Kautio for business
Safety check-ins for teams that work alone.
Kautio runs deterministic safety check-ins for real-estate agents, field teams, and canvassers on the phones they already carry.
Founder-led. No obligation. Pilot seats available.
Working alone is normal. Having a plan for it should be too.
Every day, your people meet strangers as part of the job. A showing at a vacant property. A service call at a new address. A knock on a door that opens to someone they have never met.
Most teams cover this with a group chat and good intentions. Someone says "text me after." Someone forgets. The National Association of Realtors has studied member safety for years. Its research finds, year after year, that hundreds of thousands of agents have no safety protocol they follow with every client. And the most common "safety app" in the field is a free phone-finding tool. It does nothing during the showing itself.
If your organization has a duty of care to the people it sends out alone, that duty needs a system — and a group chat is not one.
Three steps. Live in an afternoon.
Buy seats
Pick a plan and add seats in minutes. No hardware to order, no procurement maze. Self-serve for teams of 5 to 24.
Invite your team
Each member claims their seat with a link, on their own phone. No new hardware, no new habits. A seat is the member's own full Kautio account. It's the same app individuals choose for themselves. Admins see the roster and seat status. Nothing else.
Check-ins run themselves
Your people set a check-in around each appointment. If someone doesn't check in, escalation reaches real people by SMS: automatically, on schedule, through the tiers they chose. When things go fine, nothing happens and no one is bothered. Most check-ins end quietly. That is the system working.
Built for the way your people work
Real-estate associations
The member benefit members actually use
Showings are the job. And the job means meeting strangers at empty properties. Kautio attaches a check-in to the showing itself: a colleague first, the broker next, family after that. Vetting tools stop at the front door. Services built on constant attention ask for it all day. Kautio covers the showing and needs nothing from anyone when all is well.
Field service and home services
A check-in on every solo job
Techs work alone in other people's homes all day. One check-in per job, set in seconds, running quietly in the background. Building on a scheduling platform? Check-ins can be created by your software, job by job. See Kautio for developers.
Canvassing and field organizing
Volunteers aren't employees
A canvasser's backup is their people, not a boss's dashboard. Tiers fit how field programs already work: buddy first, organizer next, HQ last. And seats flex with the season: add them for a canvass weekend, scale back after. Adjust seats anytime from the billing portal.
Campuses and communities
Campus nights run late
Late seminars, library closings, parties across town: students move at all hours, usually on foot. Rolling out at campus or community scale takes planning on both sides. Talk to us. We'll be honest about fit and timeline.
Senior living
A daily check-in, on their own terms
Recurring check-ins give residents a quiet daily rhythm: check in each morning, and no one is notified unless a check-in is missed. No wearable, no camera, no new device. Just the phone they already use. Facilities can add seats for residents, and care platforms can build check-ins into their own systems. See Kautio for developers.
Built by 
Kautio is built by Hearthmates Inc., the team behind the Hearthmates housing app, where members tour each other's homes and open their doors to people they first met online. Meeting strangers safely isn't a side project for us. It's the problem our company was built around.
Hearthmates Inc. has been featured by
Admins see the roster and seat status. Nothing else.
No locations. No live map. No check-in history. No contacts. This is not a settings toggle an admin could flip. Check-ins your people set up themselves are invisible to the organization: there is no path from the console to them. Even an organization's own integration sees only state and timing on the check-ins it creates: never locations, contents, or contacts.
That is why your people will actually use it. A seat is a member's own private Kautio account. The organization pays for it and can see that it is active. That is the whole arrangement, so there is nothing to opt out of, and nothing to quietly resent.
Under the hood: the server owns all timing and escalation, so a dead phone or a closed app cannot stop a check-in from running. Notifications go out by SMS through a registered 10DLC campaign. Location trails, photos, and notes are deleted on a fixed schedule after a check-in ends. Escalation is deterministic: the system does exactly what the member set up, every time.
One seat, one price, everything included.
Every business seat includes the full professional feature set: recurring check-ins, safety presets, contact groups, and overlapping check-ins. No feature matrix, no add-ons. Seats from $12/seat/month.
Teams
$12/seat/month billed annually · $15/seat/month billed monthly
Everything included. Console admin, invite links, billing in one place. Live in an afternoon.
Plans start at 5 seats. Fewer than 5 people? Kautio Pro on the consumer app is built for independent professionals.
Lone-worker monitoring services typically run $15–30 per seat, per month. A Kautio seat runs about half of what one professional pays for Kautio Pro, and every seat includes the same full professional feature set.
Every check-in is the same on every plan. Organizations add seats and administration. The check-in itself never changes.
Building on the API instead? Platform pricing is separate and usage-based. See Kautio for developers.
Questions organizations ask
How long does rollout take?
A team is live in an afternoon. Buy seats, send invite links, and members claim their seats on their own phones. There is nothing to install centrally and no hardware to ship.
What can admins see?
The roster: who holds a seat, who hasn't accepted their invitation yet, and each seat's status. Nothing else. No locations, no live map, no check-in history, no contacts. This is enforced by how the system is built, not by a policy setting.
Does the organization own members' check-ins?
No. A seat is the member's own full Kautio account, the same private account any individual has. Check-ins they set up, for work or otherwise, are theirs. If someone leaves, their account and history stay with them; only the seat returns to your pool.
How does SMS consent work?
Every account holder gives SMS consent individually at signup, through a dedicated consent checkbox. Safety contacts receive a single invitation text and choose, in the app, to accept, decline, or block. Recurring notifications go only to people who opted in, and opt-outs are honored immediately. Organizations cannot upload contact lists and never send texts through Kautio. Messaging runs on a registered 10DLC campaign under TCPA rules.
What phones are supported?
iOS and Android. Members use the phones they already carry. Safety contacts accept a member's invitation once, in the app. After that, notifications reach them as regular text messages, on any phone, with the app open or not.
What if we need to cancel, or someone leaves the team?
Seats are managed in the console. Revoke a seat and it returns to your pool once any live check-in finishes; the member keeps their personal account. Monthly plans end at the close of the billing period. Annual plans run to the end of the paid year. There is no long-term contract.
What happens if no one responds?
If a member doesn't check in, their grace window opens first: 60 quiet seconds to respond. When it lapses, escalation moves through their tiers on schedule: real people, notified by SMS, with the details the member chose to share. Professional dispatch is on the organization roadmap. Kautio is not a substitute for 911.
Building scheduling or field software?
Put check-ins where the work already happens.
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}Give your team a quiet backup.
From $12/seat/month, on the phones your people already carry, live in an afternoon.
We're onboarding a first cohort of 10 associations and field teams for 2026. Design partners get founder-led onboarding, a 12-month price lock, and a direct line to the team, and we'll ask to write up your rollout as a case study.