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Vantaca Marks the Next Frontier of Community Living at CAI Annual 2026

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HOAi Fleet, Vantaca Vendor, and an expanded Resident Experience through Vantaca Home marks the largest product launch in company history

WILMINGTON, N.C., June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — For a long time, community association management was one of the most unglamorous categories in software. Back-office accounting. Compliance workflows. Paper-heavy, relationship-dependent, and stubbornly analog. Management companies hired more people to keep up with volume. Managers spent their days inside an inbox. And the people living in those communities, residents paying dues, maintaining homes, and depending on the quality of what their management company delivered, were the last ones anyone thought about.

Vantaca changed that. And today, at the 2026 CAI Annual Conference, the company is taking the next step.

Vantaca, an AI-first technology company purpose-built for community association management, is introducing HOAi Fleet, the most significant evolution of its agentic AI suite to date, alongside meaningful new capabilities across Vantaca Vendor and Vantaca Home. Together, these advancements move the company to its north star: a fully connected ecosystem where AI handles the operational weight of community management, freeing management companies to do something the industry has never been able to fully deliver elevate the experience of community living.

HOAi Fleet: The Next Evolution of Vantaca’s Agentic AI

HOAi has been running the back office of community management companies since its introduction. Automating violations, work orders, payment processing, and the daily back-and-forth that used to consume every manager’s day. HOAi Fleet is what comes next.

Fleet introduces a coordinated team of role-based AI agents, each scoped like a real employee with a defined job description and clear accountabilities, working across the full operational back office of a management company around the clock. AP processing. AR management. Financial production. Association onboarding. Work that used to fill every manager’s day now gets done before they log on.

Built on more than five million tasks already executed by Vantaca’s agentic AI infrastructure across 250 management companies, Fleet will expand AI coverage of human work from approximately 30 percent today to 90 percent by the end of 2026. The depth and breadth of agentic work is maturing rapidly. And yet, the longer-term trajectory goes further than what human teams can accomplish today: portfolio-wide pattern detection, daily ledger reconciliation, multi-year capital planning, and more. Fleet takes the industry beyond reactive association management and into proactive community asset management and, ultimately, toward hyper-personalized property management at a scale human operation cannot reach today.

Vantaca Managed Services extends Fleet for management companies that want AI power and human expertise working as one. Industry professionals operate alongside HOAi on the back-office work that demands the most judgment: full-cycle accounting, month-end close, bank reconciliations, AP and AR oversight, and board financial reporting. Complete coverage. Complete confidence. Without having to staff for it.

“The companies that move first to an AI-native operating model are the ones who will set the standard for the next decade,” said Ben Currin, CEO, Vantaca. “The winning companies will not use new HOAi capabilities to do what they do today, faster. They will use it to become something entirely different, where teams are rebuilt around relationships, service excellence, and the experience of living in a community they manage. The back office runs itself. Now they get to decide what to do with that.”

Vantaca Vendor: From Beta to the Industry

Vantaca Vendor made its first appearance at Vantaca Vision in 2025. Today, the company is bringing it to the broader market, focused on where the friction is greatest: the payments that move between management companies and the service providers they depend on.

Vendor relationships have always been the operational backbone of community association management and the source of some of its most persistent friction. Checks cut by hand. Service providers calling AP teams to ask where their payment is. Banking changes arriving by phone, carrying real fraud risk.

Vantaca Vendor changes that. Management companies approve and send payments in one place, retire manual checks from day one, and verify every payout change through a workflow built to stop fraud before it starts. Service providers get a self-service portal where they can track every payment and manage their own information — without picking up the phone. And residents feel it too: the pool serviced on time, the repair completed before anyone had to complain, the community that simply works.

Vantaca Vendor is processing payments for dozens of management companies around the country. What comes next — vendor quality scoring, spend analytics, procurement, and compliance management, all natively inside Vantaca — is already in development.

