Association Governance Intelligence

Governance answers your whole board can trust.

BoardPath reads your declaration, bylaws, rules, and amendments — then answers any question in plain English, with exact citations and a confidence score. The governance platform that also drafts, tracks deadlines, and flags conflicts — so the board no longer relies on the one person who knows the documents.

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BoardPath — The Boardroom
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The problem

Your governing documents hold the answer. Finding it is the hard part.

Hundreds of pages across declarations, bylaws, rules, and a decade of amendments — that contradict each other, live in three filing cabinets, and only one person on the board has actually read.

“What do the documents actually say?”
The meeting stalls while the board debates a rule from memory. Nobody can find the section, so the decision gets tabled — again.
“Didn’t an amendment change that?”
A 2019 amendment quietly overrode the bylaws. The board enforces the old rule anyway — and exposes the association to a challenge.
“Ask Carol, she knows the bylaws.”
Institutional knowledge lives in one volunteer’s head. When they roll off the board, it leaves with them.
“Should we call the attorney for this?”
A $400 question that the documents already answer — or a real one the board doesn’t realize needs counsel. No way to tell which is which.

BoardPath turns all of it into one place you can simply ask.

Free governance health check

How ready are your governing documents — really?

Answer a few questions about your community and BoardPath scores your governance coverage out of 100 — flagging missing documents, unlinked amendments, stale provisions, and the gaps most likely to bite you. Takes two minutes, costs nothing, and the full report lands in your inbox.

1 Tell us about your community
2 Get your readiness score
3 See exactly what to fix
Your Governance Health CheckMaple Ridge OA · 142 units
68
/ 100
Moderate readiness
12 of 18 checks passed. Three gaps are worth addressing before your next board meeting.
Declaration & CC&Rs on file and parsed
Bylaws current — last updated 2023
! Amendment 03 is not linked to its parent document · may enforce a superseded rule
! No reserve study found · required disclosure in your state
Articles of Incorporation missing · top of the authority hierarchy
Your full report and fix list have been emailed to you.
How it works

From question to cited answer in seconds.

No syntax, no search terms, no training. Upload once, then ask the way you’d ask the one board member who’s read everything.

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Upload your governing documents
Declaration, bylaws, rules, amendments, resolutions, policies — into one workspace. BoardPath maps the legal hierarchy between them, so it knows which document controls when they disagree.
Document ingestion
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Ask a real question
“Can we fine for a second parking violation?” “Does a dog park need an owner vote?” Plain English, exactly the way it comes up in a meeting.
Natural language
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Get a clear, cited answer
A direct answer, a plain-English explanation, the exact sections behind it, a confidence score — and a flag if it’s a question your attorney should weigh in on.
Citation-grounded
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Take the next step
Save it to the meeting record, use it live, or turn it into a grounded draft — an owner response, a violation notice, or motion language — built from your own documents.
Actionable output
One platform

Answers are just the front door.

Asking your documents is where boards start. From the same workspace BoardPath drafts correspondence and amendments, keeps a consolidated view of every document, flags conflicts, tracks deadlines, runs your meetings — and even answers owners by email. All grounded in the documents you already uploaded.

And your homeowners get their own door in.
A public-facing portal lets residents get cited answers from your governing documents themselves — cutting repetitive questions out of the board’s inbox, with the same grounding and confidence the board sees.
Homeowner portal
Or just email a question.
Every association gets its own BoardPath email address. Owners and board members email a question from any inbox — phone or desktop — and get the full cited answer emailed right back. No app, no login.
Ask by email
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BoardPath Archive

The board that runs this community in 2028 will inherit everything.

Boards turn over every few years and institutional memory walks out with them — why the fine schedule exists, what the 2019 amendment changed, how Lot 47 got its fence exception. Archive makes your community’s governing history a permanent, searchable asset that outlasts every board and every manager.

Institutional memory
Every question asked, every decision made, and what the documents said at the time — preserved across board terms and manager changes, with timeline-aware answers like “What was the guest policy in 2020?”
Amendment chains
The full lineage of every provision — from the original language through each amendment and supersession to the current state — so nobody enforces a rule that quietly changed in 2019.
Board orientation reports
When a new member joins, BoardPath generates a one-document briefing on how this community has governed itself — so they arrive informed instead of inheriting years of hallway knowledge.
Who it’s for

Built for everyone who governs.

