Find your people.
Find your Orbit.
The demand & living-experience layer for co-living — a two-sided, compatibility-matched marketplace on one shared record.
7 rooms. 1 philosophy.
In 2025, Tiffany converts a 3/2 into a 7/4 — adding rooms to a single-family home to begin a co-living experiment built on intentional spaces and thriving community.
Then Jake arrives — traveling for work, done with hotels and Airbnb fees. Reliable, communicative, income-stable. Not random at all: exactly what Tiffany was screening for without knowing it. He makes it home.
No workshop or pizza night fixes a mismatch. Compatibility does.
This isn't a housing problem. It's a connection problem.
U.S. Surgeon General, 2023
Cigna / GWI
The household is the product — not the room.
Random matching treats the room as the product. Orbit treats the household as the product — and makes forming one a coordinated, low-friction, safe process.
Live alone
Isolation, and the full cost of a place on one income.
Random roommate
A gamble on sleep, safety, and whether it lasts.
The household you'd choose
Vetted, compatible, formed on purpose — and full.
Residents bring fit. Operators bring the homes — and pay to fill them.
They bring how they live and who they are.
They get the household they'd choose — vetted, compatible, theirs. Free to residents.
- Verify — identity + background
- Match — lifestyle compatibility
- Backfill — keep the home full
They bring the homes — and pay to fill them.
They get full homes that stay full with qualified residents who get along.
Orbit is the operator-paid platform for household formation & occupancy continuity. Memberships, payments, and "Orbit-for-Life" are later expansion.
The flow is an orbit — not a funnel.
- Nonlinear — enter at any arc. Start as an organizer assembling a group, or a joiner who meets one person first. There's no fixed step 1.
- Iterative — people and homes move together. A saved home surfaces a housemate; a new member changes which homes fit; backfill keeps it whole.
- Guided — the Orbit Guide reads where you are and hands you the single next best move. The loop is rich; the experience feels like a few easy taps.
Your people appear.
A 60-second intake, then compatible housemates — ranked by fit, with the reasons why.
- Ranked on lifestyle fit — wake hours, cleanliness, noise, socializing. Never income, credit, or protected class.
- "Why you match" on every card — one tap to propose someone to your group.
- Cues, not scores — timeline overlap and pets show as chips, never inside the match.
Approve a whole household — in a single tap.
A compatible, identity-verified group arrives ready to place. The operator approves the household, not six separate applications.
Approving hands them to the operator's leasing process; each member then screens in the PM tool. Orbit introduces and verifies — the operator screens and leases.
Explore the working prototype mybestorbit.com ↗Orbit's role ends at introduction — it never touches rent or deposits.
- Identity + lifestyle verification
- Compatibility matching
- Group formation & one-tap approval
- Backfill & occupancy continuity
Approval hands the placed Orbit to the operator's PM system.
- Credit / income / criminal / eviction screening
- Lease, e-sign & deposit
- Rent, banking & ledgers
The 8% fee is billed to the operator, never to residents. Orbit stays the matching + coordination layer — not a property manager, landlord, or lease-holder.
When someone leaves, the room doesn't go cold.
matched, vetted, fully leased
one resident's rotation ends
next compatible person from the waitlist
The demand flywheel: density qualifies demand around each home → full, compatible homes earn premium per-room rent → Orbit takes a share of the uplift it creates.
Everyone owns a piece — Orbit runs the full loop.
| Flow | Outsite | PadSplit | Orbit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What they own | The buildings | The network | Room supply | The full household loop |
| Solves | Where you live | Where nomads stay | A cheaper room | WHO you live with |
| Model | Owned real estate | Membership network | Room marketplace | Asset-light, two-sided |
| Optimizes for | Design & brand | Community & travel | Lowest all-in price | Fit & safety |
Buildings, network, price — each rival owns one lever. Orbit runs the whole loop around a persistent household record — asset-light and defensible on the system, not one feature.
PM platforms are the distribution channel — not the competition.
Orbit sits on top of the PM stack and hands off — it never rebuilds it. Operators bring filled rooms and occupancy, which is accretive to the platforms they already run.
Their operator base becomes a distribution channel — de-risking "how do you get operators." Roommate compatibility + two-sided demand is a consumer/marketplace competency, not PM SaaS.
The forces are converging. No one has built the marketplace to meet them.
Harvard JCHS, America's Rental Housing 2026 · AEI, NYC Local Law 18 Analysis, 2026 · AirDNA, U.S. STR Mid-Year Outlook, 2026 · SkyQuest / Mordor Intelligence, Co-Living Market, 2026.
One line of revenue: an 8% take-rate on collected rent.
Reproducible with a calculator. Operator software, resident memberships, payment processing, and "Orbit-for-Life" are optional upside — not modeled. We underwrite the 8% fee alone.
+39% more to the owner — net of Orbit's fee.
Revenue uplift after Orbit's fee and modeled co-living operating cost. Lead with the net number.
$4,320 vs $3,100 standard lease — net of −$1,200 modeled co-living opex. Cost lines modeled until measured.
A Texas cluster — Dallas → Houston — built operator by operator.
demand
Trade-off we manage: concentration risk — keep an organic floor underneath the anchors.
The path to ~$150K MRR.
Orbit's recurring take, Dallas → Houston — a modeled ramp on the 8% fee alone.
- ~313 homes — $150K MRR ÷ ~$480 / home / mo
- 2 metros · 1 state (TX) · ~April 2028
- ~110% Home NRR (modeled) · ~70% women (expected)
Then the next round is a choice, not a lifeline.
Every sharing-economy category has a winner. Housing's community layer doesn't — yet.
Asset-light & compounding
A two-sided marketplace on a persistent record — the demand flywheel strengthens every match and Orbit earns a share of the value it creates.
A defensible loop
Rivals own one lever — buildings, network, or price. Orbit owns the full formation-and-backfill loop, the part none of them run.
The inflection
At ~$150K MRR, cash-flow positive, Orbit is a proven book — the point where an asset-light category leader's economics start to compound.
Illustrative of category dynamics, not a projection of returns. All investments involve risk.
Milestone-gated tranches — software first, working capital as operators sign, debt after collections.
Build & launch.
Ship platform v1.0; launch Dallas; sign the first anchor operators.
Scale the cluster.
Fill Dallas + launch Houston toward the ~$150K MRR scenario. Rolling closes.
Fund the proven book.
Home-level working capital & backfill, off recurring revenue — non-dilutive.
Tranche sizes illustrative — the staging is the point. Software is funded up front; home-level capital releases against signed operators and occupied rooms.
Jacob Whitfield
Built two tech startups from zero to major scale — now leads Orbit's raise, product, and go-to-market.
Tiffany Fulton
Runs a real co-living business and lived the operator pain firsthand — Orbit's proof of concept and first customer.
John Hancock
Ships the Orbit product end-to-end on a modern agentic stack — and brings his own build team to turnkey it.
Real estate's next chapter is community.
Every sharing-economy category has a winner. Housing doesn't — yet. Get in early.
jacob@orbitliving.io · Find your people. Find your Orbit.