Why We Built a House Manager.

Friends for years from their north Chicago community, Manse founders Dawn McKenna and Rob Miller had a pivotal conversation last year that circled on a key question: why don't we have an app for our home?

Dawn had spent two decades inside homes and inside the lives of the people who own them, watching how much knowledge about a house gets lost the moment nobody's keeping track of it anymore. Rob had spent his career building startups, most recently deep in relational data engines and retrieval-based AI, the exact kind of technology that could finally connect scattered home records into one place and make sense of them. Her read on what homeowners actually needed, and his read on what the technology could finally do, and the idea for Manse was born.

Homes are more complex, and more valuable, than ever, and they still come with no manual. The name of the installer. The warranty for the wine fridge. The paint color in the powder room. The person who repaired the roof. Maintenance history, appliance manuals, finishes, vendor recommendations, renovation notes, and the everyday knowledge that lives in drawers, inboxes, texts, and someone else's memory.

Each piece is useful alone. None of it talks to the rest, and when a home changes hands, most of it disappears.

Manse is a house manager app, built to be the place all of that lives, and stays. It gives you one connected record of your home, the folio, from the day you sign up: every appliance, every warranty, every inspection report, every service call, searchable, always accessible, and ready to hand off the next time the home changes ownership. Not a future promise. It starts on day one.

Ask it anything about your home and get the exact answer for your exact home: the model, the manual, the warranty status, the open recall, not a generic result about a generic version of what you own. Manse connects what it knows about your systems, appliances, and policies, and hands you the answer, or the fix, without you having to piece it together yourself.

Everything you upload is yours. Manse never sells it, and never feeds it into open or public AI models. Request permanent deletion any time, and it's gone.

The Manse idea has practical roots. For more than two decades, Dawn and DMG agents have been the ones their clients call for the home itself, not just the transaction: a trusted source for contractors, designers, and the countless details that make a house feel fully understood. That experience revealed a simple truth: every home has a story, and most of it gets lost. Manse was built to keep it.

It helps owners live in their home with more confidence, stay ahead of what it needs, and preserve the knowledge that protects, and grows, its value over time.

Because a well-kept home shouldn't have to start over with every owner. Manse keeps every detail where it belongs: with the home.