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For residential home builders

You’ve built hundreds of homes. They should still be paying you.

Afterkey turns the homes you’ve already closed into a service business: a maintenance plan you price — from reminders to the whole house — repairs paid through your branded portal with your markup on them, and your subs on the work. You stop being the only number they have.

Set up your first homeSee the math on 60 homes
  • $149/month + $10 per active home
  • No contracts
  • 30-day money-back guarantee

$10 a home is small next to a $40-a-month plan — or a $500 whole-house one — on the same home. The plan covers maintenance; warranty work stays free.

How you make money

Every home you’ve built is a customer

Afterkey is a post-closing software platform for residential home builders that turns the homes they have already closed into a service business: homeowner maintenance memberships the builder prices, paid repair work billed through the builder’s own branded portal, and warranty callbacks routed to the builder’s subs. Easier is the side effect. More money from homes you already built is the point.

A membership you price, billed to your account

Sell your homeowners a maintenance plan at whatever your market carries — $40 a month for the schedule and the reminders, $500 for a full-service plan where your subs handle the lawn, the HVAC, the appliances, the plumbing, the septic, everything that goes into a house. Afterkey never sets your price. The homeowner puts a card or bank account on file in your branded portal, and the plan bills monthly to your own account.

Repair work you’ve been giving away

Today a homeowner calls, you send a sub, the sub bills them direct, and you coordinated the whole thing for free. On Afterkey the sub quotes the job, your markup goes on top, the homeowner approves the price and pays in your portal, and the money settles to your account. You never invoice or chase a payment.

First call for the next job

You’re in the homeowner’s life every month: the reminder, the filter change, the furnace tune-up. When the basement, the addition, or the neighbor’s referral comes up, you’re the one they call. Afterkey is a lead engine for homes you’ve already closed.

From reminders to the whole house

A maintenance plan is whatever you decide to sell. You pick what each tier includes and what it costs; the portal shows the homeowner the list before they join.

  1. $20–40 a month

    The schedule and the reminders

    The plan runs the calendar. The visits are extra, priced before you approve them.

    Service visits are not included. Book one from the reminder and the sub quotes it; you approve the price before anyone comes out.

  2. $100–250 a month

    Scheduled service

    The visits are in. Your builder’s subs come on the schedule, labor included, and you never book a thing.

    Labor for the scheduled visits is included. Parts, and any repair the sub finds while there, are priced and approved before they’re charged.

  3. $500 a month and up

    The whole house

    One number a month, one company to call. The trades who built the house keep it running.

    All scheduled work and labor is included. Repairs outside the plan are still priced and approved first — no surprise bills at any tier.

Example tiers and prices. You set every number and every line item; your market decides what it carries, and Afterkey never sets your price. Whatever the tier, the plan covers maintenance; warranty work stays free.

“My homes are new.” Prospects assume a new home has nothing to service yet. It does, from the day the keys change hands, whoever built it — HVAC serviced twice a year, boiler or furnace serviced annually, dryer vent cleaned, water heater flushed, appliances on the manufacturer’s schedule. Warranty covers what you got wrong and stays free. The plan covers the rest.

Every line item in each tier, and how the money moves

How the workflow works

A request handled without you in the middle

Homeowner’s phone to your sub’s list and back, without you in the middle. You’re notified, not asked.

  1. 1

    The homeowner submits a request

    In your branded portal, with photos and two sentences — not a 9pm text to your cell.

  2. 2

    It goes straight to the right sub

    The sub you assigned to that trade on that home gets it the moment it’s submitted — a link, an email, a clock. You’re notified, not asked.

  3. 3

    They handle it between them

    The homeowner and the sub schedule it and talk in one thread. Status and photos come from the driveway. You see every message and touch nothing you don’t want to.

  4. 4

    Warranty stays warranty. Billable gets billed.

    Classified when it comes in, from the home’s warranty dates and plan. If the sub thinks it isn’t warranty, he flags it and you decide. Anything billable is priced and approved by the homeowner before a dollar moves, and it closes on the home’s record.

Warranty work stays warranty, billable work gets billed, and nobody — not the sub, not the homeowner, not you at 9pm — has to argue about which is which after the fact.

Homeowner experience

Your name, your logo, your colors, your phone number. We stay in the background.

  • A maintenance schedule built from their own house’s manuals, with reminders when something is due
  • A portal under your name to submit a request with photos, watch it move, and talk to the sub directly
  • No surprise bills. You see what it is and what it costs, and you approve the price before any work is charged.
  • Their documents, warranties, and service history in one place, for the life of the home

Some will still text you the first month. Then they try the portal once — a photo, two sentences, a sub who answers them directly — and that’s what they do the next time.

Your logo · Your colors · Your name on everything · Your phone number. We stay in the background.

Two builders, one platform, and each buyer sees their own builder’s name on the portal they pay in.

