Small habits. A lasting legacy.

Hi, we’re Oliver and Piyumali, parents of two boys and the people behind Power Pals.

We both come from IT and management consulting, where the job was making messy, complicated things simple. Then we had kids, and our house filled up with remotes, controllers, torches and toys that all ran on AA batteries.

Soon we were buying packs we didn’t need, testing batteries one by one to find which still had power, and wondering where to put the dead ones. For two people who spend their working lives fixing systems, it was a bit embarrassing that the battery drawer beat us.

So we started asking a simple question: what if the family could charge, check and store batteries in one place, and the boys could help?

That question became Power Pals. It’s a kit built around a simple habit: check before you replace, recharge instead of throwing away, and put everything back where it belongs. Our boys are the reason it’s playful and the reason it has to be safe. The equipment is being tested and will be labelled to meet applicable Australian and New Zealand requirements before it ships.

We’re based in Wellington, New Zealand, and we’re launching in New Zealand and Australia in late November 2026.