Perch is built in Paris for the people whose property is somewhere they can't drop by. The people we know who own property at a distance, like a 1972 ranch in Texas they inherited, a Burgundy farmhouse they renovate by phone or a pied-à-terre two flights away, are managing their homes through WhatsApp screenshots and forwarded emails. The tools that exist assume the owner is on site.
What fails in remote property is commitment, pace and presence. An electrician who agrees to work and then comes once a month for six months is communicating exactly what he intends, and an owner who lives across an ocean cannot supply pressure, checkpoints or the simple visibility of being there. Software cannot make the artisan show up. It can make the slip visible earlier, give the owner cleaner ground to stand on when the conversation gets harder, and lower the cost of finding alternatives.
Perch keeps three things in one record. WhatsApp, SMS, email and voice notes are pulled into one inbox per project, and contractors don't sign up. The report says what's wrong, what it costs, what to do first and who to call, with each finding tied to a source and a stated confidence level. The Property Passport is a portable record of the home (decisions, receipts, contractors, warranties) that goes with the property when it changes hands. Perch is not a marketplace and not a dashboard for property managers.
Clémentine Pouille founded Perch out of her own experience renovating a stone house in Faverolles, Burgundy, from a distance. Her family is French, but almost all of them live abroad and no one lives near the house. The work on Perch began when she found herself coordinating French artisans on a property she could not visit weekly, with no clean way to know what had happened on site between phone calls. She spent seven years building enterprise SaaS products at Avature before joining the HEC Paris MBA.
Data lives in Germany (Frankfurt, eu-central-1) under GDPR. Perch does not sell personal data or profile users, and the Property Passport exports everything, so you can leave with the full record intact.