New Homestead

New Homestead drafts the routine messages your business owes people. It sends nothing you have not authorised.

It reads what it needs from the tools you already use, writes the message it thinks you would send, and puts it in a queue for you. Approve it, edit it first, or throw it away. Nothing leaves your business unless you approved it — or you decided yourself, for one job, in your own account, that messages passing its checks may go without a click.

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No account yet? There is no self-serve signup and no price on this page — what it costs depends on which of these jobs you want doing. Write to support@newhomestead.ai and we will work it out.

Who it is for

Owner-operated local businesses

Under about ten people, where the owner is the one who would otherwise write these messages at nine at night. You do not need anyone technical on staff. New Homestead is a new and small operation, run by one person, starting with businesses around Chelsea and Ann Arbor, Michigan — getting set up is a conversation, not a form.

What it does today

Three jobs to start with

  • Chases overdue invoices

    It reads which invoices are past due in QuickBooks Online and drafts a reminder to each customer, in a tone that depends on how late the bill is. Each one is yours to approve, edit or throw away.

  • Follows up new enquiries

    When a new lead arrives, it drafts a reply that refers to what the person actually asked, and says you will confirm rather than inventing a price or a date. Yours to approve.

  • Writes you a weekly brief

    A short summary of where the business stands — what is outstanding, what is booked. It is delivered to you inside the app rather than sent to anyone, so there is nothing to approve and nothing that could leave by mistake.

That is what a business starts with. Other jobs of the same shape — a note when a payment lands, a nudge on a quote about to expire, a summary of what arrived in the inbox — are built one at a time and turned on for you deliberately, once you have seen what one produces. Nothing is described on this page before it works.

What it will not do

The promises worth writing down

  • It will not send a message nobody at your business authorised

    Every draft waits in a queue for a person at your business to approve it: not after a delay, not because you were slow to answer, not because it judged the message routine. If you would rather not click for every one, an owner — and only an owner, signed in to your own account — can let a single job send the messages that pass its safety checks on their own. That decision is written down, it is yours to undo, and anything that trips a check still stops and waits for you: the first message this product sends a customer, an unusually large amount, a complaint, a refund, a dispute. Your operator cannot make that decision for you, and a draft nobody authorised has no way to reach anyone outside your business.

  • It cannot send anything to anyone until you take the account live

    A new account runs with delivery switched off: messages are drafted and recorded, and the part that would hand one to a mail server is not connected at all. It stays that way until a checklist covering your connections, your data and your people is complete and you, the owner, have recorded in your own account that you want to go live. Until then nothing reaches a customer, whatever anyone clicks.

  • Your operator cannot approve on your behalf

    The person who runs New Homestead can configure your account and can see it, and every time they look at it that is written into your own record. They cannot press approve, and they cannot give themselves a login on your business: an address known to be theirs is refused as a user of yours. Approval is yours.

  • It will not delete your records out from under you when you leave

    For at least thirty days after your contract ends, everything is kept so it can be handed back to you in full. Earlier deletion has to be asked for, with a reason, and is logged.

How each of these is enforced →

Data access

Exactly what it asks for, and why

New Homestead connects to Google Workspace and to QuickBooks Online. Those are the only two accounts it asks you to connect today; there are no others, hidden or planned-and-advertised. Connecting either one is optional and is done by an owner at your business, through Google's or Intuit's own consent screen — your operator cannot connect an account on your behalf, though they can disconnect one for you whenever you ask.

Here is every permission it requests — the exact string the provider will show you, and what it is for.

Read recent email in the connected mailbox

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly

To read the recent messages exchanged with one customer or lead before drafting a reply to them, so the draft follows the conversation instead of starting it over. Each read is a search for correspondence with a single address and is capped at a handful of recent messages — the product never copies or indexes a whole mailbox.

Send a message you have approved

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.send

To send the reply after someone on your team has read it and pressed approve. Nothing is ever sent on its own: a message cannot reach this scope without an approval recorded against a signed-in person at your business.

Read upcoming events on the connected calendar

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events.readonly

To see what is booked in the days ahead, so the weekly brief can tell you what is coming and an appointment reminder can be addressed to the right person. Read-only, forward-looking, and limited to the primary calendar — the product never creates, edits or cancels an event.

Read your invoices, estimates, payments and customers

com.intuit.quickbooks.accounting

To see which invoices are outstanding and how far past due they are, so an overdue-invoice reminder can be drafted for the right customer with the right figures. QuickBooks Online offers a single accounting scope with no read-only variant, so the read-only guarantee is in our code: this connector issues nothing but queries and implements no method that could write to your books.

New enquiries can also arrive without any account at all: the contact form on your own website posts them to a signed address of yours. That carries only what your form already collects, and it grants access to nothing.

Getting started

It starts with a conversation

Tell me which of these messages your business writes by hand, and what you would want a draft of them to say. Email support@newhomestead.ai — that reaches a person, not a queue. If your account already exists, sign in at app.newhomestead.ai.

The paperwork

Where everything else lives

  • Security

    What holds the approval rule up, what is encrypted, what is logged, and what the model providers do and do not keep.

  • Privacy policy

    What is collected, how long it is kept, and who can see it.

  • Terms of service

    The terms the service is provided on.

  • FAQ

    Plain answers about what it does, the approval rule, your data, and what it costs.

  • User guide

    The everyday tasks, one page each — listed below.

  • Support

    Who runs this and how to reach a person.

User guide

How to do the everyday things