Comfy is Siemens' workplace experience app for desk booking, room reservations and occupancy analytics. Learn features, pricing model and FAQs for 2026.
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Pricing
Enterprise B2B licensing, quoted per building, floor or user seat and typically sold alongside broader Siemens Smart Infrastructure building-technology contracts; pricing is not publicly listed, from Not publicly disclosed - custom enterprise quote required through Siemens Smart Infrastructure
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Last updated
July 19, 2026
Founded
2013
Headquarters
Originally based in Oakland, California, United States (as Building Robotics); now part of Siemens Smart Infrastructure, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland
Origins and Siemens Acquisition
Comfy began as the product of Building Robotics Inc., an Oakland, California startup founded in 2013 by UC Berkeley engineering PhD graduates Andrew Krioukov and Stephen Dawson-Haggerty. Siemens acquired Building Robotics in June 2018 to expand its digital building-technology portfolio.
Comfy now operates as part of Siemens Smart Infrastructure, the Siemens division focused on intelligent buildings, grids and industrial infrastructure, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.
Core Employee Experience Features
Employees use the Comfy app to reserve desks and meeting rooms, navigate offices and campuses via interactive maps, find where colleagues are seated on a given day, and personalize comfort settings like temperature and lighting where supported by the building's systems.
This makes Comfy particularly relevant to organizations operating hybrid or hot-desking office models, where desk and room availability changes day to day.
Sensor Integration and Analytics
Comfy integrates with Enlighted, a separate IoT sensor company also owned by Siemens, to provide real-time occupancy data for desks, rooms and floors, feeding both live availability in the employee app and Comfy Insights, an analytics dashboard for facilities teams.
Comfy Insights helps corporate real estate and facilities leaders understand actual space utilization patterns, informing decisions about layout, consolidation and lease planning.
Key Features
Desk and room booking — Employees can reserve individual desks and meeting rooms directly from a mobile or web app.
Interactive building and campus maps — Wayfinding tools help employees navigate offices and larger corporate campuses.
Colleague finder — Employees can see which coworkers are in the office and where they are seated on a given day.
Personalized comfort controls — In supported spaces, employees can adjust temperature and lighting levels directly from the app.
Real-time occupancy sensing — Integration with Siemens-owned Enlighted IoT sensors provides live occupancy data for desks, rooms and floors.
Comfy Insights analytics — A dashboard for facilities and real estate teams showing space utilization trends over time.
Hybrid work collaboration tools — Features added after the Siemens acquisition help distributed teams coordinate which days they will be in the office.
Enterprise-scale deployment — Built to support large multi-building, multi-country enterprise rollouts, as demonstrated by Siemens' own internal deployment across roughly 600 locations.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Backed by Siemens' scale and long-term investment in Smart Infrastructure and building technology
Real-time occupancy sensing via Enlighted adds accuracy beyond simple booking-calendar data
Comfy Insights analytics support data-driven real estate and space-planning decisions
Broad feature set covers booking, wayfinding, colleague-finding and comfort controls in one app
Proven at large scale, having been deployed internally across roughly 600 Siemens locations and 100,000-plus employees
Integrates within a broader Siemens Smart Infrastructure ecosystem for organizations already using Siemens building systems
Cons
Pricing is not publicly listed and requires an enterprise sales process through Siemens
Full comfort-control features (temperature, lighting) depend on compatible building systems, which not every office has
Best suited to larger, often multi-building enterprises rather than small offices
As part of a large industrial conglomerate, product roadmap and priorities are shaped by Siemens' broader Smart Infrastructure strategy
Sensor-based features require additional hardware investment (Enlighted sensors) to unlock full real-time occupancy capability
Easily confused with the unrelated open-source ComfyUI image-generation tool due to the shared name
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Comfy?
Comfy is an enterprise workplace experience app for desk and room booking, wayfinding, colleague-finding and comfort personalization, owned by Siemens Smart Infrastructure.
Is Comfy the same as ComfyUI?
No. Comfy the workplace app is a Siemens enterprise product, unrelated to ComfyUI, an open-source interface for Stable Diffusion image generation.
Who owns Comfy?
Comfy is owned by Siemens, which acquired the original developer, Building Robotics Inc., in June 2018.
What does Comfy do for employees?
It lets employees book desks and rooms, navigate offices, find coworkers, and adjust temperature and lighting where supported.
How does Comfy get occupancy data?
It integrates with Enlighted, a Siemens-owned IoT sensor company, to provide real-time occupancy data for desks, rooms and floors.
How much does Comfy cost?
Pricing is not publicly disclosed; it is sold as a custom enterprise quote through Siemens Smart Infrastructure.
What is Comfy Insights?
Comfy Insights is an analytics dashboard that shows facilities and real estate teams how office space is actually being used.