Maintenance intake

Property management maintenance intake workflow for tenant requests and vendor follow-through

Turn tenant maintenance emails, portal requests, texts, photos, vendor updates, owner approvals, and completion notes into one trackable workflow.

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Free fit call · CAD $750 Workflow Blueprint · Builds from CAD $3,500

Built by Duncan Anderson, an AI engineer and data scientist who builds practical automation around real operating workflows.

What usually breaks

Where property managers lose time or revenue

The first audit is deliberately narrow. We identify the repeatable workflow, the owner, the inputs, the status points, and the places where a small automation would actually survive daily use.

Tenant requests arrive through too many channels and need manual re-entry.

Urgent items, repeat issues, and photo evidence are not consistently categorized.

Vendor dispatch and owner approvals live in separate email threads.

Weekly owner updates require manual status cleanup.

Workflow Blueprint

A fixed first step before any larger automation build

For CAD $750, the Blueprint maps the current workflow, identifies the real bottleneck, scores what is worth automating, and produces a fixed build quote. The fee is fully credited toward your first build.

Workflow map with inputs, owners, tools, handoffs, and status points.

Automate / keep human / redesign / buy recommendation.

First-build plan with trigger, data source, review step, output, and owner.

Risk boundary for what AI can prepare and what your team must approve.

Offer path

Document Intake and Review Workflow

An intake queue with missing-info checks, summaries, classifications, status, and a human approval step before records change.

First build could be

A small workflow your team can review

Unified maintenance intake queue from email/forms/portal exports.

Not this

Clear scope boundary

This is not property management software replacement; it cleans up intake, vendor follow-through, and status.

Workflow map

The audit follows the real work, not a generic AI checklist

The audit targets tenant/vendor admin load, where small firms often know the process but lack a dependable system.

Request intake, property/unit, tenant, category, urgency, photo/document attachments, and duplicate detection.

Triage decision: emergency, routine, tenant responsibility, owner approval, warranty/vendor callback, or quote needed.

Vendor assignment, scheduling, status updates, completion proof, invoice capture, and owner/tenant communication.

Reporting for open aging, repeat issue types, vendor response time, and owner approvals.

Automation candidates

Likely first builds

The right first build is usually small, specific, and close to revenue or deadline pressure.

Unified maintenance intake queue from email/forms/portal exports.

AI triage labels for urgency, trade category, duplicate issue, and missing information.

Vendor follow-up reminders and tenant status update drafts.

Owner approval packets with summary, photos, estimate, and recommended next action.

Audit output

What you get back

The goal is a decision-ready plan: what to automate first, what to keep manual, and what data or tool connection is needed.

A maintenance request lifecycle map.

A triage taxonomy for urgency, category, owner approval, and vendor routing.

A status-update and vendor follow-up automation plan.

A reporting view for open tickets, aging, vendor response, and repeat issues.

Request a fit review

Send the workflow that is costing time, deals, or deadline confidence

Specifics help. Include the tools involved, how the work arrives, who owns it, where status gets lost, and what would count as a useful win.

What happens next

I review every workflow personally and usually reply within two business days. If there is a fit, the CAD $750 Workflow Blueprint produces the map, recommendation, and fixed build quote. Focused builds start at CAD $3,500 and normally take 7–10 business days.

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