Traditional search
Use price, optional tax, location, property type, beds, baths, and ordinary criteria.
Founding Agent Program
Direct access plus an intensive 90-day fellowship
Prepare one governed HomeSeeker workflow—from property search to the next professional action.
Search by price and tax or add payment and cash intelligence. Connect authorized home seekers and occupants, preserve professional and brokerage attribution, and keep configured favorites, explanations, notification plans, and next questions attached to one HomeSeeker.
Take the 2-Minute Agent TourHomeSifter intends to select up to three agents for the initial intensive cohort. Ordinary direct Founding Agent Access is not limited to three. Eligibility, professional use, brokerage attribution, market coverage, mutual terms, and capability delivery are confirmed before activation.
Illustrative optional payment analysisBuyer 01 · Purchase
Search active- Payment limit
- $3,250/mo
- Available cash
- $20,000
- Occupancy
- Primary
- Search set
- Bright MLS listings
Hidden opportunity$407,500 · $3,146/moFits payment; above assumed price ceiling
Review$392,000 · $3,238/moNear limit; lender confirmation needed
Avoided dead end$379,900 · $3,462/moInside price; outside payment limits
Invented example—not a loan approval, verified result, or guarantee.
Your workflow, declared
Mortgage review does not have to enter the same way for every agent.
Work with a preferred partner, preserve buyer choice, review first, learn with guidance, or declare dual licensure. No path lets HomeSifter replace the mortgage professional's work.
Preferred lending partner
I work with a lending partner.
Bring your buyer's chosen or already-engaged mortgage professional into the review from the start.
HomeSifter prepares a forwardable review path. No lender is contacted or given buyer data automatically.
An inclusive adoption path
Keep the search method you use today.
Current product materials document familiar price-and-optional-tax search criteria plus invitation, favorite, matching, and notification controls. Actual recipients, cadence, activation, and delivery are confirmed for the account and market. Payment-aligned search can be added when authorized.
Payment-aligned search
Add payment, cash, credit, occupancy, financing, and property-specific costs.
Compare + validate
See what payment finds outside the price band and what price includes that the full payment scenario excludes.
Proposed operating layer
The broader HomeSeeker workflow
Start with the search. Add only the capabilities that move this decision.
HomeSifter is designing the governed workflow layer between a professional introduction and an active HomeSeeker. The proposed model establishes durable professional context once and attaches buyer-specific criteria and permissions to the individual HomeSeeker.
Professional attribution + search controls
Current materials document professional attribution, traditional search criteria, invitations, favorites, monitoring, and notification settings. Activation and delivery are confirmed for the account and market.
Optional payment + renovation alignment
Compare familiar price-first results with buyer-specific payment and cash context. For properties needing work, surface modeled renovation capacity and, when documented scope exists, an apparent gap for lender and professional review.
Commute + advanced property fit
Extend the same request with one or more commute points, household, accessibility, condition, unit count, home-design, special-sale, and exclusion criteria when available.
Engagement + integration
Lead engagement, virtual-number workflows, booking, offers of interest, triggers, CRM/API connections, and custom development require separate confirmation.
Governed direct-agent pathway
Direct agent access follows a separate governed pathway.
HomeSifter may directly provision eligible real estate professionals, teams, offices, and multiple offices under its governed direct-agent pathway. HomeSifter verifies professional eligibility, brokerage affiliation, market serviceability, and permitted use; issues the case-specific offer; and provisions only after authorized acceptance.
Eligible direct-agent and office experiences may include approved professional and brokerage identity and attribution. White-label or independent administration rights are not implied. Required listing-source attribution, data-provider notices, disclaimers, and other mandated displays remain part of the experience.
Request Direct Founding Agent AccessThe operating problem
A price cap is not a mortgage.
Two homes with the same list price can create different monthly payments and cash requirements. The professional workflow should expose that difference before the buyer spends time on the wrong inventory.