Vantaca Home: Resident Experience as the Next Frontier

Vantaca Home has always been the resident-facing layer of the community management experience. What is changing is Vantaca’s level of investment in it and the ambition for what it can become.

For decades, the homeowner experience in a managed community has been defined by what residents could not see. The work being done on their behalf. The status of their requests. The activity inside the buildings and amenities they pay to maintain. The expanded Vantaca Home capabilities end that opacity and go further.

Residents open the app and find their community in front of them. Not just a payment status or a service ticket, but the people they live next to, the spaces they share, and a personalized feed of content and benefits tailored to where they live. Local brands and national partners recognize homeowners as a community worth investing in, surfacing relevant offers directly in the experience. What residents see reflects their neighborhood, their events, their neighbors. Not a generic portal.

Boards get the operational transparency they need to govern with confidence, see how their management company is performing on their behalf, and communicate clearly with the residents they represent.

Resident experience is the next frontier. HOAi Fleet creates the opportunity. Vantaca Home is where it lands.

“People don’t wake up thinking about their HOA. They wake up thinking about their neighbors, their neighborhood, and whether they genuinely feel at home where they live. That’s what we set out to change,” said Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer, Vantaca. “When your app reflects your community’s personality, surfaces content and benefits that are actually relevant to your life and makes it easy to connect with the people around you — something real shifts. Residents stop feeling like customers of a service and start feeling like members of a community. That’s the experience we have built.”

One Direction. One Connected Ecosystem.

HOAi Fleet, Vantaca Vendor, and Vantaca Home are not three separate announcements. They are one direction: an AI suite that handles the operational weight, a vendor network built on trusted, fraud-safe payments, and a resident experience that finally elevates community living.

The management companies that move first to this model will have something their competitors cannot easily replicate: time. Time to rebuild their teams around relationships instead of transactions. Time to deliver the kind of proactive, responsive service that retains boards and earns referrals. Time to focus on what community actually means.

About Vantaca

Vantaca is an AI-first technology company purpose-built for community association management. Serving more than 550 management companies representing over 6.5 million doors across the United States, Vantaca combines intelligent automation, integrated payments, and resident-facing features to elevate community living. Recognized on the Inc. 5000 list for five consecutive years, Vantaca is uniquely positioned to lead the modernization of community management through operational excellence, agentic AI, and an expanding ecosystem connecting management companies, residents, vendors, and boards.

For more information, visit vantaca.com. 

Disclosures

Vantaca is not a bank. Banking products and services are offered by Grasshopper Bank, N.A.

Media Contact:
Ryan Kelly
PR and Communications Director, Vantaca
732.770.5942 | ryan.kelly@vantaca.com

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Sesame Software Named Fastest to Implement and Best Estimated ROI in G2’s Fall 2026 Reports, Previews Sesame Software 7.0

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Mid-market recognition from verified users caps a strong 2026 as the company announces the beta of its biggest platform release in years

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sesame Software, the Enterprise Data Management leader, today announced it has earned two mid-market badges in G2’s Fall 2026 reports, Fastest Implementation and Best Estimated ROI, based on verified user reviews. Heading into 2027, the company also previewed Sesame Software 7.0, its biggest platform release in years, with a beta opening this winter.

Recognized by G2 Users

The badges reflect what users say about Sesame Software: it’s up and running in minutes, needs no coding or data mapping, and pays for itself quickly. Teams use it to replicate data in near real time, build pipelines into warehouses like Snowflake, back up and archive records, and run verified migrations between systems.

“Customers don’t want a data project. They want their data where they need it, working as soon as possible,” said Joshua Demumbreum, Director of Product Operations, Sesame Software. “Hearing that back from users, in their own words, is a great way to close the year.”

