Centriq Is Gone. Now What?

It's been over a year since that email.

The one about the "strategic partnership" that was really a shutdown notice. Thirty days to export your data. Thanks for playing.

So — how's it going? Did you find something? Are you on one of the replacements, white-knuckling through the bugs? Did you build yourself a really elaborate spreadsheet? Or did you just... stop keeping track?

If you're still looking, you're not alone. Search volume for "Centriq alternative" was still climbing six months after the shutdown. People who spent real time entering serial numbers and uploading manuals don't just shrug and move on to a to-do list app.

You know what a home management app is supposed to feel like. You had one. And nothing since has come close.

HomeZada — $60 a year. One person spent that plus two hours building a maintenance schedule, then found out the calendar doesn't work on mobile and won't sync to their phone. No refunds. "Makes the maintenance calendar practically obsolete."

Homer — sharp marketing, rough product. Users lost data by pressing the wrong button. The app couldn't identify appliances or read serial numbers from photos. "Concept is great, but the execution failed on many levels."

OurHome — "persistent reliability issues that make it nearly unusable for busy families."

Dib — $120 a year. For a home management app.

Dwellin — $25 a year, but let's just say users aren't seeing the value. "It doesn't do enough to justify even the lower price."

And home warranties? 2.1-star average satisfaction. Cost more than the maintenance they're supposed to prevent.

When you look around it sounds like most everybody is just giving up and "doing it on their own." Or at least that's where I was.

Resignation is not a solution

The average deferred home maintenance task costs $5,650 to fix when it finally breaks. Not the worst case. The average.

That's the problem Centriq was trying to solve. And it's a real one. Losing the app didn't make the problem go away. Your house still has systems that need attention, warranties that are expiring, filters that should've been changed last month. The information gap is just sitting there, costing you money quietly.

What Centriq got right — and what broke it

Centriq understood that home management isn't a calendar app. It's a knowledge base. Your house has dozens of systems, each with a history and a maintenance interval and a cascade of what happens when you ignore it. Centriq tried to be the place where all of that lived.

Two things killed it. The data entry was brutal — everything typed by hand, every serial number, every warranty date. And your data lived on their servers, which means when "storing residential and consumer data got to be too expensive," your data went with it.

So the question isn't just "what's the next Centriq." It's what would a home management app look like if it solved the two things that actually broke the last one.

That's the question I've been trying to answer.

What it should actually be

A proactive homeowner knows what their house needs and handles it before it becomes a problem. So a good home management app should turn an everyday homeowner into a proactive one. It surfaces what matters before it matters.

But every house is different. And every homeowner's life is different too. So to do this well, it needs to know the nuances of your home and work within your life. Not a generic scheduler. A nuanced coordinator. Something that skips the calendar and just runs the show for you.

It should be predictive. Bump up the gutter cleaning if a storm is coming. Or the reverse — tell you to double check the gutters that didn't get cleaned before the storm hits. And it should be smart. If you're worried about something, you should be able to just ask. "My fridge sounds old, should I be thinking about replacing it?" And get back something useful — "That model does have some known issues. Yours is out of warranty so you'd be covering the whole thing. I can find you an appliance repair person, pull up the manual so you can look into it yourself, help you shop for a replacement, or we can start setting aside money for it. What do you think?"

I wouldn't want to mess around connecting it to my email and calendar either. I just want to give my house a voice, I guess. Wouldn't it be nice if it could just tell you the cedar needs more oil, or the dishwasher warranty is about to expire, or you really shouldn't put off cleaning the washing machine for another month.

Meet Maya

Maya is an AI home manager that gives your house a brain and a voice. You talk to her like a person. She talks back.

Data entry — the thing that made Centriq tedious and every replacement worse — is a different experience with Maya. Snap a picture of an appliance label and you're done. Warranty registered. Manual stored. And she learns from your conversations over time, so that fireplace you forgot to mention? She'll probably figure it out on her own.

When it comes to tasks, no calendar sync required. She manages them week to week. If you miss something, she holds onto it and keeps it from cascading into a bigger problem. She tracks weather and seasons too — bumping tasks around to keep you out of the rain or ahead of the damage.

A couple of things worth mentioning:

Ask Maya. Anytime you need to know something about your home's plan — "Hey Maya, when were you thinking we should paint the exterior?" — or about home maintenance in general — "Hey Maya, should I be considering gutter guards?" — just ask. She knows the answer or she knows how to find it.

The junk drawer. All those things you want to remember but never do. "Hey Maya, remember that the spare key to my sister's house is in the blue drawer." And when you need it — "Hey Maya, where was that spare key?" — she'll tell you.

And Maya was built with the Centriq problem in mind. She's AI-driven, which means her database stays right-sized for her homeowners. Your data doesn't become someone else's balance sheet problem.

Maya is, and will always be, customer first

Maya isn't finished yet. And honestly, that's part of the point.

Every home management app in this category was built by people guessing at what homeowners need. Then they launched, charged money, and hoped the reviews would be kind. Most of them weren't.

We're doing it differently. Before Maya launches publicly, we're opening her to 100 founding households — real people with real houses who help shape Maya into a real solution. You get in early at a price that's locked for life. In return, you help us build the home manager that should've existed all along.

The first wave is 15 spots at $14.99 a year. That's not a trial price. That's your price, forever, for being one of the first people to trust us with your home.

If you've been through the cycle — Centriq to spreadsheet to bad replacement to giving up — this is a chance to be part of building something the solution you always wanted.

Join the Founding Households →

Or if you just want to know when Maya launches, drop your email and we'll keep you posted.