The Owner's Rep for Physical Infrastructure
Executive facility oversight, without the executive overhead.
Base Layer FM provides Fractional Facility Leadership and forensic Pre-Lease Site Audits for startups and mid-market companies across the San Francisco Bay Area. We sit on your side of the board table to protect your capital, manage your vendors, and eliminate surprise CapEx.
Operations should not manage infrastructure.
As startups and growing companies scale, they instinctively hand facility management to HR or Operations. But managing company culture is entirely different from managing commercial HVAC, electrical systems, and Triple Net (NNN) leases. This creates three expensive blind spots:
Blind CapEx Liability
Without technical oversight, you pay for the landlord's deferred maintenance out of your own OpEx. We stop the bleeding before it starts.
Vendor Exploitation
Lacking an internal technical lead, your team is at the mercy of contractors. You end up overpaying for temporary band-aids instead of permanent solutions.
Founder Distraction
Founders and COOs spend their weekends dealing with leaking roofs and vendor disputes instead of focusing on scaling the core business.
Apex-tier facility oversight.
We are not a maintenance company; we are your executive Owner's Rep. We take total ownership of your physical real estate so your leadership team can get back to building product.
Fractional Facility Direction
Executive-level facility leadership at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire. We negotiate leases, manage Tenant Improvement (TI) build-outs, and stabilize your daily operations.
Forensic Pre-Lease Inspections
Before you sign a commercial lease, we deploy our massive diagnostic engine. We map mechanical lifespans to build an unbreachable financial moat and force landlord concessions.
Vendor & Risk Management
We source, vet, and dispatch your vendors. We track SLAs and insurance compliance, ensuring no unauthorized technician ever touches your critical infrastructure.
Powered by Custom AI. Executed by Veteran Operators.
Legacy consulting firms take weeks to manually write condition reports. Base Layer FM has engineered proprietary, AI-driven diagnostic tools that instantly synthesize our raw field data, thermal imaging, and compliance tracking into executive-ready intelligence. We process physical risk at the speed of software, delivering faster answers and superior customer support to your Deal Desk.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Fractional Facility Director? +
A Fractional Facility Director acts as your part-time Head of Facilities. Instead of hiring a full-time executive, you retain Base Layer FM to provide high-level strategic oversight, vendor management, and CapEx budgeting for exactly the hours your growing company actually needs.
What sizes and types of companies do you work with? +
We partner with any company that has outgrown their current operational bandwidth. This includes early-stage startups signing their first commercial lease, mid-market tech and biotech firms expanding their footprint, and Private Equity teams conducting pre-purchase due diligence on commercial portfolios.
Why do I need a Pre-Lease Site Audit? +
When you sign a Triple Net (NNN) commercial lease, the financial liability for the building's infrastructure transfers to you. A pre-lease inspection is a forensic audit of the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems. We find the hidden, expensive problems before you sign, giving your Deal Desk the leverage to demand landlord concessions or TI allowances.
Are you a property management or maintenance company? +
No. We are independent Owner's Reps and facility executives. We do not sell HVAC units or provide janitorial staff. We sit on *your* side of the table to vet, hire, and manage those vendors for you, ensuring you get wholesale rates and transparent service without any conflict of interest.
What areas in California do you service? +
We provide fractional leadership and site audits across the entire San Francisco Bay Area. This includes San Francisco, Silicon Valley, the Peninsula, the East Bay (Oakland/Berkeley), and the Tri-Valley commercial corridors.
Get out of the weeds and back to your business.
Let’s discuss your current facility bottlenecks and map out a stabilization plan.
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