Property facts
Price, taxes, insurance, HOA, property type, occupancy constraints
Financing assumptions
Rate, program, credit tier, mortgage insurance, seller assistance, buydown
Buyer limits
Monthly payment, available cash, location, commute, household, home requirements
Illustrative—inspect the logic
The result set can change in both directions
Find the hidden opportunity. Remove the avoidable dead end.
The objective is not to declare a home affordable. It is to make the current assumptions, result reason, uncertainty, and next professional action visible.
18 Cedar Lane
- List price
- $407,500
- Est. payment
- $3,146 / month
Lower taxes and no association fee offset the higher list price.
Payment search includes it; price ceiling misses it.42 Maple Hollow
- List price
- $392,000
- Est. payment
- $3,238 / month
Near the configured limit; an assumption still needs confirmation.
Keep visible, identify the unresolved input, route the next action.7 Quarry View
- List price
- $379,900
- Est. payment
- $3,462 / month
Taxes, association expense, and cash requirement exceed the scenario.
Price search includes it; the complete payment scenario excludes it.The atomic commercial unit
One buyer. One responsible agent. Mortgage review at the right time.
Some searches begin with an existing lending partner; others preserve buyer choice or start with a representative scenario. HomeSifter records the collaboration state instead of assigning one.
- 01Buyer
Defines price and tax or payment and cash, plus place and home requirements
- 02Agent
Creates and guides the live property search
- 03HomeSifter
Keeps the selected search method, property context, and explanation connected
- 04Mortgage review path
A chosen professional joins when selected and authorized, or the scenario remains clearly unverified
- 05Shared action
Favorite, question, showing, update, or offer decision
Commercial confirmation gate
Founding Agent terms
Confirm the case before quoting or activating it.
HomeSifter verifies serviceability and issues the candidate-specific offer. The authorized contracting party or payer accepts the scope, price, billing trigger, service period, and activation date in writing. Broker or MLS authority remains a separate gate. A referral or saved intake does not adopt terms.
See how commercial terms are confirmedNo automatic direct-agent price, free period, access promise, or unilateral acceptance.
The managed mortgage-company evaluation is a separate pathway. Its published evaluation structure should not be represented as the direct professional account price.
- Eligibility and serviceability first
- Case-specific offer and authorized counterparty acceptance
- Explicit provisioning and billing approval
From one buyer to a local production network
Prove the behavior before expanding the account.
The first signal is not registration. It is the path from account to first buyer, lender participation, meaningful activity, and a second buyer.
- 01
Demonstrate
Reconcile payment search and price search on one scenario.
- 02
Activate
Run one HomeSeeker through the confirmed evaluation period and observe the workflow.
- 03
Repeat
Activate a second buyer and test whether the behavior holds.
- 04
Form a pod
Connect five agents, one lender, and 5–10 HomeSeekers.
- 05
Sponsor
Let an office or branch standardize what active users already value.
Who should activate now
Qualified review starts with a credible path to one live search.
The addressable Bright professional network is large. The operational launch remains selective: verify the professional, the market, and the buyer path before creating support load.
Strong fit now
- Eligible, licensed real estate professional
- Authorized Bright MLS market coverage
- One real buyer or credible near-term scenario
- A defined mortgage-review path: partner now, buyer choice, review first, guided learning, or dual-role use
- Willingness to review results and repeat if useful
Verify before activation
- Unclear MLS eligibility or market authorization
- No defined buyer or representative scenario
- Custom branding, integration, or white-label request
- New data market or unsupported geography
- Need for brokerage, legal, or compliance review
Founding Agent validation period
Bring one real buyer. Connect the search to the next decision.
Eligibility and market coverage are confirmed before an account or search is activated. The public professional-onboarding form accepts business information only. A separately authorized HomeSeeker request may collect self-reported search context, but never Social Security numbers, credit reports, account statements, mortgage applications, or financial documents.