HOA & Condo Boards
Clearer answers during meetings and consistent enforcement between them — without leaning on the one member who knows the documents.
Live meeting support
Clear authority references
Consistent, defensible enforcement
Self-Managed Communities
Volunteer boards get cited answers without legal expertise or a manager on call. Your documents become searchable the day you upload them.
No expertise required
Works for first-year boards
Knowledge outlasts turnover
Managers & Management Cos.
Support every board in your portfolio with faster research, clearer cited answers, and grounded follow-up drafting — from one workspace.
Portfolio-wide support
Faster board responses
Grounded draft output
And for the attorneys who advise them.
BoardPath helps board clients arrive with cleaner facts and a citation-grounded Counsel Packet — so counsel reviews the issue instead of reconstructing it from scattered documents. BoardPath supports the research handoff; it never replaces legal judgment.
For counsel
Why boards trust it

Built for a job where being wrong has consequences.

Governance decisions carry real liability. BoardPath is designed around that — grounded in your documents, honest about its limits, and private by default.

Every answer is cited
BoardPath never guesses. Each answer points to the exact sections it came from, so you can verify it against your own documents in one click — no black box.
It knows when to defer
A confidence score on every answer, and a clear “counsel review recommended” flag when a question crosses from governance into legal judgment. It tells you what it doesn’t know.
Your documents stay yours
Each association’s corpus is private to that association. Your documents are never shared, never sold, and never used to answer another community’s questions.
Why we built BoardPath

After fourteen years managing thirty-four community associations — and roughly $15 million in reserves — I kept watching the same thing happen: the answer was already in the governing documents, but finding it took an afternoon, and when a board turned over, the reasoning walked out the door with it. BoardPath is the tool I wish I’d had in every one of those meetings — cited answers in seconds, and the honesty to say “I don’t know” instead of guessing.

Eric TetzlaffFounder, BoardPath · CMCA-certified community association manager
Seconds
From question to a cited, board-ready answer
Every layer
Declaration → bylaws → rules → amendments, in order of authority
Zero guesses
Grounded in your documents or it tells you it can’t answer
Questions boards ask us

The fine print, up front.

No — and BoardPath is deliberate about that line. It explains what your own governing documents say and cites the exact sections, the way a well-organized board member would. When a question turns on legal judgment rather than the documents, it flags “counsel review recommended” rather than guessing. It makes your attorney’s time more efficient; it doesn’t replace it.

ChatGPT doesn’t know your CC&Rs, doesn’t cite its sources, and doesn’t understand that your bylaws outrank your rules. BoardPath answers only from your association’s governing documents, shows the exact sections behind every answer, enforces the legal hierarchy between them, and tells you how confident it is — or that it can’t answer. It’s the difference between a plausible guess and a cited, defensible one.

Every answer is grounded in citations you can verify in one click, and carries a confidence score — so you’re never asked to trust a black box. When the documents don’t clearly address something, BoardPath says so instead of inventing an answer. You stay in control of the decision; it just puts the relevant text in front of you in seconds.

No. If you can upload a PDF and type a question, you can use BoardPath. It’s built for volunteer boards and first-year members — no training, no special syntax, no search operators. You ask the way you’d ask a person.

Yes. Each association’s documents are private to that association — never shared with other communities, never sold, and never used to answer anyone else’s questions. Your corpus is yours.

BoardPath is in pre-launch. We’re selecting a small group of design-partner associations who use BoardPath at no cost in exchange for working closely with us and shaping the product. Long-term pricing will be set with input from those founding boards and managers — and design partners lock in founding-partner rates at launch. Apply below to be considered.

Design Partner Program

Stop searching. Start governing.

We’re selecting a small group of founding associations to build BoardPath alongside. Apply below — selected partners use BoardPath at no cost in exchange for their feedback.

What design partners get

A seat at the table, before launch.

A limited cohort of boards and managers shaping the product directly with us.

BoardPath at no cost for your first 6 months if selected
Direct line to the team — your governance edge cases shape the roadmap
Hands-on help getting your documents in and organized
Founding-partner pricing locked in when we launch
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis · limited spots this cohort

No commitment. We’ll review your application and reach out about a spot.