Chad's career spans precision industrial components, life safety systems for hospitals and federal clients, and commercial real estate operations. He spends most days with the facilities directors and operations leads who actually use KeyDog, and most of his writing comes straight from those conversations.
A mid-sized school district was running a key tracker, a separate fob management system, and a homegrown access database. They consolidated all three into KeyDog. Here is what changed — and what the IT director wishes he had done sooner.
You just took the facilities director job. The previous director left no documentation. There are 600 keys, 14 buildings, and three months until your first board report. Here is the 30-day playbook we wrote with a dozen new directors.
A century-old boarding school in the northeast was sitting on a paper-and-binder key system with 1,200 keys across nine buildings. They went live on KeyDog in 72 hours. Here is how.
A mid-sized community college had 47 active master and classroom keys, a turnover-heavy facilities team, and a spreadsheet that nobody trusted. Ninety days after switching to KeyDog, lost-key incidents dropped 78%. Here is exactly what changed.
When a master key goes missing on a campus, the right answer is usually to rekey. The bill is bigger than most facilities directors expect. Here is the math, broken down.
Every facilities team starts out tracking keys in a spreadsheet. Here is exactly how — and when — that approach breaks, and what to look for in a real key management system.