Shouldered AI / For tutors and tutoring centers
You be the tutor. We shoulder the rest.
Parents want updates, students need rescheduling, and invoices are due, all while you are trying to teach. Shouldered gives your tutoring business an HQ that schedules sessions, keeps parents in the loop and makes sure you get paid.
"Rescheduling eats my evenings."
Tabitha at the Service Desk handles reschedules with families and tutors, and sends confirmations and reminders.
"Parents want to know how it's going."
Nehemiah at the Operations Desk sends parents short progress updates from your session notes, on the schedule you choose.
"Families pay late, and I hate chasing."
Matthew at the Finance Desk sends invoices or package renewals on time and follows up politely.
"Exam season leads come in faster than I can reply."
Lydia at the Sales Desk answers every inquiry, matches the student to the right tutor and books a first session.
Simon and seven desks of Heroes, working for tutors.
Answers new family inquiries, books assessments and follows up before test season.
Shares student wins you approve, asks parents for reviews and reaches out to schools and community groups.
Answers parent questions, handles rescheduling and sends session reminders to students and families.
Sends invoices and package renewals, tracks payments and tutor pay, and prepares records for your accountant.
Matches students to tutors, keeps the session calendar and sends progress updates to parents.
Posts tutor openings, organizes background check paperwork and onboarding.
Simon runs HQ: all the tech and all the brain power, and the one you talk to. Each of the seven desks is run by a Hero, and Simon directs all seven and answers for them. A person approves what matters, and legal, tax, medical and financial decisions stay with you and your licensed advisers.
After school, eight sessions run at once. Tabitha at the Service Desk moves a student's algebra session to Thursday and confirms with the tutor. Lydia at the Sales Desk answers three families asking about test prep and books two assessments. That evening, Simon tells you progress updates went to every parent, two packages renewed and one tutor needs a sub next week.
An illustration, not a promised result.
Start
A solo tutor can start with a Hero seat for $25 a month. A tutoring center adds HQ Small at $750 a month paid for the year (Founding price $500, first 50 companies only) for scheduling, parent updates and invoicing.
Grow
As you add tutors and subjects, move to Medium for up to 20 seats, so you can serve more families without more admin.
Your Hero is here to improve the human. Your HQ, led by Simon, is here to improve your business.
Two prices, and 50 Founding places.
First, what the work costs you today. A full-time office manager runs most small businesses about $4,000 to $5,000 a month with taxes and benefits, and goes home at five. Every call nobody answers is a job that goes to someone else.
Business coaching often costs $5,000 to $7,500 for one session day. HQ does the work every month, with a coach running the Shouldered Way and workshops included. Already have a coach? HQ works alongside them.
Founding 50: of 50 places left. When they are gone, this price closes.
For you
An assistant for one person: mail, chat, calendar, to-dos and contacts. It learns how you work.
- A seat a month
- $25
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $20
- A seat a month. Cancel any time
- No onboarding fee
- It stops where you stop. It does not run a business
Up to five people
5 seats and 80 hours a month. Onboarding $1,000, paid once.
- Paid for the year
- $750
- Month to month
- $1,100
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $500
- Simon and all seven desks
- Starts the work itself
- About $25 a day, paid for the year
- The six-month guarantee
- Arrives in December. Join the founding list now
Six to twenty people
20 seats and 200 hours a month. Onboarding $2,000, paid once.
- Paid for the year
- $1,875
- Month to month
- $2,750
- Founding price, first 50 only
- $1,250
- Everything in Small
- Room to grow without changing plan
- The six-month guarantee
Prices are per month. Only the first 50 companies (the Founding 50) get the Founding price with a two-year commitment, paid yearly by bank transfer, and keep it for as long as they renew. Pay yearly by bank transfer and take 3% off. Onboarding is $1,000 for Small and $2,000 for Medium, paid once, and free at Shouldered events. It is one 1-hour call: technical setup with our technical team first, then your business with our team. The person who sold you HQ joins your onboarding call. Paid for the year, you get a named person who checks in every month. Month to month gets standard support. Twenty-one people and up is built around you. More seats are $25 each (Founding price $20), and more hours $12.50 each; hours count only while HQ is working, like minutes on a phone plan.
Enterprise and government. For large companies and public agencies. Custom plans start at $5,000 a month. Pilots are paid. We start SOC 2 Type 1 work in 2027. Texas agencies: we are working toward TX-RAMP.
If HQ does not complete at least 40 hours of real admin work a month for you in your first six months (100 hours on Medium), tell us by the end of month five and we refund every dollar you paid for the plan.
The onboarding fee is not refunded. The guarantee asks one thing of you: let HQ do its work. Give it the access it needs and review its work in good faith. If our records show you kept declining or blocking the work HQ set out to do, the guarantee does not apply. If we see that happening, we tell you in writing so you can fix it.
The six months start the day HQ goes live for you. The Founding 50 are included. The guarantee covers HQ only, never coach fees.
Does it tutor students?
No. Your tutors teach. It runs the scheduling, parent communication and billing around them.
Is student information kept private?
Yes. Your private data, including student records, stays in your own system.
Can it handle online and in-person sessions?
Yes. It sends the right link or address with every reminder.
When can we start?
The Hero is available now. HQ launches in December 2026, and the Founding 50 list is open today.
What if it doesn't help?
If HQ does not complete at least 40 hours of real admin work a month for you in your first six months (100 hours on Medium), tell us by the end of month five and we refund every dollar you paid for the plan. Tell us by month five.
A Christian-run company, and proud of it.
Churches get free Hero seats. When a member's business joins, its church gets an HQ, free.
Simon is named for Simon of Cyrene, who stepped in and shouldered the cross for another. Shouldered takes no outside funding and is open to everyone. The technology comes from the OurWorld group: ten years of work, 60+ engineers, running in 20+ countries.
Pull up a chair.
Start with your Hero today, take a Founding 50 place for HQ, or just come and ask questions in the community.
Founding list
One of the first 50 places. Keep the Founding price as long as you renew.
Hold my place →Your Hero
$25 a seat (Founding price $20). Available now.
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