A house changes hands through the same set of hands every time — the agent, the photographer, the inspector, the closing side. Then somebody has to run the neighborhood it sits in. Both halves are held together by email, text messages and memory, and neither has ever been anybody's priority to fix.
We take it one profession at a time. GateKeeper is where we started on the community side, and there is a great deal more to build there — the back-office work of running an association is as neglected as anything in the transaction. Right now most of the building is on the transaction side.
A digital assistant for real estate agents. Tell him about a deal in one breath, from the car, and the dates, the documents and the promises are written down. Ask him what closes Thursday and he answers, by text, at whatever hour you asked.
askhans.ai →Management software for gated and resort communities. Guest passes, RFID vehicle decals, property transfer workflows, annual assessments, violation tracking and resident communications — built for self-managed boards and for the companies that manage on their behalf.
gatekeeperhoa.com →Free software for real estate photographers. Every shoot sits on one page — the address, the time, the access notes, what was ordered — so nobody texts for the gate code at 7am. The day before a shoot it asks the seller whether the house is ready, which is how you find out from your kitchen instead of from the driveway. Deliver once and the agent has everything that night.
shootrelay.com →For home inspectors. The report is the product, and today it arrives as a PDF that four people read four different ways.
For the closing side — the coordinators and attorneys chasing the same documents on every file, from a different party each time.
Common Area LLC is a Delaware-formed software company headquartered on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Common Area LLC was founded by and is led by Douglas Calahan, Founder & Chief Executive Officer. He previously built the billing system that ran between more than 300 television networks and cable operators, and sold it in 2013.
For partnership inquiries, product questions, or anything else, reach out at dougcalahan@commonarea.io.