A pickup truck pulling into the driveway of a white colonial home at dusk

Sub experience

Your subs get a list, not a group text

A sub signs in to one list: the jobs assigned to him, each with the address, the issue, the homeowner’s photos, and the home’s history. He taps a status and attaches a finished-work photo from the driveway. On a paid job, his share arrives without him invoicing anyone.

The homeowner says nobody came; the sub says he called. Now there’s a record, so you don’t eat the second trip. Subs use it free, and unlimited subs are included in your base.

What the sub sees

Real economics

The math on 60 closed homes

Arithmetic on inputs you control: your plan price, your markup, and how many homeowners say yes. Afterkey is early and has no customer averages to publish, so none of this is a benchmark. Substitute your own numbers.

The repair line is the part most builders miss: one $400 job a quarter per home — a dryer vent, a hose bib, a dishwasher — at 15% markup is $60 to you each time, on work you were already coordinating for nothing.

Example, not a customer result

60 closed homes, a $40/month plan, per year

Membership, every home joins$2,400 a month
$28,800
Membership, half of them join
$14,400
10 of them take a $500/month whole-house plan insteadgross, before you pay your subs for the work
$60,000
Your markup on one priced repair a quarter60 homes × 4 jobs × $60
$14,400
Afterkey at 60 active homes$749 a month
$8,988

There’s no platform fee on what your homeowners pay you — you pay only processing, at the published rates on the pricing page.

Who built it

Built by a builder. Priced in writing.

Afterkey is built by a residential home builder on Long Island. Someone who has handed over keys, taken the call three weeks later, and sent a sub over for nothing. We don’t have customer logos to show you yet, and we’re not going to invent any. What we can put in writing is the price, the meters, and the guarantee.

Seven things we put in writing

  • No quote calls
  • 24-month rate lock
  • No per-user fees
  • No contracts
  • No surprise bills
  • Email free forever
  • 30-day money-back guarantee

Read all seven in plain language

Pricing

One plan. Published price. The homeowner revenue is yours.

One plan: $149/month plus $10 per active home. No per-user fees, no contracts, no quote calls. What you charge your homeowners is yours; Afterkey never sets it, and takes no platform fee on it.

It replaces the spreadsheet, the group text, the free coordinating, and the warranty module inside Buildertrend, which starts at $829 a month. It doesn’t replace your CRM or your scheduling software; it starts the day those stop.

Set up your first homeAdd-ons, processing rates, and the rate lock

Questions

Questions builders ask first

Read all 21 questions

How much does Afterkey cost?

Afterkey has one plan with no tiers: $149 per month base, which includes unlimited team members and subcontractors, plus $10 per month per active home. Prospect homes (past builds you are pitching a membership) and archived homes (read-only history) are free; a home bills while you are actively serving it. Optional AI and SMS add-ons are priced on the pricing page. There is no platform fee on homeowner payments; the only cost on membership dues and repair payments is payment processing, at Afterkey’s published flat rates, also on the pricing page. Afterkey never sets or caps what the builder charges homeowners for a membership or a repair. Onboarding is free. Afterkey does not offer a free trial; every new account is instead covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Do homeowners have to pay for a membership to get warranty work?

No. Warranty repairs are the builder’s obligation and stay free for every homeowner, member or not, and a homeowner who does not join never waits longer for warranty work. The membership sells maintenance — what every house needs from day one, regardless of who built it — and it is never a paywall in front of warranty service.

What does a homeowner actually get for $40 a month?

Whatever you put in the plan — you define each tier and the portal shows the homeowner the list before they join. In the example bottom tier, $40 a month buys the calendar: a maintenance schedule built from that house’s own manuals, a reminder by email or text when something is due, your branded portal to submit a request and talk to the sub, and the home’s documents and service history in one place. The service visits are not included at that tier; the homeowner books one from the reminder, the sub quotes it, and they approve the price before anyone comes out. Move up a tier and the visits and labor are in: two HVAC tune-ups a year, the annual boiler service, the dryer vent, the water heater flush, appliances on the manufacturer’s interval. At the top, the whole house — lawn, gutters, septic, snow — for one number a month.

Who decides whether a request is warranty or billable?

Every request is classified warranty or billable automatically when it comes in, from the home’s warranty dates (plus any per-trade extension you set) and whether the home is on a plan; a home with no warranty date on file defaults to warranty, never to a bill. The sub cannot change it: if the “leak” turns out to be a hose bib left open, he flags it, you decide, and the homeowner is told. You can also convert a request yourself at any time. Nothing billable is ever charged until the homeowner has approved the price. Warranty work stays warranty, billable work gets billed, and nobody argues about which is which after the fact.

A builder with 200 homes on a plan has an asset.

A builder with a phone full of homeowner texts has a job. Set up your first home, add your subs, and put a plan in front of a homeowner this week. Onboarding is free — add a home, add your subs, and start the same day. 30-day money-back guarantee — if it’s not working for you, we refund every dollar Afterkey charged.

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