Do the Math Before You Make the Case: Introducing the sonpito ROI Calculator
If you manage facilities for a living, you already know the argument for a better system. What you don't always have is the number that makes leadership listen.
That's why we built the sonpito ROI Calculator — a free, interactive tool that turns your day-to-day reality into the business case your CFO actually wants to see.
Stephanie's Question: Maria's Day Got Better — But What Does That Mean for the Business?
If you read our last post, "Your Phoenix Moment," you met Maria. She's a facility manager who went from drowning in reactive work to running her operation with visibility, structure, and actual data. Her Monday mornings stopped being a crisis response.
Great story. But here's the question nobody asked: so what?
sonpito Essentials 2.1 Release Is Here — Our Biggest Update Since Launch
Our goal with sonpito has always been to deliver simple, intuitive tools that meet FM teams where they work — on mobile, in the field — so that doing the job and capturing the data are the same action, not two separate ones.
Your Phoenix Moment: How IT Best Practices Can Transform FM Operations
What Facility Managers Can Learn from The Phoenix Project About Getting Out of Firefighting Mode.
We Let an AI Agent Open and Close Real Work in Our CMMS. The Hard Part Wasn't the AI.
A couple of months ago I wrote about the SaaSpocalypse - the Wall Street panic that AI agents are going to kill business software, and Marc Benioff's counter that agents are only as good as the data they sit on. I landed where I always land: you can't shove AI at chaos and expect it to make things better.
What the Janitor Knows That Your AI Doesn't
There's a workforce crisis coming in facility management, and it's not the one everyone's talking about.
What's the best CMMS for a Salesforce shop?
If you're running facilities at a company that already runs on Salesforce, the answer is more interesting than the usual list of CMMS vendors — but only if you're willing to have an honest conversation about how IT and facilities actually work together.
The Two Extremes (and the Gap in Between)
There are two ends of the FM technology spectrum, and both of them are terrible.
AI in FM, Part II: Your AI Is Only as Smart as the Data Behind It. So Let's Talk About the Data.
Today I want to talk about what you actually do about the chaos. And the answer, frustratingly, is data governance.