HillcrownAI

The Kids-AI-Infrastructurefor Europe.

HillcrownAI builds the safe AI infrastructure for the world of children: KinderGPT as the central companion for 4–14-year-olds, complemented by studio tools for publishers, media, brands and public institutions. So every child can actively shape the AI revolution — regardless of background, location or school type.

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Reach200,000+

downloads of the KinderGPT platform

Trust60,000+

active users in live operation

Breadth8

ecosystems · one world for children

Scalability2–4 weeks

time-to-live with standard onboarding by HillcrownAI Studios

Our vision

So every child can actively shape the AI revolution.

Five sentences that carry everything we do. They hold in sales, partner conversations, pitches — and on this page.

01 · Purpose

We believe every child in Europe deserves the chance to actively shape the AI revolution — regardless of background, where they live or which school they attend.

02 · Community

That's why children sit at the centre of our community, and we look for partners who carry this mission with us.

03 · Goal

KinderGPT will become the safe AI infrastructure for the children and youth market in Europe.

04 · Mission

With our technology we enable the entire children's world — media, brands, education, sport, entertainment, gaming and platforms — to remain part of our children's community and to keep evolving on our platform alongside the growing legal, pedagogical and technological requirements.

05 · Standard

Trust, compliance and scalability form the foundation — and set the new standard against which children-oriented AI in Europe will be measured.

Three pillars

Legal, pedagogical and technological requirements — the foundation we keep evolving together with our partners.

Pillar 01

Legal

GDPR, AI Act, youth media protection, COPPA equivalents. Legal certainty from minute one — not as a retrofit, but as an architectural principle.

Pillar 02

Pedagogical

Age-appropriate, curated, moderated before the answer. Active disagreement instead of yes-man syndrome. Pedagogical advisory board reviews every quarter.

Pillar 03

Technological

DACH hosting, in-house CMS, content ingestion pipeline, multiguard safety layer, API. No US hyperscaler, no third-country transfer.

Videos

Two minutes. Then you'll know how KinderGPT works.

One 60-second video per customer cluster. A two-minute overview at the top for the impatient.

Coming soon

For clubs & brands

60 sec

Ecosystems

Eight ecosystems. One world for children.

Pick your entry point. We address every ecosystem in its own language — on shared infrastructure.

Products

Safe AI products from one source

Two products. One shared infrastructure. Live today, monetisable today.

Why now

The window is closing

01

Regulation wave

EU AI Act from 02 Aug 2026 — those who aren't sovereign will fall through the cracks.

02

Competitive window

Make-or-buy decision is now. US providers are not certified for children.

03

Children's expectation

Digital natives take AI for granted. Whoever is missing loses relevance.

Safety

We are the antithesis to Character.AI and Replika.

The EU initiative klicksafe identified eight risks of AI chatbots and AI companions for children in its parent brochure. KinderGPT was built against every single one.

Our principle

KinderGPT does not build parasocial relationships, does not simulate empathy in crises, stores nothing personal across sessions, disagrees with children when pedagogically appropriate, and sends them back to real people — not into the next session.

klicksafe · Risk 1

Emotional dependency & parasocial bonding

Our answer

No memory across sessions, time limits, active redirection to real people.

klicksafe · Risk 2

Simulated empathy in crisis situations

Our answer

Crisis triggers fire immediately — KinderGPT points to trusted people and helplines.

klicksafe · Risk 3

Distortion of reality perception

Our answer

KinderGPT is labelled as a tool, not a friend. No persona simulating real relationships.

klicksafe · Risk 4

Inappropriate or incorrect content

Our answer

Moderation before the answer, curated knowledge base, age-graded content filters per cluster.

Infrastructure

Own servers. Own models. Own rules.

We run our entire AI platform on our own infrastructure in Germany — no OpenAI, no Anthropic, no third-country transfer. The technical foundation behind every safety promise we make.

01

Own servers in Germany

No third-country transfer, no US hyperscaler. Hosting in German data centres under German data protection law.

02

Open-source models

Based on open-weight models, not on OpenAI or Anthropic APIs. No dependency on US vendors, no re-pricing surprises.

03

In-house moderation

Self-developed safety layer, placed before every response. No external moderation provider — full control over policies and triggers.

04

Multiguard

Multi-stage safeguarding: input check, retrieval policy, output filter, realtime audit. Each guard acts independently — no single point of failure.

05

In-house CMS & content pipeline

Partner content, publisher material, museum objects, destination data — everything runs through our own ingestion pipeline with QA and safety review.

Research

Research-driven. Auditable. Verifiable.

We publish what we do. A research foundation most consumer-AI vendors don't have.

Research

ProFiZ consortium: protective-by-default AI for children

HillcrownAI is a consortium partner in the ProFiZ project on protective-by-default AI for children. Methodology paper on the safety architecture is in preparation — preprint requests via contact.

Rheinische Hochschule Köln

Age-appropriate language models, pedagogical evaluation.

University of Graz

Developmental-psychology evaluation for ages 4–14.

Services

We build with you — or you build with us

Certified Partner Program

For advertising & marketing agencies

A new category. New business for your clients.

Become a certified HillcrownAI partner and populate our platform for your clients — brands, publishers, clubs, DMOs. We don't take anything away from you; we open up a category you can't sell today: safe, GDPR- and AI-Act-compliant children's AI. Production, concept, rollout stay with you. Platform, safety, hosting with us.

See programme overview

01 · New category

Sell children's AI without building it

Your clients ask for AI experiences. You deliver them — on our certified platform, in your agency's handwriting.

02 · Certification

HillcrownAI Certified in 2 days

Content ingestion, safety guidelines, branding customisation. Once complete you carry the logo — as proof to your clients.

03 · Margin logic

Agency margin on setup & content

You negotiate setup fee and content ingestion directly with your client. HillcrownAI only invoices platform and usage.

04 · Mutual leads

We refer certified partners onwards

Inquiries from your ecosystem or region we forward to certified partners — incl. co-pitch and deal registration.

Studios is not a separate company. It is our services arm inside HillcrownAI — an enabler for the platform, not a replacement. The Certified Partner Program extends it outwards: agencies that scale with us.

Pricing

Four building blocks — one blueprint

Every HillcrownAI engagement combines Setup, SaaS license, Usage and an optional Revenue Share. Transparent components, no black-box list price.

01

Setup

One-off fee for onboarding, integration, content workflows and editorial guardrails. Fixed price, fixed scope.

02

SaaS

Monthly licence for the HillcrownAI platform — KinderGPT, Sesame Studio, CMS, parent dashboard, audit log.

03

Usage

Variable component for AI workloads (tokens, generations, voice minutes) — transparent meter, monthly invoice.

04

Revenue share

Optional revenue share for partners who resell HillcrownAI under the Certified Partner Program.

Research consortia

  • ProFiZ consortium
  • Pilot schools DACH

Industry alliances & sparring circle

  • HÄRTING Rechtsanwälte
  • Spielwarenmesse Nürnberg

Co-builders

Become a co-builder of the Kids-AI-Infrastructure

Whether as a customer, partner or investor — talk to us about your ecosystem entry.

Discover Studios