The situation
A house accumulates a decade of repair records, manuals, warranties, and equipment details, usually in a drawer. The value of all that paper only appears at the moment you need to remember what was done, when, and by whom — which is exactly when it's hardest to find.
The hard part
A pile of documents is not a memory. The records have to be structured enough that an assistant can answer a plain question like when the furnace was last serviced, and the system has to raise aging equipment on its own — because the homeowner who forgot about the water heater is not going to think to ask about it.
What I built
- Repair log
- Every repair is recorded against the home, building a history that stays useful years later.
- Document storage
- Manuals, warranties, and receipts are stored with the equipment they belong to rather than in a folder by date.
- Equipment tracking
- Systems are tracked with their age and service history, which is what makes proactive reminders possible.
- Ask Jack
- An assistant, named after a Sicilian master craftsman, that answers questions against the home's own records — and flags aging systems and seasonal maintenance before they become emergencies.