Occupancy Planning Platform

The Problem

Enterprise real estate teams at Fortune 500 companies manage millions of square feet of office space, yet most still rely on spreadsheets and manual coordination to plan how that space gets used. Every organizational change — a team expansion, an office consolidation, a hybrid work policy shift — triggers a planning cycle that drags on for weeks as facilities managers manually assign teams to floors, negotiate with stakeholders, and reconcile constraints across dozens of buildings.

Automated Stacking and Allocation

I built the core of the platform — an automated stacking algorithm that takes organizational requirements — team sizes, adjacency preferences, growth projections, and building constraints — and generates optimized floor plan allocations. The engine evaluates thousands of possible configurations, scoring each against weighted criteria like space utilization, team proximity, and cost efficiency. A multi-scenario comparison workflow lets planners generate and evaluate alternative layouts side by side, making trade-offs explicit rather than buried in tribal knowledge.

Performance at Scale

The allocation engine needed to handle buildings with hundreds of floors and organizations with tens of thousands of employees without introducing latency that would break the interactive planning experience. AWS Lambda functions handle the compute-intensive optimization work, while aggressive caching and incremental recalculation ensure that modifying a single constraint does not require re-solving the entire problem. The system consistently delivers sub-2-second p95 response times, even for the largest enterprise portfolios.

Results

What previously required weeks of back-and-forth between facilities teams, department heads, and real estate managers now resolves in days. Planners iterate on scenarios in real time rather than waiting for overnight batch runs, and the automated constraint checking eliminates the manual verification that used to consume most of the cycle.

The best planning tools do not just speed up the old process — they change how decisions get made by making the cost of exploring alternatives nearly zero.