About
Software for the people who run care homes
Tessera is built for California residential care homes — RCFEs and ARFs — and the teams who carry the weight of running them. One auditable, mobile-friendly system for the whole operation, so more of the day goes to care and less goes to paperwork.
Our mission
Care teams deserve one system, not a patchwork
The people who keep residents safe, comfortable and well shouldn't have to stitch their work together across spreadsheets, paper MAR charts and a drawer of binders. Our mission is to give every care home a single platform where clinical and operational work lives side by side — auditable by design, fast on a phone, and built around how a shift actually runs.
When the record is trustworthy and the evidence is already there, the team can stop defending the paperwork and get back to the residents.
The problem we're solving
Running a care home is hard enough
The work is demanding on its own. The tools shouldn't make it harder — yet for most homes, they do.
Fragmented tools
A spreadsheet for the rota, a binder for MAR charts, a shared drive for incidents, a whiteboard for staffing. Nothing talks to anything else.
Compliance as an afterthought
Reporting deadlines, credential expiries and audit evidence get reconstructed under pressure, because no tool was tracking them as work happened.
Paperwork stealing care time
Hours that should go to residents disappear into duplicate data entry, chasing signatures and re-typing the same details into different systems.
None of these problems are about people not caring enough. They're about systems that were never designed to work together. Tessera replaces that patchwork with one platform built for the way care homes are actually run and regulated.
How we build
The principles behind every screen
A few convictions shape every decision we make — what we build, how it behaves, and who we build it for.
Compliance-first
Reporting deadlines, screening records and the audit trail are part of the workflow — not a binder someone updates the night before a survey.
Built for the floor
Care happens at the bedside, not at a desk. Large tap targets and fast entry let staff record care one-handed on the phone in their pocket.
One auditable platform
Residents, care plans, medication, incidents and staffing share one system and one trail — so nothing falls between the gaps of seven tools.
Care teams first
We build for the carer at 7am, the nurse on a med round and the manager facing an inspection — and design every screen around their actual day.
Compliance is where these principles meet. Changes to clinical records are captured in a separate, append-only audit database — so the trail an inspector asks for is a byproduct of doing the work, never a scramble afterward.
What we're building toward
The platform keeps growing with you
Residents, daily care records, care planning and assessments, eMAR, health events, incident and safeguarding reporting, resident money and property, staff credentials, rota, messaging, notifications and licensing-visit records packs are here today. We're steadily extending Tessera across the rest of the operation — built to the same standard and sharing the same audit trail.
Family & resident portal
A secure window for families into care notes, photos and updates — with visit booking and messaging to the care team.
Activities & wellbeing
Activity scheduling, per-resident engagement tracking and life-story profiles that double as inspection evidence.
Facility document library
A central, version-controlled home for policies, licences and certificates, with expiry alerts.
Group reporting
Occupancy, dependency mix and compliance reporting across a whole group of homes, exportable for surveys.
See Tessera in action
A personalized walkthrough built around your care home’s workflows. See how one platform replaces the binders, spreadsheets and last-minute survey prep.
No credit card required · Personalized walkthrough · Built around your workflows