Common Ground is a calm, neutral coordination platform for separated and divorced parents who share the care of their children. It replaces tense text threads and disputed phone calls with clear, structured records: a shared calendar of parenting time, handovers and appointments, factual child updates covering health, school, sleep and activities, a permanent message history, and a running record of shared expenses and important documents such as medical letters and school reports.
Every entry is timestamped, factual and focused on the children rather than the conflict between households. A gentle review prompt encourages messages that stay on parenting topics without ever blocking legitimate communication, and a permanent audit trail records every significant action so that both parents — and, when needed, mediators, counsellors and family lawyers — can rely on an accurate, unaltered history.
Common Ground is built by a small, independent product team dedicated to creating tools that lower conflict and raise cooperation for separated families. Our design philosophy is simple: everything about the child, nothing about the conflict. We keep the interface warm and uncluttered, avoid anything that feels clinical or confrontational, and never take sides. Our goal is to make the practical side of shared parenting — schedules, information, handovers and expenses — as calm and dependable as possible for every family who uses it.