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NipunDubey

I build AI that runs leasing.

Renters can get answers in seconds, at any hour, in English or Spanish.

HappiNest.AI is an AI leasing platform that automates lead response, qualification, tour scheduling, and follow up for property management companies through deep integrations with property management systems and listing portals.

Building from Tampa, Florida

Nipun Dubey
Co-founder and CEO HappiNest.AI

AI for the work that keeps leasing moving.

Built for the full range of residential rental portfolios, inside the systems property managers already use.

HappiNest.AI

I am the co-founder and CEO. HappiNest.AI is an AI leasing platform that automates lead response, qualification, tour scheduling, and follow up for property management companies through deep integrations with property management systems and listing portals. As of September 2026, the product is live across 11 states.

All residential asset classes

  • Multifamily
  • Single family rental
  • Manufactured housing
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Lead response

02

Renter qualification

03

Tour scheduling

04

Persistent follow up

Four apps built around a shared idea.

I built and published Zubane, Bhashalu, Bhashegalu, and Bhashao. The series follows words and scripts across Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Kannada, and Gujarati.

01 / Hindi and Urdu

ज़ुबानेंزبانیں

Zubane

An offline dictionary with 5,000 Hindustani words, plus Devanagari and Nastaliq study, pronunciation, songs, word origins, and an AI tutor.

Explore Zubane

02 / Hindi and Telugu

भाषाएँభాషలు

Bhashalu

A paired dictionary with Devanagari and Telugu script study, pronunciation, songs, word origins, and an AI tutor for two unrelated languages that share words.

Explore Bhashalu

03 / Hindi and Kannada

भाषाएँಭಾಷೆಗಳು

Bhashegalu

A paired field guide to words, scripts, grammar, and the history of language contact across Karnataka and the Deccan.

Explore Bhashegalu

04 / Hindi and Gujarati

भाषाओભાષાઓ

Bhashao

A Hindi and Gujarati dictionary and field guide with offline word and script study, paired origins and grammar, essays, quizzes, song guides, and an AI tutor.

Explore Bhashao

Ideas built in the work.

I speak from direct experience: where AI fits, what it takes to build for one industry, and why Tampa is a place to build.

01

AI in property operations

How AI fits across lead response, qualification, tour scheduling, and follow up.

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Lessons from building vertical AI

What changes when an AI product has to work inside the systems operators already use.

03

Building a startup in Tampa

Building HappiNest.AI while taking part in the Tampa Bay startup community.

An operator before a founder.

The thread across the work is simple: understand the process, build the product, and make the operation better.

2024 to present

Tampa, Florida

Co-founder and CEO, HappiNest.AI

AI leasing platform that automates lead response, qualification, tour scheduling, and follow up for property management companies through deep integrations with property management systems and listing portals.

2026 to present

Founder, Zubane, Bhashalu, Bhashegalu, and Bhashao

Created and published four language apps tracing the words, scripts, and histories that connect Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Kannada, and Gujarati.

2022 to 2024

Austin, Texas

Product and implementation specialist, SchooLinks

Led the work based learning division, shipping product and partnership features with the engineering team and growing paid accounts about six times over.

2021 to 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

Head of growth and product, Virtuous AI

Built the growth and product function from the start for an ethical AI startup that monitored machine learning models for bias and explainability, taking the first product from idea into beta.

2019 to 2021

Chicago, Illinois

Co-founder, AirCampus

Co-founded an education technology startup, leading product, marketing, and strategy through beta trials with schools and a later wind down.

Building, speaking, and staying close to the work.

Right now I am building HappiNest.AI, an AI leasing platform for property management companies. Most of my time goes to the product and the integrations that make the platform useful inside the systems property managers already run. Alongside it, I am publishing Zubane, Bhashalu, Bhashegalu, and Bhashao, four apps about the words and histories connecting Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Kannada, and Gujarati. I am based in Tampa, Florida, active in the Tampa Bay startup community, and speaking at industry events this fall.

October 19 to 22, 2026

Rent Manager user conference, RMUC.26

San Antonio, Texas

Bring an operator’s view of AI to the room.

Planning an event on AI, property operations, or company building? Send the event, date, and audience on LinkedIn.

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