Built for self-managing HOA & condo boards

Straight answers about your HOA’s rules so your board can run it without a management company.

Ask a question about your HOA’s rules and get a straight answer — pulled from your own governing documents, with the exact section cited so you can check it yourself. Built for volunteer boards, not tech companies.

No app to learn. Works like email — ask, get a cited answer, then print or forward it to your board. The knowledge of a seasoned community manager, on demand — $39 a month, not the fee that’s often $400 a month or more. And when your longest-serving board member steps down, what they knew doesn’t walk out the door with them. Founding boards pay nothing until launch.

No signup to see the demo. Not ready to look? Just get launch updates →

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ReadsYour own documents
Every answerCited & ranked
Founding boardsRunning now
Ask it yourself — tap a question
Governance Record · Beacon Hill HOAPartial corpus

Can the board impose a special assessment without a homeowner vote?

The board cannot impose a special assessment without homeowner approval, except for emergency special assessments that must be ratified at the next meeting.

State Statute

State statutes governing homeowner associations and condominiums may impose additional requirements or limitations beyond what appears in these governing documents. The uploaded documents alone may not reflect all applicable law. Consult legal counsel for questions with potential statutory implications.

According to the Bylaws, any special assessment requires a two-thirds vote from homeowners, unless it's an emergency situation that poses an immediate threat to health or safety.

Governing Authority
Art. 7, § 7.05· Bylaws of Beacon Hill Homeowners AssociationControls

A special assessment must be approved by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the votes cast by the members at a meeting at which a quorum is present. The Board may not levy a special assessment without that membership approval, except that the Board may levy, without a vote, an emergency special assessment necessary to address an immediate threat to health or safety, which must be

Bylawscontrols
Showing answer to: Can the board impose a special assessment without a homeowner vote?

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What you’re up against

You volunteered for the board. You didn’t sign up to be a lawyer, an archivist, and an accountant.

Volunteer boards carry hundreds of pages of governing documents, a calendar of legal deadlines, and decisions that carry real liability — usually on top of full-time jobs, and often leaning on the one member who’s read everything.

Hundreds of pages of governing documents — and no time to read them.
Legal deadlines and notice rules, each one carrying real liability.
Notices, letters, and filings that eat your evenings.
Institutional memory that walks out the door when a volunteer does.
What it is

What is Governance Intelligence?

Governance Intelligence is software that understands your community’s specific governing documents — and turns that understanding into the work of running an association.

Every HOA and condo is governed by its own stack of documents—a declaration or CC&Rs, bylaws, rules, and a decade of amendments. They’re read in a strict order of authority, and overlaid with state law.

BoardPath reads that exact stack the way a seasoned manager would—and uses it to answer questions, draft documents, and keep a board on the right side of its own rules.

Not a chatbot. Not a document folder. Software that reads your governing documents the way a seasoned manager would — in their real order of authority — and shows its sources every time.

Why it’s not just another HOA app

The depth that makes an answer safe to act on.

Plenty of apps are “simple and affordable,” and plenty can now quote a section back to you. These four are what actually make a board’s answers safe to act on.

01
Cited, hierarchy-aware answers

From your own CC&Rs, bylaws, and rules — ranked by which document controls. Plenty of tools can search your documents; the hard part is resolving which one wins.

02
Transparent Confidence™

Every answer is scored across multiple governance dimensions — and when a signal isn’t available, it tells you instead of guessing. You know what to trust before you act. No black box.

03
Chronicle — institutional memory

Decisions, history, and the “why” survive every board turnover. The next board inherits a running start, not a cold one.

04
Automatic document ingestion

Automatic OCR reads and structures your documents the day you upload them — the “scan our governing documents for us” every board wishes for.

Governance intelligence — not legal advice. BoardPath flags when a question belongs with your association’s attorney.

What it does

Answers are just the front door.

Asking your documents is the front door — not the house. Here is the full range of what BoardPath does for your board, every piece of it built from within your community’s own governing documents.

01 · Ask

Ask anything, get a cited answer

Plain-English questions answered from your document hierarchy, with a confidence score and a counsel-review flag when it matters.

