Venture · Screens that update from anywhere
Mantel
Display, made human. Photos, captions and reminders on any screen — for the people you can't be next to. A web admin plus a low-cost streaming stick turns any TV into a screen that auto-updates from anywhere.
The connection
From a phone, anywhere, to a screen, somewhere
Plug the stick into any TV. Open the admin in any browser. Drag photos in. Your sister in Sydney is uploading to your father's screen in Cornwall five minutes after she signs up.
No app
Family use the same browser they read email in. Nothing to install.
No setup at the TV
The screen was paired once, months ago. It just keeps showing the right thing.
No tablet to charge
The person watching doesn't tap anything. They don't need to. The interaction is upstream, at the family's phone.
The product
Three pieces. One loop.
A web app, on any phone or laptop
An operator — café owner, parent, granddaughter, care-home admin — uploads photos and captions in seconds.
A secure, hosted service
Routes content to the right screen in under two seconds. Strict separation between every account. Backed up daily.
A low-cost stick that runs the show
Plugs into the back of any TV. Survives reboots, network drops, and the stick getting kicked out of the wall.
Who it's for
One product. Three segments.
The product is the same in all three. Only quotas, and for care homes a structural privacy boundary, change between plans.
Teams
Cafés, gyms, churches, offices, retailers. Multi-location signage that staff update from a phone — a chain pushes the same daily special to every café in one click.
Families
A household running a screen for connection, memory aid or daily rhythm — especially when a member is living with cognitive challenges.
Care homes
30–200 residents. Each has a private screen; their family uploads remotely; staff oversee at a high level. Strict per-resident privacy.
Care homes
A passive screen, an active family, an institution that just oversees
A care home with 100 residents has 100 family clusters — two to six people each, scattered across cities and countries. Mantel matches that topology exactly.
Signs up once
Puts a wall-mounted screen in each room and pays per resident.
Prints a QR code
Adds a managed sub-account per resident and hands the QR to the family.
Scans and uploads
Invites siblings and grandchildren. Uploads photos from a phone in any country.
Looks up
Sees their granddaughter's wedding from this morning, captioned with names.
Privacy by structure
Family A literally cannot see Resident B's content. Privacy isn't a setting you can toggle off — it's baked into the way accounts are structured.
- Care-home admins see every resident. Family members see only theirs. Nobody else sees anything.
- Cross-account access is blocked at the data level and tested on every change.
- Optional moderation: hold uploads for staff review before they appear on a screen.
- Backups encrypted at rest; data-processing agreement ready for procurement teams.
Inside the admin
Drag photos in. Set durations. Save. The screen updates in under two seconds — no one at the TV, nothing for the viewer to install.
- Per-screen slideshows plus a shared pool across locations
- A personal preview link for every screen, on any phone or laptop
- Workspaces with invitations and roles
- Self-service billing and subscription management
- Native iPad app for staff on the floor — works offline, syncs when back on Wi-Fi
In the wild
Real screens, real kitchens
Plans
Five plans. Sign up on the web.
| Plan | For | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Try before you buy. Two screens, 500 MB storage. | $0 |
| Family | Households. Three screens, up to ten family members. | $5–8 / month |
| Teams | Small business. Ten screens, up to twenty staff. | $20–30 / month |
| Studio | Multi-location. Fifty screens, scheduling, logo overlay. | $80–120 / month |
| Care Homes | Institutional care. Per-resident metering, managed-account dashboard. | $3–5 / resident / month |
A screen on a wall is a small thing
A daughter in Sydney seeing that her photos from this morning are now playing on her father's bedroom wall in a Devon care home — that's a different thing entirely.