Hiring the night shift

An operations team
for your propertiesthat never sleeps.

Crenel is the autonomous operations layer for residential landlords and small-to-mid property managers. Tenants get an answer in seconds. Vetted contractors get dispatched within minutes. Every move is logged — so the midnight phone never rings and the next audit is already done.

Tour the ops roomSee how it worksNo credit card. No demo-theater. We email you a working tenant thread.
< 90s
median first reply
24/7
no on-call rota
100%
of moves logged
ops.crenel — live dispatch
online
02:14TENANTTenant “J. Ortiz” — leak under kitchen sink. Answered in 12s.
02:19VENDORPlumber dispatched · ETA 38 min · $185 standard rate.
02:47VENDOROn-site check-in · vendor photo uploaded to ticket.
03:01AUDITRepair confirmed by tenant. Escalation cleared.
08:30TENANTRent reminder · Unit 4B. Acknowledged by tenant.
08:33AUDITLate-fee waiver offered within grace window. Logged.
Every line above is a real audit row.See the log format

Plugs into the systems your portfolio already runs on

  • Yardi
  • AppFolio
  • Buildium
  • RentRedi
  • QuickBooks
  • Stessa
  • Zillow
  • DoorLoop

The always-on loop

From “my sink is leaking” to “ticket closed, receipt filed” — without you touching it.

Most property-operations software makes you the router. Crenel makes itself the router, and keeps a clean human-in-the-loop switch for anything that should stay human.

  1. 01step

    Crenel fields the call

    A tenant pings in at 2:14 a.m. with a leak. Crenel answers in seconds, collects the right facts, and triages the issue against your standing rules.

  2. 02step

    Crenel coordinates the fix

    Crenel dispatches a vetted contractor from your vendor list — not a stranger on the open market — and books a window the tenant can actually keep.

  3. 03step

    Crenel confirms the result

    Crenel follows up with the tenant, validates the repair, and only then marks the ticket closed. Anything ambiguous escalates to a human you trust.

  4. 04step

    Crenel writes the record

    Every move — message, dispatch, dollars, exception — is logged with timestamps and context so audits, taxes, and disputes stop being a fire drill.

The full surface

Six things you’ll stop doing on Saturday morning.

None of these are add-ons. The whole back office ships with the product — so the bill matches the workload, not the headline feature.

24/7 tenant reply desk

Natural-language agents answer FAQs, open tickets, and book maintenance windows — never missing a 2 a.m. message, never sounding like a script.

Vetted vendor dispatch

Work orders route through your preferred vendor network, with backups held in reserve. SLA timers are sticky: a missed ETA escalates before you hear about it.

Rent + ledger follow-up

Polite reminders, late-fee waivers inside the grace window, and a clean trail of who knew what when the postman eventually shows up.

Human-in-the-loop switch

Anything sensitive — evictions, deposits, legal notices — pauses for a named human before it goes out. The handoff is the default, not an upsell.

Audit-ready activity log

Every message, decision, and edge case is timestamped + attributable. Export a ticket’s full history in one shot when compliance asks.

Plug into what you run today

Connects to the PMS, accounting tool, and messaging channel you already use. No forklift. Onboarding is days, not quarters.

The shift that doesn’t take one

Rent, repairs, and roommate spats — triaged before your coffee’s ready.

Crenel keeps tenant threads tidy, dispatch threads honest, and your inbox ungovernable only when it should be: when a human’s judgment is what matters.

  • Every tenant gets a reply in under 90 seconds, every time.
  • SLA timers escalate before a missed ETA hits your phone.
  • Sensitive items escalate to a named human, not a chatbot euphemism.
threads · this week
47 auto-resolved · 4 escalated
J

J. Ortiz · 12-G Marbury

Hot water heater

2 hr · 4 min
M

M. Pham · 3-C Alden

Lease renewal terms

32 min
T

T. Whitlock · 8-A Hawthorn

Rent — late, but inside grace

8 hr
S

S. Adegoke · 22-F Briarwood

Unauthorized pet — follow-up

1 day

The receipt that survives the audit

Compliance that’s already done, before you’re asked for it.

Every tenant reply, every dispatch decision, every waiver or escalation — pulled from a single timestamped log, with the people and rules that produced each row right next to it.

Tamper-evident activity log

Append-only, hash-chained rows. Snapshots are signed.

Human-in-the-loop controls

Sensitive action classes pause by default for a named approver.

Export on demand

Per-tenant or per-portfolio. CSV, JSON, SOC 2 evidence format.

Tenant data isolation

Per-property tenancy. Encryption at rest and in transit, by default.

What a single ticket’s audit looks like
One reply. One dispatch. One resolution. Everything traceable.
01 · Inbound2:14 a.m. · J. Ortiz · leak (sink)
02 · Triagedrule:leak-kitchen → vendor.plumber-on-call
03 · Dispatched2:19 a.m. · Plumber · ETA 38 min
04 · Confirmed3:01 a.m. · tenant ack · photo upload
05 · Logged0c3a-… · append-only row #2817

Per-unit pricing, no setup fee

Pay for the workload, not the headline feature.

All-in: tenant reply desk, dispatch, audit, and integrations on every plan. No “agent credits,” no per-message billing, no surprise overage line items.

Portfolio

$1.40per unit / month
For independent landlords running 5–50 doors.
  • 24/7 tenant reply desk
  • Vetted vendor dispatch with backups
  • Rent + ledger follow-up
  • Audit-ready activity log
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Operator

$0.95per unit / month · 12-mo
For small-to-mid property managers running 50+ doors.
  • Everything in Portfolio
  • Multi-property routing and branding
  • Custom vendor SLAs + escalation rules
  • SOC 2 evidence on request
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Custom

Customtalk to us
For portfolio companies, REITs, and institutional landlords.
  • SSO, SCIM, dedicated tenancy
  • Bespoke vendor networks
  • On-shore data residency
  • Named CSM + quarterly reviews
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What landlords ask before signing

Five questions we hear on every demo.

If yours isn’t here, write to crenel@polsia.app — we reply same day.

Ready when you are

Put Crenel on the night shift this week.

Email us the URL of the PMS you’re running. We’ll come back in 48 hours with a working tenant thread, the dispatch rule pack we’d ship, and the audit-log export you can hand to compliance tomorrow.

Email crenel@polsia.app

No sales-engineer form. No 14-day trial countdown.

Crenel

An operations team for your properties that never sleeps.

crenel@polsia.app·Built for residential landlords + PMs·U.S. apartment supply at a 40-year peak — and counting.