Case studies
Families like yours, and what they handed off
Every household here hired a house manager through Sage Haus.
The Aldous family · Dual-Physicians
One parent home. One on the road for the whole season.
A physician whose partner works in professional sport, which means months at a stretch on the road — and one parent effectively solo with four daughters from toddler to teenager.
The Casterline family · Nanny to House Manager
Not someone to raise our kids. Someone to run everything else.
A Hill Country couple with two little girls and a third on the way, one parent away a night or two most weeks.
The Selby family · Already Have Help
A rural coastal town. Four weeks. Done.
Two partners with long-hour, high-stress jobs in a rural coastal town in the Pacific Northwest — the kind of place where the nearest city is a real drive and the local hiring pool is thin.
The Oakden family · Stay-at-Home Parents
Home full-time, and still falling behind.
A stay-at-home parent of three — preschool to primary — with a partner working long hours.
The Farrowmere family · Entrepreneurs
Nothing was broken. That was the point.
A founder running a ten-person company from the suburbs, with a household that worked — filters changed, closets orderly, gifts bought — because she was the one keeping it that way.
The Gable family · Dual-Executives
Someone who anticipates. That was the whole brief.
An executive who travels often, a partner holding down two elementary-school children with a heavy after-school calendar, and a household where something always needed managing — which meant nobody ever felt off duty..
The Jessop family · Dual-Executives
She manages a large team at work. This hire had to manage itself.
Two working parents on the West Coast with two children in elementary school — one parent commuting into the city several days a week, the other back to frequent travel.
The Kimberline family · Activity-Heavy Family
Two schools, forty minutes apart, one person driving.
Three children enrolled at two schools forty minutes from each other, in a small coastal town in the Northeast.
The Lockhart family · Entrepreneurs
First the house manager. Then the business.
A single mom on the West Coast with two children, a large home that demands attention, and a big extended family in the mix.
The Greenhalgh family · Family in Transition
A second baby on the way, and nobody owning the list.
Two full-time working parents in a big city, a few months settled into a new house, with a second baby on the way.
The Merriweather family · Nanny to House Manager
The nanny had the fun part. They changed who had what.
Three boys aged five and under in a Midwest college town.
The Ollerton family · Activity-Heavy Family
She wrote the schedule. Sage Haus filled it.
Two full-time working parents in the Southeast with three children — elementary school, preschool and a baby — and an activity calendar spanning softball, tutoring, music, scouts, martial arts and soccer.
The Pinfold family · Nanny to House Manager
Consultants know how to staff a project. This was the project.
Two management consultants with demanding hours and travel, three children with the youngest still a baby, school and daycare running to 5:30, a nanny covering the infant — and a family dog in the mix.
The Quill family · Activity-Heavy Family
The problem was logistics, full stop.
A parent returning to her own working life, with three children — one of them in a high-commitment competitive sport, training six days a week with travel on top.
The Quenby family · Nanny to House Manager
They didn't replace the nanny. They rethought the role.
A Northeast family whose nanny years had run their course — the kids older, the needs shifted from childcare toward everything around it.
The Ravenscroft family · Family in Transition
Twelve days.
A West Coast family at a turning point: one parent working full-time with regular travel, the other stepping back into part-time work — and wanting the family's food, fresh and healthy, handled properly through the change..
The Silverton family · Activity-Heavy Family
They wrote the list. Sage Haus found the person.
A West Coast couple whose brief read like a checklist: laundry, tidying, ad-hoc projects, pantry, dinners and clean-up, with openness to sitting and driving.
The Ivorston family · Dual-Physicians
Food as medicine, in a town with no candidate pool.
A dual-physician family in a small Southern city.
The Kestrel family · Entrepreneurs
Small town, small role — still the right person.
An entrepreneur mom in a Mountain West town with two young children, the youngest still in half-day school.
The Vexley family · Dual-Physicians
The nanny left. The kitchen got an owner.
Two physicians on the West Coast with twin boys at middle-school age.
The Wextonbury family · Dual-Income
Two cities, one household, and the airport in between.
Two full-time working parents in the Southeast with a newborn and a toddler at home — and an older child whose shared-custody schedule lives in another state, which puts the airport on the family calendar every month..
The Harrowgate family · Dual-Income
Cleaners twice a week — and nobody running the whole.
Two full-time working parents with heavy travel and a blended household, the children with them half of each week and old enough to need logistics rather than childcare.
The Calder family · Dual-Executives
Very capable at work. Losing every weekend at home.
Two partners in demanding legal careers, in the office most weekdays, with two young boys, a historic home that asks for constant attention, and a third child on the way.
