Workplaces deserve better than disconnected software.
Every organisation runs workplace projects — corporate offices, campuses, factories, retail, institutions. Almost none run them well. Not because teams are careless, but because the tools were never built for the work. WURKSPACE is the operating system we wished existed — and the one we built after two decades of running these projects ourselves.
How workplace projects actually happen today.
Ask any Admin Head, Facility Manager, Architect or CFO how a workplace project actually runs, and you'll hear the same story — a chain of tools that were never designed to talk to each other.
Budgets and timelines built on optimism, not engineered against site reality.
Critical calls made in meetings nobody recorded, by people nobody can name later.
When the project closes, the lessons leave with the team. The next project starts from zero.
WURKSPACE was created to eliminate this chaos — and put every workplace project on a single, intelligent, defensible surface.
Read the full breakdownPlanning was only the beginning.
We started with planning because that's where most workplace projects are won or lost. But planning without execution, knowledge, procurement, AI and community is still just a document. So we kept going.
- Stage 01Planning
Budget, timeline, risk and readiness — engineered from day one.
- Stage 02Execution
Milestones, vendors and site reality on one live surface.
- Stage 03Knowledge
Every project makes the next one easier — searchable, structured.
- Stage 04Marketplace
Verified suppliers, materials and services, in context.
- Stage 05Guidance
Advice that reads your project and names the next decision.
- Stage 06Community
Workplace leaders learning from each other, in one network.
- Stage 07Continuous Improvement
Every closeout feeds the next project's plan.
What WURKSPACE has become.
Six connected surfaces — one operating system for the entire workplace lifecycle.
One private workspace for every organisation — projects, teams, docs, approvals.
Open library of workplace playbooks, case studies and frameworks.
Verified suppliers, materials and services — discoverable in context.
Budget, timeline, risk, readiness — decisions you can defend.
Workplace leaders, experts and providers, in one professional network.
Advice that reads your project and names the next decision.
One workplace, eight stakeholders, one platform.
A workplace project succeeds when every stakeholder is aligned on the same plan, documents, budget and timeline. WURKSPACE connects all of them — not with more email, but through structured workspaces, roles and shared context.
Built on decades of real workplace experience.
WURKSPACE is not a Silicon Valley SaaS bet on a market it has never entered. It is the operating system built by the team behind Habitat Design & Arts — 18+ years of running the projects it now digitises.
- 2007Habitat Design & Arts foundedDelhi NCR — corporate interiors practice.
- 2009First institutional campusEducational infrastructure specialisation begins.
- 2013Corporate HQ specialisationRenovations for boardrooms, CEO floors, HQs.
- 2018Pan-India deliveryProjects across metros and Tier-2 cities.
- 20234.2M sq. ft. delivered480+ workplaces across sectors.
- 2025WURKSPACE launchedThe platform born out of two decades of practice.
Why Ajay Jain started WURKSPACE.
WURKSPACE isn't a founder's first attempt at a workplace. It's a founder's answer to two decades of watching brilliant teams lose to bad tools.
Small-town India. First-generation professional. School teachers and civil servants for role models.
Trained as an architect. Fascinated by how physical environments shape how people work and think.
Retail and workplace roles at Bata, Future Group and luxury hospitality — running real workplace change at scale.
Founded Habitat Design & Arts in 2007. 18+ years of corporate, educational and institutional projects across India.
Every project — no matter the client — collapsed into the same chaos of email, Excel and WhatsApp. Nobody had one source of truth.
"Instead of creating another ERP, I wanted to build an operating system for workplace projects."
"The industry doesn't need another ERP. It needs an operating system where planning, people, procurement and knowledge finally live together."
Why we didn't build another ERP.
An ERP manages transactions. A workplace project is not a transaction — it's a sequence of thousands of decisions, made under uncertainty, by people who don't sit in the same building. Those two problems need different tools.
- Manages transactions and ledgers
- Built for finance and inventory
- Rigid, form-heavy, month-end oriented
- Doesn't understand a workplace project
- Zero knowledge, zero AI, zero marketplace
- Manages workplace decisions, not transactions
- Built for buyers, architects, PMCs, vendors
- Living surface: plans, docs, comms, approvals
- Understands scope, budget, timeline and risk
- Knowledge, AI and marketplace, integrated
What you can do today. Where we're going next.
