I build from what my own life needs.

A new plan

At 12, I wanted to be a doctor. A car accident had left me with a brachial plexus injury, one of many injuries that day, and only one working hand.

When my dad asked, half off-hand, how I would be a doctor like that, he didn’t mean anything by it. But I spent the next year working out a new plan.

Behind the camera

By 13 I was freelancing as a photographer. By 14, in 2011, I had registered my first business: Bec-Kay Photography.

As a teenager I shot and wrote for 4WD Action magazine, with at least three four-to-five-page feature spreads published, including “Rumble in the Rocks” in 2013.

Learning the whole business

I spent more than ten years as a working photographer: events, portraits, motorsport. Along the way I trained in business, marketing, graphic design, and hair and makeup, because every shoot needed more than a camera.

In my last few years behind the lens I built a boudoir studio that brought in more than $100,000 in a single year.

Living with epilepsy

My first seizure came in early 2019, the year my son Teddy was born. A second followed soon after, and by late 2019 I had an epilepsy diagnosis. Today it is refractory epilepsy, and I have lived with it for seven years.

My seizure diary started as a list of dates in my phone’s notes app, and I lost years of tracking that way.

Then a seizure was caught on video. Watching it back, I saw what my family saw, and I started digging into my own data. That is how I found multidien rhythms: longer seizure cycles that my own seizures turned out to follow.

Tummy to Tots

I opened a baby and toddler store in my hometown, from the bump to toddling around Tully. Within six months the numbers told me what I needed to know: locals were used to travelling or ordering online, and the shop was losing money. So I closed it.

It taught me to test demand before going all in, and to listen when the data says stop.

CommuniKids

When photography stopped feeling like enough, I went looking for work with more drive behind it. CommuniKids grew out of my own family’s communication needs and the gaps I saw in personalised learning.

I took it through CSIRO Innovate to Grow, the Tech Ready Women Investment Ready Program and, in 2025, JCU’s Impact10X Simulator.

CombineNation

CommuniKids grew into a bigger idea: an AI-driven platform bringing education, governance and family management into one system.

The pivot to Curalysis

Between August and October 2025, my own data showed seizure patterns that my care team could not help me act on. So I changed course and started building the tool I needed.

Curalysis began life as NeuroLoop, which is still the company name. Through the AI Pathfinder program I met Joseph Skewes, who lives with MND and became my co-founder.

Still heading for medicine

I never stopped wanting to be a doctor. I have started studying anatomy and physiology at La Trobe University, with a PhD on seizure rhythms as the goal.

I’m building Curalysis alongside the researchers and clinicians I once wanted to be.