We built this because
we needed it ourselves.

200+ units. One inbox. Zero clarity.

We’re property owners and developers. We’ve been in the real estate game for years, and our portfolio grew to over 200 units spread across a major metro. Every month, our property management company would send us owner packets—thick PDFs full of numbers, line items, charges, credits, maintenance costs, tenant turnover, the whole picture.

And every month, we’d try to actually read them. We’d open the files, start scrolling, and immediately feel lost. Which properties were doing well? Which ones were bleeding money? Did that maintenance charge look right? Was rent collected on time? The information was all there, buried in pages of raw data, but pulling out anything useful felt like archaeology.

We were property owners who couldn’t tell you what was happening at our own properties without spending an entire weekend digging through reports. That’s not how it should work.

The virtual assistant experiment.

Our first attempt at solving this was hiring virtual assistants. We trained them to go through each packet, pull out the key numbers, and send us a summary. It worked—sort of. The summaries were helpful when they were accurate. But mistakes crept in. A decimal in the wrong place. A property mixed up with another one. Numbers that didn’t quite match what was in the actual report.

When you’re making decisions about real estate—whether to hold, sell, reinvest, or push back on a management company—you need numbers you can trust completely. “Pretty close” isn’t good enough. We needed something that was right every single time, no exceptions.

So we built the thing we wished existed.

DoorBrief started as an internal tool. We wanted something that could read an owner packet and tell us what mattered—in plain language, with numbers we could actually trust. Not a dashboard with fifty charts. Not a portal that requires a login and a tutorial. Just a clear, professional summary delivered straight to our inbox, ready to read over morning coffee.

It took a lot of trial and error. Parsing PDFs is messy. Every property management company formats things a little differently. Financial calculations have to be perfect—not “AI guessed it” perfect, but actually, mathematically, verifiably correct. We built the system so that every number in your summary is computed by code, double-checked against the source document, and only then wrapped in a clear narrative that makes it easy to understand.

We tested it on our own portfolio first. For months, we were the only users. We tweaked, rewrote, broke things, fixed things, and gradually got it to the point where we trusted it more than anything else we’d tried.

It gets better the more you use it.

That’s the part we didn’t expect. The first summary DoorBrief sends you is good. It’s accurate, it’s clear, and it saves you hours. But the fifth one? The tenth? They’re on another level. The system starts to understand your portfolio. It picks up on trends. It notices when something looks off compared to last month. It learns what matters most to you and highlights it automatically.

Every packet you upload, every month that passes, your summaries get sharper and more useful. It’s like having an analyst who’s been studying your properties for years—except this one never forgets a number and never takes a sick day.

We CC it on everything.

This isn’t something we built and handed off. We use DoorBrief every single day. When our management company sends us something, we CC DoorBrief. When we get a new owner packet, it goes straight into the system. When we’re sitting down to review our portfolio or having a conversation with our PM, the DoorBrief summary is the first thing we pull up.

We love it. Genuinely. It turned a task we dreaded into something we actually look forward to. That monthly packet used to sit in our inbox for days before we’d grudgingly open it. Now we look forward to the summary. It’s fast, it’s clear, and it lets us make decisions with confidence.

If it works for us, it’ll work for you.

We realized we couldn’t be the only property owners drowning in reports. Whether you have 5 units or 500, the problem is the same: you need to understand what’s happening at your properties without turning it into a part-time job. Property managers have the same issue—they need to communicate clearly with their owners, and a raw PDF isn’t doing either side any favors.

So we opened DoorBrief up. Same tool we built for ourselves, same obsessive attention to accuracy, same summaries that actually make sense. We’re not a giant software company with a sales team and a roadmap designed by committee. We’re owners, just like you, who got tired of guessing and built something better.