Coming Soon: Sesame Software 7.0

What’s new in 7.0:

New interface: fewer clicks, easier navigation, clearer logs, and reporting on which records each job movesRebuilt engine: faster jobs, bigger data volumes and fewer failures, with data cleanup built into every jobRewritten connectors: simpler templates that behave the same across every connectorSimpler upkeep: Java 25 support, embedded Tomcat, and one-step upgrades

“After 30-plus years in enterprise data, 7.0 is our biggest step forward yet,” said Nathan Lugert, Senior Software Engineer, Sesame Software. “We can’t wait to get it into users’ hands.”

About Sesame Software

Sesame Software is the Enterprise Data Management leader, delivering data rapidly for enhanced reporting and analytics. Sesame Software’s data platform offers superior solutions for data warehousing, integration, as well as backup, and compliance to fit your business needs. Quickly connect to SaaS, on-premise, and cloud applications for accelerated insights. With over 30 years of expertise, Sesame Software helps businesses take back control of their data, access it from anywhere, ensure security and compliance, and unlock its power to grow.

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Kristen Besselsen, Director of Marketing
kristen.besselsen@sesamesoftware.com
www.sesamesoftware.com

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RS earned three awards at the 2026 Moxa Global Distributor Summit

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The three awards recognize RS for demonstrable leadership in small to medium-sized business sales, energy sector sales, and regional sales.

FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — RS, a high-service global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, earned three top awards at the 2026 Moxa Global Distributor Summit. Held in Nashville, Tennessee, September 8–11, this exclusive summit welcomed Moxa team members and partners from all over the world to “Collaborate to Lead” and discuss business and strategy updates, emerging industrial infrastructure trends, secure OT connectivity, and next-generation technologies like AI data centers and energy storage.

RS combines immediate access to Moxa products with deep technical expertise to solve complex operational challenges.

During the event, Moxa — a global leader in industrial networking, computing, and edge connectivity solutions — presented RS Americas with its:

2026 Top Global Sales Award for small to medium-sized businesses2026 Top Global Sales Award for energy businesses2026 Platinum Award for top sales in the Americas region

These awards recognize RS for outstanding sales achievements and exceptional partnership in three key market segments. Together, RS and Moxa deliver secure network deployments and reliable edge connectivity for industrial automation customers across the manufacturing, energy, and commercial sectors.

“Partnering with Moxa enables us to provide industrial customers with the high-performance networking technologies they need to advance their digital transformation and build resilient operations,” said Marie Dawson, Sr. Director of Strategic Supplier Engagement at RS. “Earning three top honors at the 2026 Moxa Global Distributor Summit validates our approach — combining immediate access to quality Moxa products with deep technical expertise to solve complex operational challenges and keep critical infrastructure running across industries.”

“RS continues to demonstrate outstanding leadership in advancing edge connectivity and network reliability across key industrial sectors,” said Mat Stewart, Vice President of Sales at Moxa. “We are proud to recognize the RS Americas team for their exceptional global and regional performance over the past year and look forward to building on this momentum together.”

To learn more about the RS portfolio of Moxa products and solutions, visit the embedded links.

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The RS Americas team accepted three top sales performance awards at the 2026 Moxa Global Distributor Summit. Pictured from left to right: Moxa Americas Vice President of Sales Mat Stewart, RS Americas Product Director Chris Cole, RS Americas Eastern Regional Sales Manager John Allen, RS Americas Senior Director of Strategic Supplier Engagement Marie Dawson, RS Americas Supplier Manager Evie Hooper, RS Americas Category Manager Megan Shaw, Moxa Americas Director of Channel Sales Pat Sweeney, RS Americas Product Portfolio Manager Gary Guess, and Moxa Americas President Chad Chesney.

