Boreal Society builds governance infrastructure for self-managed communities across British Columbia — because volunteer councils deserve the same precision as professional operations.
Learn About Our WorkBoreal Society is a BC non-profit founded by a practicing strata council member. We exist for one reason: self-managed communities across British Columbia deserve governance infrastructure that actually fits the way they work.
Not ported from condo software. Not engineered around maximizing revenue per door. Built from first principles — by someone who has lived the same administrative burden as every volunteer treasurer and council chair across the province.
Our first product. ASM is a purpose-built governance platform for BC's bare-land strata corporations — the communities managing roads, water, gates, and open spaces rather than building envelopes.
Compliance tracking, immutable document records, automated obligation scheduling, and AI-powered search — all designed for volunteer councils who need professional-grade infrastructure without a property management budget.
Automated triggers for AGMs, Depreciation Reports, and legal renewals — scheduled before they become crises.
Versioned history. Audit-ready at any moment. What was decided, stays decided.
Grounded in your own strata records — bylaws, minutes, correspondence. Cited, not invented.
Dashboard, document library, and threaded correspondence for every resident.
Boreal Society is a registered BC Society — a non-profit operating under the Societies Act. There are no outside shareholders. No venture capital. No pressure to maximize revenue at the expense of the communities we serve.
Pricing stays accessible because it has to. Features stay community-aligned because that's what we're here for. And the mission doesn't change because a new board decided it should.
Founder protections are written into Boreal's bylaws — not just policy. The organization's purpose is legally anchored to the communities it serves.
Usage-based pricing — not per-door. Small communities pay small-community rates. Pricing is designed to be equitable, not extractive.
Incorporated in BC, built in BC, focused on BC. The Strata Property Act framework is the terrain we know — not a generic platform adapted to your province.
Governance should anticipate obligations before they become crises — not chase them after the fact. Every tool we build starts from scheduled obligations, not task lists.
What was decided, was decided. Approved documents stay approved. History doesn't get revised. Communities deserve a record that holds.
Small communities shouldn't subsidize large ones. Our pricing scales with what communities actually use — not with how many doors are in the building.
If it takes a professional to operate it, we haven't done our job. Every interface is designed for the council member who also has a day job.
Bare-land strata corporations managing roads, utilities, gates, and open spaces across British Columbia. Communities where the property is the land, not the building — and the administrative burden falls on homeowners who stepped up.
The treasurer is a retired engineer with a spreadsheet. The council chair is a schoolteacher who ran for the seat because no one else would. They deserve tools that match their commitment.
Volunteer councils managing governance obligations, financial records, and community communication for bare-land strata corporations.
Homeowners who want visibility into how their community is being managed — documents, decisions, correspondence — without having to serve on council.
Firms managing bare-land strata portfolios across BC who need a platform built for the infrastructure-heavy reality of this niche — not a condo product with the labels changed.
Dean serves on a BC bare-land strata council. He has navigated the same spreadsheets, the same lost email chains, the same governance gaps that Boreal Society is building to fix — from the inside.
He founded Arcsense and built Aurora Strata Management because the tools didn't exist and the problem was too real to ignore. Boreal Society is the structure that makes that work durable — a non-profit with the mission written into its governing documents.
"I want to share what I've learned and built with others to help them work better. I find it frustrating when a group of people facing the exact same problem are left to figure it out for themselves."
Boreal Society is early-stage and focused on bare-land strata communities across BC. If you're curious about our work, want to follow our progress, or are interested in getting involved — reach out directly.
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