Every other evaluation in this category opens with a migration. This one does not. We run beside the system that holds your general ledger, take the coordination work off your people, and price by the door rather than by the seat.
Runs alongside AppFolio, Buildium, Rentvine and Rent Manager. Your accounting never moves.
Not the ones asked on the demo call. The ones asked afterwards, in the room we are not in. Each one is answered here with something you can hold us to.
You would not. Sitting beside the system of record is the design premise, not a compatibility afterthought. Layer runs alongside AppFolio, Buildium, Rentvine or Rent Manager, and the general ledger, the trust accounting and the year-end file stay exactly where your controller left them. We do not ask for the one thing that kills most evaluations in this category.
The commitment — your accounting never moves.
Adoption is a licence problem before it is a training problem. When software is sold by the seat, somebody has to decide which coordinator is worth a login, and the people left off the list are the ones who keep working the old way. Every plan here carries unlimited users. The maintenance tech, the weekend coordinator and the owner relations assistant all get an account, and onboarding is done by a person rather than a help centre.
The commitment — unlimited users on every plan, never per seat.
Lock-in in this category is usually built out of your own data. Full export on request, at any time, on every plan — a standing term rather than a concession negotiated on the way out. And because your accounting never moved in the first place, the part that would genuinely be hard to leave was never ours to hold.
The commitment — full data export on request, any time.
Two different bets about what your bill should follow. One follows the size of your team. The other follows the number on your management agreements.
Seats, or units, or both — with the modules that matter priced separately on top.
Doors under an active management agreement. One number, and it is a number you already track.
Another licence, and a small internal argument about whether that person needs one.
Nothing. Every plan carries unlimited users, so nobody on your team has to earn a login.
Often the next tier up, or an add-on attached to the capability you came for in the first place.
Nothing more inside your plan. There are no feature gates within a tier — only genuinely separate lines of work, priced as add-ons.
The bill follows your headcount, which is the number you were trying to hold flat.
The bill follows your doors, which is the number your revenue follows too.
Software. The coordinating stays where it was, on your team.
Software at Layer. An AI teammate at Operate. Us, doing the work, at Autopilot.
Above Layer, what you are buying stops being software at all.
The category sells tools and leaves the coordinating with you. Operate puts an AI agent on the leasing, resident and owner conversations that used to sit in someone’s inbox overnight. Autopilot has us running the workflows outright, with a named account lead and response times written into the agreement. All of it priced the same way — by the door, with unlimited users.
See how the three tiers priceLucent Property Group is a real property-management company, and it is organization number one on this platform. Not a demo tenant, not a sandbox — the live account the company is run from.
Owner, resident and guest. The accounts our own residents and owners sign into are accounts on this platform. There is no separate house build kept behind the scenes.
The monthly owner statement our owners open on the first is produced by the same code that would produce yours.
Maintenance intake, routing and vendor dispatch. Our coordinators work the queue you would be working, on the days it is busiest.
That is the whole of the claim. We run the company on it, so the defects reach us before they reach you — and we are not going to decorate that with adoption numbers we would have to invent.
See the company we run on itKept short on purpose. It is easier to trust a company that tells you where it ends, and cheaper for both of us than finding out in month four.
And we have no ambition to become one. Accounting software is a long, exacting discipline with an audit trail attached, and the incumbents are good at it. Being built to sit beside that work is also the reason nothing has to be moved to start.
We do not try to be. The comparison this platform is built for is a coordination hire, not another subscription — and a plan that costs more than the software you are used to can still be the least expensive way to get the work done.
Past that, a portfolio has enough edges that a sign-up form is the wrong front door. Enterprise is a conversation, and it starts with us listening rather than quoting.
Layer changes the surfaces your team works on. It does not take a single item off their desk. If the problem is that there are not enough hours in your coordinator’s day, that is what Operate and Autopilot are for — and we would rather say so now than after you have signed.
Start on Layer, beside the system you already run. Move up when it is the coordination costing you, not the software.
No migration, no per-seat maths, and your data out whenever you want it.