Sustenance
A quiet tool for home-educating families.
For parents home-educating neurodivergent children. A place to log real learning as it happens, and to turn what you already notice into review-ready reports.
Real learning, drop by drop. Just be.
01What Sustenance is
Sustenance is a private app for home-educating families with neurodivergent children. One app, two surfaces: a parent-facing learning log, and a child-facing space.
For the parent, a low-pressure place to log real life as it happens: a conversation, a trip, a problem worked through. Sustenance shapes those entries into review-ready reports, so there is no scramble to retrofit a year of evidence in the week before review.
For the child, a low-demand learning environment for life skills and self-chosen topics. No streaks, no scores, no demand-loaded prompts. What the child does can flow into the parent’s log when it is useful, and stay private when it is not.
02Who Sustenance is for
Sustenance is for home-educating parents in review-based jurisdictions: Ireland, the UK, the EU, Australia, and New Zealand, where families demonstrate, on a regular cycle, that learning is happening at home.
Built with a particular fit for families of autistic, ADHD, PDA-profile, and gifted or twice-exceptional children. School often did not work for them. Learning rarely arrives on a schedule. Reporting needs to honour what actually happens at home, not ask the child to perform on demand.
If you keep a mental log of everything your child has read, questioned, and figured out this month, and feel a small knot when review approaches, Sustenance is being built for you.
Take a look around.
This is a live demo seeded with one family: the McKenzies. Pick a side to enter as.
Parent opens the parent space: log composer, recent moments, family overview, reports. Child opens the child space: a companion creature, a question for today, things happening.
Be part of the early audience.
Sustenance is in active development. Subscribers hear from us as the app takes shape, a short letter every few weeks, when there is something worth saying.
Early subscribers get first access, and a real say in what gets built. This is not a marketing list. It is a small, occasional letter from the people making the thing.
Your email is only used to send updates about Sustenance. We never share it. Unsubscribe any time.
03Wherever you’re starting from
Families arrive at Sustenance through different doors. Find the one that sounds like yours; each leads to a page written for that situation.
When school stopped working
For kids who can’t do school: school refusal, autistic burnout, the kind of can’t that isn’t won’t.
Learning without a curriculum
For unschooling families who've stepped off the timetable, on purpose.
See the learning that's already there
Ordinary days, quietly mapped to real skills. Nothing here is a grade.
Proof without the performance
Evidence a home education assessor accepts, without turning home into school.
Let them just be
A low-demand companion that takes the demand off your child, and the doubt off you.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Sustenance?
- Sustenance is a private app for home-educating families with neurodivergent children. A learning log and reporting tool for parents, and a low-demand learning environment for children: no streaks, no scores, no demand-loaded prompts.
- Who is Sustenance for?
- Home-educating parents in review-based jurisdictions: Ireland, the UK, the EU, Australia, and New Zealand. With a particular fit for families of autistic, ADHD, PDA-profile, and gifted or twice-exceptional children.
- Is Sustenance available now?
- Sustenance is in active development. Subscribers to the early audience list hear about progress and get first access when it opens. Join the list above.