Facilities Management

Facilities management with unified operations, vendor coordination, and compliance visibility.

You're accountable for dozens of sites you can't physically be at

Facilities teams manage equipment and vendors across multiple properties, but visibility into whether work actually happens, vendors meet their obligations, and compliance stays current requires constant chasing rather than real-time confirmation.

📧EMAIL
HVAC unit 3 making noise, needs service
sent Mon 9:14am · no reply
UNTRACKED
📞PHONE CALL
Called vendor about HVAC — left voicemail
Mon 11:30am · no record
NO RECORD
💬TEXT MSG
"Coming Thursday" — vendor reply
Tue 2:47pm · not logged
LOST
📋PAPER NOTE
Vendor came Thu — unit still making noise
Thu · desk drawer · unresolved
UNRESOLVED

Work orders disappear into scattered channels

Technicians, vendors, and contractors operate through email, phone calls, and fragmented systems where tracking what was requested, what was done, and whether it actually resolved the problem becomes an archaeological dig through your inbox.

EQUIPMENT STATUS
❄️ HVAC Unit 3 UNKNOWN
🔧 Boiler · Bldg B 2019 · maybe?
Electrical panel NO HISTORY
💧 Plumbing · Floor 3 SCATTERED
RECORDS LIVE IN
📊
Spreadsheet
last updated 2022
🗂️
Filing cabinet
room 4B · unlabeled
🧾
Vendor invoices
inbox · unsorted

Equipment maintenance history gets buried in paper trails

When HVAC systems fail or equipment breaks down unexpectedly, you can't quickly trace what service was performed, when it was last inspected, or what maintenance backlog exists across your portfolio because records live in spreadsheets, filing cabinets, and vendor invoices.

Planned
35%
Emergency
65%
Unbudgeted
$84k
Forecasted
none
❄️ HVAC failure $22k
💧 Pipe burst $31k
Generator $18k

Budget and planning become reactive instead of strategic

Without visibility into maintenance patterns, vendor costs, and equipment lifecycles across all sites, you're constantly reacting to emergencies instead of forecasting maintenance needs and allocating budgets strategically for your entire portfolio.

Facility management tools built for single buildings don't scale to distributed portfolios

Activate turns facilities management from reactive firefighting into predictable operations

WORK ORDER · #4821
HVAC Unit 3 · noise issue
Request created
Vendor assigned · confirmed
On-site · GPS checked in
Resolved · documented
📍Location verified
📸Work documented
Problem resolved
🔒Closed · one system

Every work order becomes traceable and complete

From request through completion, all facility work flows through a single system where vendors confirm arrival, document what was done, and the work is marked complete only when it's actually resolved, creating an audit trail you can rely on.

❄️HVAC Unit 3✓ 8 records
last service: 14 days ago · next: 16d
🔧Boiler · Bldg B✓ 12 records
patterns visible · 3yr history
HVAC failure pattern
every 18mo
📅
Boiler replacement
in 8 months
💡
Budget this year
$12k forecasted

Maintenance history becomes searchable and actionable

Complete service records for every piece of equipment across all locations sit in one place, letting you see patterns, forecast when maintenance is needed, and make informed decisions about equipment replacement or upgrades based on actual performance data.

Planned
72%
Emergency
11%
Preventive
61%
Forecasted
$94k
HVAC serviceQ2 · scheduled
$8k
Boiler replaceQ3 · lifecycle
$24k
Preventive · allongoing
$62k

Budget forecasting becomes based on real data

Portfolio-wide visibility into maintenance costs, vendor expenses, and equipment lifecycles lets you plan budgets accurately for the year ahead instead of getting blindsided by unexpected breakdowns and emergency repairs.

FM portfolios unified