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Maintenance & repairs

The unit failed today.
Not next Tuesday.

A maintenance enquiry has a short life and a specific address. Whoever puts a technician in the diary first usually gets the job.

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4 specialistsIllustrative journeyScope confirmed in discovery
Maintenance & repairs · what changesIllustrative
After-hours calloutsCaptured
Enquiry to booked slotCoordinated
EmergenciesFlagged by your rules
Reminders before the visitScheduled

Illustrative figures. Nothing here is a measured outcome or a performance claim.

Your dispatch desk, in view

Less chasing.
More clarity.

One workspace for enquiries, jobs and follow-ups, with every number reconciling across every view. Open a record to see what was actually decided.

Workspace OverviewDemo data

Monday · sample day

The diary fills while the vans are out.

Enquiries68Across configured channels
Jobs38Confirmed in sample data
Follow-ups16Scheduled in sample data
Open handoffs25 resolved · 7 total
Enquiries & jobsSample day, by hour
07:00: 9 enquiries, 5 jobs. 09:00: 18 enquiries, 10 jobs. 11:00: 15 enquiries, 8 jobs. 13:00: 12 enquiries, 7 jobs. 15:00: 14 enquiries, 8 jobs
56%to job
Enquiry → job38 of 68 sample enquiries. Illustrative, not a performance claim.
A few journeys in motionSample records

Example data only. Production channels, systems and permissions are configured for each deployment.

Who this is for

Where the capacity actually goes.

Maintenance, HVAC, plumbing and electrical companies coordinating callouts across a field team.

The phone rings while everyone is on site.

Your technicians are on jobs with their hands full, which is exactly the hour the calls come in.

A fault with no address.

A message describes a problem and leaves out the location, the access arrangement and a number anybody can call back.

Urgency judged by whoever answers.

A leak and a routine service sound similar on a busy line, and the order they get scheduled in depends on who picked up.

The journey, step by step

One request.
Four moves.

An illustrative maintenance and repairs journey. Your configuration decides the real sequence, the rules and the point a person takes over.

Capture the fault and the address

The enquiry is answered on arrival, and the fault, the address, the access arrangement and a callback number are captured before anything else.

Check it against your urgency rules

Anything matching the rules your team wrote for an emergency is flagged and routed to a person immediately instead of joining the booking queue.

Coordinate a technician slot

An available window is offered from your schedule and held, with the job details attached so the technician arrives knowing what they are walking into.

Confirm and remind before the visit

A confirmation goes out immediately and a reminder the day before, so fewer doors are locked when the van arrives.

In focus · Dubai facilities management

Maintenance at scale becomes a coordination problem.

Dubai Municipality moved its public estate onto a single integrated facilities management framework covering about 2,000 buildings and more than 246,000 assets, with scheduling driven by condition rather than by a calendar. The direction is the same for a private maintenance business: the work is winnable, the coordination is what limits it.

Buildings and facilities≈2,000

Dubai Municipality public estate, not the private market

Assets under one framework246,000+

Parks, markets, beaches, centres and buildings

SchedulingBy condition

Predictive, not a fixed maintenance calendar

The specialists this draws on

Four roles, working in sequence.

All eight specialists are included in every plan. These are the ones Stella typically activates first for maintenance and repairs.

Where your people take over

Diagnosis, pricing, and any commitment about what a repair will cost or how long it will take go to your supervisor with the description and photographs attached.

The human boundary

Common questions

Questions maintenance and repairs ask.

Can it decide what is an emergency?

It applies the rules your team wrote, and it errs towards a person. A request that matches an emergency rule is flagged and put in front of somebody immediately; anything ambiguous is treated as urgent and escalated rather than booked.

Will it quote a price?

No. It can state a published callout fee if you supply one. What a repair will cost depends on what the technician finds, so every pricing question goes to your supervisor.

Your next chapter

Build this around your maintenance and repair.

Start with the enquiries you are missing today and map the workflow around them.

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