Derived from activity
The mix follows from what people actually do, measured in Dynamics and Occupancy, rather than from a benchmark of what other offices happen to have.
Space planning
Turn the evidence into a programme of requirements
Knowing the office is half empty does not tell you what to build instead. Taxonomy translates measured behaviour into a space programme: which space types, how many, how large, and what they cost. In a form a designer or contractor can quote against.
Hero illustration — taxonomy
- 90+
- Space types
- 3,500 m²
- Overestimate found in one study
- $1.2M
- Annual saving in that case
- 1:1.4
- Sharing ratio modelled
What it gives you
A brief instead of a wish list
The gap between “we need to do something with the office” and a document a supplier can price is where most projects lose months.
Fewer expensive surprises
Costing the mix while you design it is considerably cheaper than discovering the number at tender.
A traceable line
Every space type can be traced back to the measurement that justified it, which is what a board asks for.
Use case
A 1,200-person scale-up assumed it needed 13,500 m². The programme said 10,000.
A 1,200-person scale-up assumed it needed 13,500 m². Modelling actual activity put the real need at 10,000, and the decision to stay saved $1.2M a year.
What it does
Compare plans
Put two or three programmes side by side on area, cost, and workplace value per employee, and see what each one gives up.
Quotation-ready output
Specifications detailed enough to go out to a fit-out partner without a translation step in between.
Fits the building you have
Plan a new office or reconfigure the current one: the same model, applied to a floorplate that already exists.
Budget in view
Every choice carries its cost consequence while you are still making it, not after the tender comes back.
Ninety space types, one logic
Each type carries its area, its enclosure, its equipment and its cost. You are not choosing from a catalogue of furniture. You are choosing how much of each kind of work the building has to support.
What Taxonomy reads from
The mix is derived, not chosen from a template, which means Taxonomy needs measurement underneath it: Dynamics for what people do, Occupancy for what the building shows.
The Place plan carries Dynamics and Taxonomy at $3.87 per completed employee per month. Occupancy is quoted per study, because a measurement round is scoped per building.
Features summary
Space Plan Recommendations
- Area and units distribution by space type
- Enclosure materials per space types (incl. glass specifications), equipment, and zoning
Unlimited Simulation Capabilities
- Workplace value per employee
- Workplace value-to-cost ratio
- Workplace enablement scores
- “To be hired” employees
- New offices, scenarios and cultural objectives
- Pre-set space types and custom areas
- Different schedule options
Key Workspace Insights & Metrics
- Net sharing ratio and more
Questions we get asked
What is Taxonomy?
Taxonomy turns measured behaviour into a space programme. It holds more than ninety space types, each with area, enclosure, equipment and cost, and derives the mix from Occupancy and Dynamics data rather than from a template.
The output is a document a supplier can price, which is where most workplace projects lose months.
How do the products fit together?
In three phases. Analyze, to understand what is happening: Dynamics and Occupancy. Configure, to turn that into policy and a space requirement: Balance and Taxonomy. Manage, to run the workplace day to day: Booking and Entry Pass.
That order drives the navigation, the sitemap and every product list on this site, because it is also the order the work happens in.
What happens after the analysis?
The analysis is not the deliverable, the decision is. Depending on scope: scenarios, a hybrid policy, a space programme, support through design and fit-out, employee enablement, and then measuring again on the same method.
That last step is what turns two snapshots into a trend and a trend into the next business case.
Bring the brief you cannot size
Taxonomy sits in the Place plan at $3.87 per completed employee per month, alongside Dynamics — the mix is derived from measurement rather than chosen from a template, so the measurement comes with it. Send the brief and we will tell you what a programme of requirements takes.