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The Office App That Started With the Thermostat
A request for warmer air became a way to book desks, find colleagues and measure the office. Its latest lesson is that a building only becomes smart when people have a reason to use it.
The Office Is Now a Variable Cost
Gable began with a peculiar question: what if an office behaved less like a headquarters and more like cloud computing? Pay for what people use, see the demand in real time, and stop pretending every empty desk is a strategy.
Freespace and the expensive fiction of a full office
The calendar says the meeting room is taken. The sensor says otherwise. Freespace turns that disagreement into decisions about desks, leases and the cost of keeping empty space comfortable.
The Office Is Half Empty. OfficeSpace Software Wants to Make That Useful.
Hybrid work turned every floor plan into a moving target. OfficeSpace is betting that the winner will not be the company with the prettiest desk-booking app, but the one that can turn workplace chaos into decisions.
Smarten Spaces
Smarten Spaces is a Singapore-founded proptech company that builds AI, IoT and big-data software for managing hybrid workplaces and commercial real estate. Its flagship platform - marketed as Jumpree and, more recently, SpaceOnAI - lets enterprises book desks and meeting rooms on 3D floor maps, forecast space demand, roster teams, and analyze how offices are actually used. Founded in 2017 by former Cisco India president Dinesh Malkani, the company serves Fortune 500 clients across 30+ countries and integrates deeply with Microsoft Teams.
Kadence
Kadence is a workplace operations ("WorkOps") software platform that helps enterprises coordinate people, time and space across hybrid and distributed teams. Born from the pandemic-era pivot of wireless-charging startup Chargifi, the San Francisco- and London-based company unifies desk and room booking, visitor management, team scheduling, occupancy analytics and AI-powered coordination into one platform. Kadence is used by more than 10,000 teams across 40+ countries, including Boeing, Ashurst and BDO, and raised a $20M Series A in 2025 led by High Alpha.
Robin
Robin is a Boston-based workplace management platform that helps companies run hybrid offices - booking desks and meeting rooms, mapping floor plans, managing visitors, and measuring how space actually gets used. Founded in 2014 by brothers Sam and Zach Dunn with Brian Muse, Robin now serves thousands of organizations worldwide, including HubSpot, Peloton, Riot Games and UNICEF, and has layered AI agents on top of the office to automate the busywork of getting people and rooms in the same place.
Modo Labs
Modo Labs is a Boston-based software company that lets universities and enterprises build branded mobile and web apps without deep engineering teams. Born from an open-source MIT project, its no-code/low-code platform stitches together backend systems - student records, HR, calendars, building controls - into one personalized digital experience for campuses and workplaces. Its Modo Campus and Modo Workplace products serve organizations across 100+ countries, and the company was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workplace Experience Applications.
Envoy
Envoy is a workplace platform that helps over 16,000 organizations run smarter offices - from front-desk visitor sign-in and package deliveries to desk booking, meeting rooms, and workplace analytics. Founded in 2013 in San Francisco by ex-Twitter engineer Larry Gadea, Envoy became a unicorn in 2022 after a $111M Series C.