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We're building NYC's most powerful compliance engine.
ViolationWatch fuses every available city signal into one real-time feed — so owners, property managers, and legal teams catch violations before they become fines.
2021
Founded in NYC
10
Agencies monitored
1,200+
Buildings live
10–20
Min alert latency
Monitoring 10 NYC agencies · in real time
— Mission
Make NYC compliance transparent to the people responsible for it.
New York City enforces roughly 450,000 building violations a year across 10+ agencies. Every one of them carries a deadline, a fine schedule, and a cascade if ignored. Most property owners find out long after the fact — when the letter arrives, when the fine doubles, when the lien hits the title.
We started ViolationWatch because the infrastructure for catching compliance risk in this city still looked the way it did in 2004 — a patchwork of paid expediters, 311 phone calls, BIS tabs, and a prayer.
Our engine runs every minute of every day, across every signal the city produces, for every building our customers ask us to watch. It turns compliance from a reactive crisis into a background process.
— What makes us different
Not a wrapper. A detection engine.
01
Multi-signal fusion
Public records are one signal among many. Our engine fuses agency data, inspection filings, complaint routing patterns, adjacency signals, and derivative indicators into a unified detection pipeline.
02
NYC-native
We only monitor New York. Every agency quirk, every seasonal enforcement wave, every local law deadline is built into the product. No generic SaaS retrofit.
03
Signal over volume
Most alerts are noise. We route by severity, by role, by channel — so a Class C HPD goes to the super at 2am, but a Class A doesn't wake anybody up.
04
Turnkey onboarding
No API key. No code. No configuration files. Paste an address, pick your recipients, you're monitoring — usually in under 60 seconds.
05
Built for portfolios
Every feature scales: bulk address import, SSO, white-labeled reports, 99.99% SLA. The same product that covers a 3-family in Queens covers a 2,000-door REIT.
06
Priced for NYC
$9 per building per month. Not per-seat, not per-agency, not per-alert. You pay for what you watch.
450K+
Violations issued 2024
3.4M+
311 requests last year
10
Agencies · one feed
99.99%
Portfolio uptime SLA
— How we work
Four operating principles.
Latency is a feature.
Every minute between violation and alert is a minute of compounding risk. We optimize for the tightest possible detection-to-notification loop.
False positives are worse than misses.
An alert that turns out to be nothing trains our customers to ignore us. Every signal is scored, every severity is calibrated.
NYC is a specific place.
Heat season. Summer facade inspections. Winter rodent complaints. The DOB NOW migration. The product knows the city.
The customer runs the building, not us.
We surface signal and remove friction. We never lock down, never dark-pattern, never upsell at the alert. Churn should always be one click.
— Join us
Want to talk compliance, data, or NYC?
We're a small, technical team. Partnerships, press, product feedback, careers — always open.