People-first real estate optimization
Understand how your team actually works. Build a workplace that proves it.
Align WX bridges the gap between the employee experience and the money you spend on space. What normally takes design firms months of high-touch discovery, we deliver in days — as evidence you can put in front of leadership.
- 6 minutes
- A conversation, not a survey
- 5 work modes
- Focus, Create, Collaborate, Communicate, Present
- Days, not months
- From first response to business case
The challenge
Engagement isn't enough.
Most workplace decisions get made on instinct, anecdote, or a once-a-year survey nobody finishes. Meanwhile the people using the space every day know exactly where it fails them — and nobody is asking them in a way that produces usable answers.
Decisions made on assumption
Leadership guesses at what the team needs, then commits budget to it.
Investment without evidence
Reconfiguring or consolidating without data means the highest-impact changes get missed.
Retention risk hiding in plain sight
A misaligned work experience is among the top reasons good people start looking.
Insight that arrives too late
Traditional discovery takes months, and by then the lease decision is already made.
The methodology
Four steps from how people work to what the space should be.
Designed with consumer research experts, the assessment elicits insight about how, when and where people do their best work — then turns it into a decision.
Conversational employee pulse
A short, mobile-first chat that feels like texting a colleague. Instead of rating scales, it captures how people actually spend their day and where the space drains them.
Five-mode work mapping
Every response is scored across Focus, Create, Collaborate, Communicate and Present — revealing whether your team is starved for quiet or short on places to meet.
Leadership alignment session
A guided conversation for decision-makers that captures business goals, headcount plans and budget reality, then holds them against what the team reported.
A business case you can present
The gaps, the priorities and the recommended settings, written up as a summary you can hand to finance without translating anything first.
Self-guided diagnostic
Four questions. A clearer read on what your space is costing you.
Answer as the person responsible for the space. You'll get an immediate friction profile — no email required.
Step 1 of 4
How does your team come to the office today?
What you walk away with
Unbiased data, ready to defend.
Workforce profile
How your people work, grouped into clear patterns rather than averages.
WX alignment
Where the space supports the work and where it quietly gets in the way.
Investment priorities
The changes that will move the needle most, in the order worth funding.
"The future of the workplace will be data-driven and worker-centered. Our designers know it — and the Align WX Assessment gives us a common language to help our clients discover it too."
Get started
Tell us about your team and we'll take it from there.
Answer a few details and you'll go straight into a guided conversation. Leaders get a strategy session; teams get the six-minute pulse. Either way, you leave with a written summary.
- A guided conversation, not a form to grind through
- A written summary emailed to you when you finish
- A shareable team link so you can gather real responses