Citations down to the exact sectionA confidence score on every answerKnows which document controlsFlags when to bring in your attorney
02 · Draft & send

Draft it from your documents, mail it in one click

Turn any answer into a grounded notice, letter, motion, or owner package on your letterhead — then send it by US Mail without printing a thing. One-click mail is rolling out to founding boards.

Notices, owner letters, and motionsEstoppel and resale packagesOn your association’s letterheadMailed for you — certified when required
03 · Stay ahead

Never miss a deadline — or a conflict

BoardPath turns your documents and state law into a living calendar, and flags documents that contradict each other or have fallen behind the law — before either becomes a liability.

A living calendar from your docs and state lawWarnings at 60, 30, and 7 days outFlags when two documents contradictScores how out-of-date your CC&Rs are
04 · Run the meeting

From the notice timeline to the gavel

Agendas, packets, quorum, proxies, and balloting — the whole annual-meeting machine, back-calculated from the notice rules in your own documents.

Auto-built agendas and meeting packetsLive quorum and proxy trackingElectronic balloting and electionsA post-meeting follow-up checklist
05 · Remember

Keep every decision, across every board

Chronicle preserves every decision and the documents behind it through turnover, hands new members a day-one orientation, and keeps your reserve-study and vendor records current.

A searchable log of every decisionAnswers as your documents stood on any dateDay-one orientation for new membersReserve-study and vendor-insurance tracking
06 · Enforce

Handle violations the same way, every time

Run a violation from first notice to resolved on the escalation steps in your own rules — the same standard applied to every owner, with a documented record if it ever reaches your attorney.

An escalation series straight from your rulesThe same steps applied to every ownerCertified-mail notices when the law requires proofAn attorney-ready record of every step
Answers on demand

Answers go wherever your board does.

Open the app for the full workspace — or just text or email a question and get an immediate, cited answer built from within your community’s own governing documents. Your board, and your homeowners, get answers on their own — the moment they need them.

Ask by text SMS

Text a question from anywhere and get a cited answer back in seconds — no app, no login.

Ask by email

Every association gets its own BoardPath address. Email a question; the full cited answer comes right back.

Homeowner portal

Owners get cited answers from your documents themselves — fewer repeat questions in the board’s inbox.

One-click mail

Send any notice or letter by US Mail in one click — printed, stamped, and posted for you, certified when required. Rolling out to founding boards.

Where we draw the line

Governance Intelligence — and only that.

BoardPath does the governance, start to finish — everything on this page. It just never touches your money. Dues, the books, and your bank account stay with the tools you already trust — and BoardPath plugs right in alongside them.

Dues & paymentsPayHOA
The books & ledgerQuickBooks, Sheets & Excel
Your bank accountyour bank

See how it works with your money tools →

The platform self-managing boards run on. Founding boards are live now; public launch follows in Fall 2026.

How enforcement works

Enforce your rules the same way, for every owner.

Uneven enforcement is how a violation case falls apart. BoardPath runs every violation down the escalation steps written in your own rules — the same sequence, the same standard, with a complete record if it ever reaches your attorney.

1
Start from your own escalation series
Build the notice sequence once, straight from the enforcement steps in your rules. Every case then follows the same path — first notice, follow-up, final notice — so no owner gets a harder or an easier ride than the next.
Your rules
2
Every step is logged, nothing is erased
Each notice, reminder, and status change is written to an append-only timeline — who did what, and when. The record only ever grows, so months later you can show exactly how a case was handled.
Audit trail
3
Inconsistent treatment gets flagged
BoardPath surfaces when similar violations are being handled differently across owners — the selective-enforcement gap that turns an ordinary case into a legal problem — so the board can even it out before it does.
Selective-enforcement check
4
A dispute puts the case on hold
When an owner disputes a violation, the case moves to a hold status and the clock stops — nothing escalates while it’s under review, and the dispute itself becomes part of the record.
Dispute hold
5
Hand your attorney a complete file
If a case goes to counsel, BoardPath assembles a fact-packet — the full history, every notice, and the governing language behind each step — built straight from the record, with no AI in the loop deciding what to include.
Attorney fact-packet

Notice steps, timing, and delivery rules vary by state and by your own documents. BoardPath follows the sequence you set and flags when a question belongs with your association’s attorney.

