The family retreat
Three generations of summers. One roof over every long weekend, every campfire, every last swim of the season.
Now in Early Access · Ontario
The OS for your lifestyle assets
Valhaverly is the private governance platform for families and friends who share lifestyle assets — lake houses, chalets, boats, and family compounds. Fair booking, shared costs, and no more group text chaos.
What We Protect
The places and memories your family built together.
Cottages aren't just real estate. They're childhood summers, Sunday pancakes on the dock, and the traditions you want your grandchildren to inherit. Valhaverly keeps the system from breaking what the family loves.
Childhood experiences
The dock jumps, the canoe races, the rainy-day card games — the moments that become family lore.
Shared traditions
Thanksgiving at the chalet. New Year's on the boat. Rituals that only work when everyone still shows up.
The land itself
Muskoka shoreline, Haliburton granite, Georgian Bay winds — places too meaningful to lose to bad logistics.
Multi-generational compounds
Sibling properties, guest cabins, shared docks — one governance layer for every asset in your circle.
The Reality
You love sharing the place. You just need a better way to do it.
Most shared properties run on goodwill, group texts, and verbal agreements. That works — until it doesn't.
"Who gets the long weekend?"
Every spring it starts the same way. Someone texts the group. Everyone replies at once. Someone gets left out. Someone holds a grudge all season.
"Why does it always fall on me?"
You pay for the repairs. You coordinate the bookings. You chase down contributions. You resolve the disputes. You love the place — but it's becoming a second job.
"We almost sold it last summer."
Not because anyone stopped loving the place. Because the system — the group text, the spreadsheet, the handshake agreements — finally broke under its own weight.
Getting Started
Up and running the same day you decide.
No IT. No setup fees. No learning curve.
Create your Circle
Walk through a 12-step setup wizard. Name your property, invite your members, and set the rules your way — contribution amounts, booking windows, and access tiers.
Takes about 20 minutes. Your Circle is live the same day.
Set your governance
Tell Valhaverly how booking priority works in your family. The Fairness Engine tracks scores across the season so the system decides — not you.
No more awkward conversations. The rules are set. Everyone knows them.
Everyone books fairly
Members see their booking window, their fairness score, and what they owe. Payments flow through Stripe. You get your weekends back.
And when September comes around, the ledger is clear. No guessing. No resentment.
The Platform
Every part of sharing, handled.
◈ Fairness Engine
Scoring that earns its keep.
Every member builds a Fairness Score across the season — based on contributions, stays, and care for the property. Scores determine who books first. No debates. No favourites. Just a system everyone agreed to.
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◈ Invisible Payments
The awkward money conversation, solved.
Shared costs flow through Stripe behind the scenes. Members see what they owe without the owner playing collections agent every month.
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◈ Circle Governance
Your rules. In writing. Enforced.
Your Circle's rules aren't a suggestion. They're enforced at the database level. When the system says Wave 1 books first, it means it — no workarounds, no exceptions.
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◈ Member Experience
Built for members, not just owners.
Booking windows, fairness scores, property notes, and cleaning checklists — everything members need without drowning in admin.
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Pricing
One subscription. The whole circle.
One Circle Owner pays. All members get access. No per-seat fees.
Steward
Free
- Circle Setup Wizard
- Basic booking calendar
- Member invites
- Shared notes
Circle
$19/ mo
- Fairness Engine + Wave assignment
- Invisible Payments (Stripe)
- Full booking flow
- Trust Scores (owner-only)
- Cleaning checklist
- Property knowledge base
Legacy
$39/ mo
- Everything in Circle
- Multiple assets per circle
- Season archive + CSV export
- Priority support
- Fairness Score API (forthcoming)
Estate
Custom
- White-labeling
- Custom governance rules
- Family office reporting
- Legal document integration
- Dedicated onboarding
Annual billing available at 2 months free. Cancel anytime.
Why Valhaverly
Built for the families that keep these places alive.
Valhaverly was built in Muskoka by someone who has lived the problem for 37 seasons. Not a startup solving a theoretical pain point — a product built because the existing tools failed a real family.
We believe the shared property — the lake house, the chalet, the boat — is one of the most meaningful things a family can steward together. It deserves better than a group text.
Built in Muskoka
Founded from 37 seasons at Himbury Lake. Real experience, not a pitch deck problem.
Governance at the database level
Your Circle's rules are enforced — no workarounds, no exceptions.
Private by design
Your circle's data is never visible outside your circle. We don't sell your family's information.
Designed for inheritance
Circles survive member changes, property transfers, and season resets — with full history intact.
Stop managing with WhatsApp.
Start governing with Valhaverly.
Early access is open now for circles in Ontario and Muskoka. Free to start. No credit card. Be running before the next long weekend.