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A master plan should stay true long after it’s delivered.

Athenate turns the facilities master plan into a living, room-level record that planning, maintenance and district leadership share, and that stays current through every project, budget cycle and staff change.

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Why Athenate

Built to help bring facility planning and management on one platform.

Districts invest heavily in facilities master plans, then run their buildings day to day from somewhere else entirely. The plan, the maintenance log and the budget rarely meet. Athenate exists to close that gap.

Plans go stale soon after delivery

A conventional master plan is a snapshot. Conditions change, projects get funded and enrollment shifts, and within months the document no longer describes the district it was written for.

Too coarse to plan the next project from

A static plan isn’t granular enough, or current enough, to base ongoing projects and budgets on. Teams end up re-collecting the same information every time a decision comes up.

Planning and M&O live apart

Facilities planning and maintenance and operations usually sit in different systems and draw on different funding pools, so what M&O sees every day rarely reaches the capital plan.

Needs versus wants, decided without data

Every district has to balance what its buildings need against what it wants to build. Without facility data, capital spending becomes a subjective call, critical needs go unfunded and deferred maintenance keeps growing.

Knowledge that leaves with staff

Facility and project data shouldn’t walk out the door when people do. Districts need a living record of truth that persists through every staff change.

Athenate is that record: one living, room-level dataset that planning, maintenance and leadership all work from, and that keeps the master plan current long after it’s delivered.

Our story

Started inside the district facilities world.

Athenate began with a problem our co-founder Vijay Jayachandran saw first hand. Over his years in TK-12 facilities, he watched districts commission master plans at significant cost, only to see them fall out of date soon after delivery and end up on a shelf instead of guiding decisions.

Drawing on that experience, Vijay partnered with Eraj Siddiqui to digitize master planning and build plans from granular data, site by site and room by room. That first idea, shaped by many customer conversations and a lot of district feedback, grew into a full platform. Today Athenate helps facilities planners, maintenance and operations teams, and leaders from directors to the board plan, manage and maintain their districts using objective data and analysis, the foundation for good governance, mindful spending and citizen oversight.

What we hold ourselves to.

Districts first

We build with district staff, not just for them. Facilities, M&O and business teams shape what we make, and nothing ships until it works on their sites and on their deadlines.

Solve a real need

We start from problems districts already feel, like a master plan that’s stale on delivery, and go deep before we go wide. Specific and useful beats broad and vague.

Great team, great product

Only a great team can build a great product. We pair people who know school facilities from the inside with people who know how to build software, and hold each other to a high bar.

Break the mould

Facilities planning has run on binders and one-off consultant reports for decades. We question how it’s always been done and build what districts actually need instead.

The people behind Athenate

The team building Athenate for TK-12 school districts.

Eraj Siddiqui

Co-founder, Technology

Eraj brings more than 20 years in technology to Athenate. He leads the platform that turns district facility data into a living record.

Vijay Jayachandran

Co-founder, Master Planning

Vijay brings more than 20 years in school facility master planning to Athenate. He grounds the platform in how districts plan and fund.