Built for tutors who work for themselves. By someone who did exactly that.
Tuton is the platform for independent language tutors: teachers who run their own business, on their own or alongside a marketplace. One classroom, your whole teaching business.
An operator first, then a tutor.
Tuton was founded in 2024 by Derek Cowan, a software developer and serial business operator based in Ho Chi Minh City. Before Tuton he built companies with staff, payroll, and paying customers, then taught more than 7,500 online English lessons running his own independent tutoring business. Tuton is the platform he wished existed while doing it.
Software developer since 2008
Derek has been writing software professionally for the best part of two decades, and Tuton is built hands-on, every day.
Cleaning company in Scotland, 30+ staff
He built and ran a service business with real payroll, real scheduling, and real customers long before Tuton existed.
Food business in southern Vietnam
He still operates a food delivery business today, so the problems of running a small business are never theoretical.
7,500+ online lessons taught
Derek ran his own independent tutoring business and taught thousands of lessons on the exact stack of apps Tuton replaces.
What Tuton is
Independent tutors typically run their business across five or six disconnected tools: Zoom for lessons, a spreadsheet for students, Calendly for booking, ChatGPT for materials, and chat apps for homework. Tuton replaces that stack with one connected platform.
A real classroom in the browser
Live video, an infinite shared canvas, shared lesson pages, games, and new words added to the student's review deck as you teach. No links to chase, nothing to install.
The business layer around it
Student records, scheduling, a booking page, invoicing, homework, AI lesson reports and a library of ready-to-teach lessons.
One connected workspace
Words added in class flow into student practice, lessons flow into AI lesson reports, and bookings flow into credits and invoices.
Tuton is not a marketplace: it does not find students for you, and it takes no commission on your lessons. Tutors are paid directly by their students.
The company
- Company
- Tuton Ltd
- Registered in
- England & Wales
- Company number
- 15835011
- Founded
- 2024
Registered office: 20 Wenlock Road, London, England, N1 7GU.
[email protected]One classroom. Your whole teaching business.
See what Tuton replaces, or start teaching on it today. 7 days free, no card needed.