About MyDD.ai
We built MyDD.ai because we couldn't find what we wanted for our own kids.
The major AI platforms are built for adults and optimized for engagement. They expose children to adult content, collect their data, and give parents zero visibility into what's happening. Most of them say kids under 13 can't use their products, and then do nothing to enforce it.
Parents shouldn't have to choose between letting their kids use AI and protecting them. So we built the alternative.
How MyDD started
The idea for MyDD came from a conversation on Jake's back porch with his mom. They were talking about a news story: a child had taken their own life after being encouraged to do so by a chatbot. Jake's mom turned to him and said, "You could build something to fix this."
That was the seed. It grew into MyDD.ai: an AI chatbot built for children from day one, with parental oversight and psychological safety as foundational design principles, not afterthoughts.
Who we are
Jake Rozran
Co-founder · LinkedIn
Father of two (ages 8 and 9). Adjunct Professor of Data Science at Villanova University. 9 years in fraud analytics and data science at Comcast and Socure. Owner of RLE Analytics, a data engineering and analytics consulting firm.
Jake has watched his kids light up using AI. His son draws adventure maps with it. His daughter laughs turning family photos into 100-year-old versions of themselves. He's also watched them go comatose on YouTube Kids. He doesn't believe it's all-or-nothing. Kids can use AI safely, with the right guardrails and the right level of parent visibility.
Dan Larson
Co-founder · LinkedIn
Father of three (two teenagers, one in elementary school). Data scientist who has been building with large language models since before they became mainstream chatbots. Builds production AI/ML systems at LabWare.
Dan has grown increasingly critical of social media and big tech companies that prioritize engagement and profit over building truly useful tools, often turning the user into the product. As a father of teens, he sees the pull of technology every day. Following thinkers like Jonathan Haidt, he believes the answer is open dialogue, not prohibition. MyDD is built on that conviction.
"My son has been using MyDD.ai to create maps, then tracing them by hand and adding his own twists. I can see everything from my parent dashboard."
Why this matters now
86%
of kids 9 to 17 use AI, and 24% use it every day. (Common Sense Media Census, June 2026)
Only 35%
of kids know AI can't tell true from false. (Common Sense Media Census, June 2026)
44%
of kids have never had a parent talk to them about using AI safely. (Common Sense Media Census, June 2026)
AI is here. Your kids are already using it. The question is whether they'll do it on a platform built for them, or one that wasn't.
What we stand for
Kids deserve access to AI.
It's an extraordinary tool for learning, creativity, and exploration. Blocking it entirely isn't realistic, and it isn't the right answer.
Parents deserve visibility.
You should be able to see what your child is asking AI and what AI is telling them back. Not through keyword alerts and toggles; through real conversation access.
Safety has to be the foundation, not a feature.
COPPA compliance, age-appropriate content filtering, and psychological safety are built into MyDD's core. They aren't parental controls bolted onto an adult product.
Children are not the product.
Conversations are never used to train AI models, never sold to advertisers, never shared with third parties. All data is encrypted end-to-end.
We built MyDD.ai because we're parents first.
If you feel the same way, see what we made: MyDD Learn, the game that teaches kids to question AI. MyDD Chat, the age-tuned chatbot. And the parent dashboard that keeps you in the loop. One subscription.