Everything Stead does, in detail.
A complete tour of what's working today. Coming soon items are flagged. Nothing is faked. Missing something? Open the request form and let me know.
Request a feature
If there's something missing (a feature you'd pay for, a workflow that doesn't fit your situation, a UK quirk that's not covered), please tell me. Requests get logged, prioritised, and (if there's enough demand) scheduled.
Your house knows itself before you've finished onboarding.
Most home apps ask you to type in everything. Stead works it out for you. Type your postcode, pick your address, and the app pulls your full Energy Performance Certificate from the gov.uk register and uses it to fill in your property profile.
- Postcode auto search via Postcodes.io and Ideal Postcodes
- Direct lookup against the gov.uk EPC register
- Property type, built form, year, floor area, EPC band auto filled
- Heating type, wall type, roof type, glazing all detected
- Editable later from Account settings if anything's wrong
Your EPC, but actually readable.
The gov.uk certificate is full of useful information buried in tables. Stead pulls it apart and shows you what's actually relevant. Annual costs current and potential, building fabric efficiency by component, recommended improvements with indicative costs, environmental impact, and a one tap link to the official certificate when you need it.
- Rating ring with potential band shown alongside current
- Annual costs broken down by heating, hot water, lighting
- Energy performance breakdown across nine building features
- Recommendations with cost, saving, and indicative effort
- Real PDF of the official certificate, generated on demand
Tasks that recur the way real life does.
17 UK essential tasks preloaded out of the box. Add your own at any cycle from daily to yearly. Mark done and the next due date calculates from today, not from when you originally set the task.
Smart recurrence
Daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, biannual, annual. Next due date calculates from when you actually did the task.
UK essentials preset
Boiler service, gas safety, electrical safety check, smoke alarms, gutter clearing, drain checks. The non glamorous stuff that catches you out.
Filter views
All, overdue, upcoming, done. See what needs doing now without scrolling past everything that's already sorted.
Tap to undo
Tick a task as done by mistake? Tap the green check again to revert. Lastdone date clears, status returns to active.
An inventory the next owner will thank you for.
Add the rooms in your home from ten preset types, or roll your own. Per room, log the appliances, white goods, and fittings that matter. Brand, model, age, warranty status. The kind of thing nobody writes down until something breaks.
- 10 room presets covering most UK homes
- Per room appliance log with brand and model
- Foundation for future floor plan view (in roadmap)
- Stays with the property when occupants change
A vault that warns you before things expire.
Six categories: certificates, warranties, manuals, insurance, legal, receipts. Upload PDFs and images. Set expiry dates. Get amber warnings 30 days out and red ones when something's already lapsed. Files preview inline. Download to disk in one tap.
Upload and preview
PDFs and images. View modal shows image preview inline or file info card. No need to leave the app.
Expiry warnings
Amber 30 days out, red on the day. Categorical, not buried in a settings menu.
Download anywhere
Cross origin safe blob download. Save the original file to disk to send to your conveyancer or insurer.
EPC stored as PDF
When Stead detects your EPC, it generates a real PDF of the official certificate via a Puppeteer service and files it in your vault.
The bills, but with context.
Log your gas, electricity, water, and broadband bills as they come in. Stead shows month on month spend, six month bar chart, and the EPC band sitting right next to it so you can see the relationship between fabric and cost.
- Overview tab: monthly spend, comparison, six month bar chart
- Bills tab: log by type, amount, date, with notes
- Providers tab: store supplier, tariff, monthly cost
- Save tab: tailored insights based on your actual EPC fabric
- Smart meter integration coming via Octopus and n3rgy
Every smart home brand, one place.
The main platforms as a tappable grid, plus twenty-eight more brands in the searchable picker. Home Assistant and Philips Hue are first in the build queue for real device control, with Alexa, Google Home, SmartThings, Tado and Nest planned to follow. Build automations in plain language once your connections are live, no syntax to look up in a forum at midnight.*
- 30+ smart home brands planned in the picker
- Plain language automation builder, no code
- Live device control planned first for Home Assistant and Hue, with more to follow
*The smart home picker is in development. Once integrations are live you'll connect each platform and control every device from your Stead dashboard. Home Assistant and Philips Hue are first in the build queue; others follow through 2026 and 2027.
The right number, not the closest one.
Six emergency scenarios with the correct UK numbers preloaded. No "search the web" prompts when you need a number now. Plus a contacts section for your gas engineer, electrician, plumber, and the friend with the spare key, with auto fill suggestions from your utility providers.
