We are KOLO.
KOLO is a startup that designs and runs third places: work clubs, courtyards and reading rooms for people whose week no longer fits in an office or a kitchen.
Every space, one circle.
Walk the circle +We open small, stay local, and measure one thing: how many people come back on an ordinary Tuesday.
Every KOLO is walkable from home: a room with good light, strong coffee and enough regulars that the barista knows your order.
Every neighbourhood already has a centre of gravity. We do not invent it, we find it, then build the room it deserves.
A kolo is a circle dance: everyone joins hands, nobody leads from outside the ring.
The point a neighbourhood turns around. The corner everyone crosses the street for.
The idea we look for in every project: the one reason a place becomes a habit.
HQ, and the first Work Club
Six spaces north of the river
Three spaces within one tram ride
Our densest neighbourhood yet
Hosts, designers, baristas and builders. Half the team started as members who never really left.
Auckland