opinion
Designing Surveys People Actually Want to Complete
A practical five-part guide to designing member surveys that produce useful feedback and strengthen the conversation with a coworking community.
Editorial
Articles
We cover coworking technology as it changes: product launches, vendor moves, and what they mean for the operators running spaces.
opinion
Why Do I Need a Consultant for My Coworking Software?
A coworking software consultant can help operators understand their processes, clean up data, configure the platform, solve recurring problems, and improve the return on their software investment.
opinion
Is Jev AI from TypeSafe a Good Fit for Coworking Operators?
We use Jev to evaluate Coworkies content and Gemini to propose improvements. Classifying text is an older job. With labeled examples, a small trained encoder can beat Jev on accuracy and cost, and open projects such as Laya and SemIf can run a similar decision on your own hardware. For operators, the question is which comments, tickets, offers, reviews and pages are worth classifying, and with which tool.
weekly newsletter issue
What Coworking Software Needs to Handle for Guests and External Bookings
What to look for in coworking software that handles guest bookings – payment, access, confirmation emails, and cancellations – so external bookings run without manual work.
opinion
Can Your Coworking Space Dream at Night?
An editorial imagining the “dreaming” coworking space: AI that remembers key decisions, signals, and events, connects patterns over time, and turns them into actionable insight. Inspired by conversations at Coworking Tech Week 2026, it explores how persistent business memory could move coworking beyond task automation and toward genuine organisational learning.
trend analysis
The Rise of Shared Data in Coworking: How Operators Are Building the Industry's Intelligence Layer
Coworking is data-rich at the level of the individual business but data-poor as an industry. We look at the operator-led networks, research initiatives, software platforms, marketplaces, and brokerages now competing to build a shared intelligence layer, and what it will take for benchmarking to become genuinely useful.
category guide
The Coworking Tech Stack Maturity Model: From Spreadsheets to Full Automation
The coworking tech stack maturity model helps operators diagnose their current stage and choose the next practical upgrade.
buyer guide
How to Choose Coworking Software When Every Vendor Looks the Same
Coworking software selection works best when operators map workflows, integrations, pricing exposure, and trial evidence before comparing vendor decks.
trend analysis
What Is WIN (Workspace Intelligence Network)?
The Workspace Intelligence Network (WIN) is one of the most significant operator-led attempts to build shared benchmarking for coworking and flexible workspace. This explainer covers why it exists, how the contribution model works, the metrics it focuses on, and why its value depends almost entirely on participation and trust.
category guide
Coworking Analytics: The 7 Numbers Every Operator Should Check Weekly
A weekly metrics rhythm helps coworking operators catch revenue, occupancy, booking, sales, support, and renewal issues before month-end.
trend analysis
What Coworking Operators Actually Spend on Technology (And Where the Money Goes)
Technology spend in coworking is scattered across platforms, access, connectivity, payments, communication, analytics, and one-off project work.
case study
How to Build a Member Onboarding Flow That Does Not Rely on Your Community Manager's Memory
Reliable onboarding turns signed contracts into activated members through clear triggers, automated setup, human moments, and first-week checks.
buyer guide
Coworking Booking Systems: What Works, What Breaks, and What to Demand
Booking systems work when rules, billing, access, utilization, no-shows, and external inventory are designed together.
category guide
Coworking Access Control in 2026: What Operators Actually Need to Know
Access control decisions should start with membership rules, visitor flows, billing status, audit needs, and failure planning before hardware selection.
trend analysis
AI in Coworking Operations: Where It Helps, Where It Does Not, and What to Try First
AI helps coworking operators most in narrow workflows such as lead response, support triage, anomaly checks, and demand signals.
opinion
Building Community in a Coworking Space: What Technology Can (and Can't) Do
Community tools support events, introductions, directories, messaging, and feedback, while human curation remains the core operating work.
buyer guide
Why Your Coworking Space Needs a Technology Audit (And How to Run One)
A technology audit helps coworking operators inventory tools, score value and friction, map integrations, and prioritize fixes.
trend analysis
What Is the OpenOps Project? Ben Newton's Vision for Shared Operational Intelligence in Coworking
The OpenOps Project, discussed by Patch operations director Ben Newton at Coworking Tech Week, proposes shared benchmarking for the operating costs coworking rarely compares in public. This explainer covers the problem it targets, why regional operators may gain the most, how it connects to standardisation, and why the timing makes sense now.