About RS
RS is a high-service global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, enabling them to operate efficiently and sustainably. We operate in 33 markets, stock over 875,000 industrial and specialist products, and list an additional five million relevant for our industrial customers, sourced from over 2,500 suppliers. This extensive range supports our customers across the industrial lifecycle of designing, building, and maintaining equipment and operations. We enhance their experience through a tailored service model, leveraging our efficient physical, digital, and process infrastructure sustainably. We combine a technically led and digitally enabled approach with an exceptional team of experts; ultimately, it’s our people that make the difference. Our purpose, making amazing happen for a better world, reflects our focus on delivering results for people, planet, and profit.

RS Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange with stock ticker RS1, and in the year ended March 31, 2026, reported revenue of $3,871.07 million. For more information, please visit https://www.rsgroup.com/ or connect with us on LinkedIn or X (Twitter).

About RS in the Americas
In the Americas region, RS stocks more than 250,000 industrial and electronic products from more than 700 trusted suppliers. These solutions cover categories extending from automation and control equipment to interconnect, passive, active, and electromechanical components and include more than 90,000 high-quality, competitively priced RS PRO products. For more information, please visit https://us.rs-online.com or connect with us via social media on LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.

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Laurie Tortorello, Director of People & Culture Communications, RS Americas
Laurie.Tortorello@rsgroup.com

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Union Home Mortgage Selected for USDA Rural Development Delegated Authority Pilot Program

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One of six lenders chosen nationwide to deliver an enhanced USDA loan experience for eligible rural borrowers

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Union Home Mortgage (UHM), a high-growth independent mortgage banking company with a world-class culture, announced today that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development to participate in the expanded Delegated Authority Lender Interactive Test Environment (LITE) Pilot Program for the Single Family Housing Guaranteed Loan Program, further strengthening the company’s ability to serve homebuyers in rural communities across the country. UHM is one of six lenders nationwide chosen to join the initiative, which begins on December 1, 2026.

The pilot program grants participating lenders greater authority in the loan approval and closing process, allowing qualified borrowers to move through the mortgage journey more efficiently while maintaining rigorous underwriting and compliance standards. By reducing pre-closing approval requirements from USDA, the program is designed to accelerate loan processing timelines and expand homeownership opportunities for eligible families in rural communities across the country.

“We are honored to partner with USDA Rural Development to help rural borrowers access more opportunities to achieve the dream of homeownership, which is one of the most powerful ways to build financial stability and strengthen communities,” said Bill Cosgrove, CEO of Union Home Mortgage. “Being selected for this pilot program reflects our commitment to providing world-class service and innovative solutions to our borrowers, and we thank USDA for entrusting us with this increased responsibility.”

Through the USDA Single Family Housing Guaranteed Loan Program, eligible low- and moderate-income borrowers can access affordable financing options, including 100% financing for homes in qualifying rural areas. According to USDA Rural Development, homebuyers can buy existing, build new, or cover the cost of rehabilitating, improving, or relocating a home with a Single Family Housing loan guarantee. As a participant in the Delegated Authority LITE Pilot Program, UHM will be positioned to deliver these benefits with greater speed and efficiency while continuing to provide personalized guidance throughout the homebuying journey.

The selection further underscores UHM’s reputation as a trusted lending partner and aligns with the lender’s focus on responsible growth, operational excellence, and expanding access to affordable mortgage solutions in communities of all sizes.

For more information about Union Home Mortgage, visit www.uhm.com. For information about USDA Rural Development housing programs, visit www.rd.usda.gov.

About Union Home Mortgage
Union Home Mortgage Corp. (UHM) is a high-growth, full-service retail, wholesale, and consumer direct independent mortgage banking company with branches across the U.S. in 49 states + D.C. UHM is an in-house loan servicer offering world-class customer service through high touch communication & technology. A privately held family business, with a collaborative culture that stands out in the mortgage industry, UHM Partners (employees) are guided by a Code of Conduct that emphasizes respect, open communication, and accountability. All these principles translate to industry-leading customer retention and satisfaction. Some honors include being a Six-Year USA TODAY Top Workplace and a Twelve-Year Northeast Ohio Top Workplace. Learn more at www.uhm.com.

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