First Partner Program

A digital twin of your property business.

AI does the repetitive work; your people make the decisions. We're onboarding a maximum of three property operators as First Partners — not a free trial, but a structured arrangement with a defined start, a defined finish, and one number that tells us both whether it worked.

3 First Partner places Founder-led, no support queue Price locked for 2 years
Why this exists

Documents retyped. Inventories built by hand. An endless message triangle between tenants, managers and vendors.

That's where an operator's hours and risks actually live. REA is a working system that removes the repetitive half — but for the first partners, we don't want to guess at your operation. We want to map it, measure it, and prove it on your real portfolio.

The exchange

A mutual arrangement, written down.

A First Partnership is a two-sided ledger. Here is exactly what each side puts on the table.

You get
  • A complete process map of your operation (Phase 0) — the kind of audit operators pay consultancies thousands for, conducted personally by our founders. Yours to keep, whatever happens next.
  • REA at no cost for the full pilot, adapted to your operation week by week by the team that builds it.
  • Direct access to the founders — no support queue.
  • Founding-partner price lock — the price we agree before the pilot is frozen for you for two years, whatever we charge later customers.
You commit
  • A real portfolio — not a test unit.
  • One named person on your side who will actually work in REA.
  • Access for the mapping phase — short interviews with management and operations staff, and a walkthrough of your current systems.
  • One short weekly conversation (30 minutes) during the pilot.
  • Honest operational judgment — at this stage, worth more to us than money.
Phase 0 · 1–2 weeks · before the clock

First we map how your business actually runs.

Before REA touches anything, our founders personally map your operation — so the pilot starts on real, complete data, priced with knowledge of how you actually work.

Interviews on both levels

Management for the goals, operations for the reality.

The difference between the two is usually where the hours hide.

Systems walkthrough

The spreadsheets, inboxes, platforms and folders.

Where your operation lives today, and how the data moves between the pieces.

Data readiness

Records, documents and contacts prepared for bulk intake.

Together, so the pilot starts on real, complete data — not a blank system.

Insight playback

We present what we found. You correct us until it's true.

Where the labour goes, the bottlenecks, the decisions that depend on one person.

Our pricing principle, stated upfront

At the end of Phase 0 — and only then — we agree the pilot terms in writing: the success metric, its baseline plan, and the post-pilot price, set below the monthly savings the pilot measures. If REA doesn't save more than it costs, we haven't earned the contract.

The success metric

One number — defined before the clock starts, not argued after.

1number that matches your actual pain
Labour hours removed — hours/week on document entry, inventory, routine messages
Ticket turnaround — report to resolved
Response time — inbound message to a correct, sent reply
A definition with auditable checkboxes — e.g. a routine message “handled by REA” counts only if: drafted without human rewriting, confirmed and sent by your named person, and needing no follow-up correction.
A baseline — measured in the first pilot week, together, from your real numbers.
A target — what “worked” means, agreed as a number, not a feeling.
The pilot clock starts only when onboarding is complete — never from the signature date. You don't pay in patience for our setup time.
Pilot week one

Exactly what happens.

The metric clock starts at the end of week one, when shadow mode is live.
The finish line · 60–90 days

A decision, not a negotiation.

At the end, three things are on the table: the process map, the measured number against its baseline, and the price agreed back in Phase 0 — set below the savings the pilot demonstrated.

Target met

You decide: keep the savings at your locked founding-partner price, or part as friends with your data exported and the map in hand.

Target missed

We part. You keep the operation map and the measured findings, and you've spent nothing but your team's time.

If you want to continue anyway, the locked price still stands — the door doesn't close because a number did.

Either way, the decision takes one meeting — because everything that matters was agreed at the end of Phase 0.
Questions

Fair questions, straight answers.

Why only three partners?

Because each partnership is founder-led and hands-on — we map your operation personally, adapt REA to it week by week, and are on a call with you every week. Three is the number we can do at that depth without diluting it. It also means the three shape the product before anyone else.

Is this a free trial?

No. A trial is you, alone, poking at software. This is a structured, mutual arrangement: a paid-grade operation audit we do for free, a pilot on your real portfolio, one agreed success metric, and a price fixed before the clock starts. There's a defined start, a defined finish, and a written definition of what "worked" means.

What does it cost — and what if it doesn't work?

During the pilot, nothing. The post-pilot price is agreed at the end of Phase 0 and is set below the monthly savings the pilot measures. If the target is missed, we part, you keep the operation map and the findings, and you've spent only your team's time.

Will the AI act on its own?

Not until you let it. The pilot starts in shadow mode: REA drafts real work but nothing sends without your named person's confirmation. Workflows graduate to automatic one at a time, at your pace, and a human always confirms decisions that carry a date, a cost or a commitment.

Who owns the data?

You do. It stays yours throughout, on EU-hosted infrastructure, and is never sold or used to train models. If we part, you export everything and keep the process map.

How much of our time does it take?

Phase 0 is a few short interviews and a systems walkthrough over one to two weeks. During the pilot it's one named person working in REA as they already work, plus one 30-minute call a week. There's no IT project and no manual re-keying — intake is bulk import plus OCR.

If that's your daily reality, talk to us.

Documents retyped, inventories built by hand, an endless message triangle between tenants, managers and vendors. Three operators get to fix it first.

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