Intellectual Property Disclosures

Last updated: April 2026

Kairo is built on a combination of original work by Scholaris Private Limited and public research frameworks developed by others. This page acknowledges our intellectual debts and the software we use.

Research frameworks

Holland's RIASEC framework

Originally developed by John L. Holland starting in 1959. Kairo's vocational interest dimension (D1) uses the six-letter structure from Holland's Self-Directed Search. We use the framework for commercial educational assessment in accordance with standard academic practice.

Big Five personality framework

Developed across multiple decades by researchers including Lewis Goldberg, Paul Costa, and Robert McCrae. Kairo's personality dimension (D3) uses the five-factor model. Our specific item bank is proprietary to Scholaris.

Career Construction Theory

Developed by Mark Savickas. Kairo's Career Adaptability dimension (D5) draws on the Career Adaptabilities Scale framework (concern, control, curiosity, confidence).

Proactive Personality

Bateman and Crant (1993). Kairo's Proactive Personality measure (part of D7) is adapted from their proactive personality scale.

Brief Calling Scale

Dik and Duffy (2009). Kairo's Brief Calling Scale measurement (part of D7) is adapted from their work on calling and vocation.

Paradata in assessment

The methodology of analysing response patterns (timing, changes, hesitation) as psychometric data draws on research in survey methodology and computer-adaptive testing.

Situational Judgment Tests

The SJT format for Dimension 8 follows established methodology in work psychology. Our specific scenarios are original to Kairo, calibrated for Indian student contexts.

Software and services

Kairo is built using the following open-source and commercial components:

Frontend

• React (MIT License)
• React Router (MIT License)
• DOMPurify (MPL-2.0 / Apache-2.0)
• i18next (MIT License)
• jsPDF (MIT License)
• html2pdf.js (MIT License)
• idb (ISC License)
• zod (MIT License)

Fonts

• Fraunces (Open Font License) — display typography
• Inter (Open Font License) — body text
• IBM Plex Mono (Open Font License) — monospace
• Noto Sans Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali (Open Font License) — Indian script rendering

Backend and infrastructure

• Cloudflare Workers (commercial service)
• Cloudflare KV (commercial service)
• Supabase (open-source PostgreSQL, commercial hosting)
• Anthropic Claude (commercial API) — powers report generation and chatbot
• Resend (commercial service) — email delivery
• Razorpay (commercial service) — payment processing
• MSG91 (commercial service) — planned SMS delivery, not yet active

Testing and build

• Vite (MIT License)
• Vitest (MIT License)
• ESLint (MIT License)

Kairo's original work

The following are original to Scholaris Private Limited:

• The Kairo brand, name, and trademark
• The 16-archetype structure and names
• The combination of 8 dimensions into a unified assessment
• The Course Fit scoring methodology
• The Stream Fit variant for younger students (Class 9–10)
• The Profile Clarity compound index
• The 5 Personal Style scales specific to Kairo
• The Under Pressure derailer patterns specific to Kairo
• The Kairos Timing month-by-month framework
• The 348-entry Indian-context career catalogue
• The archetype illustrations (produced by Scholaris using AI tools with artistic direction by Scholaris)
• The Parent PDF concept and counsellor-voice tone framework
• All UI designs, copy, and user flows

Report and PDF usage rights

Your personalised Kairo report and Parent PDF are for your personal use. You may:

• Download them
• Print them
• Share them with parents, mentors, counsellors, or teachers
• Discuss them with anyone you wish

You may not:

• Resell your report or reports of others
• Republish Kairo content commercially
• Use Kairo reports to train competing assessment products
• Reverse-engineer the scoring methodology

Attribution

When you share Kairo content (for example, a social card), the Kairo watermark and kairo.scholaris.co.in URL must remain visible.

Questions

If you have a question about intellectual property, licensing, or academic use, contact support@scholaris.co.in.

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