Grounded, not generic

The difference between an answer and a guess.

Boards keep warning each other not to trust general AI with their governing documents. Here’s what ChatGPT can’t do with them — and BoardPath does on every answer.

ChatGPT
BoardPath
Knows your governing documents
No
Yes
Cites the exact section behind the answer
No
Yes
Knows which document controls when they conflict
No
Yes
Flags where state law may impose more — and routes you to counsel
No
Yes
Tells you how confident it is — and when to call counsel
No
Yes
Keeps your documents private — never training data
No
Yes

A wrong answer about a fine or an assessment is a liability, not a typo.

Ask the Beacon Hill demo corpus any governance question — cited, scored, no signup to look. Already using free AI on your CC&Rs? See why cited isn’t the same as correct →

Ask it yourself — real documents, no signup

Don’t take our word for it. Tap a question.

These run against a real HOA’s governing documents — the Beacon Hill demo corpus. Watch each answer cite the section, rank which document controls, and score how far to trust it.

Governance Record · Beacon Hill HOAThin corpus

The Miller family at unit 14 has been renting on Airbnb since May. Our Rules include a short-term rental approval process. Does that approval process give them any defense if the Declaration already prohibits transient rentals outright?

The Declaration prohibits transient rentals outright, and therefore the approval process in the Rules does not provide any defense for the Millers. The Declaration controls, and the Rules provision is overridden and has no legal effect.

Document conflict detected

The Declaration prohibits transient rentals, while the Rules suggest a process for approval of short-term rentals. The Declaration controls, and the Rules provision is overridden and has no legal effect.

State Statute

State statutes governing homeowner associations and condominiums may impose additional requirements or limitations beyond what appears in these governing documents. The uploaded documents alone may not reflect all applicable law. Consult legal counsel for questions with potential statutory implications.

Since the Declaration clearly states that transient rentals are not allowed, the Millers cannot use the short-term rental approval process in the Rules as a justification for their Airbnb rental.

Governing Authority
Art. 6, § 6.04· Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions — Beacon HillControls

An Owner may lease the Owner's entire Dwelling, provided that the minimum lease term is not less than six (6) months and the lease is in writing and made subject to this Declaration, the Bylaws, and the Rules. Transient or short-term occupancy is prohibited. For purposes of this Section, 'transient or short-term occupancy' means any rental, license, or occupancy of a Dwelling, or any room within a

Declaration / CC&Rscontrols
Art. 9, § 9.3· Rules and Regulations — Beacon Hill

Upon Board approval, the Owner may offer the Dwelling for short-term rental subject to a cap of ninety (90) rental-nights per calendar year and a guest-conduct addendum.

Rules / Policies / Board Motionssupports this answer
Art. 9, § 9.1· Rules and Regulations — Beacon Hill

An Owner who wishes to offer the Owner's Dwelling for short-term rental (a rental of fewer than thirty (30) days) may submit a written application to the Board.

Rules / Policies / Board Motionssupports this answer
Art. 33-14-110, § 33-14-110· Calverton Community Association Act (Calverton Code Ann. Title 33, Ch. 14)

(A) The governing documents of an association are subordinate to this chapter and to other applicable law. A provision of a declaration, bylaw, or rule that conflicts with this chapter is **unenforceable to the extent of the conflict.** (B) Among the governing documents, the declaration controls over the bylaws, and the bylaws control over the rules. A rule that conflicts with the declaration is

State Statutesupports this answer
Art. 5, § 5· Articles of Incorporation — Beacon Hill HOA

Every Owner of a Lot in Beacon Hill is a member of the Association. Membership is appurtenant to Lot ownership and is governed by the Declaration and the Bylaws.

Rules / Policies / Board Motionssupports this answer
Showing answer to: The Miller family at unit 14 has been renting on Airbnb since May. Our Rules include a short-term rental approval process. Does that approval process give them any defense if the Declaration already prohibits transient rentals outright?

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Steward
Your governance advisor
Meet Steward

Not a chatbot you have to prompt. An advisor who works ahead of you.

