Kaiako and team collective
Own
Contribute, collaborate, act and maintain professional ownership.
Tipu Edutech
The intuitive education operating system for early childhood education.
Education organisations are constantly making choices about where to focus, what to prioritise and how to make the greatest difference. Tipu helps you see what matters, understand what’s beneath the surface, and make confident, evidence-informed decisions about where to invest your people, time and resources.
Data can show you what happened. Tipu helps you understand why it matters and apply that evidence to your strategy.
Tipu helps services understand how people and practice connect to purpose, bringing together the information they already hold to guide clearer decisions and more meaningful action.
The Tipu ecosystem
One system. Four layers that intelligently interact.
Tipu starts with the people who make an organisation work. It supports day-to-day operations, turns information into strategic insight, strengthens governance and assurance, and helps leaders make informed decisions about growth.
- GrowDecide what comes next
- GovernAssure and direct
- LeadSee what matters
- OperateRun the service
What Tipu includes
Thirteen modules. One spine.
Each module can stand alone, work as part of a bundle or contribute to the full Tipu ecosystem. Interact connects the teacher and team collective across the operational modules.
Operate
Tipu HRPeople and employment
- Recruitment and safety checking, every checkpoint dated, evidenced and gated
- Employee records, onboarding and a platform induction that calibrates to the person
- Contracts, qualifications and teacher registration in one place
- Renewals, reminders and employment compliance before a certificate lapses
- A pay parity calculator built into the employment record
- Offboarding, with access closed, records retained and the handover complete
- Exit reviews, so the conversation happens while it can still teach you something
Tipu Tamariki and WhānauOne record and whānau voice
- Tamariki and whānau records on the foundational roster every module reads
- Bookings and roster information, migrated by CSV in a working session
- Medical, allergy and critical-care flags surfaced at the point of need
- Whānau voice and aspirations on the record
- The Whānau Pulse: about three minutes, anonymous if they choose, aggregated to governance
- Connections to your student management system via API
Tipu Professional PracticeThe teacher platform
- One professional record, induction to renewal, and the full first-ninety-days journey
- The Professional Growth Cycle and teacher portfolio
- Standards, goals, reflection and evidence in one place
- Mentoring and coaching, with buddy, mentor and appraiser as distinct roles
- A learning hub for professional learning alongside the record
- Leadership pathways and an AI coach
Tipu PeopleCapability and contribution
- Team capability in one view: strengths, aspirations and development needs across the whole staff
- Growth plans, coaching and professional learning tracked at team level, not only in each teacher's record
- Role clarity, capability gaps and where the next hire or upskill sits
- Performance and contribution conversations, dated and evidenced
- Succession planning and leadership capacity, so leadership is distributed across the team
- Professional learning impact reviewed against what actually changed in practice
Tipu CulturePeople and wellbeing
- The team culture pulse across the whole collective
- Wellbeing and psychosocial signals, read only in aggregate
- Cultural safety, inclusion and belonging on the record
- Positive-psychology self-reflection that belongs to the kaiako
- Aggregated organisational insights, suppressed below four responses
Tipu CurriculumTeaching and learning
- Curriculum planning and assessment, with two-speed capture for the floor as it runs
- Te Whāriki strands, outcomes and progress markers built into every story
- Kōwhiti Whakapae woven through the practice surface
- Service philosophy and pedagogy lenses on the programme
- Local curriculum and whānau aspirations in the record
- Learning documentation, internal evaluation and teaching evidence
Tipu SafeHealth, safety and property
- Daily health and safety operations: check-ins, drills, plans and medication
- Hazards, incidents, injuries and mechanism-of-harm patterns over time
- A staff injury and ACC record alongside the child-safety record
- Playground safety any kaiako can audit, with the measurement maths built in
- Property compliance: warrants, fire systems, maintenance and the loop closed with evidence
- Risk assessments and actions feeding the live risk register
Lead
Tipu Compliance and ReviewKaupapa and assurance
- Kaupapa policies and procedures, published by leadership and acknowledged as evidence
