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SQRD
AI is ready for your workplace. Your workplace is not ready for AI.

SQRD is the independent technology and AI consultancy for the spaces people work in. We assess the systems, architect the integration, and write the specification, so intelligent workplaces and buildings actually get built.

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Trusted on workplace and building technology by

  • CBRE
  • Google
  • GSK
  • Nomura

and landmark developments across Asia Pacific

The gap

02 / 08

AI came for the work.
It is coming for the building.

Every organisation now has an AI roadmap. Almost no building has one. The gap between the two is where the next decade of property value is decided.

<10%

of workplaces use the technology they have already paid for.

SQRD, observed across assessment engagements

<1%

of buildings are ready to run AI on the systems they already have.

SQRD, observed across assessment engagements

We’re changing that.

How we work. The SQRD Stack.

03 / 08

AI does not fail in the model.
It fails in the building.

Every space is four layers deep. Each layer has to be understood before the one above it can be trusted. Most projects start at the top, choose an application, and fail quietly underneath it.

  1. Systems

    What is installed, what is planned, and what each system constrains.

    Answers
    What have we actually got?
    Removes the risk of
    Specifying an experience the building cannot deliver.

  2. Data

    What each system produces, whether it is accessible, and how it gets out.

    Answers
    What can we actually see?
    Removes the risk of
    Discovering after contract that a system holds your data hostage.

  3. Integration

    How systems and data connect. Point to point, or through one integration layer.

    Answers
    What will it cost to change this later?
    Removes the risk of
    An architecture that locks you to one vendor for a decade.

  4. Intelligence

    Where AI genuinely improves operations and experience, once the layers below are sound.

    Answers
    Where does AI actually pay?
    Removes the risk of
    AI theatre on foundations that cannot support it.
** RESULT: One architecture. One specification. An ecosystem that delivers it.

How we engage. Five stages.

04 / 08

The Stack is what we examine. The stages are how we engage.

  1. Assessment

    Operational technology assessment

    What have we actually got, and what will it let us do?

  2. Strategy

    AI and technology strategy for real estate

    Where does AI actually pay here, and in what order?

  3. Design

    Systems and integration design

    How do these systems connect without locking us in?

  4. Pilot

    AI pilots and proof of value

    Does this work in our building, with our people?

  5. Specification

    Procurement specification and tender support

    How do we buy this without being sold to?

Enter at any stage. Most clients start at 01.

Selected work

05 / 08
CBRE, Marina Bay Financial Centre
  • Winner, InAVate APAC Awards 2025Corporate Project
  • Winner, CoreNet Global Singapore REAwards 2025Tony Stark AwardAwarded to CBRE's Client Technology Consulting Team for MBFC, with Simon Long as the named representative.

CBRE set the brief as a flagship office experience that represents what today's technology can truly deliver. The boardroom was the hardest part of it.

average reduction in power use per meeting room
22%
CO2 saved per room, per year
65kg
sensors tracking noise, CO2, PM2.5, TVOC and plant health
56
PoE speakers across fourteen biophilic audio zones
116

A workplace that feels alive.

Led by Simon Long as Senior Director of Technology Consulting at CBRE, before founding SQRD.

Sector
Commercial office, occupier fit-out
Location
Singapore
Stages used
Strategy / Design / Specification

Read the case

Also engaged on

  • Global investment bank

    Financial services // Global scope

    Assessment / Strategy / Design / Pilot / Specification

  • Global pharmaceutical client

    Pharmaceutical, life sciences // Singapore and Asia Pacific

    Assessment / Strategy / Specification

  • Global technology manufacturer

    Technology manufacturing // Global scope

    Strategy / Pilot

Client names are withheld where the engagement is covered by confidentiality. Happy to talk through any of these directly.

All work

Why SQRD

06 / 08

We do not sell the systems we specify.

There is no hardware line in our business, no integration arm, and no vendor commission. Our only product is the recommendation, which means it is the only thing we have to get right.

  • Vendor neutral

    We specify what the building needs, then we help you take it to market and hold suppliers to it.

  • Specification led

    We define the requirement before anyone selects a product, because the order matters and reversing it is expensive.

  • Delivery tested

    Twenty five years and more than one hundred projects. Everything we recommend has to survive contact with a live building.

Where we work

07 / 08

AI for workplaces

For organisations that occupy space.

Your people, your estate, your technology. We define what to deploy, prove it in a live environment, and make sure it is adopted rather than installed.

  • Workplace technology strategy and roadmaps
  • AI pilots in real spaces, with real people
  • Platform selection and vendor neutral specification
  • Adoption, measurement and performance
AI for workplaces

AI for buildings

For owners, developers and operators.

Your asset, your systems, your tenants. We assess what is installed, design how it connects, and write the specification the market can tender against.

  • Systems and data assessment across the asset
  • Integration architecture and readiness rating
  • Digital ecosystem specification, tender ready
  • Build versus buy, and procurement through to appointment
AI for buildings

One spine under both: we are independent. We do not sell, resell or integrate the systems we specify.

Ready to press start?

08 / 08

Tell us about the space, the asset, or the problem. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.

Response

Within one working day.

The form goes straight to Simon. Nothing sits in a queue and nobody else reads it first.

Or book a call

Thirty minutes. No deck, no pitch. Bring the problem.

Say so in the message and we will send you a time.

Where

Singapore.
Working across Asia Pacific.