Steward is the keystone of BoardPath — the advisor that holds your board together. He reads your documents, watches your deadlines and your data, and reaches out before something becomes a problem. You don’t have to know the right question to ask. Steward already does.

Put Steward on your board →
Maple Ridge — your reserve balance hasn’t been confirmed in 90 days. Reply with the current figure and I’ll update the registry.
✉ Reply by email
Your annual meeting is six weeks out. I’ve built the notice timeline — first deadline, owner notice, lands March 3.
▤ Review timeline
Heads up — your CC&Rs predate your state’s solar-access law. Section 8.2 may no longer be enforceable.
§ See the conflict
Sunrise Landscaping’s insurance certificate expires in 30 days. Want me to request a renewal before it lapses?
✎ Draft request
Why boards trust it

Built for a job where being wrong has consequences.

Governance decisions carry real liability. BoardPath is built around that — you stay in control, your records stay yours, and it never pretends to know what it can’t.

A human always decides
Steward drafts the notice and flags the deadline — but your board reviews, approves, and sends. Nothing goes out, and nothing is decided, on its own.
Your records stay yours
Export every decision, document, and answer anytime. No lock-in, and no records held hostage — your community’s history is always yours to take.
It admits what it doesn’t know
Every answer carries a confidence score, and when a question crosses from governance into legal judgment, BoardPath says so and points you to counsel — instead of guessing.
The human layer

Not just AI — a credentialed manager gives your board a second read.

Software carries the everyday questions. But some calls you’d rather a person looked at. Founding boards get a Certified Manager of Community Associations (CMCA) available to review an answer they’d like a CMCA to weigh in on — a credentialed second read, not another model’s guess.

Flag an answer for a CMCA’s second read
See an answer you’d like a CMCA to weigh in on? Send it over. A credentialed manager reviews it in context and replies — usually within one business day.
A real CMCA, not another model
Reviews the answer in context
Replies within one business day
Experience your board doesn’t have on staff
A Certified Manager of Community Associations has run this work for real communities. On the unusual or tricky operational calls, that judgment is a message away — instead of a volunteer board guessing alone.
Years of hands-on community management
Sanity-checks the tricky situations
A second opinion before you act
The part software alone can’t copy
Most AI-first tools hand you an answer and stop there. Pairing cited, hierarchy-aware answers with a credentialed manager available to founding boards is the combination that’s hard to match.
Cited answers plus a human read
Reserved for founding-cohort boards
More than a chatbot with citations

Advisory only — general community-management guidance, not legal advice; for legal questions we point you to an attorney. Human review is offered to founding-cohort boards and typically comes back within one business day.

Making the switch

Leaving your management company is easier than staying.

No data migration, no implementation project. If your board can upload a PDF, you can be running on BoardPath this afternoon.

1
Upload your governing documents
Drop in your declaration, bylaws, rules, and amendments — whatever you have, in whatever shape it’s in. Scanned, photographed, or native PDFs all work.
Step one
2
BoardPath reads them in seconds
OCR and indexing turn hundreds of pages into a structured, searchable corpus — ranked in the right order of authority, with every amendment linked to what it changed.
Automatic
3
Ask anything — and it works ahead of you
Get cited answers on demand, while Steward watches your deadlines and flags what needs attention before you knew to ask. No management company required.
Day one

Your records stay yours — export every decision, document, and answer anytime.

Who it’s for

Built for the volunteers who run their own community.

Self-managing HOA and condo boards that run the community themselves, without a management company — and without flying blind. Any size: one flat price, never per-unit.

The Reluctant President
You didn’t run for this — and now you’re the one responsible for keeping the community legal, without ever having read the bylaws cover to cover. BoardPath is the experience you don’t have, on call.
Answers without the law degree
Steward watches the deadlines for you
The confidence to make the call
The Treasurer Who Cares
You want it done right — reserves on track, fees applied consistently, nothing slipping through the cracks between meetings. BoardPath keeps the governance side airtight.
Consistent, defensible decisions
Nothing falls through the cracks
Works alongside your money tools
The New Board Member
You inherited a binder nobody explains and a history nobody wrote down. BoardPath hands you the institutional memory — and the why behind every past decision — on day one.
A day-one orientation brief
The “why” behind past decisions
Up to speed in an afternoon
Pricing

Founding price. Held throughout the founding cohort.

