Built in the middle of a first trimester.

Keniya started in a grocery aisle at 9pm. My wife was newly pregnant, craving something — anything — that would actually sit right, and every option meant reading another label, searching another ingredient, second-guessing another choice. The snack run had turned into a research project, and she was the one doing the research while feeling her worst.

So we built the thing we wished someone had handed us: a box of fourteen genuinely good snacks, chosen around the cravings, nausea and label questions we were dealing with that week — with a “Packed for You” card explaining how we chose them. She calls it the first gift that did the reading for her.

The name comes from kɛnɛya — “health” in Dioula, the language of my family’s roots in West Africa; Keniya is simply how we write it so everyone can say it. Health there is something you wish on people you love. That’s the spirit every box ships with.

I also live with type 1 diabetes, which means I’ve read nutrition labels my whole life. That obsession became PharmaGuide, the ingredient-intelligence platform I build by day — and it’s the same engine of care behind how Keniya curates: every item screened for its ingredient story, not just its marketing.

We’re starting small on purpose: a founding run of each box, packed by hand, with any allergies or foods you tell us to avoid steered around where we can. Six founding boxes open together: Pregnancy Comfort, Blood Sugar, Heart Wellness, Gestational Diabetes, GLP-1 Companion, and Postpartum & Nursing. This is a family company; it will grow at the speed of trust.

By day I build PharmaGuide— supplement and ingredient intelligence. Keniya is that care made edible and giftable.