Know the bones
Your home is more than four walls and a price.
Construction, climate exposure, community context — the data that shapes how a home is lived in, valued, and cared for. DwellTell captures the structure, its surroundings, and how you use it, then turns that record into better decisions about comfort, cost, and care.
The market makes the price.
You make the home.
Large data incumbents hold vast datasets on transactions, valuations, and comparable sales. It is used to support the moment of sale or lease. What they don't — or won't — capture is the lived reality: the material history, the microclimate, the neighbourhood dynamics, the quiet upgrades that make your home comfortable.
DwellTell is built for the years between the transaction. The data that belongs to the people who own, live in, and work on homes. When that data is shared, the terms are transparent and customisable.
Over time, your record becomes the operating layer for the home — the place where decisions about energy, finance, maintenance, comfort, and legacy connect. One record, many uses, owned by the people who live there.
Yours to own
Your home's record is yours. You decide what to share, with whom, and when. There are insurers who reward maintained homes, lenders who recognise verified upgrades, and programs that fund resilience work.
Proven value
Turn years of care, upgrades, and maintenance into verifiable history. The glossy brochures present the dream. Your logs reveal the value and the opportunity.
Context, not just data
The quirks visitors need to know to get settled, the parameters the cleaner should use to work effectively, the budget for the renovation and the local EV charging infrastructure proposal are all captured in your home's dock.
Community scale
Individual homes connect to local and policy levers to deliver personalised insights.
Four environments
Every dimension of your home, in one place.
Materials, fixtures, and upgrades
Built Environment
Log what your home is made of, from the structure, the fixtures and the fittings through maintenance, upgrades, renovations, sales, and generations.
- Construction materials
- Fixtures & fittings
- Upgrade history and maintenance schedules
- Appliance manuals and warranties
Climate, comfort, and resilience
Natural Environment
Understand how your home sits in its climate. Solar orientation, thermal performance, wind exposure, flood proximity supported with data sets that offer insights about your comfort now, and into the future.
- Thermal comfort scoring
- Solar access mapping
- Flood & fire zone preparedness
- Climate trend context
Neighbourhood and local infrastructure
Community Environment
Know what's changing around your home and how it might affect it — planned infrastructure, zoning shifts, local amenities, and community dynamics over time.
- Local infrastructure
- Zoning history
- Amenity access
- Neighbourhood activity
Devices, accounts, and digital safety
Connected Environment
Manage smart device records, service accounts, and digital safety across your home. Know what's connected, who has access, and whether your setup is up to date.
- Smart device registry
- Service accounts
- Security audit log
- Access management
Curated intelligence
Context from niche data.
Your home sits in a unique place, faces a unique future, and has a unique history. Aggregated data doesn't bring your home into focus.
DwellTell can help you remember when the gutters were cleaned, find the oven manual, brief the plumber, track the bathroom fan warranty, estimate the energy cost of the dryer, prepare a condition report, plan the heat-pump upgrade, and explain the quirks to the next tenant, cleaner or buyer.
Afternoon heat load is high in summer. An external shade or deciduous pergola reduces cooling load by up to 40% without blocking winter sun.
Your address sits within 800m of a mapped 1-in-50-year flood zone. Current council stormwater upgrades are scheduled for 2027.
Northern window has a privacy impact. Low-e privacy glass or a structured planting screen can resolve this without reducing light.
Your home sits in a natural cross-ventilation corridor. Strategic window placement can cut air-con use in shoulder seasons.
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How it works
Three steps to a record that works for your home.
Add your address
Start with your home's address. DwellTell starts with your address and pulls available data on location, orientation, streetscape, local infrastructure, public works and planning context.
Our data partnerships are growing.
Build the picture
Add what only you know: materials, upgrades, maintenance, appliances, smart devices. Enter details manually, upload invoices or manuals, or let our identifier recognise features from your camera feed. Past residents, tenants, and trades can contribute too — each with their own permissions.
The record gets richer with every contribution.
Put it to work
Use your record to plan a renovation, schedule maintenance, brief a tradesperson, or share a verified history with an insurer or lender. DwellTell contextualises everything against climate, policy, and community data so what surfaces is specific to your address and your priorities now and over time.
One record, many uses, growing sharper as more data connects.
Designed for everyone in the home
A record that serves varied interests in a home.
Everyone contributes
The people who live in, own, or work on your home know the details. Past residents leave hidden tips, tenants flag a slow leak early, trades upload invoices and photos.
That collective knowledge becomes a record that empowers better decisions about maintenance, value, safety, and comfort.
You're in control
Granular privacy and trust settings let you decide exactly who can see or contribute to each record: owners, residents, visitors, tenants, agents, service providers, trades, and neighbourhood groups each engage with the log.
Mark records as temporary or permanent to decide whether future owners or occupants receive the information. Your data, your terms.
Close the loops
Owners see agent–tenant requests managed in real time. Lenders verify insurance renewals and contractor works. Future buyers inherit transparent, accessible history.
It makes the handover gaps visible: between owners and tenants, residents and trades, buyers and sellers, and today’s occupants and owners and those considering stepping into those roles.
Configured for your perspective
The logbook adapts to what matters to each person with an interest in the home — capital investment, privacy, natural hazard mitigation, or operational efficiency.
The same tools deliver different outcomes depending on who you are and what you need from the home.
FAQ
Common questions.
What is DwellTell?+−
DwellTell is an intelligent logbook for your home. It records and organises everything about your property — whether you own, rent, visit or provide home services - it is a centralised, intelligent tool to help you get the most out of your home.
Who is it for?+−
Anyone who owns, rents, or works in a home. Residents use it to build and maintain a home management system. Renters use it to track their living environment and fairly engage with those who share an interest in the home. Tradespeople, property managers, and conveyancers use it to access reliable records that better inform the service they provide, under permissions the residents control.
How is this different from what real estate platforms already do?+−
Real estate platforms record transactions and estimate market value. DwellTell records the home itself — materials, upgrades, climate performance, and lived experience. That's the data the market generalises about in vague terms.
Is my data secure and private?+−
Yes. Your home's record is yours. You control what is shared, with whom, and when. DwellTell uses granular security and privacy settings and you decide whether and on what terms to share your data with others. We are not yet SOC2 certified - it's on the to-do list.
How does the climate intelligence work?+−
When you add your address, DwellTell pulls climate, solar, flood, water-stress and urban-heat data for your exact location and then layers in what you tell us about your home and the way you live in it. A typical insight: Your west-facing living room window faces directly west. Peak temperatures have steadily risen over the last 3 summers. An external shade and Sunburst tree planted outside it could reduce summer cooling load by around 40% without blocking winter sun. Create an AI assisted budget, request quotes and schedule these improvements in your dock. The more you log, the sharper the insights get.
How does it work for investors and their tenants?+−
When a tenant arrives at a property, the digital tools scan the home and capture fittings, conditions and attributes of the home. These observations can populate condition reports and generate estimated energy costs. These insights can be used to coordinate upgrades that serve the interests of both investors and tenants.
When can I get access?+−
We are testing the beta version now. Sign up to onboard through the final stages of the trial and we will be in touch to get you started.
What are the other Dwell products?+−
DwellTell is part of a broader ecosystem. Dwelltopia is a housing policy sandbox. Dwellpolis reviews policy commitments. Dwellsembly is a citizen deliberation platform. Dwellculus is a housing forecast league. Each is a niche tool designed for participation in a specific housing related activity.
Your home has a story.
It can help you live more comfortably.
Add your address to start building out your private digital home base. As you start, our AI agents will offer you integrations to unlock capabilities.