Built for the people who look after homes when no one's there.

Terns are migratory birds. Every year, snowbirds make their own long trip to Florida, back to their homes. We named Tern Home for that journey, and for the people who look after a home while its owner is away.

Tern Home began when years of experience in software and IT met years of experience running a home-watch company.

One side knew the work: what it takes to walk through someone's home while they're away, and what that owner wants to hear afterward. The other side knew how to build systems people can rely on, and could see how much of that care was disappearing into paper and text threads.

What came out of that meeting was a simple urge: to put all those years of experience into more trusted hands.

Seasonal owners leave Florida homes empty for months and hire a local company to watch over them. That's a job built on trust. The company walks through a home the owner can't see, then has to show that it did.

Most of those companies are doing excellent work with tools that weren't made for them: paper, spreadsheets, group texts, generic checklist apps. The work gets done, but it's hard to run and harder to show.

We're building Tern Home so that a well-run home-watch company can look like what it is.

We aren't accepting new clients yet. We're starting in South Florida, then moving to other seasonal markets.