Owners-association management SaaS — properties, accounting, residents, governance in one platform

Die Herausforderung

The operator managed multiple owners associations across a GCC national market on a patchwork of spreadsheets, email threads, and disconnected accounting tools. Tracking unit ownership, service charges, maintenance violations, and document trails at scale was no longer viable. They needed a full operational backbone — not a marketing site — covering property records, accounting workflows, governance, and resident-facing services in a single system, deployable inside a regulated GCC market.

Unser Ansatz

• →Domain modelling sprint: built a normalized OA data model covering properties, buildings, units, owners, residents, contracts, charges, and audit events
• →AI-augmented scaffolding to ship the operational surface fast — 55+ management screens, 47 database tables, financial modules, maintenance and violations workflows
• →Resident-facing community portal layered on top of the same data model — no duplicate database, role-based access enforced server-side
• →Cross-app user federation so the management app, internal staff portal, and voting platform share a single identity layer
• →Excel import path on day one so the operator could migrate years of historical data without manual re-entry

Outcomes

Verwendeter Stack

• Next.js + TypeScript + React for the management UI
• tRPC end-to-end typed API with strict role-based access
• PostgreSQL via Drizzle ORM (47 tables, fully migrated)
• JWT auth with cross-app session federation
• Recharts for financial dashboards, Excel import for migration
• AI-assisted code scaffolding and review across the build