Born from 17 years on the ground
I've been working with First Nations communities since 2009 — housing, public works, infrastructure. Not from a boardroom or a consulting office. On the ground. Walking through homes, talking to housing managers, sitting in band council meetings where the same problems kept coming up year after year.
The frustration was always the same: nobody had a clear picture of what they owned, what shape it was in, or what was due for maintenance next month. Everything lived in binders, spreadsheets, or somebody's head. When that person left, the knowledge walked out the door with them.
I watched housing managers try to run 50, 100, 200 units with tools that weren't built for the job. Work orders got lost. Seasonal maintenance fell through the cracks. Furnace filters didn't get changed. Small problems became big, expensive ones because nobody had a system to catch them early.
I built TumbleTracker because I got tired of watching good people fight bad systems. This isn't a generic property management tool — it's built for the way community housing actually works.