VYBE of LPT Realty, LLC  ·  Maryland  ·  Storyboard for Steve Pipich

One newsletter a month,
and the agent writes it.

Prepared by Billie Grant
10 September 2026
Build in progress
Nothing has been sent

Every VYBE agent gets a monthly newsletter that goes to their own client list, under their own name and their own Maryland license. The system does the research, the assembly and the compliance checking. The agent writes every sentence that sounds like a person, and nothing leaves until they approve it.

<10minutes a month per agent, once they are set up
10automatic checks between the agent and the send button
17screens designed, both themes, phone and desktop
0emails sent, on purpose, until VYBE signs off

How to read this

These are the real screens

Every frame below is drawn with the newsletter app's own colours, type and components, taken straight from the design file. The agent shown is Dana Whitfield, a sample agent with a sample license number, and every word in her newsletter is sample copy written for the design review. The app is dark by default and follows the phone's own setting, so here is one screen in both, and after that the frames run in dark only.

Dark, which is the default

This month

Two things need you before Monday, September 14. Six days left.

Your videoNeeds you
Record, link, or take the text version. Your script is ready.
About 2 minutes
Your properties
2 in this issue: Severna Park and Annapolis.
Edit any time

Light, the same screen

This month

Two things need you before Monday, September 14. Six days left.

Your videoNeeds you
Record, link, or take the text version. Your script is ready.
About 2 minutes
Your properties
2 in this issue: Severna Park and Annapolis.
Edit any time

Set up once

Fifteen minutes on a phone, and never again

Everything personal is asked here so the monthly form can stay short forever after. This is the riskiest part of the whole product: on programs like this, roughly six in ten agents never finish setup. Every screen is built to be finishable by an agent with no patience, standing in a parking lot.

Ask for access
Full name, as it is on your licenseDana Whitfield
Maryland license numberMD-SAMPLE-0000
Where you workAnne Arundel County

Your name has to match your license certificate. Maryland requires it in every advertisement.

Ask VYBE for access
Setup 1

Who you are

Name, license number and the county you actually work. Autofill is on, and nothing is asked twice.

You are in the queue
Waiting on VYBE

VYBE checks that you are on the team roster before your first issue can go out. That is usually the same business day.

There is nothing for you to do right now. We will email you the moment it clears.

Setup 2

An honest waiting room

A real screen, not a dead end. Who is deciding, roughly when, and that there is genuinely nothing to do meanwhile.

Your voice
You open withHi there,
You sign offTalk soon, Dana
Words you never want usedluxury, dream home, motivated seller

The drafts learn how you sound. They never invent your opinions.

Setup 3

The screen that earns the trust

Greeting, sign-off, two samples of the agent's own writing, and words to never use. This is where an agent decides whether they believe the product.

Your sections
Section 1What I am reading
Section 2Where I ate
Section 3Who I am supporting
Turned offWhat I am watching

Rename them, reorder them, turn them off. Move up and move down work without dragging.

Setup 4

Eighteen sections to choose from

The monthly form is generated from this choice, not hard-coded. Dana runs five sections; Marcus runs four and writes a long piece himself. Same system, visibly different newsletters.

Your list

Your contacts stay yours. They are never shared with another agent, and VYBE never mails them directly.

212 contacts
4 had already unsubscribed elsewhere and were skipped.

Anyone who unsubscribes stays unsubscribed, permanently, across every future issue.

Setup 5

The list is the agent's

Contacts belong to the agent. An unsubscribe is honored forever, and a later import cannot undo one.

That's everything

Your first issue starts drafting on the first of next month. You will get one notice when it needs you.

Finish setup

You can change any of this later, and changing it never rewrites an issue you already approved.

Setup 6

One gold button

Gold does exactly two jobs in the whole product: the one button that finishes a task, and the chip that says something needs you. Nothing else is ever gold.

Every month

The agent's ten minutes

This is the loop that has to be right. If a screen makes the monthly form longer, the screen is wrong. An agent who submits nothing at all still gets a complete, sendable newsletter, and it is never presented to them as a failure.

VYBE of LPT Realty, LLC

Sign in with the email VYBE has on file for you.

Continue
Passwords are handled by the hosted sign-in. VYBE never sees one and never stores one.
Frame 1

Sign in

Hands off to a hosted login, so VYBE never holds an agent's password.

This month

Two things need you before Monday, September 14. Six days left.

