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Doughy is an AI-powered operations platform for real estate professionals. It gives you an AI assistant that works leasing, bookkeeping, lead follow-up and tenant communications, with specialist agents on the way for deal analysis — so you can focus on growing your portfolio instead of managing it.

Doughy is built for solo landlords, real estate investors, property managers, and small teams who want to automate repetitive operations without hiring more staff. If you’re juggling spreadsheets, VAs, and disconnected tools — Doughy replaces all of that.

Most PM tools force you to choose between simplicity and power. Doughy combines AI-powered tenant communication, maintenance request triage, CRM-level lead tracking, and smart follow-ups in one platform designed to replace your PM software and your virtual assistant. It’s built for the investor-landlord hybrid — the persona most tools ignore.

Doughy handles communication, lead management, workflow automation, and AI operations natively. For specialized functions like accounting, it is built to sit alongside the tools you already use: your ledger exports in the CSV shape QuickBooks imports today, and direct account connections are on the way.

Doughy is currently in early access. Join the waitlist to be among the first to get access.

Healthy skepticism is warranted — "AI" is slapped on too many things. Here’s where Doughy uses AI that actually works: an AI assistant that drafts answers to the tenant questions already covered in your listing, maintenance request classification and triage, drafted replies, at any hour, to the inquiries forwarded from the listing sites, asking the questions you would ask, and AI-composed emails and texts that sound like you. The bar should be: does it save you measurable hours per week?

Doughy gives you one AI assistant that works leasing, bookkeeping and follow-up through its own tools. Specialist agents for leasing, books and acquisitions are on the way. You set the rules, approve what matters, and let it handle the rest.

Chatbots wait for a question and answer it. AI agents act proactively — they can see that a new lead came in, draft the first response, offer viewing times, update the CRM, and queue a follow-up for your OK if the prospect goes quiet. Chatbots are conversational. Agents are operational. Doughy is built around agents.

Tenant inquiries are Doughy’s bread and butter. For the ones forwarded from the supported listing sites the AI drafts an answer within seconds, around the clock, with property-specific knowledge: unit availability, pricing, pet policies and amenities — and it lays their budget, timing and pets next to the criteria you set, so you decide who moves forward. Every reply waits for your OK — a lead-reply lease, if you grant one, covers replies to rental inquiries only, never tenant messages.

Drafted responses for initial inquiries, follow-up reminders and re-engagement queued for your OK, maintenance request triage (with your approval for vendor dispatch), new leads captured with their source and written to your CRM, rent reminder sequences you approve, and professional communication drafting. Lease renewal automation is next on the list. It’s like having a VA that works 24/7 and never calls in sick.

Doughy runs the numbers on a deal you give it — rental estimates, expenses, and a quick snapshot against your investment criteria. It does not buy or scrape a comparable-sales database: bring your own comps and Doughy works from them. The real power is that it learns your acquisition criteria, so deals that match surface without you re-explaining what you are looking for.

Pricing isn’t published yet — Doughy is in early access.

Your workspace includes a monthly amount of AI usage. It covers everything the agents do — messages, emails, document processing, and automations. Agents pause when the month’s usage is used up. No surprise bills.

Voice calls have distinct infrastructure costs, and most investors think in terms of minutes. Keeping them separate makes it easy to understand your usage and plan accordingly. AI calling and texting are rolling out in stages after early access opens, and minutes are not billed before that.

Agents pause when the month’s usage is used up — no surprise bills, no overages. Adding more usage is on the way; it is not something you can do today.

Pricing isn’t published yet — Doughy is in early access.

Anything that leaves your workspace — a message, a call, a public listing, a dollar spent — is held for your approval before it happens, with one exception — a lead-reply lease you grant. That is true for every workspace, and there is no setting that turns it off. You also get a kill switch that stops everything instantly, and daily spend and call limits that cap what your agents can cost you.

Your workspace’s data is kept separate from every other customer’s, and everything moving between you and Doughy is encrypted in transit. Every teammate you add holds a defined role rather than blanket access, and agent activity is logged. If there is ever a breach affecting your personal information, we notify affected users without undue delay, and within any deadline applicable law sets.

Bad AI is worse than no AI. Doughy’s approach: the AI drafts what it’s good at (instant answers, scheduling, FAQs, status updates) and escalates what it’s not (complex maintenance, disputes, emotional situations) to a human — with full conversation context so tenants never repeat themselves. Tenants always have a clear path to reach a real person.

Because no single PM software does everything well. Traditional PM tools focus on tenant management but miss the investor side. Doughy takes a different approach — combining AI-powered communication, lead management, and deal pipeline with property operations in one platform, so you don’t need to stitch multiple tools together.

Most PM tools are built for large operations, with features small landlords never use. Doughy is purpose-built for the 1–50 unit operator who also wears the investor hat — AI-powered tenant communication, maintenance request triage, CRM-level lead tracking, and smart follow-ups, all without the enterprise-level complexity.

The typical solution — hiring a VA at $1,500/month plus PM software — works but is expensive and creates key-person risk. Doughy replaces the VA for routine tasks (tenant comms, follow-ups, scheduling, data entry) while giving you an operational dashboard to manage 50+ units from your phone.

Most operators end up buying these separately: a PM platform, a CRM, accounting, listing sites, communication tools, scheduling, and some automation glue between them. Doughy’s mission is to collapse that stack into one AI-powered platform, with integrations for the specialized tools you still want to keep.