I am Douglas Laing. I built Clariti because nobody else was going to.
I have been a registered childminder for many years. I operate in partnership with my wife Debbie in West Lothian, Scotland. I love the job. What I did not love was what came after the children went home.
Evenings and weekends spent updating paperwork. Cross-referencing frameworks I had already read a dozen times. Rewriting information I had already written somewhere else. And that creeping panic when you realise something is out of date and an inspection could be around the corner.
"The problem was never having the documents. It was never being sure they would stand up to inspection today."
I tried every template site I could find. I downloaded frameworks and tried to make them work for my setting. I spent over three years experimenting with AI models, refining prompts, testing outputs, learning what worked and what produced something no inspector would take seriously. That work is what sits inside Clariti today.
Alongside that, I spent time researching the legislation and frameworks across all four UK nations, understanding exactly where they differ and where they align. Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland each have their own regulatory body, their own inspection standards, and their own statutory requirements. Clariti uses that research to tailor every document, every framework reference, and every compliance prompt to your nation automatically, based on where your setting is registered. Wherever you are in the UK, the system works for you.
I did not build this because I spotted a market gap on a spreadsheet. I built it because I was tired, and I knew every other childminder in the country was tired of the same thing.