Your videoNeeds you
Record, link, or take the text version. Your script is ready.
About 2 minutes
Your monthNeeds you
3 of 5 sections written. Unwritten sections are left out, nothing else happens.
About 4 minutes for the rest

Nothing is delivered until you approve it. If you approve with the market update only, that is a complete issue.

Frame 2

This month

One card per thing that needs the agent, with the deadline and the days left. When nothing needs them, the screen says so and states what will go out anyway.

Your video
Record
60 seconds
Link one
you liked
Send the
text version

The same update, written out in your newsletter. Many agents choose this.

Your script
Rates moved up a little this month. The thirty-year is averaging about 6.71%, up from 6.66% the week before.
Frame 3

Your video

Three equal choices. The text version is presented as a real option and never as a downgrade, and the script is written for them either way.

What I am reading
What"The Anthropologists" by Aysegul Savas
Why  ·  in your own wordsI picked it up because it is short and I ended up reading it twice. It is about a couple deciding where to build a life, which turns out to be exactly the conversation I have with clients every week.

The why is the part that matters. A title with no why produces a line with no human in it.

Frame 4

Your month

Every personal item has the same shape: a short title, then a required why in the agent's own words. No suggested text, no rewrite button, no ghost text in any field an agent types into.

Coming soon
TownSeverna Park
Price  ·  beds  ·  baths$625,000  ·  4  ·  2.5
One line about itCorner lot, updated kitchen, walk to the B&A Trail.

Every number here is typed by you. Nothing is pulled in, rounded, or rephrased.

Frame 5

Your properties

Coming soon and off market. Every figure is the agent's own keystroke, and a later check proves the printed number is the one they typed.

Hi there,

Here is your September look at Anne Arundel County, plus a few things I have been into this month.

The market

Rates moved up a little. The thirty-year is averaging about 6.71%, up from 6.66% the week before. Small move week to week, but roughly a fifth of a point higher than this time last year, and that is the one people actually feel.

Source: Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, September 3, 2026

Frame 6

Read it back

The assembled issue shown as a newsletter, top to bottom, not as a status report. Every figure carries its source on the page, where the reader can see it.

Ten checks
Nothing is left unfinished
Every number shows where it came from
No wording aimed a home at a type of person
!One sentence describes the buyer rather than the home
"Perfect for a young family. Water views from the back deck."
Annapolis, second property

Approving waits until it clears.

Frame 7

The checks

Ten checks in plain words, each labeled with who fixes it. A held issue quotes the sentence and takes the agent to it. If it is VYBE's to fix, it says so, and it says it is not their fault.

You are approving this

Dana Whitfield, Maryland license MD-SAMPLE-0000, on 8 September 2026. This exact issue, to 212 clients.

We record who approved, what they approved, and when.

Approve and schedule
Go back and change something
Frame 8

Approve

The gold button. Above it, in plain words, exactly who is approving, what they are approving, and what gets written down.

Approved

Approved and on its way to 212 clients. You get a copy when it lands.

Replies come straight to you. Anyone who unsubscribes is removed everywhere, straight away.

The word "Sent" does not appear on this screen, because nothing has been sent yet.
Frame 9

Approved

What happens next, in plain words. The product never says "Sent" before delivery actually happened, which is a small thing that keeps every other claim believable.

Steve's side

What the team leader sees

Three screens, designed for a desk first and a phone second, because writing a company message and reviewing a month's run are sit-down tasks.

Company message
The VYBE fall food drive
Every office is collecting through October. Ask your clients, and bring what you gather to the Towson desk.

This appears in every agent's issue, marked as coming from VYBE and not from them.

Publish to all agents
Admin 1

The company broadcast

One paragraph you write once, carried into every agent's issue that month, attributed to VYBE so no agent appears to be speaking for the brokerage.

Where the month stands
112 approved
Scheduled and waiting for Tuesday.
38 waiting on the agent6 days
They have been reminded once.
6 held by VYBENeeds VYBE
Mailing address not set. Not their fault, nothing for them to do.
Admin 2

This month's run

Who has approved, who has not, and what is held. Anything held for a reason VYBE controls is separated into your queue, so it never sits in an agent's list looking like their problem.

Who is on the list
Priya NatarajanRequested today, 9:12 AM
Elena MarshNo license number given

An agent who leaves the team stops receiving drafts and cannot approve an issue, from the moment you change it here.

Admin 3

The roster

Approving and removing agents. The one thing worth watching is that this list and the official team member list never quietly drift apart.

The ten checks

What has to be true before an issue can go

These are the exact words an agent reads, taken from the build rather than paraphrased. They run on the finished email, one recipient at a time, immediately before it would be handed to the mail service. Six of the ten are VYBE's to fix and never land on an agent.

