[manan08]

Iris avoids stale/scammy listings by being hyperlocal to SF and controlling who can post. While we do allow individuals to create accounts and list, every lister is reviewed and personally vetted. Most inventory comes from property managers and leasing firms, with a smaller number of verified individual owners — we don’t scrape listings or anonymous posts.

Because we focus only on SF, listers are expected to keep availability and pricing actively updated, and stale listings don’t persist the way they can on nationwide platforms. AI helps on the discovery side through natural-language and image search, but trust comes from supply-side controls and local verification, not AI alone