Brentwood Resident Helps Launch Easy Online Scheduling Website

Attention stay-at-home moms, working moms and working professional women: Is one of your biggest daily inconveniences not having enough time to spend for yourself and/or your family? There's now a local platform built to help get organized.

It's called Kuyam.com, an entirely online platform designed to schedule appointments, targeted at busy moms and dads to keep busy lives organized with just three clicks. It's designed by three Westside guys, including Kourosh Gohar, of Brentwood. It all began with one guy who just wanted to get his haircut.

"It’s interesting how many moms on the Westside are using an iPhone vs the android phones," Gohar told Patch recently. "Since its inception, we’ve pivoted a number of times in our direction. We’ve learned a lot by listening to our beta users. It’s an ongoing process where we listen and adjust accordingly everyday. We have built the platform with the user at it's core."

Kuyam.com is completely free for users, and includes everything from spa and hair services, to health and fitness classes and even tutoring and gymnastic lessons for the kids.

Gohar said they wanted to pick a name that’s unique and different, and their goal from day one was to create a community for families and moms to gather. One one day, Gohar said he was sitting at one of his kids’ weekly outdoor school events, called "kuyam" too, and the lightbulb went off.

For the initial launch, Gohar said they are focusing on the Westside and eventually, they will branch out. For now, they want to stay focused and concentrated.

"In addition, we’ve built the business model to entice vendors too," Gohar added. "We aren’t a deal site and believe the service provider should keep most of their hard earned dollars."

With that in mind, kuyam.com's fee structure will be a small 5 percent, plus $0.99 for each booked appointment, with pricing lowered with repeat clients. Gohar added they introduced Kuyam's mobile apps (both in IOS and Android) on April 29 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York.

For more information, read the story from Gohar, Tony Rhoton and Todd Zebert.

Also, in August 2012, they launched kuyam.org at the largest women blogger conference of the year BlogHer ‘12 in New York, designed as a resource to discover the non-profits in the community.

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