📄 A data-strategy 1-pager?
At GCUC this week, a Syncaroo co-founder (who you may know fairly well) led two roundtable discussions around the data strategies operators of all sizes were exploring and implementing to be truly AI-ready and data-rich.
Now he’s pulling together notes, discussion points, questions raised, and the tips discussed, into a neat, actionable one-ish-page guide.
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🎉 Coworking celebrations
🎂 Indy Commons turns 9! #
Kate Schwarzler celebrates how Indy Commons is turning 9 this month, by sharing what she’s most proud of.
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🎉 Coworking impact
🥹 From 3 years to 30ish days… #
Jessica Liang shares how she found out that Nook, her coworking space, needed to move out by March 31st. But when the members said they wanted to stay together, they moved quickly as a community, finding a new space and signing a new lease in a number of days. They then had a"painting party" as they worked together to fix up and finish the new Nook location for an April 1st opening.
The first time she opened a space it took 3 years. The second location took around 30 days, because she "finally had a village".
"Thats the difference between opening a location and co-creating a home."
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📰 Coworking news & views.
🎯 Community Story Telling Done Right (Part 2) #
No chain can replicate the stories coming out of your community. Cobot wraps up the two-part series with Cat Johnson, covering why independent spaces need to define who they are for and say it clearly, how the real moments in your space become your strongest marketing, and why AI should stay your assistant, not your voice.
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🤔 Are we chasing the wrong industry metric? #
Maxim Razmakhin explores if this whole fascination around how many spaces there are, and the percentage we make up of office space, is even the right metric to be chasing.
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⚖️ Do Build-to-rent and coworking share a playbook? #
Place Value explore if the different real estate asset classes have a similar operating DNA.
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⛔️ How to fix your coworking sign-up process #
When staff chase missing information after payment, the issue is rarely the member. So what do you do? Kate Tattersfield shows us how to join up the dots for signups in this post for Nexudus.
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🏠 Why community (alone) won’t save us #
When you operate a neighbourhood third space, your members walk outside and buy lunch from the independent café next door. They hire the local accountant sitting at the hot desk opposite them. They collaborate on design projects that service the local council.
In this post Bernie Mitchell explores when a coworking space is, and isn’t, a third place and how "Good vibes do not pay the tripled electricity bill."
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💻 Coworking technology.
📨 The complete guide to virtual office revenue #
Juan Hilario from Alliance Virtual Offices shares a guide to what many consider coworking’s highest-margin product.
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🆕 Desana v4 makes its debut #
Michael Cockburn shares that after 12-months of work the new(est) Desana has been launched.
Key features? Agentic broker portal, portfolio platform, and fast track MSA. Seems the battle for enterprise multi-flex engagements is heating up.
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🤫 Overheard at GCUC New York #
Adrian Palacios lifted the lid on his recent tech-plorations at Nexudus.
Read how his team is working with agents and building for the future in this AI-opening post.
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📩 PilotoMail + Yardi Kube share integration news #
PilotoMail and Yardi Kube teased that their new integration (that is built to help operators grow mailroom revenue without the operational headache) is launching into beta with a waitlist for folks interested in getting in early.
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📈 Coworking data.
🧹 Ops director building new benchmark #
Patch ops director Ben Newton shared how (after spending an hour trying to figure out if they were overpaying for cleaning) is building benchmark of what operators should be paying per square foot for support services.
"The OpenOps Project is a free, open cost benchmarking tool for coworking operators. Cost per square foot, grouped by size bracket, named operators. No paywall. No sign-up. No catch."
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🤝 Coworking market moves.
🇬🇧 Spacemade adds 2 more Central London locations #
Jonny Rosenblatt shares that Spacemade are launching 2 new Central London locations.
They signed their fourth Elmtree location (and 6th building across The Howard de Walden Estate’s Marlyebone estate) AND started a partnership with The Bedford Estates Bloomsbury taking over a space at 22/23 Bedford Square.
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🇺🇸 The Malin sets eyes, and plans, on West Coast #
The Malin shared three new locations in San Fransisco (late 2026), Orange County (Summer 2026) and Park City (fall 2026).
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🇪🇸 OneCoWork adds 28.5k sqft in Barcelona #
Coworking Europe reports that OneCoWork is adding a new 2,650 sqm workspace in Barcelona.
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🔓 WeWork dives into the pod and lounge business #
WeWork CEO John Santora shares the firms foray into work pods and lounges, outside their spaces and in high-traffic environments like transportation hubs and convention centers.
The platform, dubbed WeWork Go is in partnership with pod co Bureau.
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🚂 Another train and chain partnership #
IWG becomes the latest coworking provider to partner with a railway provider. The deal with TGV Lyria aims to introduce cross-border coworking for business travelers between France and Switzerland.
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🇦🇺 TSL doubling footprint at 333 Kent #
Bradley Delamare and Ethan Smith share that Tank Stream Labs are expanding their location (in continued partnership with Addenbrooke) in Sydney’s CBD.
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🇺🇸 Premier Workspaces adds 17,129 sqft San Diego location #
Premier Workspaces announced the opening of its newest coworking and executive office location at 12544 High Bluff Drive, Suite 200, within One Del Mar, a premier Class A office building located in the highly sought-after Del Mar Heights / Carmel Valley submarket of San Diego.
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🎙 Coworking conversations.
Sam Rosen and Peter Kolaczynski just announced Yardi and Coworking Cafe’s new Coworking Index on stage at GCUC – in this episode with Hector Kolonas they show of what it can do and why they built it.
Tashi Dorjee (in partnership with essensys) does a financial model walkthrough for a small, medium and large space to explore if coworking is actually profitable.
Koder tells Bernie Mitchell about bringing music to the neighborhood, running Undeniable Studios, a music production conglomerate built from youth clubs, pirate radio, and 10,000 hours of free studio time in Brockley.