Solve hybrid attendance chaos — automated presence, desk booking, & policy enforcement

Many HR teams, workplace managers, and IT leaders at the roughly 12 million companies that still maintain office footprints are struggling with chaotic hybrid attendance: unpredictable desk utilization, manual desk booking, unclear policy enforcement, and fragmented data across calendars, access control, and facility systems. That uncertainty increases real estate waste and compliance risk, and it falls on a small ops function to manually reconcile who’s in office on which days—an operational problem rather than a purely cultural one. You could build a privacy-first SaaS that automates presence inference, desk and room booking, and policy enforcement by stitching calendar signals, access logs, and optional low-fidelity sensors into a single orchestration layer. The product would emphasize aggregated, inferred presence (not continuous audio/video monitoring), out-of-the-box integrations with leading calendar and HR systems, automated eligibility and capacity rules, and dashboards that translate utilization into measurable savings; targeting a $3K ACV per site makes the unit economics straightforward. This market is unusually attractive now: hybrid work has normalized, buyers want a single-pane workplace experience, and the total addressable market is roughly $36.0B (12M businesses × $3K ACV), reflected in a market score of 92/100 and revenue potential of 88/100. Differentiation will come from a strong privacy posture and proven integrations, but expect medium competition and nontrivial challenges around enterprise integrations, change management, and overcoming surveillance concerns—so prioritize quick wins (desk utilization, safety thresholds) and measurable ROI to win early adopters.