Buildium AI integration

Sastre connects Buildium to the rest of your tools and uses AI to draft tenant replies, tasks and accounting entries, which post through Buildium’s Open API on the Premium plan and go to your team as drafts on other plans.

Tenant record, unit 4B

Drafted for Buildium
Today, 10:42Call note added. Leak under the kitchen sink, second report this month.
Today, 10:43Work order drafted for plumbing, priority high.
Due ThursdayConfirm the visit time with the tenant.
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Illustrative example

Some of what we build on Buildium

Call notes on the right record

We summarize every call on the matching tenant, owner or unit record.

Work orders from calls, email and texts

We turn calls, emails and texts into draft work orders with the details your vendors need.

Owner updates

We draft monthly owner summaries for a manager to review and send.

Follow up tracking

When someone on your team promises a callback or a visit, we turn it into a dated task.

Team dashboards

A dashboard shows open requests by manager and property, refreshed from your records as often as your plan allows.

Answers for your staff

New staff get answers from your own policies and procedures.

Buildium opens its API on one plan, Premium. On Premium, an administrator creates an API key from Buildium’s developer tools and chooses which data that key can reach, so a workflow can read only the records it needs and write only the changes your team has approved. Buildium can also send webhooks when something changes in your account, which lets a workflow start drafting from the event itself, with no wait for a nightly report.

On Buildium’s other plans the work still gets done, through a different route. We build from the reports and exports your team can schedule in Buildium, queue each drafted change for your staff to enter, and add browser steps only for actions your team approves, each one written to the action log.

The seams around Buildium tend to sit in the inbox and on the phone. Residents send requests through the portal, by email and by text, vendors reply with quotes and photos in long threads, and owners write in asking where a repair stands. Each of those messages has to be read, matched to a property or work order and answered, which is the part we hand to AI with your team approving the result.

For a Buildium company, the first candidates come from that inbox:

  • Resident requests from every channel are matched to the right property and unit and drafted into work orders, with emergencies sent to the manager on call for approval.

  • Vendor quotes that arrive by email are summarized side by side so a manager can approve one in a single reply.

  • Lease renewals are tracked against the notice dates your team sets, and offers are drafted on your terms.

  • Late rent reminders follow your grace period and stop as soon as a payment is recorded in Buildium.

  • Owners get a monthly note drafted from their statement and open work orders, approved by a manager before it is sent.

Leasing decisions such as screening, approvals and rent pricing stay with your staff, and our workflows keep to the communication and record keeping around them.

If you are not on Premium today, the workflow map shows what each route would cover on your current plan, so the choice to upgrade stays yours.

For a services company, we built a renewals engine with renewal and overdue reminders tied to each customer’s dates that stop as soon as a payment lands, which returned 25 hours a week of manual follow up. On Buildium, the same logic covers lease renewals and late rent.

How we connect to Buildium

Each account allows different access, so we confirm yours in the workflow map and design around it.

Official API

On the Premium plan, approved updates post straight to Buildium through its Open API.

Reports and exports

Where the API is closed or limited, scheduled reports and exports supply the data, and we queue each change for your team to enter.

Approved automation

Where neither works, we use browser automation that your team approves step by step.

Some tools we connect to Buildium

Questions about Buildium and AI

Do we need Buildium Premium?

Premium is the plan that includes Buildium’s Open API, so it gives the most direct connection. On other plans we work from scheduled reports and exports and queue drafts for your staff, and the workflow map compares both routes for your account.

What can the API key see?

A key sees only what your administrator allows when creating it, since Buildium lets you choose which data each key can reach. We ask for the narrowest key each workflow needs and list it in your access list.

Can a workflow react when a new request arrives?

Yes, on Premium Buildium can notify a workflow through a webhook when something changes in your account. Drafting then starts from that event, and your team approves the result as usual.

How is our Buildium data protected?

Each workflow gets its own key with only the access it needs, and your team can revoke it at any time. Your data stays out of model training under our providers’ business terms, each action appears in the log, and the client data we hold is deleted 30 days after the engagement ends.

What does a Buildium project cost?

We start with a free working session of about an hour on one Buildium workflow, such as resident requests or renewals. From there, a workflow map produces a fixed quote, and the fee for the map counts toward the build.

Let’s tailor Buildium to the way your team works.

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