Kindred
Earthy, private, practical support

You don't have to hold the whole system in your head.

Kindred helps special needs parents find nearby families who understand the real context, then keeps school, therapy, paperwork, and care-team coordination in one calmer place.

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Community

Local Circle
Support Threads
Meetups

Care team

IEP meeting tomorrow

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Anyone dealt with Maplewood School District on an IEP fight? Notes, past evaluations, and next asks are all in one place.

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Local connections that actually share your school and provider context.

A trust-first space built for questions families do not want on a public feed.

AI assistance where it helps: preparing for meetings and untangling paperwork.

Brand essence

Community, clarity, and coordination. All in one place.

Special needs parents already build trusted side networks. Kindred gives those networks a home that feels steadier, more private, and better designed for the work families are already doing.

Matched, not broadcast

Diagnosis and age range stay private while Kindred connects you to parents nearby who have already lived through the same school, therapy, and burnout loops.

Local context matters

Advice is only useful when it matches your district, state benefits, provider waitlists, and the families actually around you.

Care coordination with less friction

Turn the paper trail into one steady system for schedules, notes, documents, and the next meeting you cannot afford to wing.

Start with trust

A matched local circle instead of another loud parent feed

Ask about district-specific fights, swap waitlist intel, plan meetups, or post the 2am question that only another parent in this life would understand.

Private local circles and support threads
Diagnosis and age-based matching
State-by-state resource guides and benefit notes

Then reduce the admin load

Keep every document, deadline, and therapist note inside one calm dashboard.

Cleaner IEP prep

Turn scattered evaluations and school notes into a clearer draft of what to request next.

Shared visibility

Parents, grandparents, aides, and therapists can all see the same current plan without hunting through text threads.

The goal is not more software. It is fewer dropped details, fewer repeated explanations, and fewer late-night searches for the same document.

What shows up inside Kindred

District-specific support threads

Questions about advocates, meetings, waivers, and school friction from people in the same practical context.

Resource guides families actually use

State-by-state benefits notes, IEP basics, and service explainers that reduce the digging.

Care-team coordination that sticks

Shared schedules, notes, and docs for the family members and professionals who need alignment.

Built for steady growth

A warmer, more trustworthy first impression for a sensitive product.

The visual system stays quiet on purpose: forest and clay tones, softer cards, clearer spacing, and more confidence in the hierarchy without feeling clinical.

Why it matters

Trust is the product surface before families ever create an account.

Plans

Start free. Add coordination when your family is ready for it.

Community

A calm local starting point for parents who need people nearby that already get it.

$0/month

Private parent matching
Support circles by diagnosis and age
Local threads, meetup planning, and vent posts
Shared service and IEP rights library
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Care Team

The family operating system for therapy schedules, IEP docs, and everyone who needs the same information.

$24/month

Shared calendar and therapy coordination
Document vault for evaluations and paperwork
Deadline tracking for school and benefits
AI-assisted prep for IEP and planning meetings
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Circle

For larger support systems with grandparents, aides, therapists, and more moving parts to keep aligned.

$49/month

Everything in Care Team
Expanded collaborator access
More structured family coordination
Priority setup support
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Questions

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