Instead of Ailo
Stop renting Ailo. Own your property management system.
We build your version around the way your agency handles leases, late rent and inspections, carry your Ailo investors, properties and renters across, and keep it running for you. Every record lives in a database you own.
Ailo does not publish its pricing. You get a figure after a sales call and a demo, quoted privately for your agency.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
What sits behind the quote
One platform for everything means one vendor for everything
Ailo puts the ledger, the payments, the inspections, the compliance and the messaging in one place, and that is its pitch. It also means every part of how your agency runs is held on Ailo's side, at a rate you only learn in a sales conversation.
A price you cannot see before the demo
There is no rate card on Ailo's site, only 'Talk to sales' and 'Get a demo'. You cannot compare it with what you pay now until you have sat through the pitch, and the agency down the road may be on a different number.
Your whole agency inside one vendor
Ailo calls itself a business operating system for property management: ledgers, payments, inspections, compliance, team projects and communication. The more of the agency it runs, the harder it is to change any one piece of it.
A way in, and no published way out
Ailo publishes migration guides for agencies arriving from PropertyMe and Property Tree, run through its partner REassist. We found no public guide for taking your records back out again.
Apps for investors, renters and trades on Ailo's design
Homeowners, renters and tradespeople each use Ailo's app. Your agency's name sits beside Ailo's brand, and what those apps show is decided in Ailo's roadmap, not at your Monday meeting.
Compliance as the vendor reads it
Compliance is a module on Ailo's platform list. When a state changes a notice period, or your principal wants a house rule stricter than the law, the change waits for the vendor.
Dashboards someone else chose
Business dashboards come built in. The question you actually have this month, like which investors take the most repair coordination for the fees they pay, still ends up in a spreadsheet.
What your agency runs instead
A rent roll you question in plain English
Late rent
Every overdue lease, with the next notice already worked out
Ask who owes rent and see each lease behind, the amount, the days late counted two ways, when money last came in, every notice served so far and the step that follows under tenancy law.
- check Working days and calendar days in separate columns, because the legislation uses both
- check A missing notice in the trail shows up now, not at the tribunal hearing
- check Renters who fall behind every few months picked out from the dates
- check The late rent letter written from the record and left in drafts for a person to send
The law
Rules written in plain English, with the section next to each
Every compliance rule is a sentence your principal can read, with the part of the Act it comes from beside it. The free version ships the New Zealand rules; set them to your state and every check follows.
- check Entry notice period checked before an inspection goes in the diary
- check Bonds lodged late, or above the limit, caught before the renter raises it
- check Rent increases tested for how often and how much notice before the letter is written
- check Your agency's own standards added in a sentence, without a ticket to a vendor
Homes
Inspections and repairs grouped by what they wait on
Routine inspections measured against your own cycle. Repairs sorted by whether they need an investor's yes, a tradesperson, or an invoice.
- check Inspections past due, and any booked with too little notice
- check Urgent repairs on top, then anything an investor has not answered for a week, investor named
- check Jobs approved but never sent to a trade, and jobs done but never billed
- check A branded inspection report produced room by room from the findings
Yours
One system your agency owns outright
The portfolio sits in a database with your agency's name on it. A new investor adds records, not a renegotiation, and a new question is something you just ask.
- check Investor summaries, inspection reports and arrears letters in your own colours from one brand file
- check Simple read-only pages showing the week ahead and the whole rent roll
- check Which rents sit furthest below the market figure on file, and which reviews are open now
Make it yours
Design your own Ailo replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Ailo. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your Ailo data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from Ailo
A move usually involves confirming what Ailo will let you export, mapping its records into the new database, checking a test import, and running both systems side by side before you switch.
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Ask Ailo for your records
Ask Ailo what your account can export for investors, properties, leases and renters. Ailo has not published a guide for moving records out, so check with Ailo and export what your account allows. Ask about any history and other records you want to bring, such as arrears, inspections, repairs and compliance. Rent collection and payouts stay in Ailo or your other money system.
