UnitBuddy wasn’t designed in a boardroom. It was built in the building — by someone who’s lived every problem it solves.
The founder is a programmer who’s owned in the same building for fifteen years and managed it for the last ten. Builder disputes and settlements. Multiple strata management companies. Special levies. Constant turnover in residents and committees. This is the kind of experience you cannot get from market research. It comes from living the problems every day, and building solutions for them in real-time.
Nothing existed for the people actually running the building. Treasurers tracking levies in spreadsheets. Secretaries chasing minutes through email. Committee members making decisions with no visibility into finances, compliance, or maintenance. The people doing the work had the least access to the information they needed.
UnitBuddy is being used in our building right now — not as a demo, but as the system we rely on. Every feature exists because we hit a real problem. It’s constantly updated because we use it every day and feel every rough edge firsthand.
UnitBuddy won’t pivot to serve strata managers. It won’t bury features behind pricing tiers your building can’t justify. It’s a tool built by owners, for owners — and that’s not changing. Your building’s interests come first. Full stop.
Behind the code, there’s a family. A beautiful wife and a six-year-old son. The kind of stake in strata living that makes you care whether the building works — not just this quarter, but for the next twenty years.