Backpack is a comprehensive solution designed to digitize the built world. By collecting data from documents, integrations, surveys, and annual site visits, Backpack aggregates and centralizes building information, ranging from property characteristics, leasing data, utilities, equipment, real-time data, capital plans, and more. This digital foundation powers built-in tools like automated Energy Star scoring and compliance tracking, while providing the insights needed to effectively run decarbonization programs, prioritize capital projects, lower insurance premiums, and enable Backpack’s Marketplace of products and services to offer cash-back rewards.
Backpack was born out of an acquisition of Bractlet in 2021, a software company that developed the industry’s most advanced energy analytics and modeling technology. Motivated by the philosophy that accurate data is the key for driving change, their team is focused on arming the built world with comprehensive, verified, and accessible property data – transitioning the industry away from the days when data sits siloed onsite, scattered across various spreadsheets, leaving you with more questions than answers.
With digitized and up-to-date information, Backpack is empowering stakeholders to leverage robust information to implement sustainability initiatives, provide intelligence for better planning, effectively track results, and tap into opportunities that increase profit.
For years, Auburn’s FDD program generated savings — but lacked growth and internal buy-in. By narrowing scope, assigning a super user, and shifting to a vendor-owner fusion model, they turned defects into daily punch lists.
At LAX, environmental reporting once meant field visits, clipboards, and emailed meter photos. The airport is now connecting 1.2M+ data points and normalizing what already exists to improve compliance and create new sustainability opportunities.
Lincoln Property Company’s Chris Lelle realized that burdened engineers can’t each manage 300,000 sq ft by diving deep into BAS data—so he used FDD to simplify the troubleshooting his techs need to do.
CannonDesign added smart building scope to their office after bids were in, and Div 23/26 partners didn’t understand what “IDL” meant to their scope. They had to redraw Division 25 boundaries and clarify responsibilities to prevent the job from slipping.
For years, complaints about comfort at a Microsoft campus were attributed to BAS issues. Packet-level network data told a different story and exposed 118,000 hours of missed runtime.
Goldman Sachs detailed how it scaled a global smart building program across 94 sites by changing where cybersecurity decisions happen—before devices ever reach the field.
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