Komodo Wellbeing was created by Jack Wood and Chris Bacon, who met while studying at university. They are passionate about improving the global standard of student wellbeing and pastoral care, and have identified that schools have become a focus for early intervention. "Our ultimate aim is to ensure that school is a place where every student flourishes," says Chris Bacon.
Pastoral care is a huge undertaking for staff & very few schools can facilitate consistent personal check-ins with every student. Komodo Wellbeing's intelligent check-in system & data-driven insights ensure that staff make positive & effective interventions that are backed by real-time data. Schools can collect 3 types of data with Komodo: regular or pulse surveys, benchmarking for singular data points, & standardized psychometrics for clinical or categorical data. With the insights provided by Komodo, schools can look to implement individual & school-wide interventions & establish proactive measures to address wellbeing trends long-term. Komodo is more than just a platform or software. We aim to add value to our schools in everything we do, whether it be the code we write, the customer support we provide or the psychology we embed within our approach, it all goes toward impacting the lives of students & staff.
Originally launched in New Zealand & Australia, Komodo is now utilized in schools across 26 countries worldwide. Over the past year, we have distributed more than 1 million wellbeing surveys. We collaborate with some of the world's top public & private, day & boarding schools, catering to International Baccalaureate, Indian, British, New Zealand, Australian & American curriculum schools.
Our 2022 annual product impact report recorded 400 student-led check-ins within a year. In the last 12 months over 3,800 students have used this feature. This surge indicates Komodo's expanding presence in schools globally. We are thrilled to see students actively managing their wellbeing & using Komodo to enhance their wellness practices.
In the 2024/2025 school year, we have added many exciting new features to the Komodo platform, including a staff wellbeing add-on, multi-language support, a compliments feature, improved data analysis systems & more psychologist-created resources. The new staff wellbeing add-on is designed to take all the features of our student wellbeing tools that schools love, from custom-built surveys to analytics & make them accessible to schools looking to gain insight into their teams' wellbeing & employee satisfaction. As we continue to grow into new countries & types of schools, we wanted to make sure the user experience reflected our global audience & various personas, so Komodo now supports 17 different languages along with more preferences & personalisation options. Our Psychology team has written several pieces on the research & benefits behind fostering a growth mindset & culture of gratitude at a young age, so we added a new compliments feature which allows students to send a 'compliments badge' to a specific staff member, strengthening student-teacher relationships & promoting gratitude! At Komodo, we believe in continuous improvement, so our product & psychology team have been working hard on improving our questions library & our platform's data analysis functions so we can continue to support schools in early detection, intervention & prevention of wellbeing issues. As always, our psychology team continues to work on new content to support social emotional learning!
Interested in trying Komodo? We have 3 options to get you started!
1️⃣ Komodo Trial: FREE for 30 days! Experience the impact firsthand.
2️⃣ Komodo Pilot: Not ready to go school-wide? Run a pilot programme with the years/grade levels of your choosing.
3️⃣ Komodo School: Unlock a world of possibilities with school-wide access, including wellbeing surveys, student analytics, chat support, & more!
