I Built a Tenant Screening Platform in 48 Hours

I built a tenant screening platform in 48 hours. It's live. It charges money. Here's how.

cloudnimbusllc.com/tenant-screening — go look at it. $49 basic, $99 comprehensive. Stripe payments are live. The FCRA-compliant consent flow is live. The token-gated tenant intake is live. A landlord can submit a screening request right now, today, and the system handles the rest.

Nobody asked me to build this. I watched someone I trust do tenant screening wrong and I couldn't unsee it.

The problem

Coleman Cameron is my real estate agent in Miami Beach. Trust Group Realty, FSU grad, Florida license SL3440420. I put him #1 on my Top 25 list because he earned it. He's the agent who helped me find the place I just signed a lease for using my own software. I trust him with my housing. So when I watched how he runs background checks on prospective tenants, I paid attention.

Here's how it works in the real world for most landlords and agents: you ask the tenant to pull their own credit report and forward it to you. The person you are investigating controls the evidence. They choose which report to send. They choose when to send it. They choose whether to send it at all. You're running a background check where the subject is the courier.

That is structurally backwards. It doesn't matter how honest the tenant is. The incentive structure is broken at the protocol level. The person with the most to gain from a clean report is the person you're trusting to deliver the report. In any other context — auditing, compliance, legal discovery — you would never let the subject of an investigation control the chain of custody on the evidence. But in residential real estate, it's standard practice because the tooling to do it right has been expensive, fragmented, and locked behind enterprise contracts that don't make sense for an independent agent running six units.

So I built the tooling.

The build

48 hours. Claude Code as the builder. Me as the architect.

The frontend lives on cloudnimbusllc.com/tenant-screening — Next.js, clean landing page, Stripe Checkout for payments. The backend runs on Delivery Hub, my Salesforce-native platform that already handles e-signatures, workflow automation, escalation rules, audit chains, and cross-org sync. Version 0.162 is in production right now with 988 Apex tests passing.

Here's the flow:

1. Landlord submits a screening request — name, email, property address, which tier they want ($49 basic or $99 comprehensive). Stripe processes the payment.
2. System emails the tenant — not the landlord emailing the tenant. The system. Automated. With a unique token-gated link that only that specific tenant can use.
3. Tenant fills out the application — personal info, employment, rental history. Through the secure link. No forwarding PDFs around. No "hey can you pull your credit report and text it to me."
4. Consent and authorization capture — FCRA-compliant disclosure, explicit consent, IP address logging, timestamp recording. This is the part most DIY screening skips entirely and the part that matters most if anything ever goes to court.
5. Background check runs — criminal records, eviction history, credit (comprehensive tier), sex offender registry, terrorist watchlist. The report goes to the landlord. The tenant never touches it.

The landlord gets a real report. The tenant gets a fair process. The chain of custody is intact from request to delivery. Nobody forwards their own background check to the person deciding whether to rent to them.

What's live right now

Everything I just described minus the automated CRA integration. The intake flow is fully automated. The consent capture is fully automated. The payment processing is fully automated. The report generation in Phase 1 involves a manual step on the backend while I wire up the Checkr API for programmatic consumer reporting agency pulls. That integration is Phase 1 — it's in progress, not shipped yet.

But the product works. Today. You can go to cloudnimbusllc.com/tenant-screening and buy a screening right now. The $49 tier gets you criminal + eviction + sex offender + watchlist. The $99 tier adds a full credit report. The consent flow is real. The FCRA compliance is real. The Stripe charges are real.

I am not showing you a demo. I am showing you a product that takes money and delivers a service.

What's next

Three things, in order:

Checkr CRA integration. Automated consumer reporting agency pulls so the entire pipeline runs without manual intervention. Submit request, pay, tenant fills application, consent captured, report generated, landlord notified. End to end, zero human bottleneck.

Landlord dashboard. A portal where property managers and agents can see all their screening requests, statuses, reports, and history in one place. Built on Delivery Hub's existing workflow infrastructure so it inherits all the audit trail and permission controls that are already there.

Screening + e-signature integration. This is the big one. Right now, Delivery Hub's e-signature and the tenant screening platform are two separate flows. The endgame is one tool: screen the tenant, approve, generate the lease, get it signed, all in one pipeline. I signed my own lease yesterday using the e-signature flow. Connecting screening to signing means a landlord can go from "I have an applicant" to "I have a signed lease with a clean background check on file" without leaving the platform.

The math

Teams charge $50,000 to $200,000+ to build something like this. I know because I've been on both sides of those invoices. Enterprise tenant screening platforms are built by teams of 8-15 over 6-12 months with a compliance consultant on retainer and a Stripe integration that takes three sprints by itself.

I did it in 48 hours because Delivery Hub is the platform and Claude Code is the builder.

Delivery Hub already had user management, workflow automation, email templates, audit logging, permission sets, and cross-org sync. I didn't build any of that for tenant screening. It was already there. The e-signature flow was already there. The Stripe integration pattern was already proven on other Cloud Nimbus products. The FCRA consent capture is a form with legal language, IP logging, and a timestamp — it's important, but it's not architecturally complex when you have the plumbing.

So what did the 48 hours actually buy? The tenant screening-specific workflow. The landing page. The token-gated intake. The email automation. The pricing tiers. The Stripe Checkout session. The consent form language. That's it. Everything else was already built.

This is the real argument for building on a platform instead of building from scratch every time. The marginal cost of the next vertical is approaching zero. Tenant screening took 48 hours. The next product — whatever it is — will take less, because every vertical I build adds shared infrastructure that the next one inherits.

This is what "shipping" looks like

I tweeted today that I'm releasing background screening and a landlord portal for getting leases and documents signed with integrated background screening services. That tweet is not a roadmap. It's a receipt. The thing is built. The payments are live. The URL is up.

I am a one-person company shipping enterprise-grade software using AI tooling that didn't exist two years ago. I am not special. I am not a genius. I am an engineer who figured out that Claude Code can mass-produce the boring parts and Salesforce can handle the hard parts and the only thing left is knowing what to build and refusing to stop until it ships.

If you are a landlord, a property manager, or a real estate agent who is still asking tenants to forward their own background checks — stop doing that. There is now a $49 alternative that handles the chain of custody correctly.

If you run a Salesforce org and you want the platform underneath all of this — workflow automation, e-signatures, tenant screening, whatever I build next — install Delivery Hub. It's free to try.

If you want consulting help building something like this for your own vertical — Cloud Nimbus is the company. I am the consultant. I build fast because I've spent years building the platform that makes fast possible.

Talk minus action equals zero. Here's the action: cloudnimbusllc.com/tenant-screening.