About Kylie
The expertise behind every interview
Kylie Ahern is an award-winning science publisher with 20+ years across Cosmos, Nature Publishing Group, and beyond, and a serial entrepreneur. Over a decade, she developed the methodology for turning complex research into narratives that move decision-makers. That methodology is KylieBot.
The Methodology
A decade of interviews. Hundreds of researchers. One methodology
Kylie built STEM Matters, her research engagement agency, to solve a problem she kept encountering: brilliant researchers who couldn't articulate the impact of their work.
Over a decade and 250+ projects across academia, government, corporate, and philanthropy, she developed a methodology for uncovering and telling research stories that persuade. Not generic communication frameworks. A specific, proven approach to interviewing researchers, structuring narratives, and persuading the decision-makers who control funding, recognition, and partnerships.
KylieBot exists to make that methodology scalable.
She didn't just inspire the product. She is the product.
10+
years developing the research storytelling methodology through STEM Matters
250+
projects with research organisations globally
100+
clients across academia, government, corporate, and philanthropy
Why It Matters
The difference between generic AI and KylieBot is Kylie
Generic AI is trained on the internet. KylieBot is trained on Kylie's methodology: the questions she asks, the frameworks she uses, the approaches she's developed across hundreds of interviews with researchers.
The interview
Every question KylieBot asks is built on Kylie's proven approach to drawing out the crucial 'why' behind research: the thing that moves funders and decision-makers.
The narrative structure
Kylie's frameworks for structuring research stories, developed across 250+ real projects, are encoded into how KylieBot shapes every document it produces.
The persuasion
KylieBot is trained to produce narratives that persuade the people who matter: funders, prize panels, government, and industry partners. Not just describe. Persuade.
Kylie Ahern
Co-founder & Chief Storytelling Officer
Award-winning science publisher, serial entrepreneur, and the methodology behind KylieBot. Kylie has spent her career making research matter: to funders, policymakers, industry, and the public.
Award-winning science publisher
20+ years across Cosmos, Nature Publishing Group, and beyond
Founder, STEM Matters
Research engagement agency, 10+ years, 100+ clients globally
Co-founder, KylieBot
Chief Storytelling Officer
250+ projects delivered
Across academia, government, corporate, and philanthropy
“Working with Kylie Ahern is nothing short of extraordinary, almost therapeutic in its reflective nature. I love that KylieBot has been trained around Kylie's approach to interviewing researchers. It's a brilliant way to globalise Kylie's work.”
Prof. Mark Hutchinson
Dean of Research, College of Health, Adelaide University