Home maintenance reminder software for builders
Afterkey is home maintenance reminder software for residential home builders. It reads a home’s own documents — owner’s manuals, spec sheets, invoices — proposes the maintenance schedule for that specific house, cites the source behind every interval, and sends the reminders to the homeowner automatically once the builder confirms the schedule.
The problem
Why builders stop giving homeowners maintenance guidance
- Building a real schedule means reading every manual in the house, per house.
- A generic “change your filters” checklist is not worth handing to a buyer.
- Nobody remembers to send the reminder six months after closing.
- Deferred maintenance turns into a callback the builder ends up eating.
- Homeowners lose the paper binder within a year.
The solution
What Afterkey does about it
The schedule builds itself from the home’s documents
Upload the manuals, spec sheets, and invoices you already have. Afterkey proposes a maintenance schedule for the actual equipment in that home.
Every line shows where it came from
For a known make and model, Afterkey looks for the manufacturer’s published maintenance and links it. Otherwise the line cites the document you uploaded or carries an honest “typical schedule — verify against the manual” label — a general interval is never dressed up as the manufacturer’s.
You review before a homeowner sees it
The AI proposes a list; you drop what you don’t want, edit any interval, and save. Nothing reaches a homeowner until you do.
Reminders go out on their own
Once confirmed, the schedule sends its own reminders by email (and by text once the SMS add-on is live). Flag a reminder as schedulable and it arrives as a one-tap offer — “Want us to handle this?” — that books your assigned sub with no login. The reminder is the reason the homeowner keeps paying dues, and the maintenance that would have become your callback gets done.
It gets cheaper the more it is used
The appliance library is shared across every builder on Afterkey. Once a model has been researched, every future home with that model reuses the schedule instantly and free — and a research pass shows you a cost preview before spending anything.
Common questions
Does the AI make up maintenance intervals?
It never passes one off as the manufacturer’s. Every suggestion carries its source: the manufacturer’s published maintenance when Afterkey actually found it, the document uploaded for that home, or an explicit “typical schedule — verify against the manual” label when the interval comes from general knowledge rather than a source. Intervals extracted from a manual are never invented — the AI is told to leave out anything the document does not state. The builder reviews the proposed list and saves what belongs before it reaches a homeowner.
What does an AI action cost?
The AI add-on is $5 per month per active home and includes 8 AI actions per home per month, pooled across all of your homes — an action is one document extraction or one appliance researched from scratch. Appliances already in the shared library are free and do not count against the pool. Additional actions are $1.50 each, with alerts at 80% and 100% and a $25 overage ceiling that pauses AI you start. Without the add-on, you get 5 free actions per month to try it.
Can homeowners see the maintenance schedule themselves?
Yes. The saved schedule appears in the homeowner portal alongside their service history, each line with its source link. Builders who sell maintenance plans use the schedule as the substance of the plan.
Try it on your own homes
$149/month plus $10 per active home, unlimited users and subs, no contracts. Set up your first home today. 30-day money-back guarantee — if it’s not working for you, we refund every dollar Afterkey charged.