Investor view Residential Commercial & Multifamily Combined
The opportunity

Every home has a story. Nobody owns the record.

The largest asset most Americans will ever own has no Carfax equivalent. "Diligence today, dividends tomorrow" — homes with documented maintenance histories sell faster and at premium valuations. Maintana makes that record automatic.

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Reports die at closing

Inspection reports are static PDFs that are never opened again — no living record of the home.

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No institutional memory

Homeowners spend $9K+/yr on repairs with zero record of what was done or what's under warranty.

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Providers fly blind

Service pros compete on Yelp and Angi with no property context — expensive lead-gen, high churn.

The solution

Captured at purchase. Enriched for life. Owner-controlled.

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3D scan at inspection

Every inspector becomes a data-capture node, producing a digital twin and structured findings at closing.

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Living property record

Warranties, appliances, repairs, photos and contractor invoices auto-ingest over the home's lifetime.

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Portable & owner-owned

The record travels with the home — the next buyer is onboarded on day one of ownership.

Why we win — the wedge is the moat.

Home inspectors visit every property at the moment of ownership transfer, with the homeowner's full attention and consent. Owning that channel — with 3D capture as the unlock — gives Maintana structured, verified property data no Zillow or Angi can replicate.

How we make money

Four revenue lines, unlocked in sequence.

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Inspector SaaS

Free best-in-class software bundled with the scan workflow — the Phase I anchor.

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Homeowner subscription

Freemium → premium for storage, AI, and resale-grade reports.

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Service marketplace

Flat-fee advertising to homeowners by category and ZIP — never a commission, per lead or per job.

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Data licensing

Insurers, lenders and iBuyers pay for verified condition data.

Channel strategy — hybrid inspector model

Capital-efficient. Aligned incentives.

Layer 01

Inspector software at $29 · Rosie from $49

Core at $29 per inspector, flat, against Spectora’s $109/mo plus $89 per added inspector — and no per-seat premium at any size. Rosie at $49 and Rosie Pro at $89 add the AI. The price buys the channel: every inspection delivers a Maintana record.

Asymmetric: incumbents can’t match free
Layer 02

3D tour as an inspector upsell

An optional service the inspector prices and sells to their own client, or subcontracts. Maintana pays inspectors nothing — the homeowner buys it, and the data lands in the record.

Clean by design: no referral compensation
Layer 03

One strategic acquisition

Acquire a regional inspection firm (5–15 inspectors, $2–4M rev) as a captive lab + credibility.

Investment: $2.0M · operational day 1
Layer 04

Insurance & lender pilots

Two paid pilots where Maintana data informs underwriting — proves the data asset is monetizable.

Proof: revenue/record > cost/record
Wedge · Network · Marketplace

A three-phase path to a data-moat marketplace.

I

Acquire the inspector channel

Year 1–2 · this round. Sign 800+ inspection firms onto Maintana's free scan-and-report platform. Two insurance/lender pilots monetize the data.

Comp: Spectora / ISN — with data-asset upside

II

Service-provider marketplace

Year 2–4 · Series A. Onboard plumbers, electricians, HVAC, roofers — organically, then tuck-ins. Work auto-appends to the property record.

Comp: Neighborly — 5,500 franchises, $4B GMV

III

Transaction marketplace

Year 4+ · Series B / exit. With Maintana under millions of homes, listings carry verified condition data buyers and lenders pay for. The record becomes the resale standard.

Comp: Zillow + Carfax — data-moat economics

The ask

$12M seed · 24–30 month runway to Series A.

Use of $12M proceeds

Product & engineering
Inspector + owner apps, AI condition scoring, capture pipeline
$3.50M
Inspector channel — sales, onboarding & migration
Channel sales team, migration off incumbent software, inspector success
$2.50M
Strategic acquisition (one regional firm)
Captive ops, workflow R&D, industry credibility
$2.00M
Insurance / lender pilots & data licensing
Two paid pilots, data science, compliance, BD
$1.50M
Go-to-market & brand
Inspector associations, conferences, content, PR
$1.00M
G&A, legal, IP & reserve
Team support, trademark, licensing, cushion
$1.50M
Total$12.00M

Return profile

Round size$12.0M Seed
InstrumentPriced preferred equity
Target post-money$40–50M
Milestone (24 mo)800 firms · 250K records · 2 pilots
Series A target$25–35M @ $120–180M post
Lifetime path to $1B+3 rounds · $80–120M total
Strategic acquirersZillow · CoStar · Frontdoor · Neighborly · insurers