Straight answers to the real questions.

Yes. Buyers represent themselves all the time; nothing requires you to hire a buyer's agent. The regulated work — lending, appraisal, title, escrow, the notarized signing — is still done by licensed professionals, and it always will be. Jess is what finally makes running those parts yourself doable — the ones that were only ever hard because no one handed you the tools.

No, and this matters: Jess is a tool you use, not a broker, an agent, or your legal representative. You make every decision and you sign every document. Jess informs, maps your options, coordinates the people you pick, and keeps everything straight. She never acts on your behalf or stands in for a licensed professional.

The seller. That's their job — to get the seller the best price and terms. Knowing that is half the game, and Jess makes sure you never forget whose side of the table each person sits on. You'll always see who works for whom.

She pulls the facts on any home you paste in (comps, price history, taxes), explains and blank-fills the standard attorney-drafted paperwork with your values, coordinates your lender / inspector / title / escrow, verifies wire instructions before money moves, tracks every deadline and dollar, and surfaces the one thing that needs you when it needs you. What she doesn't do: decide, sign, hold your money, or grade a neighborhood.

Jess never touches a dollar. Earnest money and closing funds move from your bank to the licensed escrow company on their rails. Jess gives you the verified instructions, has you confirm them by phone with the title company before you send anything, and tracks the receipt. She needs to hear about your money — never hold it.

A flat $699 software fee, billed by Jess, separate from your closing costs — waived for beta testers. You still pay the real third parties (lender, inspection, appraisal, title, escrow, recording) directly at their real cost; Jess never marks those up or takes a cut. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.

No. Our problem is with a structure, not with people — a commission model built before the internet that runs on buyers feeling out of their depth. It charges a percentage that never came down, and it pays the person advising you on price a cut of that price. Plenty of agents are excellent, and most are as boxed in by that model as buyers are. We're loud about the model, not about them.

A complete, simulated home purchase — first address to recorded deed — with no real money and no real property. It's about 30–45 minutes, and it's the fastest way to feel what running your own deal is actually like. What testers tell us shapes what Jess becomes.