I built Teachrelays because I couldn't find it when my own kids needed it.

I'm a mother in the UAE, and my children went through O-Levels and A-Levels the same way thousands of kids here do — mostly fine at school, but stuck on certain topics the classroom never fixed. So I did what every parent does: I looked for a tutor. The good ones in the UAE were painfully expensive. Face-to-face meant traffic, distances, and exhausted evenings. Online options here cost nearly as much — for a class happening through a screen anyway.

Then a simple thought changed everything: if the class is online, why does it matter where the teacher sits? The best teacher for my child's exact problem might be in Dubai — or anywhere in the world. So I went looking. I found brilliant teachers. I also found everything nobody warns you about: endless demo classes, teachers who looked right on paper and were wrong on screen, time-zone confusion, internet dropouts, and the monthly headache of sending money abroad.

My kids got through their exams. I came out the other side with a hard-earned map of every mistake — and a list of genuinely excellent teachers most UAE parents will never find on their own. Teachrelays is my decision that no parent should have to repeat those two years of trial and error.

The name says exactly what we do: in a relay, when one runner has carried the baton as far as they can, a fresh runner takes it and finishes strong. When school has carried your child as far as it can on a topic, our teachers take the baton. I find them, test them live on screen, fix the schedule to UAE time, and arrange classes class by class on WhatsApp. You get a free 30-minute demo on the exact topic your child is stuck on — and after every class, a short report, because I always wished someone had done that for me.

Sound familiar? The demo is free — bring your child's hardest topic.

And every class also reaches a talented teacher — often in a country where their skill is underpaid — with fair, reliable work. Parents pay less than UAE rates. Teachers earn well by their market. Nobody loses.

Stuck on a topic? Fixed. That's the whole promise — and I first made it as a mother, not a founder.