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Our purpose

“To drive economic prosperity in cities by transforming CRE into an experiential platform for growth.”

Chase Garbarino Co-founder, CEO

That is HqO's purpose, in the words the founders wrote. Cities prosper when the buildings in them work for the people inside. Five beliefs follow from it, and every product on this site answers to one of them.

Five things we hold to be true.

Healthier tenants

A tenant kept is worth more than a tenant found. The signals that a tenant is drifting exist months before the notice arrives. Buildings should read them.

Reduced property costs

Operating cost is mostly the cost of the loop not closing. Work that is routed, tracked, and finished costs less than work that is chased, and the building is better for it.

Real insights

Every screen should read the same record. When the rent roll, the work order, and the sentiment survey describe the same building, the decision is faster and the argument is shorter.

Accessible data

The record of your buildings belongs to you. So does what your organization has learned about them. The rules about what leaves are yours to set.

An AI team without the costs

Software for buildings should ship like buildings run: on a schedule, in the open, with a team that answers. A monthly release train and a public changelog are how we keep that promise.

The people behind the sentence.

Founded in Boston in 2017 by Chase Garbarino, Kevin McCarthy, Greg Gomer, and Jared Stenquist.

Chase Garbarino

Co-founder, CEO