Forward-deployed engineers · Prebuilt software

The autonomous operating layer for your real estate company.

Relay embeds engineers inside your brokerage to learn exactly how you work — then tunes our prebuilt software to match it. It reads every listing source you have, files everything into one database, and hands your agents a ready answer the moment a buyer asks.

Live in 14 days · Works with the WhatsApp groups and portals you already use · No rip-and-replace

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The daily reality

Your inventory lives in 40 group chats. Your team lives in the scroll.

Listings arrive as voice notes, screenshots and half-typed messages. Someone asks if a unit is available and three agents start digging through chats. Deals are won by whoever replies first — not by whoever has the best stock.

Listings die in the chat

Yesterday's inventory is 400 messages up. Nobody re-reads it, so the same unit gets re-sourced, re-photographed and re-negotiated.

Slow answers lose the deal

A buyer asks one simple question — is it still available? — and waits 40 minutes while an agent checks four groups and two spreadsheets.

Leads vanish after hello

Enquiries live in personal phones. No stage, no owner, no follow-up. The pipeline is a feeling, not a report you can manage.

How Relay works

We don’t hand you software and wish you luck.

We send forward-deployed engineers to sit with your team, map how deals actually move through your business, and configure Relay around it. You keep your process. It just stops costing you people.

  1. 01

    Embed

    Engineers join your team on site and on your channels. They watch real listings flow, sit in on negotations, and document how your agents actually work — not how the manual says they should.

    Week 1
  2. 02

    Map the process

    Every source, every destination, every status a lead can be in. We agree the rules once: what counts as available, who owns a lead, what gets posted where.

    Week 1–2
  3. 03

    Tune the software

    Relay is already built. We fine-tune parsing, matching, routing and posting rules to your wording, your price formats, your group etiquette — then run it in shadow mode next to your team.

    Week 2
  4. 04

    Go autonomous

    Sources are monitored live, listings land in the database, availability answers are one click, and the pipeline runs itself. You get a weekly review and a team that only touches exceptions.

    Day 14 onwards
Forward-deployed engineer

An engineer on your payroll for two weeks — from ours.

Most software fails at configuration. Relay doesn’t ship a blank canvas, and we don’t ship a support ticket. A named engineer is assigned to your company, learns your listing language, and stays accountable for accuracy numbers after launch.

  • Your named engineer, not a rotating queue
  • Shadow mode before anything goes live
  • Weekly accuracy review with your ops lead
  • Process documentation you keep
Listings parsed correctly99.2%
Availability replies under 1 min94%
Duplicate listings merged1,880
Agent hours returned / week126 hrs

Median across Relay deployments in the first 90 days.

The product

Five jobs your team should never do by hand again.

One system for intake, publishing, inventory, availability and pipeline — tuned to how your company already works.

Source Inbox

Every place stock lands, watched at once.

Connect all your WhatsApp groups, portals, inboxes, forms and spreadsheets. Relay listens continuously, pulls the listing out of the message — even the messy ones — and files it. Voice notes and photos included.

  • Unlimited WhatsApp groups, both directions
  • Parses price formats, shorthand and mixed languages
  • Detects the same unit across different groups and merges it
  • Flags stale, sold and withdrawn stock automatically
Incoming · 09:41 Lekki Prime Listings

“5 bed detached duplex, Chevron Drive. ₦320m. BQ, fitted kitchen, 2 parking. Available immediately.”

TypeDetached duplex✓
Bedrooms5✓
LocationChevron Drive, Lekki✓
Price₦320,000,000✓
StatusAvailable✓
Saved to database Matched 2 duplicate posts
Customers

Brokerages that stopped chasing their own messages.

Results measured in the first two quarters after Relay went live.

Avenue & Co. · Lagos

+38%

more listings published per month, same team size

Harbour Crest Realty

6 hrs

saved per agent, every week, on sourcing and reposting

Northdune Properties

3.4×

faster first response on availability enquiries

“Our stock used to live in eleven WhatsApp groups and three spreadsheets. Relay put it in one place and now an agent answers ‘is it available?’ in seconds with real matches. We didn’t change how we sell — it just got faster.”
IO Ifeoma Okonkwo
Head of Sales, Avenue & Co.
Pricing

Priced per company. Deployed by engineers.

Every plan includes the forward-deployed setup, because software that isn’t tuned to your process isn’t worth paying for.

Starter

For single-office brokerages putting their stock in order.

₦480k/month

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  • Up to 10 listing sources
  • 2 auto-post destinations
  • Listing database + search
  • Availability agent, one-click send
  • Lead pipeline, 3 stages
  • Named engineer, remote

Enterprise

For developers, franchises and agencies with custom systems.

Custom

Talk to sales
  • Custom source and CRM integrations
  • SSO, roles and data residency options
  • Dedicated engineering pod
  • Uptime and accuracy SLAs
  • Quarterly process review
  • Onboarding for unlimited agents

All plans billed annually. Setup, deployment and process documentation included — no separate implementation fee.

Questions

Things buyers ask us first.

Do we have to stop using WhatsApp groups?

No. Relay plugs into the groups you already use and keeps them exactly as they are. Your team and your partners keep posting the way they always have — Relay just reads, structures and acts on what appears. It can also post into your own groups and channels as you.

How long until it is actually live?

Two weeks for the standard deployment: week one embedding and mapping, week two tuning and shadow mode. Complex integrations or multiple branches can extend to four weeks. You see accuracy numbers before anything runs unsupervised.

What exactly does “forward-deployed engineer” mean?

A named engineer from Relay joins your company — on site for Growth and Enterprise — to learn your listing language, map your process and configure the software around it. They stay responsible for your accuracy metrics after launch, and they are the same person you message when something needs changing.

How accurate is the parsing on messy messages?

On typical Nigerian brokerage traffic we run above 99% field accuracy after tuning, including shorthand, mixed languages, voice notes and photo-only posts. Every parsed listing keeps its original message attached so your team can verify anything in one click.

Is our data and our client list safe?

Your data stays yours. Access is role-based, every action is logged, and we never resell or share inventory or lead data. Enterprise plans add SSO and data residency options. You can export your full database at any time.

What happens when the AI isn’t sure?

It stops and asks a human. Low-confidence listings, ambiguous availability and unusual price changes are routed to your team instead of guessed at. Nothing goes out to a buyer without either high confidence or your approval, depending on the mode you choose.

Get started

See your own listings answering your own enquiries.

Send us one WhatsApp group and one portal link. In a 30-minute walkthrough we’ll show your real inventory, parsed, deduped and answering a live availability question.

No credit card. No migration project. Your data deleted on request.