- The C.L.E.A.R self-audit against the 2026 licensing criteria
- A funding compliance audit, and ERO readiness on a developmental scale
- Kitchen food-safety tools built on the MPI National Programme 2
- A home-based audit covering all 70 criteria for services using domestic homes
- Evidence, corrective actions, signed declarations and review cycles throughout
Tipu RiskStrengths, patterns and risks
- One risk register for the whole organisation, live, not rebuilt for each meeting
- Every risk carries an owner, a next step and a review date
- A heat map that shows where to look first, and what can wait
- Patterns read across services, so the same issue in three places is treated as one problem
- Strengths on the record too, so you know what is working and what to protect
- The board reads the same register your leaders work from
Tipu LeadershipIntelligence and improvement
- The leadership dashboard: compliance, safety, workforce, operations and revenue in one view
- The mechanism of harm read across the whole organisation
- People and workforce intelligence, aggregated to what the role needs
- Culture, wellbeing, curriculum and practice trends over time
- Priorities and actions alongside the evidence for them
- Full data provenance: every number traces to a source you can open
Tipu RosterSmart staffing
- Smart roster creation that drafts compliant options and explains its choices
- Staffing, ratio and qualification requirements checked as the roster forms
- Room allocation and demand matching in blocks across the day
- Reliever management with an internal-first cover cascade, escalations logged
- Availability, shift offers and swaps, and nothing publishes itself
- The Tipu staffing app and notifications
Govern
Tipu GovernanceThe board portal
- The governance dashboard and the Tipu Insight board pack, reviewed by named humans before tabling
- Agendas, minutes and actions, with approved minutes stamped, timed and fingerprinted
- Risk, assurance and strategic oversight on a live shared register
- Governance records, interests and delegations as real records
- Tipu Capable Conversations: preparing the conversation nobody wants to have, and testing whether the evidence carries the decision
Grow
Tipu GOThe growth suite
- GeoDemand location intelligence: live Ministry supply against modelled demand, every number declaring itself live, modelled or illustrative
- Tipu Due Diligence: fourteen review areas and an evidence register, findings converting into deal conditions
- Financial forecasting and benchmarking, occupancy-led across five years
- Tipu Valuation: money moves only through a person, out-of-range choices flagged
- Acquisition, scenario and opportunity modelling on declared assumptions
- A secure deal data room
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Book a walkthroughWho Tipu is for
Every stakeholder has a seat, a place and a responsibility.
Tipu is designed around responsibility, not uniformity. Each person sees the information, perspective and permissions relevant to their role, while remaining connected to a shared organisational purpose. Insight is progressively aggregated, from individuals and teams through leadership and governance to strategic growth, enabling each level to contribute its distinct perspective to sustainable improvement.
Experience and voice
Tamariki and whānau
Appropriate learning, wellbeing, participation and partnership information.
Never sees: any child's record but their own, or the workforce records of the people who teach them.
Responsibility: keep children's outcomes, aspirations and lived experience central.
My practice
Kaiako
Their own professional record: goals, evidence, reflections and personal actions. It belongs to them and travels with them.
Never sees: a leader cannot open their reflections, and the system never reports how often they write.
Responsibility: notice, respond, reflect, contribute and improve.
Shared practice
Teacher and team collective
Team priorities, collaboration, collective actions and appropriately shared trends.
Never sees: a colleague's private reflections or personal record. What is shared is what each kaiako chose to share.
Responsibility: build continuity, shared practice and local improvement.
Service operations
Service leader and manager
Staffing, compliance, safety, practice, actions and appropriately aggregated people insights.
Never sees: the content of a reflection, or an individual's wellbeing result. The pattern reaches them; the private record does not.
Responsibility: support capability, own operations and escalate proportionately.
Organisation intelligence
Leadership and executive
Cross-service trends: workforce, risk, performance, capability and improvement priorities, every number with its source.
