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Who it is for

Bisi spent three years caring for her mother. Care Hours turns doctor and family attestations into a private credential that explains her career gap to employers.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$149

$37 deposit to reserve

Attestation requests, private vault, selective share link.

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color

Customfrom $1,000

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

Only proposals and a government registry exist; a private verifiable care-hours credential is uncommon.

Closest things out there

Chile's offchain caregiver registry issues QR credentials, and CareCredits and Wize propose tokenized care-hour records; no live private onchain care-hour credential found.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Turns unseen care into recognized work.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

grant · Gitcoin · upcoming

Gitcoin Grants rounds

quarterly-ish rounds; next round dates unknown

Official page ↗

Public goods; open-source required generally.

Their rule on existing code: Existing open-source projects OK (generally required)

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Care Hours app: carers turn unpaid care into a private, signed record of hours they can share with employers, with a paywall, owner console and helper agent built in.

Base price · $149

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: care was work, people who saw it sign, health stays home.

Progress and next actionHome

Estimate, signatures, issued and shared, with one clear next step.

Weekly one tap logHome

Hours only, no notes field, with a running streak.

Family rota with co-signingHome

Hours per family member and a monthly sibling co-sign. Gated behind Family Plus.

Hours estimate with rangesRecord

Months and weekly hours become a bucketed range so no routine can be rebuilt.

Attester signing linksRecord

GP practice, family and nurse sign role, dates and rough hours, never health.

Practice route and plausibility flagsRecord

Stuck clinicians are rerouted; high weekly hours are flagged for attesters to confirm.

Seal the credentialRecord

One commitment-only attestation per signer on Base or Celo, plus a share card.

Selective share linksShare

Pick fields and expiry per verifier, preview what they see, revoke any time.

Over-asking verifier refusalShare

Requests for medical evidence are refused by design and replaced with hours and dates.

Link open receiptsShare

When each link was opened and checked. Gated behind Family Plus.

Onchain receipts and private vaultVault

What is on chain, what never is, encrypted documents that can be deleted.

Plans and interview letterMe

Pricing from the owner paywall and a gated interview letter builder.

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Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

MRR, verifier fees, payouts, and live editing of tier names, prices and gates.

Rules, agent log and roadmapRules

Minimum attesters, hours bucket, expiry, flag line, gas sponsoring; plus the Agent log and priced Roadmap.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Growth loops and cohortsGrowth

Charity credential days, attester invites, referrals and cohort retention.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Carers never pay to prove their own work. Families pay for the family tools, partner charities sponsor their members, and verifiers pay per check.

CarerFreeCredential, private vault, 2 live share links, weekly log

Family Plus$4 a monthFamily rota with co-signing, link open receipts, interview letter, unlimited links

Partner$99 a monthPaid by a charity: sponsors Family Plus for every member, branded issuing, anonymous stats

Verifiers pay $1 per verification. Gas (under $0.05 per record) can be sponsored by the owner.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Attester invites: every signing link introduces a GP, nurse or relative who knows other carers
Charity credential days that onboard members in a batch
Employers who verify become visible advocates for returning carers
Share card after sealing: my career gap has a name now
Carer to carer referral codes worth a free month for both

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The full carer app

Hours estimate and plausibility check
Attester signing with practice route
Selective share links with expiry
Private vault, receipts, weekly log
Paywall, owner console, helper agent

Included

Partner portal and verify API

Branded issuing for charities and councils
Bulk member onboarding by invite code
Verifier API with per check billing
Celo and SMS first mode for mobile regions

Add-on from $400

Returnship network and open standard

Employer returnship board that accepts the credential
Multi carer household rota with monthly co-sign
Open care-record schema for councils and unions
Grant evidence pack export

Add-on from $900

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

Verified care hours for people re-entering work, with health details never on chain.

Problem: Millions of people, mostly women, leave paid work to care for family. The years leave a blank CV and the only evidence is medical paperwork they should never have to share.

Solution: People who saw the care sign a narrow statement about who cared, when and roughly how much. Only salted commitments go on chain; the carer shares selected fields by expiring link.

Why now: Cheap attestations on Base and Celo, embedded email wallets, and small models that can chase signers make a private credential practical for non crypto users.

Market: Unpaid carers re-entering work, plus the charities, councils, returnship programmes, employers and lenders who need to read career gaps fairly.

The ask: Pilot partners: one carer charity and one returnship programme, and grant funding from public goods rounds such as Gitcoin.

Funding is never guaranteed. Check each program's rules.

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: meet Bisi, 46, in Leeds, three years caring and an interview on Monday.
Record: set months and weekly hours, pick the GP and her brother, send signing links.
Record: the GP is stuck, reroute through the practice manager, then seal the credential.
Share: send Priya a link with role, dates and hours, preview what she sees, mark it opened.
Share: a lender asks for medical evidence, the app refuses and offers hours and dates instead.
Vault: show what is on chain, what never is, and the private vault.
Owner Revenue: change the Family Plus price in the paywall editor and preview the user Plans screen.
Owner Growth and Roadmap: run a charity credential day, then request the v2 partner portal.

Many hackathons require code written at the event. See the Regatta Boardfor each race's rule.

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $1,000: your own attester types and statements, integrations with a charity CRM or HR platform, extra languages, or a council branded deployment. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $1,000

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

Millions of people, mostly women, leave paid work to care for a parent, partner or child. The years of real work leave a blank on a CV and in income history, and the only evidence they have is medical paperwork they should never have to share.

What exists and what is new

Chile runs an off-chain national caregiver registry that issues QR credentials, and projects like CareCredits and Wize have proposed tokenized care-hour records. We found no live product issuing a private, verifiable care-hours credential that a carer controls and shares selectively. The idea of recognizing care is not new; making it a portable, privacy-first credential is the uncommon part.

