Careship - Building a Care Marketplace Used by 10,000+ Families

Connecting more than 10,000 families with caregivers in 18 months while reducing average booking time to under 6 minutes

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Careship wanted to make home care easier to access by giving families a faster and more transparent way to find trusted caregivers. Coding Partners built a complete caregiver marketplace covering discovery, matching, booking, communication, payments, and caregiver operations. Within the first 18 months, more than 10,000 families connected with caregivers through the platform, with average booking time reduced to under 6 minutes.

The Challenge

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Finding the right caregiver is rarely a simple marketplace search.

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Families often need support quickly, but availability alone is not enough. The right caregiver may also need specific experience, language skills, mobility expertise, or experience supporting people with conditions such as Alzheimer's.

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At the same time, caregivers needed a simple way to manage their availability, bookings, communication, and payments without creating more administrative work.

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Building a marketplace around trust

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Careship needed a platform that could:

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  • Help families find caregivers based on individual care requirements
  • Make caregiver experience and qualifications easy to understand
  • Show current availability clearly
  • Allow families to book care directly
  • Give caregivers control over schedules and bookings
  • Support communication and payments inside the platform
  • Build trust between families and caregivers
  • Scale into new regions without rebuilding the underlying system

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The challenge was not simply connecting supply and demand.

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In home care, families need to feel confident about the person they are inviting into a very personal part of their lives. The product therefore had to balance speed, matching quality, and trust at every stage of the journey.

What We Built

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Coding Partners built a responsive web application that connected families looking for care with qualified caregivers.

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Families could search using criteria relevant to real care situations, including experience, language, mobility support, and specific care needs.

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Each caregiver profile brought the information needed to make a decision into one place, including credentials, personal information, reviews, and real-time availability.

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Once a suitable caregiver was found, families could book directly through the platform, with messaging, calendar functionality, and secure payments integrated into the experience.

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The hard part

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The difficult part was creating a matching experience that remained simple for users without reducing care to a basic availability filter.

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A family may have several requirements at the same time, and the platform needed to surface suitable caregivers quickly while still giving users enough information to make a confident decision.

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Trust also had to work in both directions.

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Families needed visibility into caregiver experience and reviews, while caregivers needed clear booking information, communication tools, and control over their schedules.

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The platform therefore included measures such as identity verification, two-way feedback, transparent cancellation rules, and structured caregiver profiles alongside the booking flow.

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Building both sides of the marketplace

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Coding Partners also created a dedicated caregiver dashboard.

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Care professionals could:

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  • Manage their availability
  • Accept or decline bookings
  • Keep their calendar up to date
  • Communicate around active care arrangements
  • Track their earnings

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This meant the platform supported the full marketplace workflow rather than solving only the family-facing search experience.

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The underlying system was also built to expand geographically, allowing Careship to introduce the marketplace into additional regions without creating a separate product for every market.

The Results

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The platform developed into a scalable marketplace connecting thousands of families with caregivers.

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Within the first 18 months, more than 10,000 families had connected with caregivers through Careship.

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Making care easier to access

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  • 10,000+ families connected with caregivers within the first 18 months
  • Average booking time reduced to under 6 minutes
  • 85% of families reported feeling confident or very confident after reviewing a caregiver profile
  • Caregivers reported a 30% increase in retained clients
  • Careship expanded into 12 new regions using the same backend infrastructure

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These results showed that reducing friction did not have to come at the expense of trust. Families could move from search to booking quickly while still having the information needed to make an informed choice.

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Improving the caregiver side of the marketplace

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The platform also improved how caregivers managed ongoing client relationships.

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Integrated scheduling and communication tools helped professionals organize their work more consistently, with caregivers reporting a 30% increase in retained clients after the new workflows were introduced.

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This was important for the marketplace as a whole. Better tools for caregivers helped create a more reliable experience for the families using the platform.

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Scaling without rebuilding

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The same backend infrastructure supported Careship's expansion into 12 additional regions without requiring separate custom development for each new market.

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What began as a marketplace for simplifying caregiver discovery became a scalable operational platform for both sides of the care relationship.

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The result was a product that combined 10,000+ family connections, sub-6-minute bookings, stronger caregiver retention, and geographic expansion on the same technical foundation.

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