For nurseries, preschools and childminders
You already did the observing.
It just does the writing.
Turn a few scruffy notes into a properly written EYFS observation — with the framework links already done, each one showing the words that justify it.
Free for up to 5 children. No card, nothing to install.
Before and after
Three notes across a morning. One observation.
What you type
Oliver's been at the blocks about fifteen minutes um building a bridge, he counted to twenty while he was doing it, it fell over and he built it again and asked Maya to help
went back to the blocks on his own, made it taller, used the long planks this time
at tidy up showed Kwame how to balance the long block, said 'you have to put it flat'
What you get
Oliver spent approximately fifteen minutes constructing a bridge using the wooden blocks. As he built, he counted aloud to twenty. When the structure collapsed he rebuilt it, inviting another child to join him. He returned to the construction independently later in the morning, extending it upwards using the longer planks. At tidy-up time he demonstrated to a peer how to balance a long block, explaining, “you have to put it flat.”
“recite numbers past 5”
“he counted to twenty while he was doing it”
“play with one or more other children, extending and elaborating play ideas”
“asked Maya to help”
Notice what happened to Maya and Kwame. Another child’s actions belong in their own record, so they became “another child” and “a peer” on their own. You never have to remember.
The difference
It builds from the whole session, not one moment
Most tools take one note and expand it. But a proper progress observation isn’t one moment — it’s what you noticed across a morning, joined up. You already work that way: you catch fragments while they’re happening, then write them up properly later.
Select as many notes as you like and get one richer observation from all of them. The joining up is the slow part, and it’s the part you get back.
No migration
Keep Tapestry. Keep Famly. Keep paper.
This isn’t a system to move to. There’s nothing to migrate, no data to transfer, no training day, and nothing to undo if you stop.
You write the observation here, copy it, and paste it wherever your observations already live. That’s where we stop, on purpose.
You can try it on Monday and change nothing.
Accuracy
You can check it in seconds
Every link quotes your own words.
You see exactly which part of your note produced each framework link, so checking it takes a glance instead of a re-read.
The wording is the framework’s, not ours.
Every link uses Development Matters as published — the exact wording, never a paraphrase. It can only choose from the 300 statements that actually exist, so it can’t invent one.
Uncertain links look uncertain.
Strong matches are applied. Weaker ones sit greyed out as suggestions you have to accept before they count. We’d rather show you an honest maybe than a confident mistake.
“use longer sentences of 4 to 6 words”
“said 'you have to put it flat'”
“choose the right resources to carry out their own plan, for example, choosing a spade to enlarge a small hole they dug with a trowel”
“used the long planks this time”
For managers
£29 a month, or about half an hour of wages a week
£29 divided by the median early years hourly wage of £13.02 is 2.2 hours of wages a month — roughly 31 minutes a week across your whole team.
If everyone between them saves half an hour a week, it’s paid for itself. You can do that sum without believing anything we’ve told you.
And if your staff write observations in their own time?
Then the cost isn’t on your rota, it’s in your turnover. Paperwork load is a known reason experienced practitioners leave, and replacing one costs thousands in recruitment and induction.
It also raises your floor.
Your most experienced practitioner already writes excellent observations. Your newest apprentice writes thin ones. Every observation leaving the setting reads professionally, whoever was on shift.
The limits
It tells you when it can’t help
It won't write from nothing.
Type "Oliver played outside" and you don't get a polished paragraph — you get told there isn't enough to work with, and what to look for next time.
It stops on safeguarding.
If a note mentions injury, distress, a disclosure, or anything suggesting harm, it's saved but not turned into a learning observation. You're pointed to your setting's procedure and your designated lead. That is not a job for software.
It doesn't assess your children.
No scores, no ratings, no "behind for their age", no suggestion a child might need referring. That's a qualified professional's judgement and it stays that way.
It doesn't make things up.
No actions, no speech, no numbers, no durations that weren't in your note. It won't guess how a child felt, either — if you didn't write that he enjoyed it, it doesn't say he enjoyed it.
It never describes what a child couldn't do.
Only what they did.
Why AI helps
It does the writing. You stay in charge.
The observing is yours — the noticing, the knowing a child. AI is only good at the part you have least time for: turning what you saw into a properly written observation. So it does that, and hands every word back to you.
- It takes the write-up off your hands
- The slow part — joining your notes into professional prose with the framework links made — happens in seconds, so more of your day is spent with the children.
- You stay in control
- It drafts; you edit, and you sign it off in your own name. Your professional judgement is on every observation that leaves the setting.
- It can't make things up
- It can only choose from the 300 Development Matters statements that exist, each quoting the words from your own note. No invented links, no guessed feelings.
- The version you can approve
- It runs under a contract you hold, not a personal chatbot account — and nothing is sent until you press Create, with no child on your roll named to the AI.
Inspection
Will Ofsted mind?
The honest answer is a reassuring one: what inspectors actually want points the same way this does.
No software is “Ofsted approved” — that isn’t something inspectors hand out, to us or anyone. But what’s on the record is encouraging: there’s no required number of observations, and the framework says plainly that assessment shouldn’t mean excessive paperwork or pull staff away from being with children.
Less time writing up, more time on the floor, and better-evidenced observations at the end of it. That’s the direction the regulator is already pointing — and exactly where a tool like this helps you go.
The workflow
The whole thing takes about a minute and a half
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01
Jot it down
A few words against a child, typed or dictated with your phone's own keyboard. Seconds, while it's fresh.
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Pick the notes you want
One, or all of them from across the morning. You see them as you wrote them, and you can tidy or remove anything before it goes anywhere.
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Read it over
Edit anything, reject a suggested link, add a detail you remember. Then sign it off. Your name, nobody else's.
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Copy and paste
The full observation, or just the parent summary, or just the next steps. Into whatever you already use.
Roughly 60 to 90 seconds of your time, spread across a day, mostly while you still remember it clearly.
Start free
No card, no trial countdown, no call with anyone. Free for one practitioner and up to 5 children.
Manager, and not ready to commit? Don’t. Try it in one room for a month and see whether anyone asks to keep it.