Franklin Observatory

AI investigation and reporting platform for multifamily property operations. Operator-side back office; not resident-facing.

Status

• Phase: Pre-product-discovery
• Wedge: Investigation buddy for property ops (vendor → compliance → incident → applicant-packet organizer)
• Design partner: The Kevane Company (San Diego, ~200–2K units, exact count TBD)
• Last updated: 2026-05-27

Read these in order

1. Product brief — the one-pager
2. Strategy — wedge, ICP, GTM, comps
3. Legal & liability — risk model, architectural invariants, MSA skeleton, insurance
4. Architecture — two-stack split, Incident Buddy reference, phases, domain catalog, audit
5. Observation playbook — field methodology for design-partner discovery
6. Capital strategy — bootstrap → angel → seed → Series A, Bob equity options, YC analysis, family-money discipline
7. Compute & compliance — inference provider strategy, four-point BAA test, tiered service model (Standard / Provisioned / Private / Edge)
8. Glossary — operational vocab
9. Changelog — decision history and pivots

Research inputs

• Treeline analogy and market landscape — Treeline / a16z pattern comp, PropTech AI 2024–26 landscape, gap analysis
• Bob Kevane profile — public-record professional bio, distribution reach, family context, open questions for direct confirmation
• SafeRent case notes — Louis v. SafeRent Solutions digest, failure-mode analysis, architectural implications