Common

With its unique co-living offering in dense city centers like New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, DC, Common is a company on the move. As described in the real estate publication Curbed, the co-living communities offered by Common solve an acute problem facing young professionals in cities: “Young adults, increasingly mobile and drawn into urban areas, find affordability and forming a community big challenges when moving into a new city. Offering shared expenses and a sense of belonging, coliving aims to fill that gap.”

When Eric Rodriguez joined Common as director of sales, he saw that the manual process for organizing property tours for prospective clients was riddled with pain points that were all too familiar. “When a sales rep was on the phone with a lead, he’d have to open up a Google Calendar to see which tour slots were available. That would only work when everyone had updated the calendar correctly,” Rodriguez recounts. Even with a seemingly simple calendar tool, double bookings and miscommunications were frequent.