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Short-term rentals · public preview

Look up a rental address — or report one to the city.

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The rental collecting complaints is the one that never bought a permit. Your systems just cannot see it.
A city does not lose transient-occupancy money because it lacks a database. It loses it because the permit list, the complaint log and the tax roll are three lists that never meet. Here they are one register: 0 permits and 0 logged complaints are sitting in it as you read this line.
What the working system does
  • One register of properties and their people. The owner, the local contact, the platform listing and the address are one record — not four spreadsheets keyed on a street name typed four different ways.
  • Permit standing as a dated period, never a column. A permit can be Active and On Probation at once, each with its own start and end. Nothing is overwritten, so “what was its standing last August?” is answerable.
  • Complaints ride on the PROPERTY, not the permit. That is what surfaces the unregistered rental: complaints against an address with no permit behind it become an enforcement lead automatically.
  • Transient-occupancy remittances against the same record, so a delinquent remittance and a noise complaint are visibly the same property.
  • A public scorecard residents can check, computed from the same rows the enforcement officer works from — there is no second, prettier version for the public.
Go and read the real thing — no account

These are working records, rendered live.

Nothing here is a screenshot or a mock-up.

The city compliance scorecard

Registered vs unregistered, complaints, and the compliance rate — computed the second you open it.

The public rental lookup

Check any address for a permit — anonymously, no account, and we never ask who you are.

Report a rental, anonymously

A neighbour reports an address in under a minute; it becomes a dated record on that property and goes to the city's queue. No sign-in, no name, no email.

The Town Square

The whole citizen-facing side these records feed.

The console itself is behind a sign-in — and here is why, plainly

The register itself holds owners' names, addresses and complaint text about identifiable properties. That is exactly the material a public marketing page has no business showing, so the console is limited to the staff of the agency that owns the records. Everything a stranger has a right to see is public and linked above.
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● Where this is early — said out loud
The STR programme is running on demonstration records for one fictional city, not on a live municipal database — we will not pretend otherwise. Platform ingestion (pulling listings straight from Airbnb and VRBO) is designed but not built; today listings are entered or imported. The Challenge Demo that would let you test the hard cases yourself is on the plan and not yet built.
Counts and pages on this site are generated from the working records at the moment you load them — this one at 2026-09-14 03:16 UTC.
How we sell it
How we sell it. Engagement Squared is offered to government as a commercial item — commercial computer software under FAR Part 12, on our standard commercial license terms. We do not sell it as custom development, and we do not grant Government Purpose or Unlimited Rights in the software, its schema or its technical data. Development was funded at private expense.
And, second: where AI fits
Everything above is ordinary, traditional software doing ordinary government work: registers, permits, standings, dates, queues, public lookups. None of it needs AI, and none of it stops working when the AI is switched off. Where AI is offered it is optional, it is bring-your-own-key, and it never writes to a record without a person approving the change. For the record: no AI invented this data model — Alex Glaros did, at a drafting table, over years.