the lift
a wellbeing platform for children. Clinicians, schools, and families looking at the same picture.
The Lift is the small instrument we built so that the adults around a child (clinicians, teachers, parents) could finally look at the same picture. A child opens the app once a week and answers a short check-in across seven categories of their life. The picture that builds, over time, becomes something a clinic can act on, a school can plan around, and a family can see for itself.
The instruments adults use to understand how a child is doing are mostly designed for adults to use on each other. They are too clinical for the child, too abstract for the parent, and too slow for the school. By the time the data comes back, the moment has passed.
The Lift was built around a child-shaped check-in instead: short, weekly, visual, and written in language a seven-year-old can answer honestly. The data that comes out the other side is structured enough for a clinician but legible enough for a teacher.
The check-in is the wellbeing wheel: seven categories (friends, work or school, health, family, fun and play, safety, and emotions) scored on a four-point scale, with an optional sentence per category in the child's own words. Children take three minutes a week. The data populates three different dashboards (one for the school, one for the clinic or hospital, one for the family), each with the framing appropriate to the adults reading it.
An AI layer synthesises across the seven categories and the free-text responses into organisation-specific insights. The prompts are different in a school context than in a hospital context; the underlying data is the same.
The most clinically useful moment we have seen so far came out of a single chronic-condition pilot. For one child managing a relapsing-remitting kidney condition at our hospital partner, the AI layer was tuned to recognise the early language of an impending flare (fatigue, worry about a routine test, "tummy feels big") that surfaces in the child’s check-ins 24 to 48 hours before the physical symptoms present. Two episodes were caught early enough to prompt outpatient testing instead of an emergency visit.
The clinical value generalises: a wellbeing check-in is, among other things, an instrument for noticing that something has changed before the change is obvious. The Lift is the smallest version of that instrument we can build.
Active across three pilot organisations: a primary school, a hospital, and a private clinic. The next step is to extend the chronic-condition early-warning work to two further presentations, and to formalise the safeguarding workflow alongside our clinical partners.