fairsies

Three people. One condo.
Twenty-seven weeks.
Who gets Christmas?

fairsies is how co-owners of a vacation home, ski lease, boat, plane, or fractional residence agree on who gets it when — over text, without a meeting, in about ten days. Your written agreement is the spec. The algorithm runs the draft. You approve once, on your phone.

v0 live with our first partnership iMessage + email, no app v1 free for early groups
How it works today

It's midnight. The group chat is on fire.

Every six months, three to fifteen co-owners have to agree on a calendar. The contract calls for a meeting. The meeting never happens on time. So the picks happen in iMessage, in a shared Google Sheet, in a couple of urgent emails, and in one phone call you didn't want to make.

Group iMessage · last Tuesday, 11:47 PM
11:47Alex: ok who's taking thanksgiving
11:48Sam: we did NYE last year, I should get xmas this year
11:52Pat: wait isn't it my pick first this round
12:01Alex: I thought we said rotation was annual not half-yearly
12:03Sam: let's just hop on a call tomorrow
12:14Pat: I'm out of town tomorrow lol
Shared sheet · "2026 2H Weeks"
Week
Pat
Sam
Alex
Rental?
Nov 20
?
?
?
Nov 27
Dec 25
?
?
?
Jan 01

Highlight column. Type 1.0. Hope nobody overwrites it. The disputes always start at Thanksgiving.

Email · subject "When can we all jump on a call?"

Fifth reply-all thread of the week. Three partners, three calendars, two assistants in the cc line, one fully-booked December. The meeting that finally lands is 47 minutes of awkward trading and ends with someone agreeing to "double-check with my wife."

The cycle is here, again

Six months goes fast. Picks are due in two weeks.

Last cycle took six hours of the operator's time and three of everyone else's. The Christmas trade settled at 1 AM. One partner missed the deadline and got assigned hurricane-season weeks they didn't want. Nobody felt great about it.

Alex:"We could just do it in iMessage again."

You could. It would work. It always works. It would also take six hours, end at midnight, and produce another long-form text thread that nobody can audit when the dispute starts in October.

What changed

One text from a number you'll learn to trust.

fairsies is the operator's automated assistant. It runs from a Mac that doesn't sleep, sends from a number co-owners can text back in plain English, and follows the rules your group's actual written agreement already specifies. Schedule II, Section 3 — whatever your contract calls it — is the spec the algorithm runs against.

No app. No login. No portal. Email backup arrives every time for the partner who wants paper.

A cycle, end to end

Ten days. Five iMessages. One approval click.

Every milestone fires as iMessage + email in parallel. Co-owners pick on their phone in about two minutes. The algorithm runs the draft deterministically. The operator approves once. No meeting on the calendar. No assistant chasing a reschedule.

  1. T-30 · Sunday Kickoff iMessage to every partner One link to a one-screen picker. Drag to rank top weeks.
  2. T-15 · Sunday Nudge only the partners who haven't submitted No spam to the partners who already picked.
  3. T-12 · 11:59 PM Submissions close, snapshot recorded Operator gets a single status text. Everyone in? Run it.
  4. T-11 · noon Algorithm runs against the priority lists Snake-draft, your rotation rules, your senior bonus. Audit-logged round by round.
  5. T-11 · EOD Each partner gets their personalized allocation "You got: Thanksgiving (rank 1), Dec 18 (rank 3), Oct 9 (chronological fallback)..." Plus a link to the full audit.
  6. T-10 · Thursday Operator taps the approval magic link One click. The sheet locks. 7-day expiry, single-use, revocable.
  7. T-9 · Friday Recap to all partners Locked allocation. Final list. Enjoy the trip.
What you get back

The fight you didn't have. The hours you didn't spend.

~12 min
Operator time across the whole cycle
vs. 6 hours running it by hand
2 min
Co-owner time to rank and submit
on their phone, no login
0
Meetings on the calendar
unless someone explicitly asks for one
100%
Of milestones audit-logged
so the Christmas dispute in October has a paper trail
Works for anything co-owned

If the answer used to be a meeting, it's now a text.

fairsies started with a vacation home. The same algorithm runs against any asset where a small group has to agree on slots. If your group already has a contract and a master sheet, you have everything fairsies needs.

Vacation homes

Co-owned beach houses, mountain houses, lake houses. Half-yearly or annual cycles. Christmas and Thanksgiving are the war zones.

Ski leases

4-8 partners on a winter-only lease. MLK and Presidents weekends contested. Sometimes an LLC, sometimes a handshake.

Boat partnerships

3-10 partners on a yacht or sportfisher. Long weekends and 4th of July are the picks people fight for. Marina-coordinated sometimes.

Light jets

Flight-hour queues, not weeks. v1.5 — same algorithm shape, hours as the slot unit. Roadmap, not shipped.

Fractional residences

W Aspen, Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, Four Seasons Residence Club. Operator-administered, 30-100+ owners. PVW / SAN. Today: DocuSign + spreadsheets + one human running it all. fairsies replaces that workflow. v1.5.

Family properties

The ranch with nine cousins. The lake house in the trust. Nobody wants to be the cousin who runs it.

Why this is possible now

The pieces that didn't exist three years ago.

fairsies isn't doing anything novel. It's the first time the cost of each piece dropped low enough to make it worth running.

Want this for your group?

v1 is concierge-onboarded and free for hand-picked groups in our network. If your partnership has a written agreement and is tired of running picks by hand, send a one-line email and we'll set up a call.

Get in touch josh@quityourjob.com
fairsies · Capital Thought, LLC · Austin, TX