NorthQ
For Asset Managers

Cut the energy bill
Defend the NOI
Prove it with data

If you are holding these buildings for years, your operations need to be measured continuously. NorthQ sits underneath your asset management strategy - defending NOI day to day, surfacing risks before they become incidents, and giving you verifiable answers when board, financial, ESG, or transaction questions come up.

Wherever you are in your digitalization journey, we meet you there. First building screening is free.

Risks

Four risks every long-hold portfolio faces.

Different portfolios. Different markets. Same four risks - every single first conversation. Here is what they look like, and what owners should be doing about each one.

01

Energy costs are eating NOI

Fuel and electricity prices are not stable, and they are not going down on trend. Buildings underperform quietly: a controller migrates out of range, a heat exchanger fouls slowly, a fan runs more than it should. By the time the OPEX line tells you, you have already lost a year - or longer.

What you actually want here:
  • Catch underperformance before it shows up in the books
  • Extract savings already available in existing infrastructure - before any CAPEX conversation
  • Verify that improvements stay improved, not just that they happened once
02

Regulation is no longer optional

EED, BREEAM, EU Taxonomy, EPC, SRI - all converging on the same demand: prove what your building is doing. The energy label draws the line between assets that comply and assets that strand. Buildings that cannot produce the numbers slide toward the wrong side: non-compliant EPC ratings, financial partner concerns, exit discounts you did not price in. Pulling the data together for a regulator, auditor, or lender is a quarter-long fire drill every time.

What you actually want here:
  • A defensible data layer that flows via API into whatever tool you use (ESG platform, reporting software) - not a one-off PDF
  • Compliance produced continuously, not assembled retroactively
  • Early warning on stranded asset risk - EPC ratings, EU Taxonomy alignment, refinancing readiness - before it shows up at exit
03

Data is everywhere and nowhere

Multiple buildings. Multiple meter brands. Multiple FM contractors. Multiple BMS vendors. Multiple PropTech subscriptions, none of which talk to each other. The result is a portfolio you cannot compare across, numbers you cannot defend, and operational decisions made on instinct because the data was not where it needed to be.

What you actually want here:
  • One source of truth across the portfolio
  • Buildings that are comparable to each other on the same KPIs
  • Numbers that hold up to scrutiny - from a tenant, a financial partner, a buyer
04

A transaction event is always closer than you think

Refinancing, partial exit, mid-hold sale, recapitalization, M&A. The next transaction is closer than you expect, and when it comes, the buildings need to be defensible. Most are not. The buyer's technical due diligence team finds things the seller did not know existed, and the discount is real.

What you actually want here:
  • Buildings that can survive someone else's technical due diligence
  • Historical operational data that proves active management
  • ESG and regulatory documentation ready, not scrambled together at closing
Four service pillars, translated into asset-owner value

The data layer that operations and consultancy both run on.

NorthQ delivers four service pillars. They sit on a shared data foundation, and asset management teams typically use them in combination - one for daily NOI defense, one for strategic decisions, one for the data layer that makes both possible.

01
Service pillar

Data

The foundation everything runs on. The infrastructure layer underneath both other service pillars.

  • Data Collection from every meter, gateway, BMS, and integration point - no matter how many vendors are involved
  • Portfolio-wide comparability built in - same KPIs across all buildings, same data shape, same defensible numbers
  • API provision for asset management teams that want to pull NorthQ data into their own systems
See Data
02
Service pillar

Operations

Day-to-day NOI defense. Four services that run continuously on every building you hold.

  • Energy Optimization - savings delivery with M&V backing, €/year that actually lands in NOI
  • Technical Help Desk - 24/7 alarm filtering that protects FM operator attention; only the alarms that matter make it through
  • Distribution Accounting - heat and utility cost allocation between tenants, billing-ready compliance
  • Remote Access Center - your team clears alarms and adjusts systems remotely; 90% of alarms do not need a site visit anymore
See Operations
03
Service pillar

Consultancy

Strategic decisions you cannot delegate. Project-based engagements when something specific needs a defensible answer.

  • Building-specific problem-solving when something is broken and nobody can figure out why
  • Technical Due Diligence (TDD) for transactions - your side or the buyer's, defensible either way
  • Decarbonization roadmaps for ESG requirements and stranded-asset risk planning
  • Meter compliance strategy for the 2027 EU readiness deadline
See Consultancy
04
Service pillar

Open CTS/BMS

The foundation layer that opens your building's data - no per-datapoint fees, no vendor lock, and CTS/BMS-compliant by design.

