Security deposit escrow — done right
Vested holds residential and commercial security deposits in true escrow — neutral, documented, and fair to both sides. Flat fee. Any lease. Any amount.
Landlord or tenant submits the lease. AI extracts terms, deposit amount, and key dates automatically. No manual data entry.
Guided image capture creates a condition baseline — timestamps, annotations, room-by-room. Both parties agree before move-in.
Funds held in a segregated, interest-bearing escrow account. Neither party can touch it until the lease ends and conditions are met.
AI compares move-out condition to the baseline. If both sides agree, deposit releases automatically. If not, a structured dispute opens — with escalation to human review and arbitration.
Traditional escrow is expensive and slow. Doing it yourself means one party holds all the leverage. Vested is the neutral third party — holding funds, documenting reality, and resolving disputes without a courtroom.
"The security deposit is one of the most common sources of landlord-tenant conflict in the country. Not because either party is bad — but because there's no neutral party, no clear record, and no structured path to resolution. That's what Vested is for."
This is not a growth-hack startup. Vested is a fiduciary business — the kind of company that earns trust over decades, not traction over quarters. Compliance tooling, dispute resolution, lobbying for smarter deposit law, and eventually an insurance product that treats deposit pools as what they are: a large, stable, underserved financial instrument.
Start with one lease. Prove the model. Expand from there.