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Replace five tools with one.
Front desk runs on one app. Security uses another. The board logs into a portal nobody opens. Residents have a website built in 2008. We built one platform for everyone — same database, five tailored interfaces.
The mission
Replace the three apps every property manager hates with the one they didn’t know they could have.
North American property teams juggle three to five disconnected platforms. One for packages. One for visitors. One for maintenance tickets. A spreadsheet for amenities. A PDF for announcements. The data lives in five places. The staff waste hours every shift just switching tabs. The residents see five interfaces, none of them good.
BuildingAutopilot replaces all of it with one platform — designed by people who watched the concierge at peak hours, the security guard mid-shift, the board director on a Sunday night, the resident at the bus stop, and the property manager prepping for a board meeting.
Our principles
Five things we won’t compromise on.
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Design like Apple. Operate like a utility.
The product looks beautiful because beauty is functional — white space, one primary action per screen, color reserved for signal. The infrastructure is boring because boring infrastructure means the front desk doesn’t get paged at 3am.
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Build for the floor, not the demo.
Every workflow is designed by watching a concierge at the lobby during peak hours. Every screen is timed against a holiday Tuesday with forty packages. Every feature has to earn its place against the question: would the front desk thank us for it?
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Compliance as a feature.
PIPEDA, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 27017, ISO 9001, HIPAA. Compliance isn’t a checkbox we tick at the end — it’s how the product is shaped from the schema up. The audit log can’t be turned off because the audit log is the spine.
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Made in Canada. Built for the world.
Bilingual (English / fr-CA) from day one. PIPEDA-native, not retrofitted. Built in Toronto, with engineering practices borrowed from financial services and software security firms — because property data is more sensitive than most teams realize.
The research
We didn’t guess. We documented.
Before writing one line of product code, we field-walked five live properties, role-impersonated three concierge teams, and screen-recorded every existing platform. We documented every field, every workflow, every dead-end.
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Live platforms studied
Field-walked, screen-recorded, role-impersonated.
800+
Fields documented
Every input box, every column, every label.
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Workflows mapped
Lifecycle chains from intake to close-out.
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Personas observed
Resident, concierge, security, manager, board.
The road
How we got here.
Phase 1
Research
Three months reverse-engineering every major property management platform. Documented 800+ fields, 41 routes, 23+ unique features per platform.
Phase 2
Design
Wrote the 2,200-line design system before the first line of product code. Defined five personas. Drafted twenty-eight PRDs covering every module from packages to compliance. Brought in design partners from three Toronto condo corporations.
Phase 3
Build
Thirty-three weeks of focused engineering. 131-model schema. 100+ API endpoints. 2,194+ tests. Twelve modules shipped. Three pilot properties live, two more onboarding.
Phase 4
Scale
Series A. Twenty cities. Bilingual French support for Quebec. iOS and Android apps for residents. Open API and developer portal for integrations with door access, HVAC, and accounting platforms.
Built for trust
Compliance, security, and privacy — by design.
Property data is more sensitive than most teams realize. Resident contact info. Visitor logs. Incident reports. Insurance certificates. We treat it with the rigor financial services treat your bank account.
PIPEDAGDPRSOC 2 Type IIISO 27001ISO 27701ISO 27017ISO 9001HIPAA