Vestra / Community OS
The HOA management company, replaced.
Vestra reads the plat you already filed with the county, and your community is born digital: budget drafted, governing documents assembled, dues and daily operations running on software. At a visible discount to the incumbent it replaces. And it runs on a simple pledge: kindness first, and no profit from a neighbor's misfortune.
Our pledge: humane collections, and no profit from misfortune.§ 01 / Why Vestra exists
Quietly hated.
Rarely questioned.
Every builder we talk to says the same thing. They didn't get into homebuilding to run HOAs. But between first closing and turnover, that's exactly what they're doing, through an industry that profits on fines, fees, and friction.
Community associations across the country
FCAR · 2025
New homes are built inside an HOA
Census / NAHB · 2024
In home value inside community associations
FCAR · 2025
Collected by the management industry, every year
IBISWorld · 2025
373,000 associations. Two in three new homes. Thirteen trillion dollars of home value, run by an industry that answers to nobody. Not the builder whose name is on the community, not the board that signs its invoices, and certainly not the resident who gets the form letter. Vestra replaces it.
§ 02 / The replacement
Not a tool for the management company.
The replacement.
The management company is gone. What remains is your community, software that runs it, and, when you want humans in the loop, Vestra's own community stewards. Developers run the declarant period; boards govern after turnover; Karen does the work in between.
With a management company
- Community setup takes months: an attorney for the CC&Rs, a hand-built budget, weeks of back-and-forth.
- $20–40 per door per month for small communities, plus minimums, plus the fee schedule nobody reads.
- Residents wait days for answers they already paid for. Rules arrive as form letters and fines.
- Delinquency becomes a lien on a neighbor's home. In the worst cases, a foreclosure over a few hundred dollars.
With Vestra
- Drop the plat. Draft budget, CC&Rs, and architectural guidelines in about ten minutes, marked for your attorney by design.
- From $9 per door per month, priced as a visible discount to the company it replaces. The setup engine is free.
- Residents get answers in seconds, with the section cited. Rules get explained, not weaponized.
- Collections that lead with kindness: payment plans and hardship review before anything else. We will never make money off a neighbor's misfortune.
§ 03 / Born digital
Months of setup.
Or about ten minutes.
The demo that makes builders say "wait, do that again." Bring the plat you already filed with the county; leave with a community that runs.
Drop the plat
PDF, CAD, DWG, or a photographed sheet. Vision reads lots, common areas, road footage, and phases, with a confidence score on every field and an honest question for anything it can't read.
Budget & docs draft themselves
A confidence-rated operating budget from your actual lot count and road footage. CC&Rs and architectural guidelines drafted, formatted, and ready for your attorney.
Karen is configured
The moment the community exists, Karen has read its documents. Buyers, residents, and your board ask her anything. She answers with the section number.
~10 minutes on a clean vector plat · scans take a confirmation pass · drafts arrive marked for your attorney
§ 04 / Meet Karen
Your resident's concierge.
Your board's analyst.
The neighborhood's best neighbor.
Trained on your CC&Rs, bylaws, and architectural guidelines. Knows every section by number. She cites the document, owns her mistakes, and knows when a question deserves a human.She does not make stuff up. And she's built to bring neighbors together, not tear them apart.
Yes, we named her Karen on purpose. She is everything that Karen is not.
Concierge during construction
Help desk with citations
Analyst before every meeting
Declarant assistant to turnover
session / cedar-ridge / lot-112
Hi, I'm Karen. Pick a question and I'll show you how I answer at Cedar Ridge.
§ 05 / Our pledge
No one should lose their home
over HOA dues.
We pledge to do everything in our power to keep collections humane: kindness first, payment plans early, a hardship review always. And one thing is absolute, at any price, for any customer: we will never make money off a neighbor's misfortune.
§ 06 / Who it's for
One platform.
Three ways in.
Builders bring the community into the world. Boards inherit it. Residents live in it. Vestra is the same system underneath all three. That's the point.
Communities set up in minutes, buyers delighted through construction, the HOA handoff handled, and your build data returned to you as intelligence. Speak ROI; we'll speak plat.
BUILDER_VIEW →02 / The switchersFor BoardsYou volunteered to help the neighborhood, not to become a collections agency. Defensible decisions, reassurance-first money, and a fair way to leave your management company.
BOARD_VIEW →03 / The neighborsFor ResidentsA community hub that leads with community. Answers in seconds with the rule cited, architectural requests that can approve the moment you file them, and Vestra+, the brain your new home was born with.
RESIDENT_VIEW →§ 07 / A look inside
This is the
actual product.
No mockups, no staged screenshots. This is Vestra itself: the builder's portfolio view, Karen at work, and the communities they serve. What you see in the demo is what your buyers get.
Active communities
Communities
4
2 selling · 2 in setup
Doors under management
412
+47 this quarter
Buyer questions to Karen
1,284
this month
per month, software replacing the whole management contract. The company it replaces charges $20 to $40 for small communities, before the fee schedule.
session / board packet · thursday 7pm
Karen, what's on us this month?
Three things: one ARC request past its review window, the pool contract renews Friday, and the draft budget needs a vote. The packet's drafted, and every number has its source.
§ 08 / Pricing
A visible discount to
the thing it replaces.
Not a race to the bottom. A full replacement, priced under the incumbent at every tier, and the setup engine is free. It's the wedge.
Software, self-managed
$9 /door/mo
$299/mo minimum
The whole operating system: Karen, dues, ARC, votes, and documents, for boards that run their own community.
Software + shared management
$16 /door/mo
$600/mo minimum
Everything in Tier 1, plus Vestra's shared community managers replacing the portfolio-management contract.
Software + dedicated management
$25+ /door/mo
$6,000/mo minimum
Dedicated community stewards on Vestra rails, scaled to communities that want one person on site, or several.
Industry anchors: portfolio management $10 to $20/door/mo, small communities $20 to $40 with $300 to $600 minimums (see pricing page for sources) · builder sales module priced separately · no per-fine revenue, ever
VESTRA IS PILOT-STAGE, BUILDING WITH FOUNDING BUILDERS IN NORTH CAROLINA. EVERY NUMBER ON THIS SITE IS INDUSTRY DATA WITH A NAMED SOURCE, A PRODUCT FACT, OR A CLEARLY-LABELED TARGET. NO MARKETING MATH. WHEN WE DON'T HAVE A NUMBER YET, WE SAY SO. JOIN THE FOUNDING BUILDER PROGRAM →
§ 09 / Start
Show us a plat.
Bring the plat you filed with the county. We'll read it live on the call, and you'll leave the demo with a draft budget and governing documents for a community you're actually building.