Our Story
When we started our business, carrying, sorting, and tracking every receipt began to feel like a full-time job of its own. We wanted to make the entire process as easy as taking a photo. That simple frustration became PKTD.
We are still at the beginning of where that idea can go.
The first promise
We didn't begin with a list of features. We began with a promise: capture the receipt quickly, keep the sensitive parts under the user's control, and turn the information into something genuinely useful.
“We thought saving a receipt should be as easy as taking a photo.”
The people behind PKTD
Our team brings together financial experience, product thinking, engineering, design, art, and animation. Each perspective helps keep PKTD ambitious, useful, and grounded in the realities of running a small business.
Finance & Social
Kristina manages much of our team’s financial work, keeping PKTD grounded in the realities small businesses face. Kristina also works on PKTD’s social platforms and how we share the product with the people it was made to help.
Product & Engineering
Dylan connects our product vision with engineering, privacy architecture, and AI development. Dylan also created the three development boards that map the questions, decisions, and flows behind PKTD.
Design & Experience
Nik helped shape PKTD’s design, front-end interface, and the primary functions integrated into the product. Nik’s work helps turn complex receipt tasks into an experience that feels clear and approachable.
Art & Animation
Lillian develops character art, animation, and visual personality as part of our core team. Lillian created the early Ledger concept shown later in this story, opening a more expressive direction for PKTD.
The build journal
Dylan’s three development boards explore how capturing, organizing, and using receipt information could become one understandable experience. They are product concepts rather than a dated chronology: a record of deliberate thinking, not a claim that every idea appeared at once.
View full concept How can a receipt become useful information without taking control away from the person who owns it? This concept explores camera, photo, and PDF inputs; image cleanup; on-device OCR; card-data redaction; optional AI; and human review before information moves forward.
Concept and prototype board by Dylan
View full concept How can receipt records stay useful, editable, and under the user’s control? This concept explores receipt-first organization, editable fields, Canadian tax components, local storage, optional user-controlled sync, duplicate handling, mileage, warranties, and tags.
Concept and prototype board by Dylan
View full concept How can every part of the experience feel like one clear journey? This concept brings scan, review, receipt details, receipt history, Ledger, mileage, and exports into one connected flow.
Concept and prototype board by Dylan
From concept to current product
The boards helped us explore the experience. Today, three of those principles remain visible throughout PKTD.
Capture a receipt from the camera, photo library, or a PDF, then review its details before saving.
Receipt-image processing happens on device, and receipt images are stored locally by default. If you enable iCloud sync, receipt and ledger data may sync through your private Apple iCloud account. When you choose to export or share, selected data can leave the device. Optional AI parsing sends extracted receipt text—not receipt images—under PKTD’s current privacy policy and consent controls.
PKTD supports GST/HST and provincial-tax fields, Canadian mileage records, and exports designed to make records easier to share with an accountant.
Future concept
We are exploring a more expressive visual identity for Ledger.
PKTD began with a receipt and a simple promise. We are continuing to build from there.
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