The residents keep changing
Hubs and parks have a booking problem that normal offices don't: the residents keep changing. A cohort graduates, three startups move in, one quietly shuts down over the summer. Any system where your ops team manages every single user account turns into a stale user list within months. The common workaround, one shared Google Calendar that everyone can edit, means every founder can see, move, and accidentally delete every other company's meetings.
How Naboro maps to a hub
- Companies, not just users. Each resident startup is its own company in the building. You invite the company once, and its founders manage their own team from there.
- Offboarding is one action. When a startup graduates, you remove the company and all of its accounts go with it, so no logins linger from three cohorts back.
- Privacy between residents. Startups see when a room is taken and by which company, but never what the meeting is about. Nobody learns that a rival is meeting an investor at 3pm.
- No IT requirements. A two-person startup without Microsoft 365 signs in with email. Residents with Google Workspace or M365 can sync their own calendars.
- Numbers for the board and funders. Usage reports show how much the shared facilities are actually used. That goes straight into the annual report.
How to set it up
- Create the hub as a building. Add the boardrooms, workshop spaces, phone booths, and anything else people can book.
- Invite each resident company. One email to each founder or office lead. They take it from there.
- Put tablets on the busy doors. Live status and booking at the door. Check-in frees the room when a meeting doesn't happen.
- Make it part of onboarding. When a new resident moves in, one invitation sorts out room booking on day one.
What it costs
Nothing, and that's the point. Unlimited rooms, resident companies, and users on the free plan. There's no line item to justify in a grant budget. Residents who want two-way calendar sync to their own Google or Microsoft 365 pay for it themselves, per company.