Nothing is left unfinished
One section still has a note to yourself in it
You
Your license details are where Maryland requires
We are missing your license line
VYBE
The mailing address at the bottom is set
The mailing address is not set yet
VYBE
Every number shows where it came from
A figure lost its source and was removed
VYBE
VYBE of LPT Realty, LLC stays on one line
The name is breaking across two lines
VYBE
Nothing changed after you approved it
Your writing changed after you approved it
VYBE
Every price and bed count came from you
A property detail does not match what you entered
You
No banned phrases were found
One phrase needs rewording
You
No wording aimed a home at a type of person
One sentence describes the buyer rather than the home
You
Your unsubscribe wording and link are both in place
The unsubscribe link is missing or incomplete
VYBE

What the checks do not claim

All ten passing means ten specific things were proven about that one email. It does not mean the email is safe to send. Judgment, taste, and anything a rule cannot describe are still the agent's and the broker's, and the product is written so that it never implies otherwise.

The footer of every issue

The identification block

Maryland names a newsletter as an advertisement in the statute, so every issue carries the licensee, the brokerage as it appears on the license, and the broker's telephone number. This is what the build renders today.

Dana Whitfield Maryland License MD-SAMPLE-0000 VYBE of LPT Realty, LLC Broker: Tennille Thacker, 321-449-8990 Mailing address to be supplied by VYBE Unsubscribe

Three things about this block

  • The brokerage name was not guessed. Two independent primary sources were read and they agree word for word: LPT's own IRS Form W-9, line 1, and the Maryland Real Estate Commission's live trade name field. Both read LPT Realty, LLC.
  • One line does the whole job. The team name joined to the brokerage name satisfies the advertising rules on its own, so no second legal-name line is needed. An attorney has still not read it, and until one does, the build keeps that flagged rather than claiming it is settled.
  • The mailing address is the open gap. Federal law requires a real physical postal address in every commercial email. We would rather use the address VYBE wants than one we guessed, so the build refuses to render a placeholder there.

Honest status

What is actually built today

Measured against the build on 10 September 2026, not estimated. The screens are drawn and reviewed. About half the machinery behind them is written and tested, and the half that touches a real client list is deliberately last.

The database everything runs on
30 tables, including the monthly run, the draft, the approval, the send, and the permanent unsubscribe record.
Built, tested
The 18 sections an agent can choose from
Ten of the eighteen need nothing at all from the agent, which is what makes a ten minute month possible.
Built, tested
The ten checks
345 automated tests, all passing today. Each check is also proven to catch a deliberately broken issue and to leave a good one alone.
Built, tested
Working out what is genuinely near a client
Every ZIP code with its real centre point, so "near you" means a measured distance rather than a guess.
Built, tested
All 17 screens
Drawn in full, light and dark, phone and desktop, and audited against the accessibility standard. Drawn is not built.
Designed
Hosting and login accounts
Created in VYBE's name and completely empty. No agent data exists anywhere yet.
Set up, empty
Writing the monthly draft
The step that turns market data and the agent's answers into prose. Specified, not written.
Not started
Turning an approved issue into an email
Specified, not written. One decision about how an agent's typing is handled is recommended and still needs a yes.
Not started
Actually sending
Not built, and last on purpose. There is no path in this system today by which an email could reach anybody.
Not started
An attorney reading the identification block
Two primary sources agreeing is not an attorney reading them, and the code refuses to claim otherwise.
Needs an answer
Which sections block an issue and which only flag it
The broker's call, not ours. It changes how strictly the fair housing check behaves, and the difference is measurably not small.
Needs an answer

The one thing worth saying twice

This is not cleared to send, and it will not be cleared by the people who built it. An independent security review of the checks is open with four items still to close, and the identification block still needs a broker signature and an attorney read. Every one of those is written down, none of them is being worked around, and the send path does not exist yet, which is the cheapest possible way to be certain nothing goes out early.

What we need from VYBE

Twenty questions, and none of them are urgent

Thirteen for the broker of record, four for the team leader, and three documents for the compliance file. They are collected in one sign-off document rather than asked a few at a time in a text thread, because the answers need to be in writing and signed, and because a question answered twice in two places is how a build ends up with two truths.

The document is BROKER-AND-TEAM-LEAD-QUESTIONS.md, and it is deliberately blank. Partial is better than delayed. The two that unblock the most work are the mailing address for the footer, and whether LPT permits this at all, because if the answer to the second is no then none of the rest matters.