Espalier runs your service from one calm place. It keeps you compliant, reviews your policies on time, helps tamariki and kaiako grow, and brings whānau into the life of the centre. AI does the paperwork, and your teachers keep the decisions.
Every app on every plan. Prices in NZD.
We believe the records a service has to keep should come from the work it already does. A teacher posting a photo, a cook recording lunch, or a kaiako talking through a reflection should leave the paperwork done.
What a service keeps today, across paper forms, spreadsheets, shared drives and apps that don’t talk to each other:
An espalier is a young tree trained to grow along a frame. Espalier gives your service the same: structure that holds you up while you grow.
Always ready for review.
Policies that review themselves.
Growth you can see, from one child to the whole service.
Every family part of the journey.
Less typing, more teaching.
One place. One sign-in. Everything talks.
Simple from the first tap.
Keeping every policy current is the compliance job services fall behind on most. Espalier watches every review date, opens reviews on time, consults the people they affect and chases anything that stalls, with a record of every step for your next ERO visit.
The everyday work of a centre, turned into its records, its growth and its relationships.
A teacher posts a moment of learning for whānau.
AI drafts the learning story for the teacher to check.
It becomes evidence on the child’s plan and the centre’s evaluation.
It sits on the same records that keep you ready for review.
The policies behind it review themselves, with whānau consulted.
All of it in one place, under one sign-in.
Every step takes a tap or a sentence.
Every plan includes all of them, for every person in your service.
Espalier uses AI for the writing and the admin, so teachers can spend their time with tamariki. A person always checks what it drafts.
Every plan includes every app and starts with a 14-day free trial. Change plan at any time and we prorate the difference.
Your subscription carries on with the plan you chose, paid by the card or bank account you added. Without one, your account becomes read-only until you add it. Nothing is deleted.
The reminders, opening the scheduled review, consulting families and staff, the consultation report and the weekly chase all run on their own. Your team decides the outcome: no changes, or a new version through your approvals.
They sign in to Espalier Family with the email address their centre holds, so there’s nothing for you to set up. Policies to read arrive there and by email.
Yes. Import Word or PDF documents and Espalier splits them into sections for you to check.
Growth covers up to five centres. Write a policy once for the organisation and let each centre use it as is or customise it. For larger groups, Enterprise is priced for you.
No. It drafts learning stories, PGC evidence and records for a person to check, and it can only do what that person is allowed to do. Families never see anything a teacher hasn’t confirmed.
Each staff member who signs in, across all your centres. Families never count towards seats.
The help page answers questions about signing in, policies, the family app, running your centre, PGC, billing and privacy.
Set up your centre, invite your kaiako and send your first policy in an afternoon.