  • Every system on one open layer - heating, ventilation, pumps, PV/Solar, lighting, apartments - with your data via API from day one
  • Around half the OPEX of the equivalent traditional CTS/BMS contract, with every alarm included instead of billed per-line
  • CTS/BMS compliance built in - EPBD Article 13 and Bygningsreglementet, the mandate that hits at 290 kW today and 70 kW by end of 2029
See Open CTS/BMS
Wherever you are in your digitalization journey

There is no single right place to start. There are good first moves at every stage.

Asset management teams come to NorthQ at very different stages of digital maturity. Some have already invested heavily in monitoring platforms that did not deliver. Some have not yet started and are not sure what they need first. We meet both - and most situations in between.

If you are just starting

Start with a Screening Report on one building. Free.

We come into one building, look at what is actually happening, and tell you what is worth doing. If something is worth doing, the report names it specifically. If nothing is worth doing, the report says that too. Either way, you finish with information you did not have before, and you have spent nothing to get it.

  • Free, no commitment
  • One building
  • Written by NorthQ engineers who walk Nordic buildings every week
  • A clear picture of what your building is doing - and where the value is, if any
Reuse first
If you are already digital

We connect to what you already have. Reuse first.

If you have existing monitoring, an existing BMS, an existing ESG platform - we integrate where it makes sense and we replace only where it does not. The data layer is ours; the consumption layer can be ours or yours. Same flexibility principle whether we are talking about ESG reporting tools, tenant apps, or asset management software.

  • Reuse-first - we work with the infrastructure already in place
  • Connect where existing systems work
  • Replace only what does not - and name explicitly which is which
  • Better operations from existing investments, not a forced migration
If you are in the middle

Most teams are. We have a playbook for it.

Partial deployments in some buildings, nothing in others. Some FM contracts you trust, others you suspect. Some buildings with reliable data, some with none. This is the most common starting place, and we have a playbook: pick the highest-pressure building first, prove the model, expand.

  • Stage approach - one building, prove out, then scale
  • Modular services - take only what you need on each building
  • No forced bundle, no forced sequencing
  • Each building is a separate decision until you are ready to standardize
We get this question on every call

Disappointed by PropTech before? Here is the difference.

That is fair. Almost every asset management team we talk to has been promised numbers by a prior PropTech, optimization, or monitoring provider - and has been disappointed. The dashboards lit up, the projections did not. The implementation cost more than the savings. The platform was abandoned, and the trust with it. We know this because it is the first or second thing that comes up in most first conversations.

So we do four things differently:

1

We verify, not promise

Every Energy Optimization engagement has a measurable baseline, a monthly verification track, and savings tied to actual data - not modeled estimates. If the savings are not there, the data shows it, and we owe you an answer.

2

Help Desk closes tickets on data, not technician word

Every resolved Help Desk ticket gets verified through the building's own data before it is closed. You are not paying for work that did not actually fix anything - the data confirms it did, or the ticket stays open. Most maintenance work in the industry is not verified this way. That is the gap we close.

3

First building screening is free

The Screening Report on the first building costs nothing. If we cannot show you something useful on the first building, the broader engagement should not happen, and we are not going to push it. The free first building is the proof - it commits us to delivering before anything commits you.

4

Modular - no forced commitment

You can take one service. You can take all four within Operations. You can take a one-off Consultancy report. You can stop at any point. Nothing about how we engage forces you into a multi-year platform commitment that the value does not justify.

What we will not do

Equally important - and worth naming so this page is not all promise. Here is what we will not do:

  • We will not commit to a savings percentage without seeing your building first. Generic claims are how prior providers lost your trust.
  • We will not lock you into infrastructure that does not work. If a part of our offer does not fit your situation, we will tell you.
  • We will not try to win an account where Operations is not yet the right answer. Sometimes the answer is "fix the metering first" - that is fine, and we will tell you that.
Sustainability-as-a-Service

You already spot stranded assets.
Now move the label that fixes them.

Screening flags the risk - EPC band, Taxonomy alignment, refinancing readiness. The Energy Label Upgrade Roadmap is how you act on it: we move the calculated label on your building's real data, unlocking green financing and protecting portfolio value across the hold.

See the Energy Label Upgrade Roadmap
LEVER 01 · COST
€1 OPEX saved → ~€22 asset value
The 1:22 rule - documented, at a 4.5% yield.
LEVER 02 · LABEL
A higher label → higher rent + green finance + de-risked value
Taxonomy-aligned, and protected from stranding.
Talk to us

First building screening is free. Tell us where to look.

Whether your portfolio has 3 buildings or 300, we will tell you where to start - and if the answer is to start somewhere else, we will tell you that too. The first conversation costs nothing, and the first building costs nothing. The decision to do anything beyond that is yours, and it is informed.