ResLife
A housing platform designed for the specific conditions of small colleges and boarding schools, where the dean, the housing officer, and the most organized resident assistant often turn out to be the same overworked person.
What it does
Everything housing touches, in one place
In most small residential institutions, housing is still run through a mixture of email threads, printed rosters, and brittle spreadsheets that a single administrator quietly maintains. The arrangement works well enough, until that administrator takes a leave of absence, moves on, or simply forgets to update a column. When the institutional memory lives in one head and one file, every transition becomes a small crisis.
ResLife was built to move that memory out of the spreadsheet and into a shared workspace that belongs to the institution itself. Students log in to see their room assignment and request a change if the arrangement is not working. Resident assistants file incident reports from their phones, in the moment rather than at the end of a shift. The principal can open or close the room selection window with a single toggle, adjusting the level of student agency as the year progresses. Everyone, from the dean to the newest freshman, works against the same source of truth.
Core features
Built with real administrators in the loop
Student self-selection
Students can browse the available rooms and choose their own, or the administrator can keep selection closed and handle assignments by hand. A single toggle decides which mode the institution is in, and it can change mid-year without disrupting existing assignments.
Room change requests
When a student wants to move, they submit a request naming the room they would prefer. Staff and administrators review it and either approve or explain why not. On approval, the system closes the old assignment and opens the new one, without the paperwork that usually accompanies a move.
Bulk roster import
Buildings, rooms, and student rosters can be imported from a spreadsheet in a single upload. The first day of a new school year, historically a day of typing, becomes a matter of minutes.
Occupancy dashboard
A live view of which rooms are filled, which beds remain open, and which buildings are running over or under capacity. The information that previously required a meeting is now visible on a single page.
Incident reports
Resident assistants can file incidents from their phones, tied to specific students, rooms, and shifts. Because the reports are searchable, patterns that would otherwise go unnoticed tend to surface on their own.
Role-based access
Students, RAs, staff, and administrators each see what their role requires and nothing more. Authentication runs through Firebase and supports both email sign-in and Google sign-in, with tokens verified on the server for every request.
For whom
Institutions that have outgrown spreadsheets but can't afford enterprise housing software
ResLife is designed for institutions that have outgrown their spreadsheets but cannot justify enterprise housing software: small private colleges, boarding schools, residential academic programs, international academies. Institutions with somewhere between one hundred and two thousand students, where a single capable administrator still carries the housing operation in their head.
A live demo is running today at one such school. The platform is ready to onboard the next.