The system of record for financial risk governance
Infrastructure for community associations. Association money, statutory obligations,
disclosures, counterparties, and risk — governed as one stack, not assembled from
PDFs after the fact.
CommunityPay is not one product. It is a stack that builds on itself: a governed
ledger, an enforcement choke point, guided journal origination, governed workflows,
risk intelligence, and institutional attestation — each layer consuming the one
below, all conditioned by a living legal corpus and a member-bound authority model.
Each was built here. Together they make the financial reality of a community
association legible, governable, and verifiable.
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System of Record for Financial Risk Governance
The financial ledger is the floor. Each layer consumes the one beneath it,
up to the institutional artifacts at the top — and three cross-cutting
planes cut across the stack. Select a layer to see what it is, what it
governs, and what it produces.
Legal & Compliance
L7
Intelligence & Distribution
Where the governed system reaches the world
L6
Attestation
Verifiable artifacts from governed state
L5
Risk Intelligence
Measure financial and governance risk
L4
Governed Workflows
Run association finance as governed operations
L3
Origination
Turn events into correct entries
L2
Enforcement & Decision Telemetry
Govern every action; log every decision
L1
Financial Ledger
Hold financial truth
Select a layer or the legal plane to explore.
L7 · consumes Attestation
Intelligence & Distribution
What it is
The outer edge — external APIs and third-party consumers of the corpus.
What it governs
Locked-in data; artifacts that cannot travel.
What it produces
Machine-readable access for title, escrow, lenders, insurers, and CPAs.
Categories
CARI API · legal corpus API · RC API · artifact embed & distribution · API access to the corpus
The deliberately open layer — the one we grow over time.
L6 · consumes Risk Intelligence
Attestation
What it is
Hash-bound, version-chained artifacts generated from governed state, built for third-party verification.
What it governs
Disclosures assembled from stale records; reports that cannot be verified.
What it produces
The full library of governance and institutional reports.
No journal entry exists without an enforcement decision; the database refuses one.
L1 · foundation
Financial Ledger
What it is
A double-entry, fund-segregated ledger with an immutable audit trail — the single source of financial truth.
What it governs
Silent edits, unbalanced entries, commingled funds, posting to closed periods.
What it produces
Journal entries, fund balances, financial statements, integrity snapshots.
Categories
Double-entry ledger · fund segregation · fiscal periods · immutable audit log
The floor everything is built on — owned by the association, not a board term.
Cross-cutting plane · Read at L2 · L4 · L6
Legal & Compliance
What it is
The Living Legal Corpus — statutes, case law, and drift detection mapped onto financial decisions. Read by many layers, owned by none.
A plane, not a layer — it conditions enforcement (L2), governed workflows (L4), and attestation (L6) alike.
How to read it
Reading orderThe ledger is the floor. Each layer builds on the one beneath it, up to the institutional artifacts at the top.
Members & approvalsOperational work — they live in Governed Workflows (L4), governed by the authority model.
Identity & authorityNot a layer. A cross-cutting concern, read wherever an action must be authorized.
Legal corpusA plane. It conditions enforcement, operations, and disclosure alike — read by many layers, owned by none.
ImmutabilityA property of the whole stack. Every record, decision, and artifact is attributable and verifiable.
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Governance & Institutional Reports
Every report is a projection of governed state for a specific counterparty. Select an
audience to filter, then open any report to see what it does and why it matters.
Governance & Controls
GCAGovernance Controls AttestationBoard+
What it does
Summarizes how the association’s internal controls operated over a period — approvals, override discipline, enforcement coverage.
Why it matters
Gives a board a defensible record that fiduciary controls were not just configured but actually fired.
FSRFiduciary Shield ReportBoard / Insurer+
What it does
Packages the evidence that volunteer fiduciaries governed money responsibly — controls, decisions, and exceptions, with provenance.
Why it matters
Protects volunteer board members by turning “we did the right thing” into verifiable record.