What Stewarded is, and who it’s for

The plans are at the council. The receipts are in a drawer. The builder who knew what sits behind the bathroom wall has moved on. When something fails at nine at night, nobody knows where the shut-off is or who to call. And the small jobs that keep a house sound, like clearing the gutters before winter, get missed until they turn into repairs.

The Archive holds the plan of the home, the systems behind its walls, every job and every document, with an Emergency button at the top. It belongs to the owner. They use it themselves and choose who works on the home: a trade from the Network or their own.

It’s a long-term subscription, and it gets more useful the longer it’s kept. Every job adds to the record, and every new home and trade that joins makes the Network more useful for everyone.

1. Setting upThe owner pins the shut-offs on the Property Map, scans in their records and answers a few questions about the home. Or an Odyssey Steward comes for a setup visit and does it with them.
2. Living with itThe care year, a season-by-season calendar for the home, tells them what’s due and why. The Emergency button is there when something goes wrong.
3. When work is neededThey choose their trades, from the Network or their own. The job, its photos and its documents go into the record. Being built: one live job sheet that everyone on the job reads, and a job that files itself.
4. When they sellThe whole record goes to the buyer as one document, with the keys.

• Avoid costly repairs: a blocked gutter caught in autumn is a clean. Caught after it overflows into the eaves, it’s a repair. The care year tells the owner what’s due before it turns into a bill.
• Save time: no hunting for the plumber’s number, the paint colour or the warranty. It’s all in one place, on the owner’s phone or computer, and nobody has to explain the house from the start again.
• When something goes wrong: at nine at night, the owner knows where the shut-off is and who to call.
• Every trade arrives prepared: the plan, what’s been done before, and what’s behind the wall are already in the record.
• Ready for a sale or a claim: a buyer or insurer sees every job, product and record, and who did the work.
• It outlasts people: trades move on and memories fade. The record stays with the house.
• Its value grows over time: every job, document and photo makes the record more complete. After a few years it holds the whole story of the home, and that story is what a buyer, an insurer or the next trade wants to see.
• It keeps getting better: the Archive is improved through the year, and every improvement comes with your membership.

• First home owners who don’t yet know where anything is.
• Families who love their place and want to keep it that way.
• People looking after a parent’s home, or one they’ve inherited.
• Owners with a bach or rentals, up to four properties on one account.
• Owners getting ready to sell, who want the care they’ve put in to show.

In the 30 days, owners set up their home: the map, the shut-offs and their people. They can add the last year of jobs, with the documents and photos, and watch their record come together, without booking any work or paying anything.

The full history beyond a year, and the full property report as a PDF, come with a membership.

Essentials isn’t open yet. Register your interest and we will write when it opens; nothing is paid until then.

Essentials is for owners with real work coming: a reroof, a new bathroom, the renovation they’ve been planning. It includes everything in the Archive, and adds:

• Working credits: money the owner sets aside on a cadence they choose, monthly, quarterly or all at once, held for them and spent only on invoices for work on their home. Credits last five years and are never forfeited.
• Saving towards a plan: they can mark part of their credits for a plan in the Plan Room and see it beside the plan. The credits stay in one balance.
• Films and a richer view of the property: every job shown on the map of the home through the years, with a film to share.
• Priority booking with the Network’s trades.

The Archive tells an owner what the home needs. Essentials makes sure the money is there when it’s time to do it, so repairs stop arriving as surprises.

An owner’s own trades and contacts sit in their record, under Your people, and a contact who is a Network member is marked. Owners can always bring their own trades, and the record works the same either way. Finding a new Network trade from inside the Archive is on its way.

• One live job sheet: the owner, the other trades and the supplier read the same details, so they say it once and turn up prepared.
• The job files itself: photos, quote, invoice and the record of works go into the owner’s Archive, which is where the next job comes from.
• Their own clients too: the same tools carry their quoting, invoicing and records, inside the Network or not.
• Their rate and their clients stay theirs.

• The directory on this website: the trades we know and trust.
• Inside a member’s Archive, where a contact who is a Network member is marked.
• The record of works in each home they work on, with their name on the job, so the owner calls them back.

Suppliers have their own part of the directory, under their own name. Owners and trades are pointed to them, and there is no fee to suppliers.

It grows both ways: every new home on the Archive is another owner who can find a trade, and every new trade makes the Archive more useful.

The company that built Stewarded, Odyssey Projects, is one business inside it. It is listed on the Network on the same rules as everyone else, and it is never put first. An owner reaches it the way they reach any trade: by choosing it.

An Odyssey Steward is an experienced builder and project manager, hands on with the tools and overseeing the job. For Archive members, an Odyssey Steward does setup visits, photographs what’s behind the walls before it’s covered, and loads past jobs into the record. The role belongs to the founding company’s own people.