Buyers pay for checks and monitoring. Developers never pay Kolaboro: the evidence sets every Score. Agents never take money from developers.

Is Kolaboro a lawyer or a notary?

No. Kolaboro agents verify facts on the ground and in documents and tell you what they found. For legal advice and to sign, use an independent lawyer or notary; we can tell you what to ask them.

Do you hold my money?

Not yet. Today your agent confirms each milestone on site and tells you whether the evidence supports paying. Milestone escrow with licensed partners is on our roadmap.

In any country. The desk review and the official-register lookups run online for off-plan projects anywhere. The on-site visit is done by a local agent in the project's country: we confirm it for your location before your agent starts, and if we can't take your case you get a full refund.

How do you decide "go" or "hold"?

Nine checks, from land title to realistic promises. A red flag on title, permits or progress means "hold" until it is fixed, and every finding links to its evidence. The full method is public.

Can a developer influence a report?

Only with evidence. Developers can send documents and reply, but never pay us. Where something can't be verified, the report says so instead of guessing.

What if I already bought?

That's when monitoring matters most. We can verify where construction really is before your next payment.

Kolaboro / Developers / Right of reply

Answer any finding, free

Every project in our database is anonymous. If you build one of them, you can answer what we found with documents: prove the project's domain is yours with one DNS record, attach your licence, permit or land title, and write your reply. A person reviews it, and only then is it published next to the finding. Developers never pay us, and paying is not possible.

Checking what is live…

1Prove the project's domain is yours

No email loop and no account: add one TXT record to the DNS of the domain the project is sold on. Only someone who controls that domain can do it. The record holds a random code made in your browser, so it does not say which Kolaboro project it is for.

Project id on Kolaboro The project's own domain

2Attach your documents

Licence, building permit, land title, escrow letter, progress report. Your files do not leave your computer. Your browser computes each file's SHA-256 fingerprint and only that, with the size and type, is sent. When we ask for the file (or you add a link to it), the moderator checks it matches the fingerprint byte for byte, and the published reply lists the fingerprints so anyone holding the document can check it is the same one.

Drop files here or choose files (PDF, images; up to 12)

3Write your reply

Company (legal name) Your name and role

Email for our questions (optional, never published) Which check or finding are you answering?

Your reply Publish our company name and domain with the reply. If unticked, the reply is published under the project id only and the project stays anonymous. I can speak for this developer and agree that this reply, the document types and their fingerprints may be published next to the finding after review.

What is public, and when

Before a reply is approved

Nothing. The project stays an anonymous id. The TXT record holds a random code, not a project id. Your reply, name, email, domain and fingerprints are visible only to the Kolaboro moderator.

After a moderator approves it

Your reply text, the date, the document types and their SHA-256 fingerprints, next to the finding. Your company name and domain only if you ticked the box. Your name and email are never published.

What the moderator checks

The TXT record is still there (checked live again), the domain really is the domain of that project in our private records, and each document matches its fingerprint and the issuing register where one exists.

What we cannot do

We cannot verify a document we have not seen: a fingerprint proves which file you mean, not that it is genuine. A confirmed document raises the verification level; an unconfirmed one is published as your statement.

Published developer replies

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No access to the DNS? Send an unverified note instead

This goes to our inbox, is not published automatically, and we will ask you to prove you speak for the developer before anything changes.

What happens next

A moderator re-checks the DNS record and confirms the domain belongs to that project.
We check each document against the issuing register or an independent source.
Within 10 working days we update the project: a confirmed document raises its verification level; your reply is published next to the finding either way.

See what we expect developers to publish in the Off-Plan Disclosure Standard, use the free templates, or compare yourself with your market in the benchmark. Buying and want to share documents privately with your lawyer? Use an encrypted deal room.