Guiding Lives Forward

The accountability platform for recovery housing.

Built so residents own their accountability, staff focus on support, and your program can prove what you already know. Recovery works. Face verified attendance, recovery capital scoring, and grant ready exports in one platform.

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Steward admin dashboard showing 12 residents across the Wilson Housing Alliance organization, with curfew countdown, sobriety milestones, and live activity feed.

HIPAA compliant

AES 256 encryption at rest

Multi tenant isolated

Built in Washington State for recovery housing

WBARS and SAMHSA grant ready

Staff web plus resident PWA

“Paper sign ins anyone can fake. Two days of spreadsheets for every grant report. No way to prove what we already know. That recovery works.”
Recovery housing operator, before Steward

Recovery housing operators carry a real load: residents who deserve dignity and structure, funders who need data, and staff time pulled in three directions. Most software treats your house like an apartment complex. Steward was built because we were tired of that.

Steward exists to make accountability natural for residents, compliance painless for staff, and outcomes provable for funders. One platform, not five spreadsheets, three paper binders, and a folder of grant templates.

We built it because we needed it ourselves.

What Steward does

Three things, in service of one outcome: a recovery housing program that runs itself well and proves its results.

Accountability residents own

Two real apps, not one. Staff get the dashboard. Residents get their own, installable on any phone. Everything runs on facial recognition: residents face scan to open their app, face scan at the kiosk to punch in or out. No passwords. No fobs. No PIN codes. Once a day, on the first punch out, the app asks one focus tap. On the first punch back in, one mood tap plus one wellness question. Everything else is silent.

Face recognition · push notifications · offline capable · works on any iPhone or Android.

Compliance funders accept

Drug tests, twelve step attendance, room inspections, curfew logs, court mandate check ins. All captured from any phone, exported as the formats your funder already asks for.

WBARS · SAMHSA · custom CSV. One click exports your funder will accept.

Outcomes that prove your program

Recovery capital scores, longitudinal wellness trends, behavioral pattern detection. Steward watches the patterns across every resident so staff get the alerts that matter, not a 4 page report.

Built on BARC 10 + four wellness pillars (Personal · Stability · Connection · Growth).

Two apps. One platform. Built for who actually uses them.

Recovery housing isn't run from a back office. It's run in the house, on phones, in real time.

Staff dashboard

For house staff and admins

Web app, opens on any device, installable as a PWA on tablets at the house.

See who's home right now
Record drug tests, notes, incidents from your phone
One click WBARS / SAMHSA exports
Flagged residents at the top of your day
Multi house view for org admins

Resident Health pane of the Steward staff dashboard showing 12 residents across two houses with a routine-predictions panel.

Resident app

For people in recovery

Installable PWA. Face verified login. No passwords. Works offline.

Punch in / out with a face scan in seconds
Log twelve step meetings and location check ins inline
Daily wellness check in from the app, not over text
See your own recovery capital trend
Push notifications for curfew, milestones, reminders

The Steward resident PWA on a phone showing days in program, months clean, milestones, recovery progress bar, and tiles for punch clock, meetings, and BARC 10.

The resident app is the difference between accountability that feels like surveillance and accountability that feels like ownership.

A day in your house with Steward

What it looks like when the platform is doing its job.

6:42 AM
Resident app
Marcus opens the Steward app on his phone, taps his face, then taps “I'm Leaving.” Because it's his first punch out of the day, the app asks one quick focus category. Three taps total. He's out the door.
12:30 PM
Resident app
Marcus comes back, face verifies, taps “I'm Home.” First punch in of the day. The app asks one mood tap and one wellness question from the Copilot bank. The response feeds his recovery capital signals.
1:15 PM
Staff dashboard
Staff opens Staff Hub, the shift coordination feed. Steward's flagged James: personal wellness scores declined 25% over three months. One row, the evidence trail, one Resolve / Dismiss.
2:30 PM
Staff dashboard
At the weekly house meeting, staff logs attendance, drug test results, and room inspection scores from their phone. Results queue into James's compliance ledger and the next WBARS export.
6:00 PM
Resident app
Sarah gets her monthly Info Update push. Two minutes inside the app to update what has changed since last month: medication, job, treatment status, emergency contact. The same screen shows her sober streak and milestone progress, so she sees how far she has come. Residents own their own information; staff doesn't have to chase.
7:30 PM
Resident app
Marcus's monthly Recovery Check In comes due. Steward fires a push notification. He taps it, takes about five minutes. BARC 10 plus the wellness pillar in rotation this month.
8:00 PM
Both
Sarah hits 90 days sober. Steward fires a milestone in her app and a positive alert lands in the Staff Hub Wins tab.
11:30 PM
Staff dashboard
Curfew runs against the Phase 1 and Phase 2 curfew group rules. No shows trigger a push to the staff admin app and a push to the resident's app. Anyone who punches in late auto resolves the alert.

