good days
Visit QiStar →
Beauty & skincare

SEQUOR

Sequor is Latin for “I follow”. Ingredient lists are tiny, dense and full of technical names. SEQUOR uses published ingredient data to put them into plain language, shows what is in each product and which ingredients you have reacted to before, and works out a sensible order for the skincare on your shelf. We are not doctors and do not diagnose; we simply lay out clearly what is already in your hands.

  • Reads the ingredients from a photo of your label, because the same product can differ between Korea, Japan and Europe
  • Checks every ingredient against official databases such as the EU's CosIng
  • Puts your products in the right order, so they work together instead of against each other
  • Tracks how your skin reacts, with progress photos that stay on your phone. We collect product data, never yours

Setting it up takes a little effort. After that, you stop guessing. Try each new product over a set trial period, note how your skin changes day by day, and look back to see exactly what made the difference.

Visit SEQUOR →

Next idea in the workshop

We are always tinkering. New products will appear here first.

About us

Two people, two shiba inus, one workshop.

We keep noticing small frictions in everyday life, and we keep asking the same thing: could a good tool make this easier?

KMAKworks was started by Andrew and Karen. Andrew has spent many years in IT. Karen is a chartered surveyor. At home we are happiest with our hands busy, building DIY projects, tending the garden and cooking for friends.

Our products grow out of what we care about, and out of the same frustration. Andrew has long been interested in feng shui, and for years we had our home's feng shui read every year. When he tried asking AI assistants instead, each one gave a different answer. Skincare turned out the same way: ask two AIs how to order a routine and you can get opposite replies. A confident answer is not the same as a correct one. So we gather the published sources, organise them carefully and turn them into tools anyone can rely on. QiStar and SEQUOR are the first two. We build what we want to use, then share it with everyone else.

Illustration of Andrew

Andrew

Co-founder · Technology

Turns ideas into working apps after many years in IT.

Feng shuiGamingHome designDIY
Leads QiStar
Illustration of Karen

Karen

Co-founder · Product

Brings a chartered surveyor's eye for structure and detail.

GardeningCookingBeautySkincare
Leads SEQUOR
Illustration of Kuri the shiba inu

Kuri

Shiba inu · Chief tester

Checks that every new thing is actually useful, and reminds us when it is time for a walk.

Illustration of Mugi the shiba inu

Mugi

Shiba inu · Garden supervisor

Never misses a gardening session, and occasionally helps with the digging.

The KMAKworks mark: two white Ks, the second mirrored, on a blue square.
The mark

Two Ks. One line of code.

Mirror the second K and the two become < >. What goes between them? Anything in life.