No hand-waving. Here's what's live right now, what's in build, and what's on the horizon.
- Planning Tools
- Knowledge Centre
- Inspiration Library
- Material Library
- Marketplace
- Habitat guidance
- Corporate Workspace
- Project Management
- Supplier Discovery
- Community
- Material Intelligence
- Habitat guidance v2
- Expert Workspace
- Commercial Workspace
- Digital Twins
- Building Lifecycle
- IoT & Sensors
- Predictive Maintenance
- Cross-project Benchmarking
One operating system, not five disconnected tabs.
- Traditional ERPTransactions, finance, inventory
- Project Management toolsTasks and Gantt charts, generic
- Pinterest / HouzzInspiration only, no execution
- IndiaMART / directoriesVendor listings, no project context
- Knowledge basesStatic articles, no live projects
One operating system for the entire workplace lifecycle — plan, procure, execute, learn, improve.
- Buyer-first, vendor-neutral
- Built by practitioners, not a consultancy
- AI-assisted from day one
- Structured knowledge that compounds
- Integrated marketplace and community
Not testimonials. Outcomes.
Composite scenarios drawn from Habitat's 18+ years of delivery — the kind of projects WURKSPACE is designed to run.
- Challenge
- Multi-city HQ renovation across 4 floors, live operations.
- Solution
- Single workspace for design, budget, vendors, approvals and site tracking.
- Outcome
- On-budget delivery, zero downtime, decisions defensible to the board.
- Challenge
- Academic block phased over 3 semesters with 40+ stakeholders.
- Solution
- WPN-linked drafts, phased timelines, structured stakeholder approvals.
- Outcome
- Handovers aligned to semester breaks, no academic disruption.
- Challenge
- Facility upgrade with strict safety, MEP and compliance overlap.
- Solution
- Single register for RFIs, snags, warranties and closeout documents.
- Outcome
- Compliance package ready on Day 1 of operations.
- Challenge
- Store network refresh across 60+ locations, dozens of vendors.
- Solution
- Marketplace + templated projects + centralised procurement workspace.
- Outcome
- Standardised delivery, cost visibility across the entire portfolio.
Eight commitments that shape every decision.
Every roadmap decision starts with the corporate buyer's job to be done.
18+ years of running these projects — not an outsider's guess at the workflow.
AI reads your project context, drafts, precedents — not generic prompts.
Not owned by a supplier, contractor, or vendor. Aligned to the buyer's outcome.
Marketplace ranks on verified performance, not paid placement.
Every project makes the next one easier — institutional memory that stays.
Plans, comms, approvals, docs and vendors on a single surface.
Closeout data flows back into the next project's plan, automatically.
Questions you'd ask before trusting a platform.
Why WURKSPACE?+
Because workplace projects still run on email, Excel and WhatsApp — and every organisation knows that costs them time, money and knowledge. WURKSPACE puts every project on one intelligent, defensible surface.
Who is it for?+
Workplace Buyers (corporate admin, facility, HR, CXO, operations), Workplace Professionals (architects, PMCs, consultants) and Solution Providers (suppliers, manufacturers, contractors).
Is it free?+
Individual workspaces are free to create. Team and organisation plans include richer collaboration, AI usage and workspace-level controls.
Do suppliers pay to appear?+
No. Marketplace ranking is based on verified performance, not paid placement. Suppliers subscribe for tooling, not visibility.
Why Habitat?+
WURKSPACE is built by Habitat Design & Arts — 18+ years of running the exact projects the platform now digitises. It's practitioner-built, not outsider-imagined.
Can independent consultants join?+
Yes. Expert Workspace is on the near-term roadmap and independent consultants can already list on the platform and collaborate on projects.
Where is the roadmap?+
See /roadmap for the live roadmap — today, next and horizon. Every module carries a maturity badge (Production / Beta / Preview / Alpha).
Become part of The Workplace Platform.
Workplaces are built by teams — the platform should feel that way. Bring your next project onto WURKSPACE and see what it feels like when planning, procurement, knowledge and people finally live in one place.