Built around how recovery housing actually works

Every feature exists because operators asked for it. None of it is borrowed from property management software.

Deploy a punch clock to any house

Generate a per house secure punch link from the dashboard in two clicks.
Open it on any iPad, phone, or laptop. Instant kiosk, zero install.
Each link is house scoped and rotatable; revoke or regenerate at any time.

Curfew Groups widget for custom rules

Per phase curfews. Phase 1 might be 10pm, Phase 2 11pm, Outpatient none.
Weekday vs. weekend semantics: Sunday night uses weekday curfew because it precedes Monday.
Per resident overrides for shift workers and night classes.

Serve assessments for grant reporting

Auto schedule monthly Recovery Check Ins and quarterly comprehensives from intake.
Resident gets a push notification and takes it in the app. No SMS friction.
BARC 10 + four wellness pillars (Personal, Stability, Connection, Growth) feed WBARS, SAMHSA, and custom exports.

MAT friendly, sobriety affirming

Tracks both clean date (sobriety streak) and intake date (program entry).
twelve step engagement optional, not required.
Built for the diversity of recovery paths, not just one model.

Chat with residents · house and org announcements

Message a single resident from the dashboard. It lands as a push on their phone.
Send announcements to a whole house: shift change, drug test day, dinner schedule.
Org wide broadcasts for state association tenants and multi house operators.
Residents reply from the app. Replies appear in the Staff Hub Messages feed.

Multi house orgs + per house grant tags

Some grants fund some houses. Steward tracks which houses sit under which grants.
Generates the right export per program.
State associations can see every house in their region from one platform tenant.

Real app, real ownership

Installable PWA. Residents put it on their home screen, not in a browser tab.
Face verified login, device tokens, no passwords ever.
Works offline. Writes queue locally and sync when reconnected.

Recovery Copilot

One wellness signal a day. Two taps from the resident.

Recovery Copilot is the AI layer that turns a punch into a wellness signal without turning the app into a survey. It runs at the natural moments of the day, not at random.

First punch out
One focus category tap. “What's the focus today?” Work, recovery meeting, appointment, errands. Done.
First punch back in
One mood tap plus one wellness question from the Copilot bank. Three taps total, including the punch.
Every other punch
Silent. Residents punching in and out for cigarettes don't answer twenty questions.
Nightly
The question bank is curated first. Every Copilot prompt that feeds a resident's wellness score comes from a hand curated 112 question library that maps to the four wellness pillars. New residents get up to 90% curated questions to build a baseline fast; once their wellness picture is filled in, the mix balances out to maintain it. AI generated conversational prompts never feed the score.
Off switch
Turn Copilot off at the org level. Every punch goes silent. The dashboard, exports, curfew, and assessment systems keep working. The AI layer just isn't in the way.

Health Grid

One score per resident. Four signals behind it.

Each resident's overall health score breaks down into four weighted components staff actually act on: Recovery Capital (40%), Compliance (25%), Behavioral (20%), and Engagement (15%). Risk band, days sober, employment status, treatment status, and days in program sit right above the scores so the staffer reading it doesn't need a second tab.

Open from anywhere. Staff Hub flag, the all residents Health Grid, an Assessment Explorer row, a Live Activity punch. Same view, same data, every time.

Schedule Prediction

The platform learns each resident's rhythm.

