House, in nine chapters

Built for ecommerce email agencies

Stop fighting the system.
Let your team cook.

House is the operating system for ecommerce email agencies. The clients, the work, the people, the knowledge, and the decisions—connected.

We believe an agency’s best work comes from its people. Their ideas. Their taste. The care they bring to a relationship. The things that make one team different from another.

Give that team a system built around its work, with the context close at hand and AI to help carry it forward. Make more room for what only they can bring.

Explore the whole House

One agency. Everything connected.

  1. Conversations
  2. Clients
  3. Work
  4. People
  5. Knowledge
  6. Direction

A sales handoff starts the relationship. A deliverable brings together a person, a deadline, and an SOP. Capacity and economics inform the next commitment. Homi helps with the context it is allowed to use.

01Homi

Homi connects all.

The best thing AI can do for an agency is give its people more room to be themselves.

Copywriters write. Designers design. Account managers build relationships. Homi works with the context your agency already holds: clients, deliverables, published knowledge, and permitted conversations. It helps the work around the work move forward.

With you. For you.

A recap becomes a next step.

You
“The welcome email is ready for design.”Cedar Goods · Welcome series
Homi
A proposed update, ready to reviewSee the stage and deadline changes. Apply them when you are ready.
Illustrative example · fictional agency and people

A useful draft needs something to draw on. Published SOPs and trainings give Homi the agency’s way of working.

Follow the knowledge into the work
Read the Homi chapter

02Sales

Keep the conversation with the deal.

The story of a client starts before kickoff. We believe that story should travel with them.

A promise made on a sales call matters to the person planning the first month. Keep the emails, call context, and next steps with the opportunity. When the deal is won, Hand off links or creates the client in House.

Cedar Goods · From conversation to client

Keep the promise in view.

Conversation
A welcome-series refreshThe opportunity holds the people, conversation history, and next follow-up.
Handoff
A starting point for deliveryThe won deal becomes a client relationship. Homi can draft the context bundle.
Illustrative example · fictional agency and people

The salesperson’s context becomes something the account manager can review as the brand enters onboarding.

Meet the client after the handoff
Read the Sales chapter

03Clients

Make room for the relationship.

An account manager’s attention belongs with the client. The context should be ready when they need it.

Client owners, links, service details, calendars, and recorded calls sit around the same relationship. Onboarding makes the next steps visible. Health signals show what needs a closer look. The brand portal gives clients a place for their onboarding and published work.

Cedar Goods · The relationship

A clear beginning. An attentive middle.

Onboarding
Waiting on ClientThe brand can answer its questions and upload its files in the portal.
Health
Watch · An overdue milestoneA reason to look closer, alongside the work and the people responsible.
Illustrative example · fictional agency and people

A health signal can point back to late delivery. The account manager can open the work and understand the next step with the team.

Follow the relationship into delivery
Read the Clients chapter

04Projects

The calendar is the heart of it.

We believe clarity is a creative advantage. Give people the context, then give them room to do the work.

A deliverable belongs to a real client, a plan, and a team. Move between personal, pod, and client views without rebuilding that picture. Briefing, copy, design, and launch have their own milestones. The relevant SOP stays in the How section.

Cedar Goods · Welcome series

One deliverable. The whole picture.

What
Welcome email oneThe brief and its parent flow.
When
Design due ThursdayOne milestone on the client calendar.
Who
Noor · DesignerThe person picking up the next step.
How
Welcome flow buildThe canonical SOP, linked to the work.
Illustrative example · fictional agency and people

The design milestone belongs to a person. Their assignments and availability give Capacity something concrete to measure.

See what is on the team’s plates
Read the Projects chapter

05People

Give your team room to do their best.

A team is made of people with gifts, ambitions, and lives outside the calendar.

Know who does what, how people work together, and when they are available. Give new teammates a clear beginning. Make expectations visible through role scorecards, and make development a regular conversation through Rocketfuel.

Noor · A path into the agency

From joining to belonging.

A clear beginning
Design foundationsOnboarding tasks and the learning tracks relevant to Noor’s role.
A continuing conversation
RocketfuelWeekly 1:1s, 90-Day Reviews, performance reviews, and role scorecards.
Illustrative example · fictional agency and people

Role and department assignments can enroll new teammates in published learning tracks. Their progress comes back to their profile and onboarding.

