Back-up care that actually shows up.
When a sitter cancels, school closes, or a parent needs help, your employees get vetted care for their kids, adults and pets — usually within hours. And you go live in under two weeks, not two quarters.
No minimum company size · Published pricing · Employees keep using it or you don’t renew
Why this is worth buying
Care falls through on a Tuesday, and the day is gone.
Back-up care converts an unplanned absence into a covered day. That's the whole value proposition — and it's why employers pay for it rather than employees.
Two of those figures come from research on parents of children under five, and we don’t stretch them to cover elder care — the equivalent studies don’t exist yet. We also don’t quote a single dollar cost per absence, because it depends on the role, the shift and how you cover it. Your finance team will have a better number than we would.
What's covered
One benefit. Every kind of care.
Most providers sell you child care and treat everything else as an add-on. Care doesn't work that way — the same employee has a toddler, a mother, and a dog.
Child care, in your home
A vetted caregiver at your door, usually within four hours. Infant-certified where you need it.
Child care, at a centre
A reserved seat at a licensed partner centre. Instant confirmation when a seat is open.
Adult & senior care
Companion care at their address, not just yours. Book for a parent two states away.
Pet care
Drop-in visits, walks and overnights when the flight gets cancelled.
Tutoring & camps
School-break coverage and academic help, in person or over video.
Reimbursed care
Use your own person — a grandparent, a neighbour — and get paid back within five days.
Not just child care
Your mother's discharge is Thursday. We cover that too.
Adult and senior care is the fastest-growing back-up care need, and the one enterprise providers handle worst — a centre network doesn't help when the person needs to be at home.
How it works
Three steps, and a human behind every one of them.
Your employee requests care
Care type, who needs it, when, and where. About two minutes on a phone, at 6am, one-handed. They see their copay before they submit.
We match a caregiver or reserve a seat
Vetted caregivers are offered the job in waves. Centre seats confirm instantly. If nobody accepts, a human coordinator picks it up — it never dead-ends.
They show up. You get the day back.
Geofenced clock-in, a care note at the end, and a line in your usage report tied to a real employee, a real entitlement, and a real invoice.
Trust & safety
You are letting a stranger into your home on your worst morning.
We treat that as the whole product. No caregiver reaches a family without clearing every gate below — and there is no override that skips them except a logged, named exception.
Background checks
Criminal and motor-vehicle checks through Checkr, re-run annually. Never expired, never skipped.
Verified credentials
CPR, first aid, CNA and infant certifications checked at source and auto-suspended on expiry.
Identity confirmed
Government ID plus liveness check before anyone is activated. The person at your door is the person on the profile.
Insured
General and professional liability on every booking, plus abuse and molestation coverage.
Licensed centre partners
Licence number, state, expiry and last inspection date shown on every centre. Expired licence, removed from search.
Real-time care notes
What happened, when, and by whom — visible to the family and auditable by us. Never visible to the employer.
Why us
Live in two weeks, not two quarters.
Traditional back-up care was built for 10,000-person companies. If you have 400 people you've been told you're too small, or quoted a six-figure minimum. You are not too small. Your people have exactly the same problem.
| Backstop | Traditional providers | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to go live | Under two weeks | One to two quarters |
| Minimum company size | None | Typically 1,000+ employees |
| Pricing | Published, per employee per month | Quoted by RFP |
| Contract length | Annual, 90-day pilot available | Multi-year |
| Adult & senior care | First-class, in-home | Centre-led, thin coverage |
| Reimbursed care | Available on every booking | Fallback when they can't fill |
“Traditional providers” describes the incumbent enterprise category. We’re not going to name a competitor and invite a comparison on centre count — they’d win that one. Speed and mid-market fit are the frames where we’re genuinely better.
Who's using it
We're early, and we'd rather say so.
A note from the founders
We don’t have a wall of logos yet. We could licence some stock photography and imply otherwise, but you’d find out on the reference call. What we have is a working product, a vetted caregiver network in our launch market, and room for a handful more design partners who want to shape this. If that’s interesting, the demo is a real conversation, not a pitch.
“The elder care piece is what got us. Half my escalations last year were people trying to cover a parent, and our old provider had nothing for them.”
“We were quoted a six-figure minimum by the incumbent for 380 people. Published pricing meant I could take this to finance in an afternoon.”
What it's worth
Put your own numbers in.
Every assumption below is visible and editable, because a calculator that hides its inputs is a sales toy.
1,400 employees
Using industry-average assumptions. Change any of them on the full calculator.
Estimated annual value of days covered
$111K
- Days of work saved
- 221
- Return per $1 spent
- $1.89
Get started
Twenty minutes. We'll show you the product and give you a price.
No deck, no discovery call before the demo. Tell us your headcount and your care mix and we'll run your actual scenario on the call.
- See the family booking flow end to end
- See what your HR team actually sees
- Get the pricing, in writing, same day
- Start with a 90-day pilot if you want one
Not an employer?
Caregivers looking for work, centres with empty seats, and employees whose company already offers this each have their own way in.
Running a licensed centre with open seats? Join the partner network.