The data it runs on

The carer's own estimate of months and weekly hours, short signed statements from attesters (a GP practice, a nurse, family members) about role, dates and approximate hours, and optional weekly logs. Health details, names of the cared-for person, addresses and documents are kept only in the carer's encrypted vault and are never written onchain.

1.The mission

Turn unseen care into recognized work, without ever making a family's health the price of being believed.

2.Why people can't resist it

The gap gets a name A three year blank becomes 'primary carer, 2022 to 2025, signed by people who were there'. That relief before an interview is the moment people remember.

Dignity by design There is no field for a diagnosis. Carers trust it because it cannot leak what it never asks for.

A fairer family rota The one-tap weekly log and co-signing make hidden load visible inside families, which keeps people coming back long after the job search.

3.How it works for real

Login and wallet: Privy embedded wallets with email or phone login, so carers never handle seed phrases. Works on Base, with Celo as an option for mobile-first regions.

Private vault: Claims, notes and any documents are encrypted on the carer's device and in an encrypted backup. The carer can delete them at any time.

Attestations: Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS) on Base with a care-record schema. Each attester signs a statement whose onchain payload is only a salted hash commitment of role, month range and an hours bucket, plus the attester's role type.

Attester routing: Signing links by email or SMS. Clinicians can sign through a practice account where personal signing is not allowed, so the GP route works with real clinic policies.

Helper agent: A small model (for example Claude Haiku 4.5 class) drafts plain-language requests, sends reminders, flags implausible hour claims and suggests alternative routes when an attester is stuck. It never reads or stores health documents.

Selective share links: A link reveals only ticked fields (hours range, role, dates, attester roles) with the salts needed to verify them against the onchain commitments. Links expire and can be revoked.

Indexer: A lightweight indexer over EAS attestations so verifiers can check signatures without an account.

4.Cost per use and pricing

Per credential: around 3 attestations on Base, typically under $0.01 each in gas, so under $0.05 total, often sponsored by the app. Helper agent: about 20 short model calls per credential at Haiku 4.5 class pricing ($1 per million input, $5 per million output tokens), roughly $0.02. SMS reminders about $0.01 to $0.05 each depending on country. Example month for a charity running 500 credentials: about $25 gas, $10 model, $50 SMS, $30 hosting, roughly $115.

Carers Free

Carers never pay to prove their own work. Credential, vault, share links and weekly log included.

Partner organisation $99 a month

Carer charities, councils or unions run a branded version, see anonymous aggregate stats and help members onboard.

Verifier $1 per verification

Employers, lenders or grant bodies who verify at volume pay a small fee for a verification API and audit trail.

5.Growth loop

Every attestation request introduces a doctor, nurse or relative to the idea, and many of them know other carers. Carer support groups and charities onboard members in batches. Employers who accept the credential in hiring become visible advocates for returning carers.

6.Risks and guardrails

Health privacy: The biggest risk. Mitigation: no health fields exist in the schema, only salted commitments go onchain, documents stay encrypted on device, and the app has no path to share medical records even if asked.

False claims: People may inflate hours. Ranges instead of exact counts, at least two attesters, plausibility checks, and attesters confirming the routine rather than a precise number.

Coercion by verifiers: Lenders or employers may demand more than they need. Share links have a fixed set of fields and the app explains to the carer that declining is fine.

Clinician liability: Doctors may be unwilling to sign. Statements are narrow (who cared, when), can be signed by a practice, and avoid any clinical judgement.

Permanence: Onchain data cannot be deleted. That is why only salted hashes are written, which reveal nothing without the carer's link.

Legal status: A credential does not create legal rights or guarantee a job, loan or benefit. Copy must say this plainly.

7.Build order

Care-record schema on EAS with commitment-only payload
Privy login and encrypted on-device vault
Attester signing links by email and SMS
Selective share link with expiry and revoke
Public verify page reading the indexer
Helper agent for reminders and plausibility checks
Pilot with one carer charity

8.Where this is going

Now
One carer turns three years of unpaid care into a private, verifiable record that explains a career gap.
Next
Carer charities and councils issue and accept it, and families use the weekly log to share the load fairly.
Later
Employers, grant bodies and lenders accept the credential as standard evidence of care work, without ever asking for medical records.
The world it builds
Care is counted as the work it is. Nobody has to choose between being believed and protecting a loved one's privacy.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Care Hours

Millions of people step away from paid work to care for a parent or child, then face a blank space on their CV. Owning Care Hours means you run the place where that work becomes a private, verifiable credential, with your brand, your partners and your community. Care groups, clinics and recruiters need a trusted operator, and right now there is almost nobody doing it.

What’s stopping you?

“Care is sensitive. What if I get privacy wrong?”

Care Hours keeps details private by design: the credential proves hours and who attested, not medical details. You never need to store diagnoses. Start with family attestations only and grow carefully.

“Caregivers are not crypto people.”

They do not need to be. They sign in with email, and the wallet is created for them. The person sees a certificate and a share link, not a token.

“Will employers or lenders even accept it?”

Not all will, and we do not promise they will. Your first job is one partner who agrees to look at it, like a returnship programme or a local recruiter. One yes is enough to start.

“I have no time to run another thing.”

The first move takes under an hour and the app runs itself once attesters are set. Most owners spend an hour a week.

The million-dollar ladder

Free for caregivers. Paid by organisations: care groups and clinics pay per verified attester seat, recruiters and returnship programmes pay to verify credentials.

$49

$890

$9,225

$79,520

First circle

1 care group

$49 a month

Local name

10 groups + 2 recruiters

$49 and $199

Regional

60 groups + 15 recruiters