we got it right. Worth every one.
Smit and Taraj were sick of rubbish breakfasts.
So they fixed it.
Smit and Taraj had been best mates since uni. Between early starts, gym sessions,
and long workdays, breakfast had become an afterthought — a sad protein bar,
a black coffee, or nothing at all.
The shelves were full of options that were either packed with sugar and fillers,
or tasteless chalk you'd force down out of obligation. Nothing was both genuinely
good for you, quick to make, and actually good to eat.
So they stopped waiting for someone else to fix it.
How Oatmates happened.
The short versionThe breaking point.
Busy mornings. Two mates who trained hard, worked hard, and kept settling for breakfasts that were either tasteless fillers or a 25-minute production. High-protein meant bland. Easy meant junk. Nobody had cracked all three: tasty, nutritious, and ready in under a minute.
The problem47 batches in a kitchen.
Smit handled the food science. Taraj handled the taste-testing (a harder job than it sounds — batches 1 through 30 were rough). Different oat ratios. Protein sources. Flavour combinations. They weren't stopping until it was genuinely good.
The processBatch 47. That's the one.
20g of real protein. Clean ingredients you can actually read. Five flavours that genuinely taste good. And a prep time of exactly one minute — because mornings are already hard enough. Oatmates: built for real mornings, by people who live them too.
The product
Tasty. Protein-rich.
One minute.
Five flavours of overnight oats with 20g of real protein, clean ingredients you can read, and a prep time that fits any morning — no matter how rushed. The breakfast they couldn't find anywhere, so they built it themselves.
The mates behind it.
Est. 2024"I just wanted a breakfast I didn't have to force myself to eat. Turns out a lot of people felt the same way."
Food science background. Responsible for all 47 batches. Still tweaks the recipe to this day.
"Batch 1 was genuinely terrible. I'm glad we kept going."
Ate every single batch — good and bad. Now handles everything brand, community, and growth. Still eats Oatmates every morning.