Join the founding cohort before public launch: pay nothing out of pocket until launch, then $39 a month, held throughout the founding cohort. At public launch the price is $59 a month — founding boards keep the $39 rate throughout the founding cohort. One management company often costs a board $400 a month or more.

One flat price, whatever your size — not per-unit like the rest of the industry. Twelve units or two thousand, you pay the same. One plan, not a tier chart — the only decision is whether it’s a fit for your board.

Founding cohort
$39/month

$0 out of pocket until launch · then $39/mo held throughout the founding cohort · $59 at public launch

One plan. The whole platform. Your only decision is yes or no — no tiers to compare, no better-plan upgrade you’ll wish you’d picked later.

  • The whole platform — cited answers, drafting, deadlines, meetings, and the homeowner portal
  • One flat price, whatever your size — never per-unit
  • No out-of-pocket cost during the cohort
  • $39/month held throughout the founding cohort — never the $59 public price
  • Hands-on help getting your governing documents in
  • No credit card to start
  • $0 out of pocket until launch
  • We set it up for you
  • Cancel anytime
  • Your documents are always yours — export everything
Become a founding board →

Founding spots are limited to this summer’s cohort.

Not the only decision-maker? Bring it to your board →

Opt-in, pay-per-use — never required. Transfer and estoppel packages through Closing Desk (the title company or lender who orders pays, not your association) and one-click certified or first-class mail when the law requires proof of delivery. Add them the day you need them — they never gate the platform.

Later, when your history is worth protecting: Chronicle keeps the “why” behind every past decision, so it doesn’t leave with the board member who remembered it. Add it when you’re ready — not a decision you make today.

Run your community with its own documents on your side — become a founding board.

Become a founding board →
Boards on board

Built with the boards who needed it most.

We’re building this summer with a small founding cohort of self-managed HOA and condo boards — their real governance edge cases shape what ships next.

What our design partners tell us
“Honestly, the biggest thing is we stopped tabling decisions. It used to be ‘let me check and circle back’ every single meeting. Now someone asks if we can do something and I’ve got the actual section up before they’ve finished the question.”
A board president · 210-home HOA, Arizona
“It gave me my Sundays back, and I’m not even exaggerating. It’s basically a manager I can text — except I’m not writing a $400 check every month for the privilege.”
A treasurer · 88-unit condo, Florida
“Our last secretary did this for 22 years, and when she retired nobody knew where anything was. It was rough. This basically handed all of that back to the rest of us.”
A secretary · 140-home HOA, Colorado
“We fired our management company in the spring and I’ll be honest, the compliance side kept me up at night. This is the reason I’m not panicking anymore. I actually know we’re doing it right.”
A board president · newly self-managed HOA, Ohio
“An owner got in my face at a meeting, swearing a fine broke the rules and quoting one he’d found. I pulled up the section that actually controls in maybe ten seconds. Conversation over. Felt pretty good.”
A board member · 60-unit condo, Texas
“I got voted onto the board in January with genuinely no idea what I’d signed up for. The little orientation write-up it put together caught me up in an afternoon — wish my actual job onboarded me that well.”
A new board member · 175-home HOA, North Carolina
200+
pages of governing documents read per association — in seconds
100%
of answers carry the exact sections behind them
34
associations of hands-on management behind the product

Founding-cohort feedback, anonymized; named testimonials at launch.

Why we built BoardPath

After fourteen years managing thirty-four community associations — and roughly $15 million in reserves — I kept watching the same thing: the answer was already in the documents, but finding it took an afternoon, and when a board turned over, the reasoning walked out the door. BoardPath is the tool I wish I’d had in every one of those meetings.

Eric TetzlaffFounder, BoardPath · CMCA-certified community association manager
A standalone product

Closings can pay for your whole subscription.

Early access · free & buyer-funded
Closing Desk by BoardPath

Most communities see several closings a year — and each estoppel or transfer is a fee your association already charges. Closing Desk turns that into buyer-funded revenue: auto-drafted from your documents, certified by your officer, and paid by the title company or lender who orders it.

