ABOUT KARIOS

Every expert has a lesson inside them that could change someone’s life.

We’re here to end the tollbooth between that lesson and the world. No more cobbled-together software. No more generic templates. Just you, your message, and a platform that was built to elevate it.

WHO’S BUILDING THIS

Two people. One obsession.

Reiley Dunlop

CO-FOUNDER · EDUCATOR · ROCKET SCIENTIST

Reiley studied aerospace engineering and physics at the University of Sydney. Partway through his degree he realised something was wrong: the people around him who were thriving weren’t the smartest. They were the ones who had figured out how to learn anything — the “smart skills” school never taught.

So he built Delta You to teach those skills. Four years later, 61,247 students across 67 countries have gone through his programmes. The top 1% of Australian students study the Smart Student Method. Teachers ask him to speak at their schools. Universities quote him.

But there was a problem. Delta You ran on Kajabi. And Kajabi was hell to run a world-class education business on. Funnels didn’t convert. Student experience was generic. He couldn’t personalise a learning path even though he literally wrote the book on how learning paths should work.

So he started building Karios. Rocket scientists are good at one thing: given an impossible problem, figure out the first-principles solution. Karios is that solution — for every expert who wants to build a business that delivers what Delta You has delivered.

61,247 STUDENTS TAUGHT67 COUNTRIESROCKET SCIENTIST

Cam Merchant

CO-FOUNDER · WORKSHOP LEAD · HUMAN-FIRST

Cam is the antidote to the AI era everyone’s scared of. While every tech company is racing to replace humans with bots, Cam is the one refusing.

He spent a decade running high-touch workshops and transformation programmes for entrepreneurs before joining Karios. His thesis is simple and stubborn: real relationships, real results, zero hype. If a customer sends an email, a human replies. If they book a call, a human is on it. If they show up to a workshop, Cam is actually there.

The industry’s betting that AI will replace connection. Cam is betting the opposite — that in an AI-flooded world, the companies that still put real humans in front of real humans are the ones that win. Karios is the proof of that bet.

10+ YEARS LIVE WORKSHOPSHUMAN-FIRST LEADREFUSES TO BE A BOT

WHY WE EXIST

The creator economy is broken. We’re here to fix it.

Every expert we’ve ever met has the same story. They have a skill, a perspective, a lesson — something worth building a business around. They try. They hit software that wasn’t built for them. Their brand looks like everyone else’s. Their funnel converts at 2% when it should convert at 8%. Their students churn because the experience is generic.

They give up, or they stay small.

Meanwhile, the platforms charging them $200 a month are worth billions. They haven’t meaningfully shipped new features in five years. They’ve decided “good enough” is good enough.

It isn’t.

If you’re an expert — a coach, a creator, a consultant, an educator — you shouldn’t have to choose between running a business and doing the work you were built for. You shouldn’t need a technical co-founder or a $20,000 agency. You shouldn’t have to settle for a brand that looks like twelve other businesses on the same template.

Karios is what happens when you rebuild the creator platform from scratch with AI native, coaching first, and an obsession with student transformation at scale.

When we win, creators win. When creators win, their students win. When students win, the world gets measurably better — because the real education economy, the one that teaches people useful things, finally has the platform it deserves.

That’s what we’re building. That’s why it matters.

THE PRINCIPLES

What we believe. What we act on.

Creators first, always.

Every decision runs through one filter: does this make the creator more successful? If a feature makes us more money but them less successful, we don’t ship it. If it makes them more successful and us more money, we ship it yesterday.

Humans over bots.

The industry is going all-AI. We’re going AI-powered, human-first. Every paying customer has a real person they can reach. That’s our structural advantage and we protect it with our lives.

Ship at world-class or don’t ship.

Kajabi sells mediocre because they can get away with it. We can’t. Every asset — every page, every email, every slide, every course — is built at the top 1% standard. No exceptions, no “we’ll fix it later,” no “it’s just a landing page.”

Practice what we preach.

We run Karios on Karios. Delta You runs on Karios. Every workshop we deliver is a demonstration of what our customers can do. If we wouldn’t use it, we don’t ship it.

BACKED BY

Bootstrapped. By design.

We’d rather answer to creators than VCs. When that changes, we’ll tell you exactly why.

WANT TO TALK?

Real humans. Real replies.

Whether you’re a creator wanting to migrate, an investor wanting to partner, or a journalist wanting to chat — we actually reply. Usually within 24 hours. Sometimes faster.