Why we built this
We didn't set out to build
a technology company.
We set out to solve a puzzle.
The people behind See My Mind are not observers of the SEND crisis. We have lived inside it, as parents, as advocates, as people who know exactly what it costs a family when the system fails to see their child.
The founder's story
For over a decade, I couldn't understand
why it was so hard.
The teachers cared. I could see that. The professionals were trying. The system had been designed, supposedly, to help children like my son. And yet something kept failing, the same children, the same families, the same impossible conversations, year after year. Every new school year felt like starting from scratch. Every new professional arrived without the picture the last one had built. Every piece of hard-won knowledge about who my son was, what he needed, what had worked and what hadn't, was scattered, siloed, invisible to the next person who needed it most.
I became the person other parents called when they didn't know how to navigate the system. Not because I had all the answers, but because I had learned, over the years, to ask the right questions. I advocated for families who didn't know their rights, who didn't know how to translate what they knew about their child into language the system would respond to. And every time, I saw the same thing. Not a lack of care. A lack of connection. Information that existed in abundance, in the heads of teachers, in parents' lived experience, in handwritten observation notes, but had never been assembled into a picture that everyone could see.
The lightbulb moment wasn't a single conversation or a single meeting. It built over years, a slow, accumulating certainty that the puzzle had a missing piece, and that nobody had named it clearly enough to fix it. When I finally named it, everything changed. Not just for my son. For every family I had ever sat with. The problem was solvable. It had always been solvable. It just needed someone to build the infrastructure that had never existed.
That is why I founded See My Mind. Not to build a product. To solve the puzzle. And to make sure that every family that comes after us grows up in a world where it has already been solved.
"The crisis was never a lack of information. Every teacher, every parent, every SENCO already knew things about each child that could change their life. What was missing was the infrastructure to connect it."
Shaista El-Ghazi — Founder, See My Mind
Built by people who know
exactly what you are going through.
Every person connected to See My Mind has lived inside the problem. Not studied it. Not observed it from a distance. Lived it, as a parent, as an educator, as a researcher who understands that data without humanity changes nothing. This is not a team of technologists who identified an underserved market. It is a group of people who reached the same conclusion from different directions: that the puzzle was solvable, and that they had the pieces to solve it.
