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9 OF 9 NOTES
GOVERNANCE28 AUG 2026 · 7 MIN
Every society election is won or lost on the notice
Elections are challenged on procedure far more often than on the count. The defects are always the same handful, and every one of them is avoidable weeks in advance.
K. Mani
FINANCE14 AUG 2026 · 6 MIN
Your collection rate is a calendar problem
Committees describe arrears as a problem with members. Far more often it is three missing dates and an inconsistently applied rule, and neither requires a difficult conversation to fix.
K. Mani
SECURITY31 JUL 2026 · 6 MIN
The gate register is a liability, not a record
Ask the register the questions a committee actually asks after an incident and it cannot answer any of them. The failure is structural, and telling the guards to write more neatly will not touch it.
K. Mani
OPERATIONS17 JUL 2026 · 6 MIN
A complaint without an owner is not a complaint
In a chat group, attention follows volume rather than need — so the resident who escalates gets fixed and the one who waits politely does not. That is a queue problem, not a character problem.
K. Mani
COMPLIANCE03 JUL 2026 · 8 MIN
The four audit observations almost every society carries
The same four findings appear year after year in society audits, and all four are about missing evidence rather than about the money. Which means they are preventable during the year, not during audit season.
K. Mani
FINANCE19 JUN 2026 · 7 MIN
Sinking funds are underfunded by design
The 0.25 per cent minimum is a floor, not a calculation of what a building will need. Run the arithmetic on your own society before assuming the reserve will be there.
K. Mani
OPERATIONS05 JUN 2026 · 6 MIN
The AMC you pay for and cannot prove happened
Most societies approve quarterly maintenance invoices against the existence of a contract rather than against delivery of the work. Two small changes close the gap.
K. Mani
GOVERNANCE22 MAY 2026 · 7 MIN
Handover amnesia: why every committee starts from zero
What gets lost at handover is not the documents — it is the context. And the reason it keeps happening is that the entire benefit accrues to somebody other than the person being asked to do the work.
K. Mani
PRODUCT08 MAY 2026 · 5 MIN
Why there are no ads in the KeyMatrix resident app
The other model is defensible and we will make the case for it. Here is why we chose differently, and what that choice costs us.
K. Mani
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