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Starting in Westchester County

Is the loudest thing
on your block
your neighbor's lawn?

You know the sound. Your neighbor's operator, Saturday morning, gas blower going full blast for an hour. Nobody asked. Tend is the neighborly answer to a problem that's been easy to ignore for too long.

Join the founding group Lawn care, land stewardship, however you tend it.
The Problem

Residential lawn care
hasn't evolved.

Lawn care just happens to most people. A crew shows up when they feel like it. The price shifts mid-season without a word. The equipment is louder than it needs to be, running during hours that are technically illegal, and nobody enforces anything.

Tend is built around a different idea.

Timing you control. Scheduled service that works around your week, not theirs.
Quiet by design. Electric tools that run at a third the volume of gas equipment. The ordinance exists. Tend enforces it.
Transparent pricing. You know what you pay before you commit. No surprises mid-season.
Accountable operators. Local professionals and neighbors who are in the marketplace because they live in it.
Care Style

However you tend your land.

Some people want a perfect lawn. Some are turning their backyard into a pollinator garden. Some are somewhere in between and haven't decided yet. Tend works for all of them, without judgment.

Manicured
The classic.
Clean edges, regular mowing, traditional turf. Done quietly, reliably, by someone who shows up when they said they would.
Mixed
Both, please.
Tidy where it matters, wilder where it doesn't. A schedule that works with how your yard actually grows, not how someone else thinks it should.
Rewilded
Less mowing. More life.
Meadow cuts, native plantings, pollinator zones, leaving the leaves. Operators who know the difference between a weed and a wildflower.
Figuring it out
No pressure.
Not sure what you want yet? Start here. Tend gives you a flexible path for six months while you decide. No lock-in, no judgment.
What Tend Is

A better way, built by your neighborhood.

Tend gives you a better version of something you already need: regular, reliable, quiet care for your yard. A local operator comes to you from day one. The tools and truck follow as the neighborhood grows. The people doing the work are local, accountable, and in the same ordinance boundaries you are. Four things make it work.

1 · Local Fleet to Library
Professional tools. No ownership required.
An all-electric fleet, charged and ready near you. When a fixed pod installs on your block, it becomes an on-demand tool library: commercial mowers, blowers, trimmers, and edgers available through the Tend app whenever you need them. No buying, no storing, no maintenance. The right tool, a short walk away.
2 · The Marketplace
Hire a local pro. Or a neighbor.
Book a local operator through Tend. They show up on schedule, use Tend tools, and are accountable because they work in your neighborhood. Want to hire a neighbor instead? Tend takes 0% on those jobs. The money stays local either way.
3 · Compliance Infrastructure
Built for the laws already on the books.
Over 100 municipalities have restricted gas equipment. Almost none can enforce it because compliance infrastructure doesn't exist. Tend builds that infrastructure: a verified audit trail for every job, every operator, every tool. Municipalities pay for the data. Government transition funds need somewhere to go. Tend is that place.
4 · Quiet By Design
60 decibels. About a conversation.
Electric tools run at roughly a third the volume of gas equipment. The sound of a conversation, not a chainsaw. Many Westchester municipalities restrict gas blowers. Nobody enforces it. Tend does.
The Tend Truck

Fully stocked.
Fully electric.

A fully stocked, all-electric service vehicle, maintained by Tend. Everything a real visit needs: commercial mowers, backpack blowers, string trimmers, hedge trimmers, edgers, and a full bank of hot-swappable batteries. Solar panels on the roof top it up between stops. Nothing on this truck runs on gas.

Mowing
Self-propelled + push
Commercial-grade battery mowers for every yard size and care style.
Cleanup
Backpack blowers
High-CFM electric blowers. 4-hour runtime. Battery swap in 90 seconds.
Trim and edge
Trimmers + edgers
String trimmers, hedge trimmers, and edgers on the same battery platform.
Specialty
Native and meadow care
Tools for meadow cuts, native planting, and invasive removal for Rewilded and Mixed yards.
Power
Full battery bank
Charged and ready. Swap capacity onboard so operators never stop for a charge mid-job.
Solar
Roof-mounted solar panels
Trickle-charges the battery bank between stops. The truck runs cleaner the more it works.
Join the founding group

Be among the first.

You get service before anyone else, lock in the best rate we'll ever offer, and help decide what Tend becomes in this neighborhood.

How do you care for your land right now?

Westchester County only for now. We'll only email you with real updates about your neighborhood.

You're in.

You're in. We'll be in touch when your neighborhood is ready. Know someone on your block who'd want this? Send them here. The more the merrier.

For lawn care professionals
More jobs. Better tools. No upfront equipment cost.
About

We live here too.

Tend started in our backyard. We're Karli and Stephen DeFilippo, Ossining residents who got tired of the Saturday morning soundtrack and decided to do something about it. Early days still. Day jobs intact. But the idea is solid, the momentum is real, and we're proving it here before taking it anywhere else.

Karli DeFilippo
Founder and CEO
Karli DeFilippo
Experienced Marketer with nearly 20 years shipping Product and Marketing experiences for Fortune 100 brands. Extensive expertise in go-to-market, brand positioning, and AI-assisted product development.
Stephen DeFilippo
Cofounder and COO
Stephen DeFilippo
C-suite consultant and Operator with 15+ years experience scaling marketplace businesses across logistics, mobility, and local services. Owns P&L, vendor networks, and GTM execution at scale. Turns operational complexity into margin.
Get in touch
karli@tend.casa   |   518-496-6131   |   Join the founding group
FAQ

Questions we'd rather answer upfront.

A pod is a solar-charged storage enclosure holding a set of battery-electric lawn and land care equipment: a self-propelled mower, push mower, leaf blowers, string trimmers, hedge trimmer, edger, and the batteries and chargers that run them. It sits on a 6 by 6 foot footprint on a neighbor's property. Subscribers access it through the Tend app with a smart lock.
We are not publishing pricing during pre-launch because the numbers depend on how many households are on a block and what vendor costs look like at scale. What we can say: the subscription is designed to cost less annually than what most households currently spend on lawn care. We will be fully transparent before anyone commits to anything.
No. If you have someone you rely on, they can join Tend as an operator. They get access to electric tools at no upfront cost, compliance credentials, and local leads. You keep the relationship. The neighborhood gets quieter.
For residential lawn care, yes. Commercial battery platforms like EGO have been used by professional crews full-time in California for two seasons. EGO's commercial backpack blower runs 4 hours on a single charge. A battery swap takes 90 seconds. The tools in Tend pods are commercial-grade, not consumer hardware.
None at this stage. Signing up tells us you are interested and gets you priority access when pods deploy on your block. No payment, no contract. Once you do subscribe, either side can exit with 60 days notice. There is no minimum term.
No. Tend is a Delaware C-corp. It's not a legal cooperative. The platform is built on the same logic that makes a food co-op work: pooled resources benefit everyone more than individual ownership. The first 10 Founding Hosts on each block receive equity in the company alongside lifetime membership. But Tend is a for-profit business.
Three reasons. First, you can take jobs in municipalities that already restrict gas equipment, which competitors using gas cannot touch. Second, you access battery tools at no upfront cost. Third, when state-level restrictions pass, you already have a verified compliance record. Tend's marketplace charges a flat monthly subscription, not a percentage of your jobs. You keep 100 percent of what you charge.