Kighzen

Welcome to Kighzen!

Kaizen (改善) is the Japanese word for improvement. In business, the goal is to continuously improve all the time in all ways. Constant incremental improvement will increase over time, leading to big gains and outcomes in the future.

Here at Kighzen, we're developing a new app to help provided feedback and encouragement to people who are having trouble reaching their goals, or finding the motivation to do so. We're mainly trying to work with people living with autism spectrum disorders.

We know that it's really difficult to make positive changes to behavior on your own. It's even difficult to help someone make those changes. We need teams of people working together, all encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad behavior to try and improve and work towards our goals.

Unlike simple token economy systems, Kighzen implements a team-based approach: This allows you to coordinate across all the staff you have working together for better outcomes:

Your Team Lead will coordinate the behaviors you want to enforces, and the rewards which can be earned.
Your Team Members are your outside staff who come in to help encourage and track the behaviors you want to see.
Your Family Members are the people in your household tracking and encouraging (and rewarding!) the behavior.
And Your Subject is the focus of everything. This is the person you're trying to help improve by helping to keep track of their good (and bad. But mostly good!) behaviors to build up towards rewards.

Kighzen is currently in an open beta as we iron out the kinks and get ready to launch. If you're interested in finding out more (and maybe helping us beta test!), please drop us a note at contact (at) (our domain name - kighzen dot com) to let us know you're interested and we'll try to get back to you soon! Or you can just click the "Try a demo" button up at the top to start clicking around and try it out.

You can check out a quick intro video here: Kaizen Quick Intro

And there's an in-depth tutorial video here: Kighzen Setup Tutorial

Your team lead will set up the behaviors you want to track and encourage.

Reports let you track progress towards goals.

Rewards help encourage people to meet their goals! Good behaviors earn more points, which earn bigger rewards.

Security is important at Kighzen — set team member level permissions so your team members can only view data on their Subjects.

The Subject sees the points they've accrued and what they're working towards, as well as which rewards they've already claimed (including pending ones!).