For non-profits & counseling agencies
Housing counselors shouldn’t have to be DPA encyclopedias. Hey Prescott keeps a verified catalog of every down payment assistance program in the country — and gives your counselors the workflow to run a caseload against it.
Built for HUD-approved housing counseling agencies and 501(c)(3) homeownership organizations.
A family walks in. They’re income-qualified, they’re mortgage-ready, and there are eleven programs in your county that could put $15,000 to $40,000 toward their close — city, county, state, employer, lender-funded. Layered, most of them.
Nobody has that list. It changes constantly. Funding runs out mid-quarter and the website doesn’t say so.
So the family gets the two programs your counselor happens to know. The rest of the money stays on the table.
That’s the gap. That’s all this is for.
2,500+ programs across all 50 states and DC, verified against primary sources and re-checked monthly. Your counselor filters by the family's actual situation — income, location, occupation, veteran status, first-time status — and gets a ranked, stackable list with eligibility spelled out and a link to the source.
Invite families to connect with your agency. Assign a counselor. See every client, what stage they’re in, when they were last touched, and who’s gone quiet.
Publish your workshops, take registrations, collect a fee if you charge one, track attendance, and issue completion certificates. The certificate lands in the family’s account — which matters, because a large share of DPA programs won’t release funds without one.
Upload your agency’s forms, send them to a family, collect a legally-executed signature. Versioned, hashed, audit-logged. When a monitor asks you to produce a signed release from eighteen months ago, you produce it.
Prescott drafts a plan based on what’s actually blocking the family — credit, savings, documentation — and your counselor edits and approves it. The counselor stays in charge. The typing gets done for them.
Every family you work with gets their own account: their programs, their plan, their documents, their class schedule. When they graduate out of your program, they keep it.
Hey Prescott is the DPA and counseling-workflow layer. It runs alongside CounselorMax, or whatever you use today — your CMS stays your HUD system of record, and nothing about how you file your 9902 changes.
Nothing to rip out. Nothing to migrate. No retraining your staff on a system of record.
We’re building toward HUD CMS certification against the ARM 6.0 specification, and we’ll say we’re approved on the day we are — not before. Until then, this is purely additive.
The goal is a full HUD-compliant client management system — the system your agency reports from, not another tool bolted onto the one you already have. Roughly in order:
HUD's client data model, captured once and reused everywhere. The end of re-keying the same family into three systems.
Every session, every activity type, every HUD outcome code, recorded as you work.
Quarterly aggregation across all nine counseling activity types, with reconciliation that shows you what’s incomplete before you file.
Direct submission to HUD's Housing Counseling System. This is the certification gate.
Budget worksheet, debt schedule, DTI, and a loan comparison including FHA, run against the family's real intake.
With a human review gate on every translation. We won't send a family a machine translation nobody read.
Want a say in how it gets built? We’re taking on a small number of design-partner agencies.
Hey Prescott also serves loan officers and real estate agents. You should know that, and you should know exactly what it means for your clients.
It means nothing, unless the family says so.
A family counseled by your agency is walled off from the marketplace side of this platform by default. No loan officer browses your caseload. No agent gets a lead because a family finished your workshop. If a family wants an introduction to a lender, the family asks for it, names who it goes to, can revoke it, and it’s logged.
HUD requires this of a certified CMS. We’d hold the line either way.
Pricing depends on the size of your counseling staff and which parts of the platform you use. We’re not going to make you fill out a form to find out — email us and we’ll give you a straight number.
Tell us about your agency and we’ll show you what your counselors would actually be working with.