For practitioners

For the person
who did the visit.

Pebble is a set of tools built by a social worker for the parts of the job that follow you home: the write-up, the form, the search for the right sheet.

You can download it yourself today and start with the bit that would help most. The worksheets are free on this site, with no sign-up.

Browse the free worksheets

You know this day

Finishing a visit and knowing there is still an hour of writing waiting for you.

Sitting in the car making sure you haven’t forgotten something important. Trying to find the right form while everything else is going on around you.

Why Pebble exists

Built by someone still doing the job.

“I don’t think there was one massive lightbulb moment. It was more years of little moments that kept adding up. Getting to the end of the day feeling like you had spent more time servicing the system than actually doing social work. That was the bit that bothered me.

I didn’t have a big team behind me. I was still working full time. I just started building around the things I knew frustrated me and the people I worked with.”

Matthew Davies — founder of Pebble, practising social worker and team manager. Read the full story

On your own

Download it today.

Pebble is on the App Store and Google Play. You do not need your organisation’s permission to try it.

With your team

A conversation, not a sales call.

If your team or service should be using it together, that is a conversation with Matthew. Talk to Matthew

Start smaller

Take the worksheets first.

Twenty-eight direct work sheets, free, no email address. Browse the worksheets

What it takes off you

Five things Pebble does for you. None of them is the social work.

Everything below is a draft, a starting point or a place to keep things. You read it, you change it, you decide.

The line

AI drafts.
You decide.

Pebble uses AI to take some of the typing out of recording. It does not assess risk, make decisions, decide outcomes or write in a voice that isn’t yours. The draft is yours to change, and the judgement is yours to keep. How we use AI

Professional judgement remains central

Record the visit
while it’s still fresh.

Talk it through in the car or at the kitchen table. Pebble Capture turns what you said into a draft record under safeguarding-focused headings. You read it, correct it and confirm it.

Start from the pile
you already have.

Notes, a referral, a pasted email, a page of scribbles. Capture and Review gives you a starting point instead of a blank page.

Find the sheet you need, when you need it.

Direct work tools, templates and worksheets in one place. The worksheets are also free on this site.

Keep your own record of what you’re learning.

Learning Logs is a private space for reflection: the case that stayed with you, the thing you would do differently, what to raise in supervision.

Build the chronology from the bundle, not from scratch.

Upload the documents you have and Pebble Chronology gives you a dated timeline with each entry still linked to its evidence. In beta. Pebble Genogram follows on 1 October.

Try one thing this week

Less of the evening.
More of the visit.

Download Pebble, try one thing this week, and see whether it gives you some of the day back. Currently listed as The Social Work Way in the app stores — same app, new name from 1 October.