Slide investor overview

Young people already lend each other small amounts of money. It’s informal, it’s forgotten, and it quietly damages friendships. Slide wants to be the trusted layer underneath that behaviour — giving a generation a healthy, low-stakes way to borrow, lend and pay people back, with parents able to stand behind it.

• Teens have limited access to small, short-term liquidity and few good options when they need £10 before payday or pocket money.
• Lending to a friend means either awkward chasing or writing the money off — so people lend less, and trust erodes.
• Parents have little visibility and no clean way to help without simply handing over cash.
• Existing consumer credit products are the wrong shape: too large, too formal, and not designed for a trusted social circle.

Slide is a mobile app where a young person builds a small circle of trusted friends and can borrow or lend small amounts within it. Every request, transfer and repayment is recorded clearly. Parents contribute to a Safety Pool that sits behind the circle and softens the impact of a missed repayment, so friends can lend with less risk.

The result is a product that fits how this behaviour already happens, rather than trying to replace it with formal credit.

Slide is a working mobile app in active development, built alongside this website as a separate codebase. The screens below are the areas the product covers. Real screenshots are dropped into the site as they are finalised.

HomeThe teen’s main dashboard — balances, active loans and what’s next.CircleThe small circle of trusted friends they borrow and lend with.BorrowRequesting a small amount from a friend in your circle.WalletBalance, transfers and repayments in one running view.RewardsEarn Trust Points for borrowing, lending and repaying on time — then redeem them for gift cards.

These cards are wired to display real figures once the data sources are connected. No numbers are shown until then.

The business model is still being validated and is deliberately not fixed here. Directions under consideration include:

• A subscription for parents for the Safety Pool and dashboard.
• Optional paid features for power users of the app.
• Interchange or partner revenue if money movement is brought in-house.

Pricing shown to customers will only appear here once it is decided.