For Australians, 15 to 25
You're not bad with money.
Nobody ever showed you.
Crion is an AI money coach built for young Australians who earn their own money and manage it themselves. It reads what you actually spend, tells you what's really going on, and helps you build habits that hold.
Built on the Gold Coast. No parent account required.
Why we're building it
Control over your money is control over your life.
Most young people get handed a bank card and a job and are expected to work the rest out alone. School teaches you the mitochondria. It doesn't teach you why your pay disappears by Wednesday. Crion exists to close that gap while it still matters.
The habits you set now are the ones you keep
The money habits you build between 15 and 25 tend to follow you for decades. Fixing them at 30 is a renovation. Building them right at 17 is just how you live.
Tracking is not understanding
A pie chart tells you that you spent $180 on food. It doesn't tell you that it happens on the days you work late and skip the shop. Crion goes after the why, because that's the part you can change.
Young people don't need a supervisor
Every other app in this space is built for a parent to watch a child. If you earn your own money, you deserve a coach in your corner, not a chaperone looking over your shoulder.
Money stress is mostly not knowing
The anxiety usually isn't the number in the account. It's not knowing what the number means, or whether next week is going to be fine. Clarity does more for that feeling than restriction ever has.
The shift
Drag it. This is the part we're actually selling.
Being in control of your money isn't a switch you flip, it's a slide you move along. Pull the handle to see what each stage actually feels like week to week.
Stage 01 of 05
Winging it
Money comes in, money goes out, and the gap between those two things is a mystery you'd rather not open.
Drag to move through the stages
Stage 1
What it does
A coach that has actually read your week.
Four things, done properly, instead of forty features you'll never open. Pick one to see it.
Morning, Cam
Thursday, week of 4 August
Your coach noticed
You've spent $68 on food away from home since Monday, and all of it landed on shift days. Want to try one packed lunch this week and see what it saves?
This week
Where it goes
Last 6 weeks
Pattern found
Fridays cost you 2.4× a normal day. It's not one big purchase, it's four small ones between 4pm and 9pm.
86% of your $245 limit, with 9 days to go
Tracking well under. Fuel is down $23 on last month.
Two haven't been opened in 5 weeks
Goals
$1,863 saved across 2 goals
$537 to go. On pace for late October.
Behind pace. Needs $40 a week to land on time.
Your coach noticed
You finished last week $52 under. Send it to the car fund and you'll pull the finish date forward by two weeks.
Add transaction
Takes about four seconds
$18.50
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Getting started
Three minutes to set up. That's the whole ask.
STEP 01
Tell it what you earn
Pay, side jobs, cash, whatever it is. No bank login needed to start, and no parent has to sign anything.
STEP 02
Log what you spend
Four seconds a purchase on the keypad. Turning 18 or over? Connect your bank through Australia's Open Banking system and it fills itself in.
STEP 03
Get coached, weekly
Crion finds the pattern, names it in plain English, and gives you one thing to change. Then it checks whether it worked.
Where we stand
What Crion is not.
Not this
- A card your parents load and monitor
- A spreadsheet with a nicer font
- Charts that show you the past and stop there
- Guilt as a motivation strategy
- Stock tips, crypto calls, or anything that pretends to be financial advice
This
- Your account, your money, your call
- Plain language, no finance jargon to decode
- One change at a time, then a check on whether it stuck
- Credit for progress, not lectures about slip-ups
- Built by someone the same age as the people using it
Questions
The things people actually ask.
No. Crion works with what you type in, and that is a deliberate choice, not a limitation. Australia's Consumer Data Right rules mean bank connections are only available to people 18 and over, so building around manual entry keeps the app fully usable from 15. Once you are 18 you can connect your bank and let it fill itself in.
No. Crion is built for people who already have their own bank account and earn their own money. There is no parent dashboard, no allowance approvals, and nobody watching what you buy.
Crion is designed for 15 to 25 year olds, and that is who every part of it is written for. If you are older than that you are still welcome, nothing will stop you signing up, it just was not built with you in mind. Bank connection is the only part gated to 18 and over, because Australian law requires it.
No, and it never pretends to be. Crion helps you understand your own spending and build habits. It does not recommend investments, products, or anything that would count as personal financial advice under Australian law.
It stays yours. Your information is used to coach you and nothing else. It is not sold, and it is not handed to advertisers. You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app whenever you want.
Pricing is not locked in yet. Everyone who joins the waitlist now gets three months of premium free when Crion launches, plus a say in what the paid version should actually include.
Early access
Be one of the first to use it.
Crion is in build. Leave your email and you'll get an invite when the first version opens up, plus the occasional note on what's being built and why.
Join now and your first three months are free at launch
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