How it works
Your house tells you what it needs. We get it done.
Every house asks for the same kinds of things, on a schedule its makers and the codes already set. Most owners never see that schedule. Advance Home Intelligence reads it for your house, tells you what's due before it breaks, and takes it off your plate, one job or the whole list. All of it goes on your house's record.
It starts with one walk
Walk your house once with your phone. AHI reads it.
Open the app and go room by room, inside and out, snapping each thing: the water heater's label, the AC, the panel, the shutoffs, the roof and gutters from the ground. Do it all at once or a room at a time. AHI reads every photo, copies each label, works out each thing's year, finds its manual, and builds your house's record and its list.
What each thing is, its parts and its label. The make, model and serial, and from the serial, the year it was made.
Your flood zone, soil, frost dates and climate, and the weather it watches for your house.
Your house's record and its list, in order, each line with its reason and its price.
On every Upkeep Plan, our crew walks your whole property, driveway to back fence: every mechanical, the roofline and siding from the ground, windows, doors and shutters, the dock and lift, the pool equipment, the generator, the irrigation and its backflow, gates, fences and drainage. Wide shots of every side, dated. For a house worth millions, that file is worth having before you ever need it.
What a house asks of you
A year in the life of a house on the coast.
This isn't our wish list. Each line is set by the thing's maker, a code, your area and its weather, or an experienced tradesman's good practice. AHI finds the ones that apply to your house, from your walk and your address, and puts them in order.
Spring March to May
Summer June to August
Fall September to November
Winter December to February
Every few years the ones nobody remembers
An example year for a house on the Charleston coast. Your house's list is worked out from what's actually in it.
Three ways to get it done
Do it yourself, book it, or hand us the whole list.
You do it
AHI tells you what's due, why, and how. Mark it done and it goes on your record. Plenty of the list is a five-minute job.
Free, in the app
Book it
One tap, one price you see first. A checked pro takes it, already knowing the model and where it is. Nothing's charged until it's done.
One price per job
We do the list
The Upkeep Plan. Our crew comes every season, works through what your house's makers ask, and clears some of your own list while they're there.
From $149 a month
What things cost near you
Every common job has a price. You can see it before you ask anyone.
Hang a fan, fix a running toilet, patch a wall, tune up the AC. The common jobs carry a published price near you, the same for every house, so you never ask for a quote or wait for a call back. You see what got booked near you this week, by neighbourhood, never by house. Bigger jobs are priced by the pros themselves, from your photos and your house's record, before anyone comes out.
- Grab a job, it goes out to the checked pros near you, and one takes it.
- No calls from strangers. Only the pro who takes it gets your address.
- The price you saw is the price you pay.
Example prices and counts.
Why it gets better the more people use it.
The Upkeep Plan
Your house's list, done every season. You never have to remember it.
Most of a house's list is small, regular and easy to forget, which is exactly why it gets skipped. Every plan starts with our crew walking your whole property, driveway to back fence, so your record is complete from day one, and your monthly charge starts that day. Then our crew comes on a schedule and works through that season's checks from your house's list, like the filters, the alarms, the salt rinse and the gutters from the ground. Every check is photographed onto your record. Work that needs a licensed trade, like an AC tune-up, comes back with a price.
- Every check photographed and dated, on your house's record.
- Time for your own list on every visit: the loose hinge, the bulb you can't reach.
- Plumbing, electrical and roof work comes back with a price, for a licensed pro.
- Paid monthly. Cancel any time.
A visit every season, four a year: that season's checks from your house's list, and 30 minutes of your own list. Every check photographed.
Four visits a year. The dryer vent cleaned, every alarm tested, filters brought, caulk and weatherstrip touched up. An hour of your own list.
A visit every month. Two hours of your own list. A look after every storm. Ready before you arrive.
Your list
Everyone has a list. The hole in the wall. The fan still in its box.
