Three people, one day

Who CubbyLoop is for

One independently owned center or preschool, roughly 20 to 100 children at one location, 5 to 25 staff, running today on paper, a group chat and a spreadsheet. Three people use the product, and they need very different things from it.

“What they get” below is what the app does today, not what a center can buy yet: sign-up is not open. Where the product is has the full position.

The director

Runs the center and is still on the floor

You want one accurate answer to “who is here, and what still needs me?”, and you want to be able to explain any of it a week later. CubbyLoop counts the day from the records rather than from a tally someone kept in their head, and prints the time it counted.

What they get today

  • In the building, open sessions, and updates still sitting on a staff device
  • A short follow-up list — a child expected and not arrived, an arrival corrected today
  • Rooms measured against the center's own staffing target, never a legal threshold
  • An audit trail of guardian links, scope changes, corrections and checkouts, with reasons
  • Roles and scope: who is a teacher, in which rooms, and who has been suspended
The CubbyLoop director dashboard: nine of twelve children in the building, nine open sessions, one update waiting to sync, four follow-ups, and three room cards with staffing targets.
The director's Today board. Swipe the screen sideways to read all of it. Real screen from the app, running the fictional Willow & Pine Early Learning demo. No part of it is a real child or a real center.
The teacher

Works from a phone while watching a room

You need to record what happened without taking your attention off eight toddlers. The composer is built for repeated entries: pick the child, pick the type, answer only what that type asks, done. And it tells you the truth when the signal is bad.

What they get today

  • Your assigned rooms, and nothing from the rest of the center
  • One-tap check-in and check-out from the room's board
  • Meal, bottle, nap, diaper, toileting, activity and note, each with its own fields
  • A visible pending queue — “saved on this device, not yet received by the center”
  • Only the child information the shift actually needs; no dates of birth on the roster
The CubbyLoop classroom board on a phone: the Fireflies room, four of five children checked in, a banner about one update saved on this device, and per-child cards with Record and Check out buttons.
A room board, with one update still waiting to send. Real screen from the app, running the fictional Willow & Pine Early Learning demo. No part of it is a real child or a real center.
The parent or guardian

Wants their own child's day, and nobody else's

You get the day as it was recorded: when they arrived, what they ate, when they slept, what they joined in, and who collected them. You are linked to one family, by accepting an invitation — so there is no scenario where you are looking at somebody else's child.

What they get today

  • Your linked children, grouped by child and by day
  • Arrival and pickup times, and the adult the center released them to
  • Each update as the teacher wrote it, including the short note
  • No classmate lists, no other families, no staff contact details
  • A link that the center can revoke, and that no one can create by editing a field
The CubbyLoop parent feed on a phone for the Okafor family, showing two linked children and their arrivals, meals, a diaper change and activities for the day.
One family's feed. Real screen from the app, running the fictional Willow & Pine Early Learning demo. No part of it is a real child or a real center.
And one person who gets nothing

The authorized pickup

An adult a family has authorized to collect a child gets no account, no feed and no child information. The center records that the authorization exists, and records which authorized adult a child was released to.

CubbyLoop recorded the release. The staff member at the door performed the identity check, the way they always did. We are not going to blur that line, because the moment a product implies it checked somebody's identity, a center starts relying on something that did not happen.

Being straight about fit

Who it is not for, yet

A product that fits everyone fits nobody. CubbyLoop is not being built for these, and saying so now saves everyone a demo call.

  • Multi-site operators and franchises. One center at one location today. Every record already carries its location, so this is groundwork rather than a rewrite — but the multi-center plan on the pricing page is a published price ahead of a working feature, and we would rather say that than let you find out.
  • School districts and K–12. No gradebook, no SIS, no district procurement story.
  • Home daycares looking for a marketplace. There is no directory and no parent-facing listing.
  • Centers that need tuition billing on day one. No invoicing and no payments. That is a later phase and we would not route a family's tuition through our own account in any case.
  • Anyone wanting a camera in the room. No live video, no facial recognition, no biometric check-in. Not on the roadmap — excluded by design.

Tell us about your center

CubbyLoop is being built for independent centers of roughly 20 to 100 children at one location. If that is you, we would rather hear what your day actually looks like than guess at it.

Get in touch See where the product is

Writing to us starts an email to support@cubbyloop.com. There is no form on this site and nothing is collected by this page.