For intentional communities

Your community
runs itself.
You just live in it.

Kinstead is an AI operations layer for cohousing communities. It handles consensus decisions, shared finances, maintenance, and coordination autonomously.

Proposal
Install solar on common house
Kinstead facilitated async vote across 14 households. Reached consensus in 3 days.
Approved unanimously
This week
12 tasks auto-assigned
Garden rotation, common dinner prep, tool shed inventory. Zero coordination overhead.
Finances
Common fund: $4,280
March contributions collected. Maintenance reserve at 94% target.
The problem

Cohousing is growing. The tools aren't.

Communities still coordinate through WhatsApp groups, shared spreadsheets, and pinned notes on the common house fridge. Every proposal requires endless email threads. Work equity goes untracked. New members get lost in the onboarding. The tools that exist were built for HOAs and condo boards, not for communities where every voice matters equally.

An operations layer, not an app

Kinstead runs in the background. Your community stays in the foreground.

01

Consensus Engine

Proposals flow through structured rounds. Members engage asynchronously. Kinstead synthesizes concerns, identifies blockers, and surfaces the path to agreement. No more meeting marathons for simple decisions.

02

Shared Finances

Common fund tracking, contribution collection, expense categorization, and transparent reporting. Every household sees exactly where money goes. No treasurer burnout.

03

Work Equity

Track contributions fairly. Common meals, garden shifts, maintenance days. Kinstead balances the load across households and gently nudges when things drift. No resentment, no awkward conversations.

04

Community Memory

Every decision, agreement, and rationale is preserved. New members inherit full context. The community's wisdom accumulates instead of evaporating when someone moves.

Cohousing software today was built for landlords.
Kinstead is built for communities.

Traditional tools

  • Board votes (majority rules)
  • Tenant portals
  • Compliance and violations
  • Top-down communication
  • Property management framing

Kinstead

  • Consensus facilitation (every voice counts)
  • Household dashboards
  • Shared agreements and norms
  • Async, transparent dialogue
  • Community-first architecture

Community living should feel like community, not administration.

Kinstead takes the operational weight off your shoulders so the reason you chose cohousing, the people, the shared meals, the common ground, stays front and center.