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HOA Platform

Built a community operations platform for homeowner associations: a branded public site plus a homeowner portal with online dues, a document library, and maintenance and ARC request workflows. Live with its first community in Kentucky.

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VISUALS

Inside the system.

HOA Platform community site homepage with aerial neighborhood photography, seasonal storytelling, and resident login
HOA PLATFORM / BRANDED COMMUNITY SITE - PUBLIC IDENTITY AND RESIDENT LOGIN
Homeowner Hub with Pay Dues, Document Library, and Submit a Request cards plus resident account login
HOA PLATFORM / HOMEOWNER HUB - DUES, DOCUMENTS, REQUESTS
Homeowner portal request access form matching owners to the community's official lot list before board approval
HOA PLATFORM / PORTAL ACCESS - LOT-LIST MATCHING WITH BOARD APPROVAL
Branded homeowner portal sign-in screen with community identity
HOA PLATFORM / PORTAL SIGN-IN - BRANDED PER COMMUNITY
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DEBRIEF

Overview.

Most HOAs are run by volunteer boards drowning in the same work: dues, documents, requests, and announcements. The HOA Platform gives each association a branded public site and a homeowner portal of its own: residents pay dues online, access governing documents, and submit maintenance and Architectural Review Committee requests, while the board runs the community from one place. The first client community is live in Kentucky.

THE PROBLEM

A volunteer HOA board runs a real operation with no staff: collecting annual dues, distributing CC&Rs, bylaws, and board minutes, fielding maintenance reports for common areas, and processing architectural review requests. Without tooling, all of it runs on checks mailed to a P.O. box, paper documents, and email threads, and every cycle lands on the same few volunteers. Per-door HOA management SaaS exists, but it is priced for property managers running dozens of communities, it looks like back-office software, and it keeps the association's records and resident data in someone else's system. And it is the same problem in every neighborhood, which makes it a platform, not a one-off build.

HOW WE SOLVED IT

We built the HOA Platform as a repeatable system deployed per community: a custom-designed public site that carries the neighborhood's identity, with a homeowner portal behind individual resident accounts. Access is board-controlled: owners request portal access against the community's official lot list, and the board approves before an account is activated. Inside, residents pay dues securely online with payment history, browse a document library covering CC&Rs, bylaws, ARC forms, and board minutes, and submit common-area maintenance reports or ARC requests through structured forms that route to the board instead of personal inboxes. The board publishes announcements, events, and documents itself, with no developer in the loop, and each association's data lives on infrastructure it controls. The first community launched in Bowling Green, Kentucky, with the platform built to onboard the next one.

OUR ROLE

Platform owner: product design, build, resident account system, payments, request workflows, and per-community deployment.

TECHNOLOGIES
Custom CMSResident accountsOnline paymentsGSAP
RESULTS
  • 01First community live in Bowling Green, Kentucky, built to onboard the next
  • 02Dues collection: from mailed checks to online payments with history
  • 03Structured maintenance and ARC workflows routed to the board
  • 04Each association owns its data, no per-door SaaS pricing
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