Development partners
Kore is a pre-prototype ultra-surveillance home-safety sensing concept, being developed in the open by one founder in Austell, Georgia. The V0.1 prototype is the whole next step. Development partners are the engineers, designers, makers, and connectors who help it happen.
Pre-prototype · solo founder · concept stage
The concept
One honest paragraph, the same one the founder would give you in person.
Kore is being designed as an ultra-surveillance sensing system for the home: cameras and environmental sensing (air, fire, carbon monoxide, water) working together with presence and fall sensing, keeping a continuous documented record of what was sensed, what was done, and whether it worked. It is meant to run locally first and to learn the rhythms of the household it protects. A camera-free configuration stays available as an option for schools, churches, senior living, and similar sensitive settings. All of this is design, not hardware: no prototype has been built, no sensing claim has been validated, no parts have been ordered, and no patents have been filed. The work ahead is turning this concept into the first working V0.1 build: sense, compare, act, verify, record.
Expertise needed
These are the gaps the founder cannot fill alone.
ESP32 firmware, sensor integration, and the first working sense-and-record loop. Component candidates are under evaluation, and no bill of materials is finalized yet. An engineer who has shipped real sensor hardware is exactly who this needs.
Enclosure and product design for a device that belongs in a home, not a lab. Concept imagery exists; real design work has not started. The upcycled-materials direction is part of the brief, and every material choice gets bench-tested before it enters a product.
Design-for-manufacturing review plus small-batch fabrication and assembly planning for the V0.1 run. One build quote is in hand (about $18,000 plus components, from builder Sheldon Hurst, awaiting his reply). A manufacturing eye keeps that quote honest.
An honest ledger
Partners deserve the full picture before they lend their name to this.
How to contribute
Development partnerships are collaborations on the prototype build, not employment.
Build sessions, design reviews, and hands-on testing of the first prototype.
Engineering, design, and manufacturing guidance that keeps the V0.1 build real.
Lab time, test instruments, and fabrication access for evaluation and bring-up.
Suppliers, university labs, and future pilot hosts who can move the build forward.
To submit an enquiry, use the form below. Every enquiry goes to Mr. Kristian Brown, Founder and CEO of Kore, and is read personally. There is no application fee and no obligation; the first step is a conversation.
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Tell us who you are and how you would like to help. We reply to every serious enquiry by email.
Pre-prototype collaboration: embedded engineering, industrial design, manufacturing, equipment, or introductions.
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