One motivated owner can switch a whole building.

You don't need a presentation. You need the one thing your neighbours already suspect: the strata fee is too high for what turns up. Say this out loud at the letterboxes, or paste it into the building group chat:

That's the whole pitch: it's free, we stay in control, and nothing is hidden. Everything below is for the questions that come next.

Yes, and you don't have to take our word for it, which is the point. GoodStrata is open source under Apache-2.0, so anyone can read exactly what the code does with your building's information.

You can self-host it on your own PostgreSQL database, where nothing ever leaves your machine: the AI can even run locally, with no API key and no data sent anywhere. We proved that at launch by running a whole 12-lot building on a single laptop with a local model. If you'd rather not run servers, the hosted service keeps data in Australia under the Australian Privacy Principles, with each owners corporation's records segregated.

Either way, every read and write lands on an append-only event log, so "who touched what" is a question with an exact answer.

The owners corporation and its committee remain the decision-makers, exactly as they are today. GoodStrata is a tool, not a legal person standing in your place: the agents can only propose, and it's a human approval that executes anything with legal weight: adopting a budget, engaging a contractor, commencing debt recovery. The numbers that matter are computed by deterministic, tested code, not by the AI. And if a decision is ever questioned, you have a complete, timestamped record of who approved what and on what evidence, better proof than any filing cabinet. Keep your office-bearers cover and the OC's insurance as you do now. This isn't legal advice, and every building's circumstances differ, but on liability you are never worse off than with a human manager, and your records are better.

Nothing. Not freemium, free. You self-host it, or use the hosted free tier, and the owners corporation pays no subscription and no per-lot management fee.

It also takes nothing out of your levies, because your levies never pass through it. Owners pay into the owners corporation's own bank account, exactly as they do now; GoodStrata issues the notice and reconciles what lands, but never holds the money. So there is no processing margin to disclose, and nothing sitting in a trust account of ours.

So how does GoodStrata survive? One honest way: a paid managed-hosting service for buildings that don't want to run it themselves, priced up front. That's it.

What GoodStrata refuses to take is the invisible money that defines traditional strata management: commissions on the insurance the manager places, and kickbacks from the contractors the manager appoints. The AI never ranks a contractor by what GoodStrata earns: there is nothing to earn there; the committee chooses on the quotes and evidence attached. Set that against a $300–600-per-lot fee plus commissions you were never shown, and "free" stops sounding too good to be true.

Two things protect you, and neither is "trust the AI". First, the work that has to be exact is never done by the AI at all. Levy apportionment, penalty interest, payment reconciliation and vote weighting are deterministic, tested code: if every language model on earth were swapped for a random number generator tomorrow, your levies would still sum to the budget to the cent.

Second, the AI's judgement calls (drafting a notice, triaging a leak) can only propose. Anything with consequences stops at a decision gate and waits for a human: no agent moves money or signs off works on its own. And because every model tool-call is on the log, when the AI does get something wrong you see it and correct it before it matters, not months later. At launch, a local model tried to dispatch the same work order twice; a state guard rejected the duplicate, and exactly one work order existed. That's the design: the model narrates, the ledger is the truth.

Less hard than the fear of it. Changing managers in Victoria is an ordinary resolution of the owners corporation, a simple majority of the entitlement value that votes, and the real constraint is usually your existing contract's notice period, not the technology. Buildings change managers routinely; you are allowed to leave. The full step-by-step is below, and the committee decision pack has the motion wording ready to copy. The migration itself is the easy part: GoodStrata imports your lots, owners, levy history and documents, provisions a new payment reference for levies, and walks the committee through it with an onboarding wizard.

This is the general shape of it under the Owners Corporations Act 2006 (Vic), not legal advice, but enough to know it's doable and to plan the timeline. If your contract is unusual, or the manager disputes leaving, Consumer Affairs Victoria and VCAT are there to help.

Nobody switches a building from a webpage. They switch it from a conversation, backed by something they can hold. Three PDFs are built to be forwarded, printed, and left on the noticeboard. Download them and hand them around:

You don't need the committee's permission to start. You need ten minutes and one line on an agenda.