Every home, on the record
A home’s whole story, kept honest.
Merit gives every home one tamper-evident record: started when it’s built, handed over with the keys, and alive through every tenancy. Builder, owner, landlord, tenant: everyone writes to the same history, and no one can quietly change it.
From the first nail to the last lease
The record travels with the home.
Built
Every material and contractor logged as the home goes up: quality you can prove, not claim.
Handed over
At closing, the record transfers with the keys. The new owner inherits the home’s history, not a drawer of receipts.
Lived in
Every message, repair, and rent payment between landlord and tenant: one shared history both sides see identically.
One chain of history. No side owns it. No one can rewrite it.
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Which one are you?
Wherever you sit in the life of a home, it’s the same honest record.
I’m a Landlord
Keep every message, repair, and rent payment in one record you and your tenant both trust.
Get started →I’m a Tenant
Build a verified rental record you own, and carry it with you to your next home.
Get started → Early accessI’m a Builder
Track every material and contractor as you build · and hand the buyer a verified record at closing.
See how it works →Our Software
Our software gives every rental a single, trusted record · a shared source of truth for everything that happens to it: how it was built, how it changed hands, and everything between landlord and tenant once it’s lived in. The goal is a market built on proof instead of memory: fairer, simpler, and safer for builders, owners, landlords, tenants, everyone who makes a home happen.
Learn more about our softwareEvery conversation, kept
Messages, requests, and notices, time-stamped and impossible to quietly change.
Rent that proves itself
Every on-time payment becomes part of a record the renter owns.
Fair to both sides
One record. No thumb on the scale. Built for landlords and renters alike.
Private beta · 2026Encrypted & tamper-evidentBuilt in New YorkEven-handed by design
Why Merit
Real estate runs on stories nobody can check.
What was built gets buried in receipts. Handoffs lose the history. Landlords keep one version, tenants keep another. When a deposit, a repair, or a missed message goes wrong, it’s one word against another. Merit replaces all of it with a single record no one can quietly change.
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Protected
Every message, payment, and repair is saved and time-stamped the moment it happens. The record stays whole, for both of you.
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Fair
No one's thumb on the scale. Landlord and tenant see the identical history: same messages, same timeline, same proof.
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Human
Plain and warm, never a faceless system. We explain the serious things simply and speak fairly to everyone in the rental.
The rental record
Once a home is lived in: everything that happens, kept in one fair place.
Messaging, requests and maintenance, a verified record, a Property Score, and the Merit Passport, designed so landlords and tenants work from the exact same source of truth.
One thread. Both sides. Saved forever.
No more lost texts or "I never got that." Landlord and tenant message in a single shared thread that's saved to the record as it happens, so the conversation is always there when it matters.
- Live, shared thread both parties see identically
- Every message time-stamped to the record
- "Unsend" leaves a marker; nothing vanishes silently
Repairs, notices, and upkeep · with a paper trail.
Maintenance, notices of entry, and proof-of-insurance run through one flow: photo-backed, status-tracked, and closed only when both sides agree. Landlords can schedule recurring upkeep too.
- Typed requests with two-party "both agreed it's fixed" resolution
- Preventive maintenance schedules, sealed into the record
- Full status history and response times for both sides
A record designed to be defensible.
Every consequential action writes to a tamper-evident chain. Either party can export the full tenancy record as a PDF and JSON, and independently verify that not a single entry has been changed.
- One-click export to PDF + JSON
- Cryptographic hash chain anyone can re-verify
- Append-only: corrections are new entries, never edits
42 events · hash chain intact · verified end-to-end
A property that sells itself on proof.
Every well-run building earns a Merit Score, computed only from the sealed record: repairs handled, emergencies answered, upkeep on schedule, disputes resolved fairly. Share it with prospective tenants and agents with one verified link.
- Receipts only · every point traces to a real, sealed event
- A 0–100 score with a plain breakdown anyone can read
- Share a live, time-boxed verified link · no account needed to view
Computed from the sealed record, shareable as a verified link
Rent, logged the moment it lands.Coming soon
Pay or collect rent and have it written straight to the record · with off-rail payments (Zelle, check, cash) attested and logged too, so the payment history is complete and trusted by both sides.
- On-time history that builds tenant reputation
- Attested logging for off-platform payments
- Receipts both sides can stand behind
Everything in Merit
The whole product, at a glance.
Every feature links to how it works. Nothing hidden behind a demo call.
The Merit difference
One record. Both sides. Impossible to quietly change.
Other platforms store your data. Merit proves it. Every action is linked into a cryptographic chain, and anyone can check the history is whole without taking our word for it.
Something happens
A message, a repair update, a payment · any consequential action in the tenancy.
It's sealed into the chain
The event is hashed and linked to the one before it, then time-stamped to the shared record.
Anyone can verify it
Export the record and re-check the chain yourself. If a single entry was altered, the proof breaks.
Merit vs. the alternatives
Property software runs their business. Merit protects the relationship.
A shared, tamper-evident record neither side can rewrite, something LOFT, Buildium, and RentRedi don't sell. See exactly how Merit stacks up.
See the full comparison →Who it's for
Fair, for both sides.
Most rental software is built for the landlord, and the tenant just logs in. Merit is built for the relationship, so both people get something real.
For landlords
Fewer disputes. Better tenants. Less worry.
Run your tenancies on a record that protects you if anything is ever questioned · and signals to good renters that you're the kind of landlord worth renting from.
- A defensible history of every interaction
- Requests, preventive upkeep, and messages in one place
- A verified Property Score you can share to fill units faster
For tenants
A home you can prove you took care of.
Keep your own copy of every message, repair, and on-time payment, and turn a good rental history into a reputation that follows you to the next place.
- Your own portal and your own copy of the record
- A shareable Merit Passport that follows you to the next place
Renting is where life happens. It deserves a record both sides can trust.
The Merit Passport
Earn it. Own it. Share it.
Good renters rarely get credit for it. The Merit Passport turns a real rental history (careful tenancies, respectful communication, requests resolved by agreement) into a portable reputation the renter owns and shares as a read-only, time-boxed link. Payment history strengthens it as rent-through-Merit rolls out.
- Built only from verified, real history · never guesswork
- Owned by the tenant: share a live, expiring link and revoke it anytime
- Helps thin-credit renters prove they're a safe bet
A note from the founders
We started Merit after watching the same argument play out over and over: a good landlord and a good tenant, each holding half the story, with no record they both trusted. Merit keeps one history that both people can see and neither can quietly change. It's a small idea. We think it changes how renting feels.
Matt & Philip · Founders of Merit · New York
Proof you can both trust
See the record both sides can stand on.
Book a 15-minute walkthrough, or get early access to the private beta. We'll show you a real tenancy, end to end, and let you verify it yourself.
No credit card · No pressure