An empty lobby at 7pm
Members and tenants work late, and guests still arrive, long after the desk has gone home.
For workspaces and buildings
A managed building is judged on its lobby, and lobbies are expensive to staff, especially across a portfolio. HiBridge puts a real person on the screen in every one of them, greeting tenants and guests, handling deliveries, and showing prospects around, from a single team.

For workspaces and buildings
A managed building is judged on its lobby, and lobbies are expensive to staff, especially across a portfolio. HiBridge puts a real person on the screen in every one of them, greeting tenants and guests, handling deliveries, and showing prospects around, from a single team.
The problem
Members and tenants work late, and guests still arrive, long after the desk has gone home.
A prospect walks in wanting to see the space, which is the highest-value visitor of the week and the one most likely to find nobody there.
Couriers, contractors, and guests all need directing, logging, and letting in, all day, at every entrance.
A portfolio of six buildings means six desks, each quiet for most of the day and each on the payroll all of it.
How HiBridge solves it
Tenants, members, and guests are met by a real person on screen, including evenings and weekends.
A walk-in enquiry is greeted, qualified, and booked in by a receptionist rather than left looking for someone.
Couriers and contractors verified and directed, with the arrival on record instead of in somebody’s memory.
Every lobby appears in one view, so coverage follows the traffic rather than sitting in six separate chairs.
Outcomes
Who this fits
Multi-site
Most building operators do not have a coverage problem at one site, they have it at all of them at once. A pooled team on the HiBridge portal sees every lobby in one view, so a quiet location absorbs a busy one instead of each door needing its own hire.
That is also how breaks, shift changes, and peak hours get covered without adding headcount. The arithmetic is worked through on the multi-location front desk page.
Security & privacy
A virtual desk changes who can overhear a conversation. Visitors speak to one receptionist on a screen rather than across an open counter, and check-in details are entered by the visitor rather than read aloud.
What is published on our security posture, and what we will send you as a document, is on the security and privacy page.
FAQ
We will tell you plainly rather than imply it. Our named, documented customers today are concentrated in physical therapy and wider healthcare. This page explains how the platform applies to your front desk, and if you ask us on the contact page we will be specific about your sector.
Both models run on the same platform. HiBridge is the patented virtual reception technology: kiosk, live video, payments, printing, scanning, and the multi-location receptionist portal. Some organisations staff it with their own team from a central location; others staff it with a remote receptionist sourced through HiBridge.
A real person. One tap brings a live receptionist onto the screen. There is no phone tree and no chatbot standing in for a human.
Yes, and that is where most of the value is. One pooled reception team can cover several buildings at once from a single view, so coverage follows demand instead of one hire per door.
A screen at the desk, a camera, and a network connection. Existing tablets can often be reused, and printing, scanning, and card capture options are covered on the hardware page.
Tell us about your building and how many locations you run, and we will show you exactly how HiBridge fits, including where it does not.
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How a virtual front desk maps onto this front desk: the problems, the workflow, and the coverage model.
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See the page →How a virtual front desk maps onto this front desk: the problems, the workflow, and the coverage model.
See the page →How a virtual front desk maps onto this front desk: the problems, the workflow, and the coverage model.
See the page →How a virtual front desk maps onto this front desk: the problems, the workflow, and the coverage model.
See the page →How a virtual front desk maps onto this front desk: the problems, the workflow, and the coverage model.
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