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Run your child's SEND case like a paralegal. Date-stamped evidence, auto-cited to the EHCP section it breaches, ready to export as a tribunal bundle.

Problem

My SEND tribunal hearing is 19 months away. Until then I have to keep paralegal-grade evidence of every missed lesson, refused adjustment and SENCO meeting in case my child loses £20k/year of provision. Right now it's spread across Mumsnet posts, three email threads, a Google Drive folder and a paper ring binder — and I'm meant to learn statutory provision rules from the same Mumsnet.

Audience

UK parents of children with autism, ADHD, dyslexia or physical disabilities currently in EHCP application, EHCP review, or SEND tribunal appeal — ~75,000 new EHCP applications per year on top of 1.7M children with SEN in England

Reasoning

Source signals

SIG-20260426-uk-ie-family-logistics-sen-ehcp-paperwork-multi-appointment-tracking — "finding the time to access appropriate information was a challenge" (academic study + Mumsnet, RECURRING, HIGH)

What we ship

**Core features (MVP)**

Structured incident log: date, locale (school/home/clinic), what happened, witness, EHCP-section breach, photo/voice attachment
EHCP upload + section parser → each incident gets suggested EHCP section (Section F provision) breached; AI-suggestion + manual override
Deadline tracker: LA response 15 working days, EHCP review 12 months, tribunal registration 2 months — push reminders
Tribunal-bundle PDF export: index, paginated incidents, attached reports
Audio-recording wrapper (phone-in-pocket) with automatic transcript

**Primary user flow**

1. Sign up → upload current EHCP → AI parses Sections B/F/I

2. Add child profile, current status (EHCP / review / appeal), tribunal date

3. Daily quick-log: 30 seconds per incident with one-tap "log missed PE"

4. After 30 incidents → Premium upsell £9.99/mo: tribunal bundle export, audio transcripts

**What it looks like**

**Landing page**: "Your SEND tribunal is 19 months away. Don't lose £20k of provision because evidence is scattered." + bundle screenshot + 14-day free-trial CTA
**Main app screen**: incident timeline, sidebar of EHCP sections with unmet-need counters
**Output / notification**: 80-page Tribunal-bundle PDF — structured pack with numbered evidence index, ready to upload to SEND Tribunal portal

**MVP build plan (14 days)**

Day 1-3: Postgres schema (incidents, EHCP sections, attachments), auth
Day 4-7: EHCP PDF parser via Claude, section-citation suggester
Day 8-10: tribunal-bundle PDF generator (ReportLab), audio wrapper
Day 11-12: Stripe, deadline cron, reminder emails
Day 13-14: landing, deploy CF Pages, charity outreach (IPSEA/SOSSEN)

Reasoning

Paralegal-grade workflow with 19-month tribunal queues and £20k+/year provision at stake. Charity advice (IPSEA, SOSSEN, Essex SENDIASS) is legal guidance, not workflow tooling; Caira (Unwildered) is a recent AI legal Q&A chatbot rather than a structured evidence vault. The real gap: a workflow tool that supports 1-2 years of continuous evidence collection with auto-citation back to EHCP sections. Stack-fit is clean — structured forms + PDF generator + R2 storage + AI classifier. The financial stakes deliver high WTP and recurring revenue fit.

Quick competitive read

Profiled 5 competitors. `market_density: low` (white-space). Direct purpose-built workflow-tool competitor count: **0**.

**IPSEA** (charity, 42 yrs) — dominant SEND legal-advice helpline + template letters; not a workflow tool. Partnership target.
**SOS!SEN** (charity, 23 yrs) — smaller volunteer charity; better partnership target than IPSEA (more open to external tool referrals).
**Caira / Unwildered** (2024, AI chatbot) — adjacent answers product on EHCP/SEND queries. Risk = pivot into evidence vault; mitigation = ship workflow depth (audio, bundle, deadline cron) faster.
**Goalbook** (US K-12 enterprise) — inverse category (B2B / US / school-side). Surfaces in search but never the same buyer.
**Notion / OneDrive / Google Drive (DIY)** — the REAL competitor: today's de-facto Mumsnet status quo. We win with three moats: EHCP-section parser, tribunal-bundle PDF generator, UK statutory deadline cron. Activation moment = parent receives tribunal date.

`competitive_pressure: 6` is justified (Caira-pivot risk + Notion-template ubiquity, but no direct purpose-built hit).

Initial pricing hypothesis

Free: 14 days + first 50 incidents (no PDF export). Premium **£9.99/mo/family** (£99/yr): unlimited incidents, tribunal-bundle PDF, audio transcripts, deadline tracker, audit log. Pricing matches the £20k+ stake.

Distribution hypothesis

Mumsnet SEN board (30-50 threads/quarter), charity partnerships with IPSEA / SOSSEN / SENDIASS for guide co-marketing, Reddit r/SpecialNeedsParenting UK, programmatic SEO around tribunal-judgment pages ("what was in the winning bundle for [LA]"), family-law solicitor referral with 10% rev-share.