Give learning a next step
Read the People chapter

06Learning

Your way of working, ready for the next person.

What the team knows should become something the next person can build on.

The library holds the agency’s thinking. Tracks give it an order. The How section brings the relevant resource back to a real deliverable. Learning is part of delivery, and delivery gives the team a reason to keep improving what it teaches.

One resource · Three places it helps

Welcome flow build

In the library
The canonical SOPContext, steps, and a definition of done.
In a track
Design foundationsA step on Noor’s path into the agency.
On the deliverable
Cedar Goods · Welcome emailThe same source, referenced in How.
Illustrative example · fictional agency and people

A deliverable points to the canonical resource. Improve the source in Learning and the team has one place to return to.

See knowledge alongside What, When, and Who
Read the Learning chapter

07Company & Direction

Lead with Alignment

Alignment first

The Company area holds the foundations your team shares and the planning leadership needs to do. Long-term direction becomes annual goals and quarterly rocks—specific priorities with owners. Issues get a place in the conversation. History makes room to learn from the quarter you just lived.

Pod Willow’s agency · An illustrative priority

Make the first month feel considered.

Quarterly rock
Improve the welcome-flow onboarding guideA named owner and a definition of done.
In practice
Teach the thinking. Support the handoff.The team improves its learning resource and uses it in delivery.
Illustrative example · fictional agency and people

Mission, vision, and values have canonical company records. The handbook references them, so the team returns to a shared source.

Put the agency’s thinking within reach
Read the Company & Direction chapter

08Economics & Capacity

Know what growth will ask of your agency.

Growth should make sense for the people delivering it and the business carrying it.

Capacity looks at weekly deliverables and the clients people carry, with limits, time off, and holidays in view. Pod Economics examines retainers, delivery costs, and contribution profit. Bring the two into the same decision while keeping their different assumptions visible.

Pod Willow · Monthly illustration

Know what the number means.

Retainers
$40,000Monthly revenue in this fictional scenario.
Delivery costs
$20,000$18,000 labor + $2,000 direct expenses.
Contribution
$20,000 · 50%Before agency overhead.
Illustrative example · fictional agency and people

Assignments and availability inform Capacity. The sales pipeline and financial assumptions inform forecasts. A person considers them together before saying yes.

Connect the next sale to the delivery decision
Read the Economics & Capacity chapter

09Your Agency

A shared home. Your way of working.

The system should support the way your agency works—and leave room for the people who make it yours.

Your roles, teams, stages, fields, and communication preferences shape the workspace. Notifications bring a person back to what needs them. Live Activity makes meaningful work and team moments visible. The Admin center gathers the practical controls that keep the agency running.

The same agency · Different responsibilities

Connected, with boundaries.

People
Their work and conversationsA desk, relevant notifications, and the information their access allows.
Admins
The shape of the workspaceUsers, roles, teams, settings, integrations, and support.
The owner
Financial accessEconomics access is granted independently of general team roles.
Illustrative example · fictional agency and people

The connections serve the work: a follow-up can reach the agency’s chosen channel, while a link brings the person back to the relevant record.

Return to the work that needs you
Read the Your Agency chapter

The original House design brief

Everything email marketing agencies need all in one place. Everything they need. Nothing they don't. Simple.

Jordan ParisFounder, House · July 2026

The point of it all

More time in your gift.

A copywriter’s ear for language. A designer’s eye. An account manager’s feel for a relationship. Every person brings something of their own.

The GiftIs You

From Jordan’s personal notebook

To make the most of yourself & to be yourself is to be the gift.

Jordan ParisFounder, House · October 10, 2026Black Book, p. 31

House brings the work together, with Homi to help carry the work around the work. Less of the day spent chasing context, repeating updates, and managing the system. More time doing what each person does best.

That is what we mean by “Let your team cook.” Give people the context and support they need, then make room for them to use and develop their unique gift.

Stop fighting the system.
Let your team cook.

Bring the whole team

No per-seat pricing. Your price follows your client count.