Smash Your Tutoring was not dreamed up in a boardroom. It was born from late-night invoicing sessions, missed calendar updates, and one too many WhatsApp messages sent at 10pm on a Sunday.
Hi, I'm James Woodhouse. I'm a Computer Science teacher by training and have spent the better part of two decades teaching CS at GCSE and A-Level. Alongside that, my co-founder Paul Robson and I run a tutoring agency in the UK and built Smash Your Exams, our revision platform for GCSE and A-Level students.
For years we managed the tutoring agency through a patchwork of Google Calendar, Xero, and WhatsApp groups. It worked, just about, but it was slow, messy, and a constant source of stress.
We'd spend hours each week on admin that should have taken minutes: chasing parents for payments, updating lesson schedules across three different tools, sending reminders that we'd inevitably forget. Every month, the same thought: “there must be a better way.”
So we built one. Smash Your Tutoring is the tool we wished existed when we started our agency. It brings scheduling, payments, communication, and tutor management into one place, designed specifically for the way UK tutoring agencies actually work — because it's how ours works.
No more juggling five apps. No more Sunday night admin sessions. Just one platform that handles the busywork, so you can focus on what you got into this for: helping students succeed.
Make tutoring agency admin invisible, so agency owners can focus on what matters, growing their business and supporting their tutors and students.
We believe that if you run a tutoring agency, your time should be spent on the people, not the paperwork. Every feature we build is measured against one question: does this save you time?
Real agency experience, not just tech. Every feature comes from years of actually running a tutoring agency, not guesswork from a Silicon Valley office.
No hidden fees. No per-student charges. No surprise invoices. You see exactly what you pay, and it stays that way.
Every feature is designed to save you time. If a task can be automated, it should be, so you can spend your energy where it actually matters.
Your data is yours, always. We will never sell your information or share it with third parties. Full stop.
Unlike big platforms built by engineers who have never managed a tutor, Smash Your Tutoring was born from the daily reality of running an agency, chasing payments, updating calendars, and sending lesson reminders at 10pm on a Sunday.
We do not build features because they look good on a pitch deck. We build them because we actually need them ourselves. Every workflow, every automation, every screen has been tested against real agency life, because we live it too.
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Built from real agency experience
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Automations working while you sleep
We're tutors first, software builders second. That order matters.
Co-founder
Co-founder, Smash Your Tutoring
Computer Science teacher and tutor for 17+ years across GCSE and A-Level. Founded Smash Your Exams — the revision platform used by thousands of UK students every year — and runs the agency that this software was originally built to serve. Writes most of the platform code himself; takes the support calls when something breaks.
Co-founder
Co-founder, Smash Your Tutoring
Twenty-plus years tutoring Computer Science across the UK. Co-founder of Smash Your Exams and Smash Your Tutoring. Spends his day actually tutoring, which means features get tested against real lessons — not focus groups — before they ship.
Both of us still teach. The agency we run, run on this software, is the proving ground. If you have a question about running a UK tutoring agency, ask us — odds are we've hit the same wall.
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