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Map and test the records
Have the Ailo records mapped to the new system's fields, then run a test import before loading them. Ailo's layout is different from the systems the import already reads, so do not assume the columns will match. The test run shows every record before it is added. Fix the mapping where needed before you load the records for real.
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Review the test results
Check every record shown in the test run, including anything flagged for attention. Compare key details and totals with Ailo, and follow up on records that are missing information or do not appear to match. Decide whether the history you chose to bring is enough for your team to work from. Do not treat the new database as the source of truth until you have checked the import.
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Run both systems together
Use the new system alongside Ailo for a short period. Check day-to-day records such as leases, arrears, inspections, repairs and compliance against Ailo, and make sure your team can find what it needs. Keep rent collection, payouts and any trust ledger in the system that already handles them. This gives you a chance to catch gaps before you stop using Ailo for property management.
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Switch off property management
Once the records and your team's checks are in order, move your property management work to the new system. Keep Ailo, or the other system you trust, for rent payments, investor payouts and the trust ledger if you still rely on it for those tasks. The new database records the tenancy work, but it does not collect rent, pay investors or replace a trust accounting system.
Where the real effort goes
The import itself is only part of the work. Most of the effort usually goes into mapping Ailo's fields to the new system and deciding how much history to bring across. Your agency's own stages, rules and record-keeping choices also need checking. If you have Enterprise DNA install and run the system, Enterprise DNA handles the mapping and import work with you.
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We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off Ailo, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.
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Rather talk it through? Book a call arrow_forwardGetting started
Try the free version, or have Enterprise DNA build yours
Open source
Do it yourself
Free
- 1 Clone the free version from GitHub
- 2 Run npm run demo, then open the folder in Claude Code
- 3 Ask who is behind on rent, or type /arrears
- 4 Map your Ailo records into it, with a dry run before anything saves
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build and run it
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We bring your Ailo investors, properties, leases and renters across and check the counts match
- check We set the rules to your state's tenancy law and your management agreements
- check We connect it to your email, your accounting and the payments system you keep
- check Investor or renter apps if you want them, run inside Omni beside the rest of your business
Questions
Instead of Ailo, answered
Ailo handles our rent payments and payouts. Does that have to move? expand_more
No. The free version keeps a rent record so it can work out who is behind, but it never collects rent, pays an investor or touches a ledger your auditor checks. Keep Ailo, or the trust system you trust, for the money. What moves into your own database is everything around it: leases, late rent steps, inspections, repairs, compliance and investor reporting.
Ailo will not give us a price on its website. How do we compare? expand_more
Bring the quote Ailo gave you, or your current invoice, to the call. We will set it beside what your team uses each week and what your own version would take to build and run. If staying where you are makes more sense, we will say so.
How do we get our records out of Ailo? expand_more
Ask Ailo what export your account can give for investors, properties, leases and renters. Ailo publishes guides for moving in from PropertyMe and Property Tree, but we found none for moving out. The free version reads a different system's layout, so Ailo's columns need mapping: Enterprise DNA does that when we build your version, or you ask Claude Code to do it, with a test run that shows every record first.
Our investors and renters use the Ailo app. What do they get instead? expand_more
The free version has no investor or renter app. It gives your team the answers and produces branded monthly summaries, inspection reports and letters to send. Payments stay with your payments system, so how renters pay does not change unless you choose to change it. If an app matters to your investors, Enterprise DNA can build one into your version.
Nobody in our office writes code. Can we still use it? expand_more
Yes. Your property managers type the question the way they would ask a colleague, like who has rent overdue or which inspections are due this month, and Claude Code finds the answer. If a name matches two properties it shows both and asks which one. Anyone who can write an email can run it.
Find out what your Ailo quote is really buying
30 minutes with Sam. Bring your Ailo quote or invoice and a picture of a normal week for your property managers. We will show you what your own version looks like and what the switch involves. If it fits, we build it and run it for you. If not, the free version is yours to keep.
Property Management for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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