Why SearchStrata?
ChatGPT doesn’t know your building
A chat window starts from nothing every time you open it. It has no record of the building, no way to tell you what it does not know, and nothing behind its numbers but the paragraph it just wrote. SearchStrata keeps a record per building, in three parts — what it is, assembled from public registries and free; what is around it, scored from public data; and what it has decided, read out of its own documents. Sourced line by line.
The problem with general-purpose AI
No record of the building
A chat session knows whatever you pasted into it and nothing else. It cannot tell you the strata plan number, the year built, how many homes there are or who manages it, because it has never held a record of the building at all.
No strata expertise
ChatGPT doesn't know what a Form B is, what a healthy contingency reserve fund looks like, or how BC strata law differs from Alberta condo regulations. It also can't tell you which of those it got wrong.
Numbers with nothing behind them
General AI tools invent financial figures, confuse dates, and miss details buried deep in meeting minutes — and present all of it in the same confident tone as the parts they got right. For a six-figure purchase, an unsourced number is the expensive kind.
Guesses about the neighbourhood
Ask a chatbot how far the nearest school is and it will answer — from a general impression of the area, with no dataset behind it and no way for you to check. SearchStrata's Location Insights measures nine areas around a BC building from public data and shows the record behind every figure.
Side-by-side comparison
How SearchStrata stacks up against the alternatives.
| Capability | SearchStrata | ChatGPT / Claude | Manual Review | Lawyer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A record of the building before you upload | ||||
| Publishes what it does not know | ||||
| Handles 200+ page packages | ||||
| Canadian strata law knowledge | Partial | |||
| Structured risk report | ||||
| Health score & red flags | Partial | |||
| Financial analysis | Partial | Partial | ||
| Side-by-side property comparison | ||||
| Scored location data with sources (BC) | Partial | Partial | ||
| Q&A on your documents | Partial | |||
| Results in minutes | Partial | |||
| Cost per analysis | $0–29/mo | $20/mo + effort | Free (hours) | $500–2,000 |
| No strata expertise needed |
Built specifically for strata due diligence
The building is already on file
Every strata corporation in BC has a record here before you upload anything — what it's built of, how old it is, how many homes it holds and who manages it. Your documents deepen a record that already exists rather than starting a conversation from nothing.
Knows what to look for
SearchStrata is purpose-built for Canadian strata documents and surfaces the red flags that matter: underfunded reserves, pending litigation, special levy history, insurance gaps, and more.
Numbers traced to the source
Every figure links to the page it was drawn from, and where we don't hold something we say so — our field-by-field coverage is published with the sample and the date. A chat window can do neither.
Two buildings, side by side
Evaluating more than one condo? Put their financials, risk signals and key figures in one table and read across them — something a chat window cannot do, because it holds no record of either building.
Custom search criteria
Define what matters to you — pet bylaws, rental restrictions, EV charging, whatever — and SearchStrata will flag relevant findings across your documents.
Ask follow-up questions
Not sure about something in the report? Ask questions about your specific documents and get answers with references to the exact pages.
A common experience
Paste your strata minutes into ChatGPT and you can spend 45 minutes copy-pasting and re-prompting and still not have a clear picture. SearchStrata reads the whole package and returns a structured report in minutes.
Illustrative scenario, not a specific customer testimonial.
Don’t leave your biggest purchase to a generic chatbot.
Get a purpose-built analysis that understands Canadian strata documents inside and out. Free to start.
Building intelligence, in three parts
The building, the neighbourhood around it, and its own documents. The building is free and needs no account — its facts were already public.
1 · Free, no account
The building
What you’re buying into
Built of, year, storeys, homes, who manages it, what's been remediated. Assembled from land title, the assessment roll and strata filings. No account.
19,000+ BC corporations · $0
Search the record2 · Pro
The neighbourhood
What you can’t change
Nine areas past the lot line, measured from public BC data — transit, schools, hazard, crime, what's approved next door. Never in the building's own paperwork.
Location Insights · Pro
How Location Insights works3 · Upload
The documents
What you’re inheriting
The levies, the reserve fund, the litigation, the engineer's schedule — read out of this corporation's own package, each finding pointing at its page.
Your documents · deep analysis
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