The Ellery family · Dual-Executives
Two promotions in the same year. The house didn't get one.
Both parents were promoted inside the same year, and their youngest started at a school half an hour from home.
The Alderton family · Entrepreneurs
One parent runs a business from the house. The other is on the road.
One parent runs a business from home, so the household has to function like an office while the workday happens inside it.
The Yardley family · Stay-at-Home Parents
She kept track of everything. Now someone else does.
A physician and mother of two young boys, carrying both the clinical load and the entire administrative life of the household — while her husband held the home by day and built toward a new career in the evenings.
The Ashfield family · Nanny to House Manager
They'd had a great house manager. Then they'd had the wrong one.
A family business, three children at home full-time, and a household that already knew exactly what this role was — because they'd had someone excellent in it.
The Larkin family · Activity-Heavy Family
Three boys, three activity calendars, and nobody home at 3pm.
A family a year into a relocation, with three boys spanning primary and early secondary — each in a different mix of sport, music and clubs whose schedules never once overlap.
The Marsh family · Dual-Physicians
Two doctors, a toddler, and a newborn.
Two doctors in different specialties, one of them on a rota that cycles through days, nights, weekends and holidays.
The Zeller family · Dual-Physicians
Her hours are random. The house no longer is.
A hospital-based physician working long, unpredictable shifts — sometimes a full day and night at a stretch — with three children aged eight and under and a partner splitting time between home and office.
The Winslow family · Nanny to House Manager
Their long-time nanny couldn't come with them. The list did.
A move out of the city to the suburbs, and the nanny who had been with the family for years couldn't make it with them.
The Fenwick family · Entrepreneurs
A founder, three children, and a household split across two weeks.
A founder co-parenting three children on an alternating schedule.
The Ambleside family · Dual-Physicians
Plenty of help. Nobody owning the rest.
A physician and a professor in the Southeast with a full house of children, and genuinely good help already in place — a nanny covering the youngest, pickups, several meals a week.
The Thackeray family · Dual-Physicians
Her day off was for everyone else's errands.
Two medical professionals, one of whom doesn't see patients on Fridays.
The Danforth family · Dual-Physicians
Two physicians. Opposite shifts. One list nobody was home to own.
Two physicians working opposite ends of the clock — one nights, one days.
The Ashby family · Activity-Heavy Family
Two trial lawyers, two kids, a dog, a cat, and a 3:45 pickup.
Two attorneys in the city, with two independent and very funny school-age children whose weeks run from breakdancing to tennis to skateboarding, plus a dog and a cat.
The Bracewell family · Entrepreneurs
A client sent them. Now they are the client.
Two full-time working parents in Denver whose want-list was the classic core: cleaning support, laundry, meal prep, errands — anything that converted logistics time back into uninterrupted time with their kids..
The Marsden family · Entrepreneurs
They built a team at work. At home they were still doing everything themselves.
Multiple businesses and several properties run out of one suburban household, young children, and a calendar that changes by the hour.
The Brackley family · Dual-Executives
Cleaners, a dog walker, a virtual assistant — and still nobody at the centre.
Two demanding careers with travel on both sides, a spirited toddler about to start preschool, a small dog, and a grandmother at the heart of a busy suburban home.
The Pemberton family · Nanny to House Manager
The nanny era ended. They didn't need another nanny.
Two parents working full-time, mostly from home, with two school-age children in sport and a young Labrador.
The Boyle family · Family in Transition
Back from leave, three under six, and the mental load arrived at once.
Two full-time business-hours careers, three children five and under, and a fourth on the way.
The Dunmore family · Single-Parent Home
A team at work. Finally, one at home.
A tech executive and single mom with two teenage boys and a newly purchased house — which meant a to-do list with real depth and nobody to share it.
The Voss family · Activity-Heavy Family
Being home was the plan. Running a renovation, a business and three teenagers wasn't.
One parent home by choice, building a business while overseeing a large-scale renovation, with three teenagers all starting secondary school that fall and four dogs.
The Elsworth family · Dual-Physicians
New city, new practice — and finally, an unpacked house.
A surgeon most of a year into a new job in a new Mountain West town, far from any metro — with moving boxes still sealed, because every free hour had gone to building the practice.
The Tillman family · Entrepreneurs
Home is the sanctuary and the headquarters. Both needed running.
A systems-minded couple running a business from home with two young children and a dog, and homeschooling starting that fall.
The Rowntree family · Single-Parent Home
One person, one household, one growing clinic.
A clinician running her own practice and raising a young child on her own.
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