UnitBuddy wasn’t designed in a boardroom. It was built in a building, by an owner who needed somewhere committee and owners could share information, and a way to give the building a memory that didn’t walk out the door every AGM.
The founder's journey spans both technology and the realities of strata living. A self-taught programmer with over 30 years in large corporate environments, they also spent 14 years as an owner with 20+ buildings under management, getting firsthand experience of where strata actually happens. Builder disputes, special levies, rotating committees, and the institutional knowledge that quietly walks out the door every AGM.
This product wasn't designed in a pitch deck. It was shaped inside the daily challenges of unit living, built from problems encountered, addressed, and shipped the same week they appeared. Practical software born from lived experience.
Treasurers tracking levies in spreadsheets. Secretaries with minutes locked in personal email. Committees inheriting nothing from the previous committee. Owners asking the same question every quarter because there was nowhere they could look it up themselves. The information existed. It just lived in too many places, in too many heads, never in one shared spot.
UnitBuddy is the system we rely on in our own building right now, not a demo. Every feature exists because committee or owners hit a real problem. It's updated constantly because we use it ourselves, and we feel every rough edge firsthand.
UnitBuddy is the layer where committee and owners share information about the building they collectively own. It's not a strata manager replacement, and most of our buildings have one. We won't bury features behind enterprise tiers, and we won't pivot away from the people who own and run the building. That's the commitment.
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.