About

I've spent years reading elevator paperwork that was written to be skimmed and signed, not understood. Maintenance contracts, repair proposals, service invoices — the documents that quietly decide what a building pays and what it puts up with. I built ElevatorIQ so the people responsible for those buildings could get the same read I'd give them, without having to know me or wait for my calendar to clear.

The thing that pushed me to build it was watching the same overcharges land on different buildings — a callback billed as a repair, a markup nobody questioned, a renewal clause that closed before anyone read it. One consultant can only sit in so many rooms. The pattern was always the same; what changed was whether someone in the building happened to catch it. That felt like a problem worth fixing with software instead of with my hours.

Across the buildings I've walked, the findings rhyme: callbacks billed as repairs the contract already covers, full-maintenance contracts that don't cover what the owner assumed, governor and door-operator work dressed up as chargeable repairs, liability caps set low enough to make a real claim pointless. None of it takes a genius to spot — it takes someone who has read a few hundred of these and knows where the soft numbers hide. That's the read ElevatorIQ is built to give you: not a verdict from a black box, but the same things I'd circle if the document were sitting on my desk.

So why software now, instead of just more consulting. Because the buildings that need this read the most are the ones that can't put a consultant on retainer — the single facilities manager covering a portfolio, the owner who only calls when something's already gone wrong. A tool reaches them in a way my calendar never could. ElevatorIQ is free during the beta, and if it earns a place in how you handle vendors, the paid plans will come later — honestly priced, on terms I'd be comfortable signing myself.