Skip to content
ProfileUp

For parents

Support it without standing over it

You want to know your child is developing, not just attending. That is a reasonable thing to want, and most platforms answer it by either telling you nothing or by handing you everything.

Both are wrong. Here is exactly where we draw the line, and why.

01 · The line

You see progress. You do not see their private thinking.

This is the most important thing on this page, so it comes first. There are two categories of information, the boundary between them is enforced in the product rather than promised in a policy, and your child is told precisely what you can see.

YOU SEE THISOverall growth profileGoals they have setProgress and streaksSkills and achievementsAttendance and participationMentor recommendationsPRIVATEYOU DO NOT, AND NEITHER DOES THEIR COLLEGEDaily reflections and journalCounselling conversationsIndividual assessment answersDraft work not yet submittedWhat they searched or exploredYour child is told exactly what you can see.
The wall is deliberate. A student who believes a parent reads their reflections writes nothing worth reading.

A student who believes their parent reads their reflections writes nothing worth reading.

That is not a hypothetical. The reflection journal is where a student writes “I froze again in the group discussion” — and that sentence is what lets a mentor intervene usefully. Make it visible to a parent and it becomes “today went well”, every day, and the product loses the signal it works from.

The same applies to counselling. If your child talks to a counsellor about pressure at home, that conversation cannot be useful and visible to you at the same time.

02 · What you get

Enough to have a better conversation.

The aim of the parent view is not surveillance and not reassurance. It is to change the conversation you have at dinner from “how was college” — which gets you “fine” — into something specific enough to actually talk about.

The growth profile, over time

All five dimensions and how they have moved this quarter. Not a rank, not a comparison with anyone else's child — their own trajectory.

Goals they set themselves

The long-term direction, this year's goal and the current ninety days. Set by them, which is the part that makes them stick.

Verified achievements

Projects finished, work reviewed, tests passed, internships completed. Each attached to the evidence behind it, so you can ask about the thing rather than the number.

Participation and consistency

Whether they are turning up. Deliberately not framed as a score to be judged on — a bad fortnight during exams is normal, not a failure.

Mentor recommendations

What the person reviewing their work suggests next. Often the most useful thing on the page, because it is specific and comes from someone qualified.

And a clear list of what you cannot see

We show you the boundary rather than hiding it. You know reflections and counselling exist; you simply do not get to read them.

03 · Honestly

What this will not do for you.

Worth saying plainly, because the alternative is you finding out in three months.

It will not choose a career for them

It will make sure that whatever they choose, they chose it knowing what the work involves, what it pays and what it costs. That is a different and better outcome than a confident recommendation.

It will not raise their marks directly

Academic performance is one of five dimensions and the product will not ask them to trade marks for the other four. But this is not exam coaching and does not pretend to be.

It will not work if they do not open it

Fifty-five minutes a day is small, and it is still theirs to do. A parent enforcing it tends to produce compliance rather than development — which is exactly what the streak cannot measure.

It will not tell you they are behind

There is no rank and no cohort comparison anywhere. If you are looking for confirmation that your child is ahead of their friends, this is the wrong product.

04 · How to help

The three things that actually help.

1

Ask about the work, not the number

“What did your mentor say about the presentation?” gets you a conversation. “Why is your skills score only 48?” gets you a closed door and a lower-effort submission next week.

2

Let the direction be theirs

The single most common thing we see is a student carrying a direction chosen for them, scoring low on career clarity for three quarters straight. Career clarity is the hardest dimension to move when the goal is not the student's own.

3

Treat a bad fortnight as a bad fortnight

Streaks break. Exam months are worse. The loop is built to absorb that — it asks whether the plan should change rather than treating a gap as a failure. It helps if the household does the same.

If you would rather talk to a person before your child starts, the fifteen-minute introduction with a mentor is free and needs no account. More on who the mentors are.

See the full eight-stage journey

The parent view is coming with the next release.

The student app is first, and the parent dashboard follows — built with the privacy partition on this page designed in from the first screen, not retrofitted.

No card, no commitment