Tendcove exists so that finding great care never again costs a parent their evening — or their peace of mind.
Every parent knows the feeling. The sitter falls through an hour before you're due out the door. You open an app, and instead of help, you get a directory — dozens of strangers, applications to read, references to chase, rates to negotiate. The one thing you don't have is time, and that's exactly what the old way demands.
We thought the whole model was backwards. Booking trusted care shouldn't feel like running a hiring process. It should feel like asking a friend who always knows someone — except that friend has already done the background checks.
So we built Tendcove around a single promise: the parent never does the screening. You describe the need; we match you with a vetted caregiver — or, for a planned date night, your curated top three. Every sitter is identity- and background-verified before they ever appear. Every skill they show is tagged by how it was earned. And because trust in childcare is built over time, the sitter you love becomes a one-tap rebook forever.
We're starting in Brooklyn, neighborhood by neighborhood, because density beats coverage — there's no point matching you to someone twenty minutes too far away. We'd rather be indispensable on one block than thin across a city.
Not a feature, not a badge in the footer. Every decision — matching, pricing, design — is judged first by whether it earns a parent's trust. If it doesn't, it doesn't ship.
A great match around the corner beats a thin map. We saturate one neighborhood before opening the next, so there's always real supply when you need it.
The people watching your kids deserve fair pay, fast payouts, and respect for their time. Treat supply well and quality compounds. We rate families too.
Vetting, safety, and being there at 6pm on a Friday are hard. That difficulty is the moat. We'd rather do the hard thing slowly than the easy thing fast.