Six scenario guides
Gas leak, power cut, water leak, fire, electrical fault, lockout. Steps to take and the right number to call.
Contacts manager
Add, edit, delete, tap to call. Auto fill suggestions appear from your utility providers if you've added them.
UK numbers right out of the box
Gas Emergency 0800 111 999. Power Cut 105. Emergency Services 999. Pre populated, can't be deleted by accident.
A second opinion that knows your house.
Describe a problem in plain language and get a step by step walk through. Stead passes your property profile in the background, so the answer accounts for your boiler type, your wall construction, your heating system, your mode (renter or owner), and what you've already logged. Multi turn chat, so follow ups continue the same conversation.
- Property aware troubleshooting, not generic web answers
- Multi turn conversations with full history
- Renter mode flags landlord responsibilities for you
- Quick prompts for common scenarios
- Diagnostic history saved, deletable per entry
Different mode, different content.
Stead doesn't show landlords what renters need and vice versa. Each mode gets the right starting set of legal context for England and Wales.
Renter Rights
Ten core UK tenant rights summarised plainly. The right to a written tenancy, deposit protection, repairs, quiet enjoyment, the right not to be evicted without notice. Each links out to Shelter and Citizens Advice for depth when you need it.
Landlord Obligations
Ten legal duties with frequency badges. Gas safety annually, electrical safety check every five years, energy rating every ten, smoke alarms tested at start of tenancy, deposit protection within 30 days. Sorted by what you need to do and when.
The whole move, including the bits people forget.
41 item checklist split into seven categories with a progress bar so you can see how far through you are. Postcode based area research that pulls real data on the neighbourhood you're considering. A library of 27 viewing questions you can take to the next property, plus optional area tailored questions that incorporate flood risk, conservation status, leasehold prevalence, and other things specific to that postcode.
- 41 checklist items across packing, utilities, post, finance, admin
- Area research with live data via web search
- 27 general viewing questions in five categories
- Area tailored questions specific to the postcode you're looking at
Real data, no smoke and mirrors.
Stead is built on real UK data sources. Nothing is faked, padded with placeholder content, or scraped without consent.
Live EPC lookup
Pulled directly from the gov.uk register. The full 90+ point certificate is kept, not just the headline rating. The lookup itself runs on free public data so it doesn't eat into your smart feature allowance.
Address lookup
Postcode and address search powered by Postcodes.io and Ideal Postcodes, with manual entry as a backup if the lookup runs short.
Real PDF certificates
A small dedicated service renders the gov.uk certificate page and saves the actual PDF to your private vault. Filename includes your property name.
Encrypted storage
Stored on European servers with strict per account access controls so your data is only ever your data. Documents are private by default and reachable only with a short lived signed link.
Smart features, capped sensibly
The smart features are powered by an AI model running behind Stead. Capped at 20 questions per person per 24 hours so nobody can rack up costs by accident.
Sign in your way
Email and password, Google, Apple, or Microsoft. Pick whichever you already use. Two-factor authentication landing through summer 2026.
A short tour of what's next.
Stead is in active development through to early 2027. Here's a flavour of what's coming. Full picture on the roadmap page.
Camera document scanning
Point your phone at a paper certificate, get a clean cropped scan with text extraction so the title and dates auto fill.
App Store and Google Play launch
Native iOS and Android builds after a public open beta. Biometric lock landing alongside.
Live smart meter data
Octopus and n3rgy connections for live usage direct from your meter. No more manual bill entry, no more guessing.
Real device control
Home Assistant and Philips Hue integrations will bring real device control into Stead. Cross-provider routines follow.
Tailored maintenance schedules
Plans tailored to your property age, type, heating system, and fabric. Beyond the generic 17 UK essentials.
Landlord Compliance Pack
Eviction notice generator, service evidence pack, tax-ready profit and loss, safety reminders, energy efficiency forecasting. Built for the new renting laws.
Renter Pack
Repair issue logging with timestamps, deposit deadline tracker, tenancy document vault. Tenant-side tools for keeping clean records.
Stead Tools
Standalone calculators that funnel into the main app. Stamp Duty edge cases, Council Tax band challenger, leasehold service charge analyser, Child Benefit charge optimiser.
See it in motion.
The beta is invite only for now. Sign up for updates and we'll let you know when public access opens.