Precedent
Past decisions stay connected to the supporting record
Transfer decisions, policy debates, and maintenance approvals remain tied to the emails and documents that explain them.
Housing Co-operatives
Your co-op changes boards. The decisions don't transfer.
Ask what was decided about the building, the budget, or the policy, and get a sourced answer from the emails and documents your board shared.
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Co-op boards are elected to govern a building they did not build, with history they cannot access.
Every board inherits years of maintenance, policy, and share transfer decisions made by previous boards over email.
Maintenance history is scattered
Quotes, assessments, and board votes live across old threads.
Share transfer decisions have no memory
Reasoning can disappear when directors change.
Policy decisions get challenged
The original debate is hard to recover.
Special assessments need justification
Members deserve to see the history behind the decision.
Your board keeps using email. Dossier becomes the co-op's permanent record.
No app to install. No login for board members to forget.
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Share the thread or document
BCC board threads or upload the documents your board relies on.
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Dossier reads the thread
Decisions, commitments, deadlines, and context become searchable.
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Ask from the co-op's memory
Directors can ask about decisions from years before they joined.
See it in action
Ask about the history. Get the source.
Dossier - Riverside Housing Co-op
Question
"What is the history with the elevator modernization?"
Dossier
The board commissioned an elevator assessment in March 2025, approved Schindler at $185,000 in June, and completed Phase 1 in January 2026. Phase 2 is scheduled for fall 2026.
Sources
Re: Elevator modernization - board vote
Re: Schindler Phase 1 completion
Ask the questions co-op boards keep inheriting from prior terms.
These are the issues that usually send directors hunting through old mailboxes for precedent, quotes, and context.
- "Why did the board choose a special assessment for this project?"
- "What happened with the last share transfer like this?"
- "What did we decide about the sublet policy, and why?"
- "Which contractor quote was approved for the boiler work?"
- "Who committed to follow up after the AGM?"
- "What is the history behind this maintenance issue?"
Co-op answers stay tied to the board record.
Members and directors often need to see the vote, quote, or thread behind an answer, especially when the issue affects budgets, policy, or precedent.
Member trust
Special assessment context stays inspectable
When members ask why a project or assessment is necessary, the board can point back to the quotes, discussion, and documented history behind it.
Board continuity
New directors can verify before reopening an issue
A sourced answer gives the current board the underlying record before it revisits a decision made by a prior term.
Pricing
Simple pricing.
$99/month per co-op.
Unlimited users. Unlimited threads.
Less than the cost of one board meeting spent reconstructing a decision that was already made.
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Dossier makes sure board decisions outlast every term.
A few practical questions for housing co-ops.
Dossier is designed to help elected boards keep continuity without adding another complicated system to maintain.
Can this help new directors understand old board decisions?
Yes. That is one of the clearest uses for a co-op board. Directors can recover the prior discussion and see the record behind it.
Is it useful for maintenance and capital project history?
Yes. Those projects often span multiple board terms, multiple quotes, and long email threads. Dossier helps keep that history inspectable.
What if our board records are incomplete?
It still helps. Dossier answers from the threads and documents that have been shared and keeps the visible sources attached to the answer.
Does this replace official co-op records?
No. It complements them by making the reasoning, commitments, and source material behind those records easier to recover later.
How do you handle our data?
Your threads are never used to train AI models. Data is transmitted over an encrypted connection. Only members you invite can see your Dossier, and you can delete your data, export it, or close your account at any time.