Show AHI a photo of the hole in the wall and it reads the job and shows you the price. Tap Book and a checked pro takes it. Got a whole list? Book a block of two hours and clear it in one visit. He sees your list and photos before he comes, so he brings what it takes.
One pro, one visit, the small things done. Your list and photos go to him before he comes.
Example prices.
Storms, while you're away
A storm's coming. Your house is already on the list.
AHI watches the Hurricane Center for your house. When a storm's path points your way, your Storm Ready is booked right away, and you're told. Storm Season houses come first, and spots are limited on each island. Our crew readies the house and photographs it as it stands. Once it's safe, All Clear puts it back and checks it, with after photos beside the before. Anything broken comes back with a price.
On the Upkeep Plan, your record already holds dated wide shots of the whole property, so the before is never missing.
A warranty sells a promise to fix it after it breaks. AHI keeps a dated file of your whole property, before and after every storm.
June to November: Storm File, the June Check, and your house first on our storm list. Then each storm, $1,295 for Storm Ready and All Clear together, charged only when we ready your house. No storm, nothing more.
Storm File and the June Check alone are $690. Each storm's pair, booked one by one, is $1,440.
Outside furniture in or tied down, every shutter up, drains cleared, the generator run, the water main tagged, photos of the house as it stands.
Shutters down and stored, the roof and gutters looked over from the ground, limbs and debris cleared, after photos beside the before.
Hurricane season starts with a look around: every shutter panel found, labeled and test-fitted, the generator run with the house on it, flood vents and the sump checked.
A hurricane could reach Kiawah Island next week. Your Storm Ready is set for Thursday, 9 am.
Storm Ready is done. Every shutter is up and the furniture is in. 18 photos are on your record.
All Clear is done. No damage found. The after photos are beside the before.
Example messages.
Second homes
Ready before you arrive. Locked up after you leave.
A house that sits empty still asks for things, and the sea air doesn't take a season off. Our crew opens it, closes it and keeps the salt off, and every visit leaves photos of the house as you'll find it.
The water on and every tap and toilet run, the air set a day ahead, alarms tested, a fresh filter, photos of the house as you'll find it.
The water off and the water heater on vacation, the air set to keep the damp out, the fridge emptied, every door locked, photos as you left it.
Salt rinsed off everything the sea air reaches: the AC's outside unit, lights, hardware, railings and screens. Rust spots photographed onto your record.
Decking, rails, cleats and pilings looked over, the lift run up and down. Anything for a marine contractor comes back with a price.
Insurance
Is your house getting the storm discounts it's owed?
South Carolina insurers must offer discounts for storm protection, and some features cut premiums 10% or more. Claiming them takes proof, and the proof is scattered. Storm File reads your record for everything insurers give a discount for and puts it in one file you send your agent.
Discounts vary by insurer and house. AHI doesn't sell insurance.
- Everything insurers give a discount for, from your record: the roof and how it's tied down, the straps, the shutters, the year it was built.
- What's missing, photographed in one short visit.
- A signed storm form, if your insurer asks for one, signed by a licensed pro.
- One file. You send it to your agent.
If you ever file a claim, your record already holds dated before and after photos: the roofline, the dock, the pool equipment, the generator, every side of the house.
Selling, and buying
The record goes with the house.
Every South Carolina seller fills in a six-page disclosure, usually from memory. Your record turns it into evidence: the roof's year, the AC's age and every service, every storm visit. You still answer and sign it. At closing, the buyer gets the house's record, and the house keeps its proof.
For realtors: hand your sellers a Listing File, and hand your buyers a house that comes with its record.
- A walk with the state's disclosure form in hand.
- Every item dated and photographed.
- One file for you and your realtor. You still answer and sign the form.
The buyer gets the house's record: its manual, its history and its proof. Your own messages stay yours.
Something wrong right now?
Water on the floor at 9 pm. Tap "It's an emergency."
It all goes on your record
Every job, every visit, every storm, dated and photographed. Your house keeps the proof.
Your house tells you. AHI gets it done.
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Free. You pay only for the work you book. We don't sell your information.