Run the daycare that shows its work.
Parents watch their kids live. Licensing gets its paperwork in three clicks. And the price is on this page — no demo call required. From $99/mo + $2.50 per child; cameras from $7/mo each.
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Everything on one list.
Nothing behind a demo.
This is the whole product. Every row ships with every plan — no per-feature upsells, no "talk to sales" tier.
Drop in your day. Get back a parent-ready report.
Real, live model — paste a few notes from your morning and see what the parent newsletter would say. No signup, no card, no follow-up email.
For demo purposes — please use a fictional name, not a real child's.
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When licensing walks in,
your records already are.
When licensing walks in, every director runs the same fire drill: pull attendance from one tool, ratios from another, incidents from a third, parent acks from a fourth, immunizations from the binder under the desk. TinyGuard runs all of it from one dashboard — attendance pulled straight from check-in, ratio history timestamped all day, incident docs and staff files in one export. Inspection morning is just a morning.
Parents pick the daycare
where they can see.
Every tour ends with the same question: "Can I check on her during the day?" Your answer becomes yes — live cameras during operating hours, daily reports at pickup, photos in one thread. Enrolled parents are your best marketing; give them something to talk about.
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Instant Check-In Alerts
Push notification the second a child is checked in at the QR kiosk. Parents stop worrying the moment they drive away.
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Live Camera Access
Parents can peek into the classroom anytime from the app. Encrypted stream, permissioned per room. Builds the trust that earns renewals.
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Daily Reports & Care Logs
Naps, meals, milestones, and notes — automatically compiled and sent home. Staff spend less time writing, parents get more.
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Tuition Invoicing & Payments
Stripe-powered billing right in the parent app. Automated invoices, autopay, and payment history. Zero chasing, zero awkward calls.
Want to show parents what they'd get? Send them daycareinabox.co/parents — it's written for them, covenants and all.
The price is the page.
No demo call, no quote PDF. This is what it costs — work it out for your center right here.
How much would your daycare save?
+ Video $56/mo (8 cams × $7, 7-day incl)
Calculation assumes your current stack matches the typical childcare mix (Brightwheel + cameras + billing + payroll + compliance). Live video replaces the camera/DVR vendor from $7/camera/mo (7-day cloud storage included; 30-day $12 · 60-day $20 · 365-day $69 per camera, all self-serve) — no per-GB metering or overage bills. Actual savings vary.
| Example | Profile | Children | Cameras | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Licensed home daycare | 8 | 2 (7-day) | $133/mo |
| B | Small center | 22 | 4 (7-day) | $182/mo |
| C | Center | 40 | 4 (7-day) | $227/mo |
| D | Large center | 60 | 8 (30-day) | $345/mo |
= $99 base + children × $2.50 + cameras × $7 (7-day) or $12 (30-day), per month; 60-day $20 and 365-day $69 are self-serve per camera too. Camera-law states (e.g. Minnesota) set a minimum retention that can raise a camera's tier.
Full Platform Access — Cancel Anytime
Everything included. Card on file at signup (so your service never interrupts), month-to-month with no lock-in — cancel anytime. Your feedback directly shapes the roadmap — like having custom software built for your center. While you're an active founding partner, the per-camera fee is waived. (Standard pricing from $7/camera/mo applies if you leave the program.)
- Raspberry Pi 5 node shipped to you
- Live camera streaming (unlimited cameras)
- QR-code check-in kiosk (no biometrics — by covenant)
- Parent portal & notifications
- Payroll-ready timecard exports
- Billing (Stripe/ACH)
- Cloud recording + local SSD
- CCDF subsidy reconciliation & attendance exports
- Direct access to our engineering team
- Your feature requests → top of roadmap
- 1-on-1 onboarding & support
Continue on the plan that fits:
Annual plans save ~17% (2 months free). Hardware: Pi 5 Setup Kit $299 one-time · Cancel anytime, no lock-in.
Cameras record continuously during operating hours; recording hours are configurable. Camera-law states (e.g. Minnesota) set a minimum retention that can raise a camera's tier. No metered overages, ever.
Built by a software engineer whose wife runs a licensed home-based daycare.
We have zero paying customers today. That's the offer: founding partners get the founder, the roadmap, and a locked rate — and their daycare shapes what this becomes. Everything about the company works the way this page does: in the open.
Frequently asked questions
What happens when the internet goes out?
Do my existing cameras work?
What happens after I apply?
What do you do with children's data?
What if I leave?
Can the cameras record audio?
Does this help with CCDF?
Apply in 30 seconds.
A founding-partner spot, a Pi shipped to your door — cancel anytime. We respond within two business days.
Prefer to talk first? Book a 15-min call · (510) 686-3357 · del@tinyguard.co
We don't wait for you
to find the outage.
Check-in shouldn't freeze at drop-off, and the camera a parent opens at pickup has to be live then — not "usually." So we test those exact paths every hour, day and night, and catch trouble before the sign-in line does. Continuous synthetic monitoring of every path your center leans on, watched by us.
Live video, around the clock
A synthetic check opens the "watch my kid" path every single hour — nights and weekends included — so a dark feed pages us, not a parent.
Core systems
The login, the dashboard, and the API behind every screen are probed every five minutes. A bad change gets caught in minutes, not support tickets.
Sign-in & devices
Authentication and the classroom Pi's streaming link are exercised on a half-hour loop, plus a full nightly login-to-video run.
Recordings & billing
Clip playback gets a visual smoke test through the day; payments are health-checked daily. The boring paths get watched too.
Built by people who assume the camera must be up — not hope it is.
Be one of five.
Shape the product.
Apply for a founding-partner spot. We'll ship you a Pi, set you up 1-on-1, and build the features you need.