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Built for the people
in the room with young people

Tend gives youth mentors AI-powered session prep, a clear view of each young person's journey, and impact reports that write themselves — so you can focus on what only you can do.

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No pitch · Just a conversation · Built in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

9:41 ●●●
Good morning, Jordan
3 sessions today · Riverside Youth Trust
3
sessions today
Marcus · 10:00
Aaliyah · 13:00
Jordan · 15:30
✦ AI Session Prep
Ready for Marcus at 10:00?
"Last session Marcus opened up about school pressure. Today might be a good moment to explore what success means to him on his own terms."
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Marcus
Session 5 · Rebuild
Rebuild
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Aaliyah
Session 3 · Reframe
Reframe
The problem

Mentors are doing extraordinary work with ordinary tools

The tools built for this sector were designed for funders, not for the people actually in the room.

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Sessions without preparation
Mentors walk into sessions relying on memory alone — no summary of what was said last time, no prompt for what to explore today.
02
Progress lost in spreadsheets
A young person's journey — the breakthroughs, the setbacks, the patterns — scattered across notes, emails, and memory.
03
Impact reports written at midnight
Hours spent compiling data for funders that could have been spent with young people. The work gets done but the cost is real.
04
Safeguarding managed in email threads
Concerns raised informally, decisions poorly documented, audit trails impossible to reconstruct when they matter most.
What Tend does

Everything the mentor needs.
Nothing they don't.

Built around what actually happens in a session — not what a funder needs to see in a report.

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AI Session Prep
Before every session, Tend surfaces what matters — what was said last time, what to explore, what to hold gently. Show up ready.
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Journey Tracking
Five-stage pathway — Reset, Reframe, Rebuild, Release, Rise. See exactly where each young person is and how far they've come.
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Session Logging
Log how a young person showed up, what happened in the room, and update their progress in under two minutes. Write naturally — Tend structures it.
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Impact Reports
One click generates a funder-ready quarterly report. Cohort data, pathway movement, session counts — written by AI from your own session logs.
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Safeguarding
Raise a concern in seconds. Automatic notifications to your designated safeguarding lead. Full audit trail. GDPR compliant.
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Tend Intelligence
Notices when a young person hasn't been seen for a while. Flags patterns across your caseload before they become problems.
The five-stage framework

A journey worth tracking

Every young person moves through five stages. Tend makes that movement visible — to you, to your team, and to your funders.

1
Reset
Creating safety and establishing the foundation for trust
2
Reframe
Shifting perspective — from stuck to possibility
3
Rebuild
Taking ownership and building new patterns
4
Release
Letting go of what held them back
5
Rise
Moving forward with agency and direction
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The best mentors don't need reminding why this work matters. They need tools that get out of the way and let them do it.

Tend — built by practitioners, for practitioners
Who it's for

Made for the people in the room

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Youth organisations
Charities and CICs delivering mentoring programmes to young people aged 11–25
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Independent mentors
Freelance mentors and coaches who want professional tools without enterprise pricing
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Schools & PRUs
Pastoral leads and inclusion teams running structured support programmes
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Commissioned services
Local authority and NHS-commissioned early intervention services needing robust reporting
Early access

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No pitch · UK-based · GDPR compliant · Built by people who've been in the room