@raven50mm

Six weeks ago Tally was a Google Doc and a walkie-talkie. I work at a Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holland. Every day I watched staff try to track behavioral incidents in real time — calling out over walkies, scribbling in notebooks, hoping someone remembered to log it later. The system wasn’t working. Information got lost. Kids were noisy. Staff were stressed. So I went home one night and built a prototype. The next day I brought it in and had staff test it. They loved it. We made some tweaks and started using it for real. That was Tally. Two weeks into the pilot across two Boys & Girls Club sites — 146 incidents logged. Staff replaced every system they were using. Here’s what they said without being prompted: “We used to have multiple systems… now it’s just all here.” “Better than saying it over the walkie… kids are nosy.” “It’s kept me accountable to actually log incidents.” The tool does one thing: lets staff log a behavioral incident in under a minute, in real time, visible to everyone on shift. No paper. No walkies. No relying on memory. Two more sites are onboarding this week. I don’t come from a software background. I built this because I saw a problem every single day and couldn’t stop thinking about how to fix it. That’s still the only reason I’m doing this. If you work in youth programming, after-school, or school operations and this sounds familiar — I’d love to hear how your team handles it today.

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