Never sees: individual wellbeing by name, in any layer. Aggregate only, suppressed below four responses.
Responsibility: prioritise, resource and strengthen organisational performance.
Assurance and strategy
Governance and board
Material risk, assurance, strategic outcomes and de-identified or aggregated indicators.
Never sees: named individuals in workforce matters. The board reads aggregates, by design.
Responsibility: protect purpose, assure, direct and hold accountability.
Investment and growth
Tipu GO authorised users
Approved market, financial, operational, due diligence and transaction intelligence.
Never sees: a number without provenance, or a valuation without a named human approver behind it.
Responsibility: allocate capital and make informed growth decisions on evidence.
Shared purpose
The collective
Contributions that add up, without flattening role, privacy, authority or accountability.
Never sees: one another's private records. Connection is not surveillance.
Responsibility: play each part well so the whole system can improve.
Insight. Lens. Strategy. Action.
Make leadership and governance pathways visible.
Tipu helps clarify what can be addressed within a team, what requires service-level support, what calls for leadership prioritisation, what should inform governance assurance and what warrants authorised investment in growth.
Service leader
Support
Enable local action, build capability and escalate proportionately.
Leadership
Prioritise
Interpret patterns, resource the response and strengthen the pipeline.
Governance
Assure
Test materiality, assurance, accountability and strategic direction.
Tipu GO
Invest
Assess readiness, value, opportunity and strategic growth decisions.
Ownership gaps
A challenge or opportunity is visible, but the responsible decision-owner or next action is unclear.
Leadership pipeline gaps
Capability, succession depth, coaching or delegated authority is missing between management and leadership.
Governance pipeline gaps
Board information reports activity but lacks interpretation, assurance, materiality or a clear strategic ask.
Strategy-to-practice gaps
Strategic priorities are not translated into service actions, capability, ownership and measures.
Evidence translation gaps
Signals are escalated without context, or material matters are not elevated with sufficient evidence.
Growth-readiness gaps
Expansion or acquisition decisions are disconnected from workforce, leadership, compliance and capacity.
Invest where it matters most
Direct the right resources to the right response.
When a need or an opportunity is identified, Tipu keeps the whole trail visible: the research, the strategy, the investment, the action and the impact it created. Resources are never allocated in isolation.
People
Who needs support, capacity, role clarity or additional capability?
Time
Where should attention, planning and leadership effort be focused?
Capability
What knowledge, skill, confidence or system needs strengthening?
Resources
What tools, systems or operational investment will shift the outcome?
Capital
Where will financial investment create the greatest strategic value and impact?
From signals to strategy. From investment to impact. From impact to stronger generations.
Tipu connects insight to impact, keeping visible what an organisation identified, why it mattered, the evidence that informed its response, the resources it committed and the difference made over time.
Privacy and assurance
Security from the first line of code.
This platform holds the records of tamariki and the people who teach them. Their protection was a founding condition of the build, settled before the first line of code. This is the whole posture: ownership, security, privacy and the business model, with nothing gilded.
Real, today
Not a concept deck. Tipu is live and walkable today, end to end, and the fastest way to judge it is to walk it.
Aotearoa-owned
New Zealand owned, and built to be hosted in Aotearoa: the record of how our youngest tamariki are raised belongs here.
Security from day one
Building to the SOC 2 standard from the first line of code, with Cognisys and Vanta alongside.
Your data stays yours
We build the surfaces and never sell the data. Full export, no lock-in. If we are not earning the subscription, you should be able to walk.
Building to SOC 2 from day one, alongside
Independent security firm leading our programme
Controls tested continuously, evidence stays liveSOC 2 Type 2Readiness in progress
The record protected to the standard boards recogniseCognisys and Vanta are independent third parties. Tipu's SOC 2 work is in progress as part of the build.
Connect the collective.
Operate with clarity.
Lead with evidence.
Govern with assurance.
Grow with confidence.
See how Tipu gives every stakeholder the right seat, lens, information and responsibility, within one operating system for the early years.
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