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Put a
buildingmanager
on every floor,
24/7.

Place a QR code in the lobby, mailroom, or move-in packet. Residents scan it and chat with an AI assistant trained on your house rules and handbook — in any language, any time.You seeevery question asked across every property, in real time.

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01/The Problem

Your office is buried in
questions you have already
answered a thousand times.

The opportunity isn’t a new portal. It’s a way for tenants to ask the building itself, and for you to see what they keep needing.

PAIN.01Observed

The same five questions, every single day.

Where do I park? When is trash day? How do I reset the gate code? When does the pool close? Your office spends half its day repeating the answers in the resident handbook nobody read. The other half is spent on real work that keeps getting interrupted.

Front office· · ·
PAIN.02Observed

Move-in week breaks the office.

New tenants arrive with a binder of questions about utilities, mailroom, deliveries, and amenities. Your team triages them between maintenance calls. Half the answers are wrong because they came from whoever was at the desk. Reviews mention "communication" by the end of the month.

Front office· · ·
PAIN.03Observed

After-hours questions become emergency calls.

A tenant locks themselves out at 11 PM, a lightbulb is out, the elevator is making a noise. None of it is an emergency. All of it ends up on the on-call manager because nobody has another way to ask. Real maintenance issues get buried under FAQ traffic.

Front office· · ·
02/How it works

From your handbook
to a printable QR per building
in under two weeks.

No code. No app for residents to install. No new portal to log into. Just four steps from kickoff to a building that answers itself.

Source · Per property
01

Upload your house rules and handbooks.

Lease addenda, move-in packets, parking rules, amenity hours, vendor contacts, FAQs. Anything a resident might ask. Askbud reads it, structures it, and trains an assistant per property or portfolio.

Step 01 of 04
Surface · On-property
02

Place QR codes where residents already stand.

Lobbies, elevators, mailrooms, laundry rooms, parking garages, amenity spaces, move-in welcome kits. A tenant scans and asks. The QR is editable, so you can swap the destination or behavior without reprinting a single sign.

Step 02 of 04
Answer · Multilingual
03

Tenants ask in their own language, anytime.

The assistant answers from your house rules, cites its source, and only answers what it knows. When it doesn’t, it offers to open a maintenance request or message the office. Works across English, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog, Korean, Arabic, and more.

Step 03 of 04
Loop · Closed
04

You see what residents actually need.

Every question, every property, every language. Patterns surface across your portfolio: missing handbook sections, recurring confusion, amenities people are asking about by name. Your office stops guessing what to fix next.

Step 04 of 04
03/Two views, one building

Built for residents.
Designed for managers.

Residents get a building manager on every floor. Property teams get the data the front office used to lose to phone tag.

View 01For residents

A building manager on every floor

Even when the office is closed, the line is busy, or English is not the resident’s first language.

  • 01Get answers to move-in, parking, and amenity questions without emailing the office
  • 02Ask in any language — Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog, Korean, Arabic, and more
  • 03Reach the building 24/7, without waiting for office hours
  • 04Submit a maintenance request the moment the assistant cannot resolve it
  • 05Skip the hunt through a 40-page resident handbook PDF
View 02For managers

The data the front office used to lose

Every question residents ask, captured live, across every property in your portfolio.

  • 01See every question residents ask, across every building, in real time
  • 02Spot the handbook gaps and amenity confusion driving repeat office visits
  • 03Cut down on after-hours calls that were never real emergencies
  • 04Free your office to handle leasing, renewals, and real maintenance
  • 05Compare patterns across your portfolio: which buildings need clearer signage
  • 06Update the handbook once and every assistant in the portfolio re-learns
04/Built for these scenarios

Wherever residents stand,
your building can answer.

From a 400-unit high-rise to a portfolio of single-family homes, the same engine works on any surface where residents show up with questions.

CASE.01Posted

Multifamily & high-rise apartments

Hundreds of units, one office, residents in a dozen languages. QR codes in lobbies, elevators, mailrooms, and amenity floors handle move-in week, package pickup, gym hours, pool rules, and the parking question every new tenant asks.

CASE.02Posted

HOAs & condominium associations

Owners want to know about pet rules, short-term rental policies, noise hours, and assessments. Boards do not want another inbox. A QR code in the lobby answers from the bylaws and house rules — and tells the board which sections residents keep getting tripped up on.

CASE.03Posted

Student housing & co-living

High turnover, international residents, parents asking from two time zones away. Move-in and move-out windows hit your office in waves. A multilingual assistant on every floor handles the predictable questions so your team can handle the ones that actually need a person.

CASE.04Posted

Build-to-rent & SFR portfolios

Houses spread across a city or a region, no front desk anyone can walk into. A QR code on the welcome packet, lockbox, or smart-home guide gives residents a single place to ask about utilities, lawn service, vendors, and trash days — without forcing them to memorize a phone tree.

05/Better than the usual options

Walk into any office today,
and the same five questions
are still on the desk.

Most properties already have a handbook, a portal, and a phone line. Residents still email the office asking when trash day is.

Approach
What it gives you
Resident handbook PDFs
40 pages nobody opens, no language flexibility
Resident portals
Yet another login, used mostly to pay rent and submit work orders
Front office phone & email
Office hours only, expensive to staff, same five questions on repeat
After-hours answering services
Forwards everything back to your on-call manager anyway
Generic website chatbots
Answer from the open internet, never read your house rules
Askbud
Live answers in any language, from your own house rules, plus a dashboard of every question residents ask across your portfolio.
06/Field questions

What managers
ask first.

  • Most properties are live with a working assistant in under two weeks. We help with setup if needed. The assistant only answers from what you provide, so the source material does not need to be polished — just accurate. As you clean up the handbook, the assistant re-learns automatically.

Built for the next move-in,
and every resident after.

Whether you run a single building or a portfolio of properties, the questions your office is fielding right now are the questions a building should be answering for itself. We can walk you through it in 15 minutes, dashboard included.