Founder Friday: Brett Siegal @ Ruuster

Ruuster has brought together the info, tools, and people you need to plan for and execute your home purchase like a pro, even if it’s your first time.

Ruuster is a centralized app for the home buying process. As a home buyer, you can learn about each stage of the process, communicate with your agent via text and video, search properties, access property insights not available on Zillow, schedule tours, see a custom task list, share and sign documents, and acquire all of the vendors you need in one place, all on your phone.

With Ruuster, agents can qualify their leads, centralize their communication (text, images, videos, and documents) with all of their clients, send property recommendations, share and sign documents, maintain their schedule, and have one view of their pipeline all in their hands.

It's amazing that something like this doesn't exist, and it's also amazing that Ruuster is almost there with an initial version and first-to-market solution.

So far in its 10 months of launch, Ruuster has had thousands of users of the consumer platform. It has also partnered with world-class companies like Realtor.com, Better.com, New American Funding, and a number of top insurance companies.

Ruuster has opened up a distribution channel through agents, giving them the ability to integrate Ruuster into their current systems and provide their clients a branded homebuying app. And Ruuster developed an elegant suite of tools to help them prioritize their lead outreach and manage their pipelines.

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