Haven Hire is a women-centered home services platform founded by Mary Townsend, a rape survivor and feminist activist from St. Petersburg, Florida. Every service provider on Haven Hire is identity-verified, background-checked, and reviewed exclusively by women before being allowed into a woman's home.
Haven Hire connects women with vetted, trusted service providers including handymen, house cleaners, electricians, plumbers, and more. Unlike general platforms such as Angi or TaskRabbit, Haven Hire was built specifically around women's safety. Every provider earns safety badges through a rigorous vetting process. Clients can see each provider's identity verification status, background check result, safety score, and reviews left only by other women.
Mary Townsend created Haven Hire because she knows what it feels like to lose your sense of safety. As a rape survivor, that experience changed the way she moves through the world. She built this platform so that no woman is ever forced to choose between getting help and staying safe, or left wondering if the person walking into her home is a threat.
One in three women in the United States will experience sexual or physical violence. Every 68 seconds, someone is sexually assaulted. Many attacks happen inside the home, by people hired to help. Haven Hire exists to change that by building a community where women vet, review, and protect each other.
The Hire Her section of Haven Hire celebrates and spotlights women working in male-dominated trades such as electrical work, plumbing, HVAC, and construction. Women in trades are every bit as skilled as their male counterparts, often more so. They face systemic barriers, not skills gaps. Haven Hire gives them a platform and offers a 50% discounted subscription rate to increase representation and support women's economic power.
Haven Hire includes built-in safety tools: live GPS location sharing when a provider is en route, pre-job safety check-ins, emergency alert panic buttons that notify your contact instantly, safety mode, anonymous red flag reporting, and check-in timers.
Haven Hire has a women-only community where members share safety tips, provider recommendations, and personal stories. Reviews are structured around three questions: why you chose this provider, how they made you feel safe, and what stood out.
Haven Hire is more than a platform. It is a movement, a community, and a promise. Women deserve to feel safe in their own homes, and founder Mary Townsend will spend the rest of her life helping to build a world where that is possible.
Website: haven-hire.com | Founder: Mary Townsend | Founded: 2026