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    Tipu · the new shoot · to grow

    One calm record of your whole service, from the first police vet to the board pack.

    A safety check captured once surfaces everywhere it matters. A reflection travels with the kaiako who wrote it. Nothing is re-entered, nothing is lost, and the connections do the work.

    Built in Aotearoa New Zealand, from years of listening across the ECE sector.

    You know the week. ERO confirms a date and the folders come out. The same police vet lives in three places. A great kaiako leaves, and their record leaves in a box. None of it is one big failure. Together, it is the whole job.

    The idea underneath

    A living network under the floor

    Beneath a healthy ngahere, a quiet network connects every root to every other. Tipu is that network for your service.

    A safety check captured in HR surfaces in the roster. An incident logged on the floor reaches governance as a pattern, not a surprise. A kaiako's growth travels with them, service to service, year to year.

    And the connection has a firewall.A kaiako's private reflections never reach the board table. Their record moves between services only with their say-so. Governance sees patterns, never people.

    The framework

    Engage · Enable · Empower · Evolve™

    One growth pattern, threaded through every module: roots, trunk, canopy, light. Run your cursor over each phase.

    1

    Engage

    The foundation. People and whānau enter well.

    2

    Enable

    The systems that make good practice easy.

    3

    Empower

    Voice and authority where the work happens.

    4

    Evolve

    The service learning about itself, continuously.

    The ecosystem

    Ten connected modules, one clearer picture

    Each module stands on its own. Connected, they become an organism. The ten modules ship as twenty working layers in the prototype you can walk today.

    Tipu HRTipu InductionTipu ComplianceTipu SafeTipu AuditsTipu CurriculumTipu PeopleTipu PracticeTipu CultureTipu Compass
    Tipu Compass · where the pieces come together. Every signal from the nine modules below rolls up into one executive picture for management, leadership and governance.

    If you govern

    Patterns and assurance across the whole organisation. Never an individual's private record.

    If you manage

    One calm picture of the week: who is in ratio, what is expiring, what needs a decision.

    If you teach

    Your record and your voice, built around you, travelling with you. Shared only with your say-so.

    Written against the actual rulebook, not adapted to it: the 2026 licensing criteria (C · HS · PF · GMA) · ERO's Te Ara Whānui readiness framework · NZS 5828:2015 playground safety · MPI National Programme 2 food safety · home-based Reg 44 coordinator standards · Te Whāriki.

    Tamariki · the generational impact

    Every filament leads to the same place

    Stronger records make calmer services. Calmer services keep great kaiako. Great kaiako change what childhood feels like. The whole network exists for the tamaiti at the centre of it.

    The tamaiti at the centre

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    every one of ERO's readiness markers, scored before they visit

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    inspections you can pass before anyone books one

    15 min

    to migrate your full tamariki roster from the system you have now

    Stronger today. Stronger tomorrow. Stronger across generations.

    Help shape Tipu before it ships

    We are taking a small founding cohort of NZ services into the build. You get the platform shaped around your service, and a real say in what gets built next. We get the truth about what works on a real floor.

    Foundation cohort · six to ten services · window closes 30 June 2026

    Prefer the wide view first? Explore the twenty layers.

    Tipu is built by the 4E's™ team in Aotearoa New Zealand, from years of listening across the ECE sector.