Open now to founding boards · general availability 2026

Closing order#CD-2048
14 Maple Street, Unit 4B
Maplewood, OH 44094 · Cuyahoga County
Maple Ridge Owners Association
Requested bySummit Title & Escrow
Order placedJun 16, 2026
Closing dateJun 30, 2026
Documents
Estoppel certificateCertified
Resale packageCertified
Lender questionnaire (1076)Certified
Fee · paid by requester
Total due$285
Statutory deadline Jun 23Fee waived if late
Certified by Dana M., Board President · Jun 18, 2026 · every field cited

Illustrative sample · not a quote or rate card

Questions boards ask us

Before you join.

Governance intelligence is software that understands a specific community’s governing documents — declaration, bylaws, rules, amendments — and the state law around them, then turns that understanding into action: cited answers, drafted correspondence, tracked deadlines, conflict flags, and compliant board decisions. It is not generic AI and not just document storage; it reasons over your documents in their order of authority and shows its sources.

No. Answering questions is the front door. From the same workspace BoardPath drafts notices and correspondence, tracks deadlines and obligations, flags conflicts between documents, runs board meetings and elections, prepares estoppel and resale packages, tracks vendor insurance, and preserves institutional memory across board turnover — automating the work that normally falls on volunteer board members.

Yes. BoardPath runs a violation from first notice to resolved on the escalation steps in your own rules — so the same standard reaches every owner and nothing slips into a selective-enforcement problem. Each notice is drafted from your governing documents, every step is kept on the record, and an attorney-ready fact packet is assembled if a matter ever needs counsel. Certified-mail dispatch, when the law requires proof of delivery, is rolling out to founding-cohort boards. Fines and hearings follow your own rules and your state’s requirements.

Steward is BoardPath’s governance advisor — a proactive agent that reads your governing documents, watches your deadlines and data, and reaches out before something becomes a problem: confirming a stale reserve balance, building an annual-meeting timeline, flagging a provision that conflicts with current law, or requesting a vendor’s expiring insurance certificate. Steward is what makes BoardPath proactive, rather than a tool you have to remember to use.

No. BoardPath provides information grounded in your governing documents and applicable state law, with citations you can verify, and flags when a question needs a licensed attorney. For legal advice, consult your association’s attorney.

Self-managing HOA and condo boards — volunteer boards that carry the work without a management company, at any size. If your board just left a management company, or is deciding whether to, BoardPath is built for exactly that moment. One flat price whatever your size, never per-unit.

Closing Desk is a standalone, free product that produces the documents a home sale needs — estoppel and resale certificates, transfer packages, and lender questionnaires — auto-drafted from your governing documents and certified by a person, with transparent pricing and firm deadlines (the fee is waived if we’re late). It’s free to your association because the title company or lender who orders it pays — a transparent alternative to services like HomeWiseDocs.

BoardPath’s founding cohort is open before public launch: founding boards pay nothing out of pocket until launch, then $39 a month — held throughout the founding cohort. At public launch the price is $59 a month; founding boards keep the $39 rate throughout the founding cohort. It’s one plan, not a tier chart — every board gets the whole platform at one flat price, whatever your size. No credit card to start, and you can cancel anytime; your documents are always yours to export. One management company typically costs a board around $400 a month. Transfer and estoppel packages through Closing Desk are opt-in and free to your association — the title company or lender who orders pays — and never gate the platform. Apply to be considered.

Founding boards

Be a founding board.

We’re onboarding a small group of HOA and condo boards now, ahead of public launch. Founding boards get full access at no out-of-pocket cost until launch — then $39/month, held throughout the founding cohort (public price $59).

  • Full access — no out-of-pocket subscription cost during the cohort
  • Early access before public launch
  • Founding-partner terms, honored at launch
  • Hands-on help getting your documents in
  • Your governance edge cases shape the roadmap
Ready for more than the list? Founding boards get hands-on onboarding and a direct line to the team.Become a founding board →
Limited founding-board spots for the summer cohort

No spam. One launch email, maybe a short update or two.

Not an HOA or condo board? Get in touch here →