Who answers the wifi question at 11pm?
Your guests get the code, the wifi and the right restaurant at 11pm. You get your evening back.
Who is writing the minutes this weekend?
For your own business, or as a service you charge other businesses like yours for.
Nobody runs this lab yet. Take it, give it your hours and your prices, and it is yours.
General meeting, 14 September, 6:30pm, the hall
Six resolutions, ninety minutes. Each one carries the majority it needs, because a resolution voted under the wrong article is a resolution to vote again in March.
Resolutions
| NoNo | SubjectSubject | MajorityMajority | Papers attachedPapers attached |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approve the 2025 accounts | Simple | Statement, bank reconciliation |
| 2 | Roof insulation, three quotes | Absolute | Three quotes, energy study |
| 3 | Lift service contract | Simple | Two quotes, one still missing |
| 4 | Bike shed | Absolute | No plan yet, deferred if it stays missing |
| 5 | 2026 budget | Simple | Draft budget |
| 6 | Renew the committee | Simple | Two candidates |
What will make it run long
Resolution 2. Three quotes with a fourteen thousand euro spread need to be read out before the vote, not after. Ten minutes there saves an hour of argument.
Send fifteen days before, papers attached. A resolution whose papers were not attached can be challenged, and challenging it is free.
Voted
Roof insulation approved, 847 tantiemes for, 153 against. Three quotes were read out, Delaunay was chosen on the ten year guarantee, not on price.
Deferred, and why
| ItemItem | ReasonReason | NextNext |
|---|---|---|
| Bike shed | No plan attached | October |
| Lift service contract | Two quotes missing | October |
Drafted the same evening, sent within the legal window, with the vote counts so nobody has to ask who voted what.
| Works | When | Estimate | Per 1000 tantiemes | Funded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roof insulation | Spring 2026 | 38 400 € | 3 840 € | Works fund, then call |
| Hall and stairwell repaint | Autumn 2026 | 9 200 € | 920 € | Works fund |
| Lift, ten year overhaul | 2027 | 24 000 € | 2 400 € | Call, spread over 2 years |
| Bike shed | Not scheduled | 6 500 € | 650 € | To be voted |
+ 1 more rows
The works fund holds 21 000 euros. The roof alone empties it, so the call for funds has to be voted at the same meeting as the works, not the one after.
Hello, Your lot carries 112 tantiemes out of 10 000. On a 38 400 euro job, that is 430 euros, called in two instalments, March and June. On the choice: Delaunay was not the cheapest. The gap with the lowest quote is 3 100 euros. Delaunay is the only one of the three who carries the ten year guarantee on the insulation itself and not only on the covering, and that is what the meeting voted on, 847 tantiemes to 153. The three quotes are in the meeting pack sent on 30 August, pages 4 to 9. If you want to read them side by side, tell me and I will bring paper copies to the hall. Regards, The committee
Volunteering to run a building means doing, for free and at the weekend, work that hoa management software sells to professionals handling three hundred units. The agenda, the minutes of the general meeting and the multi-year works plan do not need an enterprise suite. They need the memory of the building to live somewhere other than in the head of the person stepping down next year. That is what this lab would keep: decision by decision, quote by quote, in a form the next volunteer can pick up.
Put there once, read by every magik.
Put there once by you, read by every magik, corrected when reality moves. Full on day one, unlike the collections below.
Worth more in month six than in week one.
The collections belong to the lab, not to any single magik. Every magik reads them and every run adds to them, which is why this lab is worth more in month six than in week one.
| Works | Quotes in | Voted | Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| Street facade rendering | 3 | yes, June meeting | spring |
| Lobby door | 2 | no | on the agenda |
| Hot water riser | 1 | no | quotes missing |
Invented for this page. Your Works collection starts empty and fills as you work.
It wears your name, not ours.
The same lab, under your name, your colours and your logo. Your customers never see ours.
On the Pro plan, and not needed to take a lab. A fully bespoke theme exists as an upgrade, hand built rather than self-serve.
And whatever you already use: any tool available through an API or an MCP server, connected with your own account.
A tool built for exactly your job, and only that, will go deeper at that one job. This is for the jobs nothing covers, or the ones spread across three tools today.
No. No ledger, no calls for funds, no payments. That work has its own rules and its own tools, and doing it badly in a lab would be worse than not doing it. What is handled here is the writing: the agenda, the minutes, the works plan and the replies to owners.
A spreadsheet holds figures well and decisions badly. What costs you a Sunday is not a column of charges, it is writing minutes from your notes and finding what was voted in 2019. That is the part this idea takes, and the spreadsheet can stay exactly where it is.
It drafts the minutes from your notes and from the building rules you put in: resolutions, votes, decisions. You read it, and you are the one who signs and circulates it. A volunteer manager stays responsible for what they send, and this lab changes nothing about that.
Which is why decisions and quotes received live in collections rather than in an inbox. The works plan is written from what has already been voted, priced and postponed, without asking the owners again what they decided in 2019.
The lab drafts the reply from the building rules, the past minutes and the supplier contracts, quoting what was decided and when. You read it before it goes. The questions that keep coming back end up with a written answer, which is the only way to stop retyping it.
There is no per lot licence here: what has a cost is a run, and that cost is announced before the run starts. A building that holds one meeting a year and a handful of replies a month costs what it uses, rather than a yearly subscription sized for a professional manager.
No, and nothing else leaves on its own either. Everything written here is a draft you read and send yourself. Money moving out of a building account on the strength of a run is not something this idea offers, and it is not an oversight.
A tool built for exactly volunteer building managers, and only that, will go deeper at that one job. This lab is for the jobs no tool covers, or the ones spread across three tools today, and it runs under your name.
Every audience is still open.
Nobody has taken a square on this idea yet. You declare your audience when you take the lab (“roofers in Brittany”, “plumbers around Paris”), and two people can start from the same idea on two different audiences without getting in each other’s way.
And it wears your name, not ours.
The bundle describes a lab that does not exist yet : the jobs it would do, and an example of each output.
Open Knowledge Format : plain markdown, re-importable into any agent. No account, no lock-in.
Your guests get the code, the wifi and the right restaurant at 11pm. You get your evening back.
Every review gets an answer, the welcome book is never out of date, and the seasonal staff stop coming to ask you.
Every listing answers for itself, at 10pm, on the schools, the works and the noise. You get the buyers who are actually ready.
The listing sheet, the neighbourhood note and the visit follow-up write themselves, property by property.