Source signals (1)

SIG-20260426-uk-ie-family-logistics-sen-ehcp-paperwork-multi-appointment-tracking

Score breakdown

market_size	6/10
pain_severity	6/10
build_feasibility	7/10
speed_to_revenue	6/10
regulatory_safety	5/10
competitive_pressure	3/10
recurring_revenue_fit	8/10

MVP stack

frontend	Cloudflare Pages + React + Tailwind
backend	Railway + FastAPI + Postgres
ai	Claude Sonnet 4.6 via API for incident classification + statutory citation
payments	Stripe Subscriptions
storage	Postgres + R2 (encrypted) for EP/SLT/OT report PDFs and audio recordings
external_integrations	['Resend transactional email']

Estimated build: 14 days

Regulatory

soft_block

Blocks: D-003 D-011

D-003 (GDPR special-category) — STRONG match. Core data of the product is information about children with autism, ADHD, dyslexia and physical disabilities, plus EP/SLT/OT clinical reports. This is health data under UK GDPR Art. 9 + DPA 2018 sched. 1. Build-stage requirements (NOT blockers): explicit consent capture (per parent + per child where Gillick-competent), Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) before launch, appointment of an external DPO (~GBP 200-400/month), Article 9(2)(a) explicit-consent legal basis recorded for every account, encryption at rest (R2 server-side encryption + per-account key envelope), 30-day delete-on-request workflow, and a clean Records of Processing Activities document. No biometrics, no fully-automated decision-making (Art. 22) — the AI is suggestion-only with human override. Override = manual_review, so this is a SOFT_BLOCK not a hard disqualification. D-011 (Children's data) — match. Subjects are minors, but unlike the COPPA pattern the user is the parent acting on behalf of the child. UK Children Act 1989 + DPA 2018 require parental responsibility checks; in shared-custody cases both parents may have rights and the product must support the case where evidence is collected by one parent without the other's consent (common in tribunal scenarios — surface this in onboarding, do not silently accept). UK age-of-consent for own-data 13 (not 16). For children 13+, store explicit child consent where they are Gillick-competent. Override = manual_review → SOFT_BLOCK. UK-specific advisory (NOT disqualifiers, surface in landing + onboarding): 1. Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) practice-of-law boundary — templates, structured forms, and AI-assisted EHCP-section suggestions are PERMITTED; "legal advice" is RESERVED activity. All AI output must be framed as "suggested citation, verify with IPSEA / a SEN-law solicitor"; never use the word "advice"; explicit disclaimer on every AI suggestion. 2. Position vs IPSEA — IPSEA is the dominant SEND-legal charity (since 1983); the product MUST frame itself as "tool to use alongside IPSEA / SOSSEN / SENDIASS", never as a replacement. Pursue charity co-marketing, not competitive positioning. 3. SEND Code of Practice (DfE) — informational alignment only. The product references statutory provision but is not a regulator-approved tool. Disclaim accordingly. 4. School data-sharing — UK schools are independent data controllers under the Education Act and have no obligation to release records to third-party tools. Parents must handle their own SAR (Subject Access Request) workflow; do not promise auto-pull from school MIS systems. 5. UK ICO registration (~GBP 40-60/year) is mandatory once we process personal data — register before public launch. Verdict: SOFT_BLOCK with two manual-review-grade disqualifiers. Build IS recommended provided: (a) DPIA completed pre-launch; (b) DPO appointed (fractional / external acceptable for solo); (c) ICO registration filed; (d) explicit consent + parental-responsibility flow in onboarding; (e) AI output framed as suggestion + disclaimer, never advice; (f) IPSEA / SOSSEN partnership-or-respect framing in marketing copy. Costs are absorbable: ~GBP 4-8K one-time legal review for DPIA + privacy policy, ~GBP 2-4K/year ongoing DPO retainer. Stake (GBP 20k+/year provision) plus WTP (GBP 9.99/mo against tribunal date) make these costs trivially recoverable.

Competitors (5)

IPSEA — Free helpline + paid courses GBP 35-150
Charity legal-advice helpline + template letters; no workflow tool. We are the case-file IPSEA's volunteers wish their callers walked in with — partner, do not compete.
SOS!SEN — Free (donor-funded)
Smaller volunteer charity with free helpline + plain-English PDF guides; better partnership target than IPSEA — open to recommending external tools.
Caira (Unwildered) — Free chatbot; Premium tier opaque
AI Q&A chatbot answering EHCP questions — adjacent surface (answers product) vs ours (evidence product). Risk = pivot into evidence; mitigation = ship workflow depth fast (audio capture, bundle, deadline cron).
Goalbook — Enterprise district contracts (no public pricing)
US K-12 IEP platform sold to school districts — inverse on every axis (B2B/US/school-side). Surfaces as 'competitor' only by search noise; never the same buyer.
Notion / OneDrive / Google Drive (DIY templates) — GBP 0-10/mo generic productivity
The real competitor — current de-facto status quo on Mumsnet. We win with three moats: EHCP section parser, tribunal-bundle PDF generator, UK statutory deadline cron. Activation moment = parent receives tribunal date.