Every punch feeds a per resident routine model. Steward learns when each person typically leaves and returns, how many trips a day, what they tend to do on Mondays vs. Saturdays. The result: a daily prediction with confidence bands, an accuracy graded routine stability score, and an alert when a resident's actual day starts diverging from the pattern.

Right now: “Likely home (71%).” A real time read of whether the resident is on their typical pattern.
Typical day timeline: hour by hour home / out / uncertain bands so staff can see the rhythm.
Pattern shift detection: when a resident's actual day starts diverging from their established baseline, Steward fires a smart alert. Staff sees a “watching” chip on the resident's card before it escalates, and a direct alert once it tips into a real shift.

Schedule Prediction modal for a resident showing routine stability 68 out of 100, day of week tabs, real time likely home prediction, typical Monday timeline with home and out color bands, and predicted out and in times for the first trip of the day.

Punch Clock Kiosk

Deploy a punch clock to any house.

Generate a per house secure punch link from the dashboard. Open it on any iPad, phone, or laptop and you have a working kiosk. Face recognition is the default: residents tap to start the camera, look at the lens, and they're punched in. Keypad fallback only kicks in when the device has no camera. Recent Activity stream on one side, who's home and who's out on the other.

Two click setup from the dashboard. No installs, no manual provisioning.
Each link is house scoped and rotatable. Revoke or regenerate at any time.
Court friendly audit trail: face match + timestamp + house + verification method on every punch.

Customizable dashboard

Build the dashboard your house actually needs.

Every house runs different. Some shifts care about curfew first, others care about drug test pass rates, others want assessment due dates on the front page. The Steward dashboard is built on a drag and drop grid: pick which widgets show, resize them, arrange them into panes that match how your staff actually work.

Drag widgets to reorder, drag the corner to resize. Layout saves per pane.
Multiple named panes for Operations, Resident Health, Assessments, Curfew, and Messaging. Switch between them like tabs.
Pick from 40 plus widgets: Staff Hub, Health Grid, Routine Predictions, Curfew Countdown, Sobriety Milestones, Live Activity, Meetings, Alerts, and more.

A fully customized Steward dashboard pane showing Staff Hub, Alerts, Sobriety Milestones, Live Activity, Curfew Countdown, Key Metrics, and Check Ins widgets arranged across the available space.

Outcomes your funder will pay attention to

Pull the report. Send it. Done.

Grant Reporting dashboard showing 12 active residents, AI powered engagement metrics, twelve step engagement rates, sponsor connection rates, and one click WBARS / SAMHSA export. — Grant Reporting. One click WBARS, SAMHSA, and custom CSV exports.

Current Outcomes dashboard showing 76% 90-day retention, 100% drug test pass rate, recovery capital, compliance, and behavioral health scores across all active residents. — Current Outcomes. Recovery capital, retention, drug test pass, employment.

Generate the formats your funder already asks for: WBARS, SAMHSA TEDS, demographics, and custom CSV. No copy paste. No spreadsheet wrangling. The data is there because residents were already punching in, getting drug tested, and answering wellness check ins.

Security you can hand to your compliance team

Encryption at rest	AES 256 GCM, per field on ePHI
Encryption in transit	TLS 1.3
Tenant isolation	Every query is org scoped and audit logged
Authentication	TOTP MFA required for all staff
Session security	Hashed tokens, automatic logout
Audit trail	Every action logged and exportable

You don't need to understand the cryptography to trust your data is safe. We built Steward to pass a HIPAA audit and an actual pen test.

Every feature on this page was built with HIPAA, multi tenant isolation, and HIPAA safe logging in mind from the first commit. Your compliance team gets a security packet the day you sign on.

HIPAA. Multi tenant isolated. AES 256 GCM at rest. TOTP MFA required for all staff.

Who built Steward, and why

Steward was built by a recovery housing operator in Washington State who got tired of running a program on paper sign ins and grant report spreadsheets. After years of watching residents thrive in structured houses, and watching that good work go undocumented, the choice was build it ourselves or keep accepting what was on the market.

Steward is what we wished we had. We use it ourselves. We built it for the operators, residents, courts, and funders who deserve real tools.

Matt Wilson, Founder, Wilson Housing Alliance and Steward

Your program changes lives. Let Steward prove it.

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