Built by someone who
needed it to exist.

Hello, I’m Kirsten

I’m Kirsten Tindel-Davidson. I live in Melbourne, I’ve spent about twenty years in enterprise technology, and The Lookahead is mine — I designed it, I built it, and I use it every week.

What I did before this

I started as an analyst programmer in 2003 and spent the next two decades building and running technology for large Australian companies — nine years at Telstra, then National Australia Bank, ANZ, Momentum Energy, Viva Energy, Salesforce and Commonwealth Bank. Mostly the same problem in different clothes: large systems, real customers, and the gap between what an organisation owns and what it actually manages to use.

I still work in technology full time. The Lookahead is a separate thing I do outside that.

Twenty years of that work is why I approached this the way I did: specifications and architecture before code, security review and hardening before a single beta user, documentation kept in the repository rather than scattered across drives. It is a small app, but I wanted it built like something that matters, because it holds people’s things.

The morning that started it

Standing in front of a wardrobe I knew was full, at 7:50am on a Tuesday, with a meeting at nine — and feeling stuck. Not because I didn’t own the right clothes. Because I hadn’t thought about it until that exact moment.

I bought something that afternoon. Something I didn’t need. Something that didn’t solve the problem, because the problem was never about the clothes.

That pattern — decision fatigue in the morning, compensatory shopping in the evening — is not a personal failing. It’s what happens when there’s no structure between owning a wardrobe and actually using it.

Why I built it this way

Most wardrobe problems are not wardrobe problems. They’re planning problems. So The Lookahead starts from what you already own, not from a shop. When there’s a genuine gap it will say so, thoughtfully — but it will never sell you a haul.

It also never invents anything about your clothes. If it doesn’t know a measurement, it asks you rather than guessing. And when you’re finished with a piece, it helps you move it on — sold, gifted, or passed to someone else — instead of leaving it in the back of the wardrobe.

Where it’s going

I’ve been using it myself for months, and what I want from it hasn’t changed: a full wardrobe and still nothing to wear is a solvable problem. A few quiet minutes once a week, and the rest of the week is already decided.