We manage NYC buildings.
This is the software we couldn’t buy.
BoroBeacon comes out of a working NYC management company. We built it for our own portfolio first, and we still run our buildings on it every day. That keeps the product honest in a way a pitch deck never could.
Less software, fewer surprises.
NYC property managers don't need another dashboard. They need to know when a violation lands, when a hearing gets scheduled, and when a certify-by date gets close, without refreshing a portal or paying a retainer for the privilege.
BoroBeacon watches every NYC agency that matters and emails the right person when something needs attention. The same system handles the work your buildings generate on their own. A tenant request becomes a work order. An inspection goes on the record. A notice goes out and you can see who received it. The city's paperwork and yours, in one place.
We charge a fair, published price. We never upsell. We never lock features behind an "enterprise" tier that you could just build yourself in a weekend. And we use the same software you do, on our own buildings, every day.
Four things we won't compromise on
Operator-first
Every feature is built because a property manager asked for it. We use BoroBeacon on our own buildings every day, so the tool has to work in the real world — not just on a pitch deck.
Price honestly
Property software has been overpriced for decades. We believe a small portfolio owner should get the same insight as a REIT. Our pricing is published, transparent, and designed for the customer we used to be.
Never silent
A violation you find on Monday is cheaper than one you find in court on Friday. We lean toward too many alerts, not too few — and give you the controls to tune them.
Stay out of the way
We don't want to be a dashboard you have to visit. We want to be a quiet email that shows up when something changes, with a one-click path to get it off your plate.
A very short history
The need
As property managers ourselves, we felt the need to build something we could actually rely on. Nothing on the market fit how our team worked day-to-day, and we knew we were not the only ones. So we started sketching the tool we wished we had.
The first version
We wired NYC Open Data directly into a lean, modern stack. It ran on free-tier infrastructure and covered all 7 agencies. Every feature was tested against our own portfolio before anyone else touched it.
Opening it up
Enough other managers asked for access that we turned it into a real product. Along the way it outgrew compliance monitoring and picked up the rest of the job: tenant requests, work orders, inspections, notices, and a Local Law calendar. BoroBeacon opens to outside customers in 2026.
We don't buzz you on Saturday morning.
Compliance is a weekday job. Most BoroBeacon alerts are queued and delivered during normal working hours, Monday through Friday. Weekends and evenings are quiet by default.
The exception: a small set of alerts we consider genuinely urgent — things like a Class C HPD heat/hot water complaint or a same-day OATH hearing reminder — will still land in your inbox outside of work hours because they affect tenant safety or a legal deadline you cannot miss. Everything else waits until Monday.
You can always tune which alerts are considered urgent from your settings. Default is sensible — most people never touch it.
If something’s missing, tell us.
Most of what’s in BoroBeacon exists because a manager asked for it. We read every request and reply to every message. If it would help you run your buildings, there’s a good chance it would help us run ours too.
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