Why StrataCheckAI? What AI-powered strata review actually means for buyers

Strata documents are dense, technical, and often hundreds of pages long. We built StrataCheckAI to make sure no buyer misses a critical flag buried on page 47 of a capital works forecast they didn't know how to read.

What is a strata document review?

A strata document review is the process of reading and interpreting the documents that govern a strata scheme before you exchange contracts. These documents tell you the financial health of the owners corporation, what the rules are around pets and renovations, whether the building has unresolved defects, and whether there are legal proceedings underway that could cost every lot owner money.

A thorough review answers questions like: Is the sinking fund adequately funded for upcoming capital works? Are there special levies coming that the vendor hasn't disclosed? Does the insurance cover the full replacement cost of the building? These questions, left unanswered, regularly result in buyers inheriting unexpected costs and legal obligations after settlement.

The problem with how strata review is done today

Solicitor reports are not comprehensive document analysis. A conveyancer is looking for legal risk, not financial health. They will note that litigation is disclosed, but they are unlikely to calculate whether the sinking fund trajectory makes a special levy inevitable, or read forty pages of AGM minutes for patterns in deferred maintenance decisions.

Most buyers don't have the expertise to read these documents themselves. Understanding a capital works forecast requires knowing what a reasonable sinking fund balance looks like relative to the forecast requirement. Most buyers — even experienced ones — don't have this knowledge. StrataCheckAI is purpose-built to fill this gap.

How StrataCheckAI works

You upload your strata documents — up to ten PDFs, 150 MB total — confirm the jurisdiction, and within minutes receive a structured report: flags by severity, financial health, insurance, by-laws summary, questions to ask, and an AI chat grounded in your specific documents. Every finding is cited to a specific filename and page number.

Every analysis is jurisdiction-aware across all eight Australian states and territories — the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 in NSW, the Owners Corporations Act 2006 in Victoria, the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 in Queensland, and equivalents in all other states and territories.

What StrataCheckAI is not

StrataCheckAI is a document analysis tool. It is not legal advice, not a strata audit, not a substitute for a building inspection. What it does is make sure you go into your purchase decision with a clear understanding of what the documents say — so your conversation with your solicitor is about the specific things that concern you, not a general "is there anything I should know?"

The cost of not reviewing

A $49 strata report on a $900,000 purchase is 0.005% of the purchase price. The cost of discovering after settlement that a $2,400-per-lot special levy was passed at an EGM three weeks before you exchanged — information that was in the AGM minutes you received but didn't read — is orders of magnitude higher. The information you need is already in those documents. It just needs to be read.