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Sector · Facilities & maintenance

CAFM, PPM and compliance that reflects what is actually happening on site.

Facilities and maintenance are the same operation: planned and reactive work on buildings and assets, delivered by trades, engineers and maintenance providers who are rarely at a desk. Between them they sit on some of the richest operational data in property and often struggle to use it. We help turn CAFM, IoT, contractor and finance data into an operating picture that supports service delivery and margin.

Recent results in this sector

99.2%
Statutory inspections completed on schedule
5 days → 2 hrs
To assemble an audit pack across 320 sites
-46%
Reactive works caused by missed maintenance
Where it hurts

Sound familiar?

The CAFM does not reflect reality.

Asset registers are out of date, PPM schedules drift, and reactive works get logged after the fact.

SLA reporting takes a week.

Every month is a manual pull from CAFM, finance and helpdesk to satisfy client reporting.

Site teams and trades work off paper.

The engineer finishes the job and the paperwork catches up later, if at all, and subcontracted trades report in their own formats.

Compliance evidence is fragile.

Certificates and inspection records are scattered across sites, contractors and folders.

What we do

How we help.

Rebuild the asset register.

A clean, structured asset and location hierarchy that CAFM, PPM and compliance can all rely on.

Mobile-first workflows.

Apps for engineers, trades and maintenance providers that capture jobs, parts and evidence properly, first time.

One way to work with subcontractors.

Dispatch, quotes, timesheets, parts and invoices flowing through the same process whether the work is done in-house or by a trade partner.

Automated client reporting.

SLA, PPM and compliance dashboards generated from live data, per client, per contract.

IoT and BMS integration.

Sensor and BMS data pulled into the same operating picture: condition, energy and alarms feeding maintenance decisions.

Outcomes

What good looks like.

  • Contracts run on data instead of memory.
  • Client reporting produced in minutes, not days.
  • First-time fix and trade performance visible per contract.
  • Compliance risk visible and actionable, not hidden.
  • Margin protected through better labour and subcontractor deployment.
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Example engagements

What we would connect, and what you would get.

Example engagement scenarios for this audience, drawn from the shape of work we do.

Asset register rebuild

A clean asset and location hierarchy meant PPM schedules matched what is actually in the buildings, and missed tasks dropped away.

Systems and data connected

  • CAFM
  • Asset surveys
  • Compliance records
  • Contract data

Client reporting on tap

SLA and PPM packs per contract now generate from live data, which took a week a month back off the account team.

Systems and data connected

  • CAFM
  • Helpdesk
  • Finance ledger
  • Reporting dashboards

One process for trades

In-house engineers and subcontracted trades work the same flow, so first-time fix and trade performance are visible per contract.

Systems and data connected

  • Mobile job app
  • Subcontractor dispatch
  • Parts and stock
  • Timesheets and invoicing
Selected client outcomes

Results from facilities & maintenance work.

Results from completed engagements with this audience. Client identities are withheld under confidentiality agreements.

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Estate and facilities operator · 320 sites

Compliance evidence off email and out of shared drives

The problem. Certificates, inspections and remedial records were scattered across contractor emails, drives and paper. Missed statutory checks only surfaced during an audit.

The decision. Rather than roll a new CAFM across 320 sites, we recommended migrating and cleaning the compliance history into the existing platform and tightening scheduling around it.

What we did. We migrated 15 years of asset and compliance history into one searchable record, tied every certificate to a site and asset, and automated inspection scheduling with escalation.

The outcome

99.2%
Statutory inspections on schedule
5 days → 2 hrs
Time to assemble an audit pack
-46%
Reactive works from missed maintenance

Managing agent · 6,400 units

Service charge and arrears reporting cut from days to minutes

The problem. Service charge budgets, arrears and works orders sat in three systems and a stack of spreadsheets. Every client report was rebuilt by hand and the numbers rarely matched between finance and property.

The decision. We advised fixing the lease and unit record first and leaving the finance system alone. Replacing it would have cost six figures and solved none of the reporting problem.

What we did. We mapped property, lease and unit records into one model, moved reporting onto live finance and property data, then automated client packs by building and schedule.

The outcome

4 days → 20 mins
Time to produce a client reporting pack
-31%
Arrears older than 90 days
100%
Units reconciled against the lease record
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