Guides for property operations teams.
Practical writing on work-order reporting, lease administration, vendor compliance, and moving off a system you've outgrown.
Replacing a facilities system without losing your history
The failure mode isn't a crash — it's a year of your team working around a tool nobody adopted. Here's how to evaluate a replacement properly, including how to tell when you shouldn't.
Read the guide →What executives actually want in a monthly facilities report
Most monthly reports are built by someone who knows the operation intimately, for an audience that doesn't. Here's the one-page structure that works, and a template you can copy.
Read the guide →The 8 work-order KPIs that actually tell you how a portfolio is performing
Most facilities dashboards show too much and answer nothing. Eight numbers cover it — here's what each measures, how to calculate it, and how each can mislead you if you read it alone.
Read the guide →Why work-order reporting is so painful in legacy systems
Export, clean, pivot, paste — every month, usually by the same person. That's not a discipline problem, it's a structural one. Here's what actually breaks and which fixes work.
Read the guide →Is Axxerion still around? Axxerion, Spacewell, and what changed
Axxerion still exists, but not under that name. Here's the timeline, what Spacewell Workplace and Spacewell Real Estate actually are, and why the split matters more than the rebrand.
Read the guide →COI tracking: keeping uninsured vendors off your properties
Most teams collect certificates. Far fewer can say whether the vendor on the roof right now has coverage that hasn't lapsed. Here's what to verify — and why a tracker alone won't stop uninsured work.
Read the guide →What belongs in a lease abstract (and why yours lives in a spreadsheet)
A good abstract answers when a lease expires, what they pay, and what you owe them — in about fifteen seconds. Here's what belongs in one, and the notice-date math that quietly costs teams renewals.
Read the guide →How to export your data out of Axxerion (and what to do with it)
Getting your data out is the first real step in evaluating any replacement. Here's what to export, which columns matter, and the traps that quietly break reporting later.
Read the guide →Want this run on your own data?
Send us an export from your current system and we'll show you the platform running on your portfolio.