substrata AI

A better handover. Lower lifetime risk.

Substrata AI captures every asset from your construction documentation and turns it into a complete, structured handover package — the foundation for maintenance, compliance and managing building risk for the life of the building. Captured at source, automatically, before the building is even handed over.

Validated on live NSW development projects
Independently certified by MBM, Chartered Quantity Surveyors (RICS)

From construction data to a managed asset

A developer's incentive ends at completion, yet a complex asset transfers to people who aren't equipped to run it. Owners can't maintain it, strata managers can't budget levies against a capital works forecast that doesn't exist, developers stay exposed through their defect liability period, and insurers can't price the risk.

Today

Thousands of pages of construction documentation handed over as unstructured PDFs. Assets buried in schedules. No usable maintenance, capital or compliance data.

With Substrata AI

Every asset extracted and structured automatically into foundational building data — ready to manage from day one and to keep working for decades.

Foundational building data

Asset register
Maintenance schedule
Capital works plan
Compliance baseline
O&M manual

What you receive

Illustrative sample
Maintenance scheduleSample rows
AssetLocationActivityFrequencyEst. cost
Fire indicator panelFire control roomInspection & testMonthly$220
Lift — passengerCore 1Service & testMonthly$480
Domestic water pumpsPlant room L1Performance checkQuarterly$310
Roof membraneLevel 14Visual inspectionAnnual$650
Mechanical AHUPlant room L1Filter change & test6-monthly$540
40-year capital forecastInflation-adjusted
Y1Y10Y20Y30Y40

Annual capital works fund contributions, modelled against expected replacement timing for every major common-property asset. Peak year highlighted.

The result is a dramatically better handover. The developer hands over more value, owners get a building that's ready to manage from day one, and the data keeps working to manage risk for decades.

How it works

Three steps to a certified handover

From construction documentation to a certified, delivered handover.

1

Send your construction documentation

Drawings and specs, that's all we need.

2

AI extracts and structures every asset

Into your asset register, maintenance schedule and capital works plan.

3

QS-certified and delivered

Independently certified by MBM and delivered before your AGM.

Roadmap

What we deliver

Substrata AI is rolling out as a sequence of products, each built on the same foundational building data.

Phase 1Available now

NSW IMS & Capital Works

  • NSW Initial Maintenance Schedule (IMS)
  • 40-year Capital Works Plan
  • Independent QS certification
  • Delivered at least 14 days before your first AGM
Phase 2In build

Full handover package

  • O&M Manual
  • Homeowners Manual
  • Onboarding videos
  • Scope of Works maintenance pack
  • Depreciation schedules
  • Digital onboarding & exports for strata managers and owners
Phase 3Planned

Portal & integrations

  • Owner & strata-manager portal
  • Integrations with maintenance, compliance and risk systems

Risk management

Built for risk management

Foundational building data isn't just a handover deliverable. It's the basis for ongoing risk management across the life of the building. As the data compounds, it unlocks:

Better-maintained buildings

A working maintenance framework from day one, not years later.

Real-time compliance

A live compliance baseline that tracks obligations as they fall due.

Building-performance score

A benchmark for the asset, derived from its real data.

Insurance on real data

Risk priced on actual building data instead of guesswork.

These capabilities grow as the wider Substrata Group builds on the same foundational data.

NSW Compliance

The April 2026 Obligation

NSW Fair Trading introduced mandatory standard form IMS requirements effective 1 April 2026. All new strata schemes must use the prescribed NSW Standard Initial Maintenance Schedule.

Multi-storey schemes (3 or more storeys above ground with vertically stacked lots) must engage an independent Certified Quantity Surveyor (CQS) or Chartered Quantity Surveyor (RICS) to review and certify initial levy estimates.

Certification evidence must be provided to the owners corporation at least 14 days before the first AGM.

Source: NSW Fair Trading, Guide to strata law changes for strata committees and owners

IMS Compliance Checklist
April 2026 Requirements
Compliant
NSW Standard Initial Maintenance Schedule
Independent Certified Quantity Surveyor (CQS) or Chartered Quantity Surveyor (RICS) certification
QS certification that the maintenance schedule supports the initial levy estimate
QS Certification Statement delivered 14 days before first AGM
Substrata AI + MBM
Compliant

Available now

IMS & Capital Works Plan

Two independently QS-certified products, produced from the same construction data.

IMS Certified

The NSW Initial Maintenance Schedule, completed on the prescribed form and independently certified, ready for the first AGM.

  • Send us your construction documentation, we handle everything else
  • Complete maintenance and inspection schedule for every common property asset, activity descriptions, frequencies, and estimated cost per activity
  • NSW Standard Initial Maintenance Schedule completed and ready for submission
  • Independent review and certification by MBM, Chartered Quantity Surveyors (RICS) and members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, confirming the maintenance schedule supports the initial levy estimate.
  • QS Certification Statement delivered to the owners corporation at least 14 days before the first AGM.

Send us your construction documentation and we'll scope it for your building.

40-Year Capital Works Plan

Without a capital forecast, strata managers can't budget levies, reserves run dry, and owners get hit with special levies. The Capital Works Plan fixes that from day one.

  • A 40-year capital expenditure forecast covering every major common-property asset: roofs, facades, lifts, pumps, fire systems, mechanical plant and finishes
  • Expected useful life and replacement timing for each asset
  • Condition and lifecycle modelling per asset
  • Inflation-adjusted replacement cost estimates, reviewed by MBM, Chartered Quantity Surveyors (RICS)
  • Recommended annual capital works fund contributions so the owners corporation can budget levies that meet future costs
  • Data-linked to the IMS, so the asset register and the capital plan stay consistent
  • Delivered as a structured, exportable schedule for the strata manager

Send us your construction documentation and we'll scope it for your building.

Delivery is subsidised by insurance commissions developers and strata managers already carry — no new budget line.

Get started

Request a project assessment

Send us your project details and construction documentation. We'll scope it for your building and come back within one business day.

Email sales@aiconstruct.co

Group context

Part of the Substrata Group

Substrata AI is the data-transformation engine of the Substrata Group. We turn raw construction documentation into structured, foundational building data — the asset register, maintenance schedule, capital works plan, compliance baseline and O&M manual — captured at source, before a building is even handed over. That foundational data is the moat the whole group is built on.

Risk advisoryUnlockt (insurance placement fee)
Data presentationDLP Manager (defect management, maintenance)
Data transformationSubstrata AI (IMS, CWP, BPI)
Foundational datathe moat (construction drawings, premiums, asset register)
substrata
The group

Substrata is an AI-native risk business. Foundational building data is the moat; post-construction risk management is the proposition. Each layer adds value — Substrata AI captures and structures the data, DLP Manager runs it as a living operating record, and Unlockt uses it to advise on, price and manage building risk, including products like the Substrata building-performance score and decennial liability insurance.

Substrata AI captures and structures the foundational data layer that powers everything above it.