Our story

Built by homeowners who'd had enough of spreadsheets.

When we bought our first house, the paperwork started before we'd finished unpacking.

Manuals in a kitchen drawer. Warranty cards we'd never find again. A furnace-filter size scribbled on a sticky note that fell behind the dryer. Paint colors we swore we'd remember — and didn't, the day we needed to touch up the hallway.

So we tried to get organized the way everyone does. A spreadsheet, then a notes app, then a couple of "home management" apps that wanted an account, a subscription, and a guided tour before they'd let us write down a single model number. None of them fit. They were either too blank to be useful or too complicated to keep up with — and keeping up is the whole point of home maintenance.

So we built the thing we actually wanted: something you can point your camera at an appliance and be done with. Something that remembers the maintenance so you don't have to. Something that keeps your home's record on your phone — not on someone's server, not behind a login, not feeding an algorithm.

Dormer is that app. It's deliberately small and quiet. It doesn't chat, it doesn't mine your data, and it works the day your internet doesn't. It's the record we wish we'd started keeping the day we got the keys.

What we believe

• Capture, don't type. Scanning a nameplate beats keying in a serial number every time.
• Your home, your data. It lives on your device — no account, no cloud middleman.
• Safety isn't a premium feature. Recall alerts are free for everyone, always.
• Native craft over feature bloat. A focused iOS tool, not an AI chatbot.

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