Sage Haven: Safe Messaging

Sage Haven is a safer messaging app for kids designed for the first few years when kids begin messaging online. Using AI-powered parental safety tools, Sage Haven is designed to block harmful messages before they are even sent, enable easy supervision and controls for parents, and promote healthy, moderate tech usage.

SAFE AND PRIVATE

- We are COPPA certified.
- Parents handle onboarding for their family.
- Parents approve Connections for their kid - ensuring they are only messaging with trusted friends and family. This also eliminates spam and scammers.
- Kids are not publicly searchable keeping their profiles private.

POWERFUL MODERATION

- All messages are moderated for safety.
- The app is designed to block harmful messages before they are even received or sent!

EASY SUPERVISION

- Parents can supervise their kids' messages easily from their own phones.
- Parents get alerts on harmful messages so they can help their kid resolve conflict in a productive way.

WORKS WITH OTHER MESSAGING APPS

- Sage Haven works seamlessly with iMessage, Google Messages, other kid-friendly devices like Gizmo watches, and more.
- If your kid is on Sage Haven, you get all the benefits regardless of what other families use.
- Parents can message their kid from their existing messaging app (iMessage, etc) and the kid will receive it on Sage Haven.
- We issue a free Sage Haven number to each kid which can be shared with trusted family members and friends. Parents will still approve all Connections.
- No existing phone number or data plan is necessary; all that’s required is a device and a Wifi connection.

HOW SAGE HAVEN IS DIFFERENT

Our mission is deeply personal—inspired by a loved one’s mental health struggles due to online bullying. We set up Sage Haven as a Public Benefit Corp with mental health at the heart and soul of everything we do. Sage Haven is founded by serial entrepreneur, Kate Doerksen, and her sister, Anne Pizzuti, who are also both moms with kids in elementary school. We built the app we wished existed for our own families.

We’d love to hear from parents and kids to help us refine the app! If you have any questions, concerns or feedback, please email us at hello@sagehavenforkids.com. Thank you!