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House Book digital · pilots from February 2027
Household management software built on the House Book, for the people who run a staffed house.
Screens from the clickable prototype. Villa Aurelia is a made-up house.
It is July and the house is full. The housekeeper arrived in May, and by now she knows the house. The boathouse key only turns if you lift the door a little. The linen in the blue room never goes in the tumble dryer. None of it is written down. She just knows.
In September she leaves for another house. She was very good, and good people get offers.
Next June, a new housekeeper starts on a Monday; the family arrives on Friday. The house manager puts the binder on the kitchen island, open at page one, and goes out to meet the florist. The binder is thick and mostly right. It says nothing about the boathouse key.
We are building House Book digital for that Monday.
Average job tenure for household staff has fallen from 20 years to 3.¹
¹ Morgan & Mallet, Beyond the Butler, Household Staff Salaries Annual Report 2025/26.
A House Book is how a house runs, written down in fifteen sections. Our clickable prototype turns one into a digital house manual for a made-up house, Villa Aurelia.
Take a dinner for twelve. In the prototype, 18 tasks appear, each with a time and a name, and each says where it came from: the dinner sheet, the routines, the family's preferences, the guest list. Nobody sits up the night before typing the plan.
The cook opens 4 of the 15 sections and, of the family's preferences, only food and drink. Health and other private details stay with the house manager, never on a phone. Alarm codes, safe combinations and passwords are never in the book; it records who holds them, nothing more.
When a seasonal housekeeper joins, the book prepares her pages: eight procedures with the house's own notes, the keys she will hold, her first day. On her last evening her access closes by itself and the keys come back. Her notes and training record stay with the house, and next summer's housekeeper starts where she left off.
On a desktop, the family office sees several houses on one page: who is on duty, what is still open, who is trained, the budget against plan. Spending above a house manager's limit comes to the family office for approval. The team only needs a phone.
A house manual gets photocopied and left on counters, so we began with what must never be in one. Codes and passwords never go in, not even the safe's. Health details stay with the house manager. Each house's data is kept apart from every other house's, and pilot houses get the technical details.
Some of the team stays from year to year; some comes for the season. The new ones find their pages ready, and nobody explains the house again every June.
Family office household management often means a round of calls every Monday. Here it is one page, and spending above a limit reaches you before it happens.
A house manager's day is mostly questions. With everyone on their own pages, fewer of them reach you, and the private pages stay with you.
The prototype is ready to click through. Pilots with a small number of houses start in February 2027, and we are looking for the first three. A pilot house gets early access, its book set up with us and a say in what we build. There is no price here because there isn't one yet.
Not yet. It is a clickable prototype, and no house runs on it. Pilots begin in February 2027.
We haven't set one yet, and there is no date for paid plans.
It can, but it doesn't have to. It uses the same fifteen sections, so a house with a paper book has done the hardest part. No book yet? Start with the House Book kit, or we can write it with you.
Each house's data is kept apart, and nothing in the book would open a door or a safe. Pilot houses get the technical details.
Very little. On a phone it is a household staff app with today's tasks and that person's pages, nothing else. Training records stay in the book.
A House Book can be kept in two languages, the family's and the team's. Pilot houses will help us choose which come first.
Tell us a little about the house. If it could be one of the first three, we will arrange a private preview.