The Cost of Six Spatial Models
July 5, 2026 · 3 min read · SiteOps Command
The closest thing on the market to one unified platform is a shopping list: Ekahau for Wi-Fi, the IPVM Calculator for cameras, EASE for audio, System Surveyor for the drawing, ConnectWise for the CRM, DocuSign for sign-off. Six tools — and six separate models of the same building.
Every seam is a re-key
Walk one job through the stack. You design Wi-Fi in one tool, cameras in another, audio in a third — three models of the same walls, none aware of the others. Then the bill of materials gets rebuilt by hand in a spreadsheet, the CRM record is keyed again, and the sign-off packet is assembled a fourth time. Every hop is a re-key, and every re-key is a chance for the drawing, the cable list, and the as-built to drift apart.
The drift is the expensive part. The subscriptions are visible on a budget line; the hours spent reconciling six models — and the incident where the as-built turned out to be fiction — are not.
What it costs you today
These are published figures, framed as the buyer’s current spend, not our price — and we deliberately do not total them:
- Ekahau (Wi-Fi design) — $4–12K/yr, plus a Sidekick kit at $3K.
- IPVM Calculator (camera math) — free, but camera-only.
- EASE (audio) — $5–15K.
- ConnectWise (CRM / PSA) — $2–5K/yr.
- System Surveyor (documentation) and DocuSign (sign-off) — priced per seat or plan.
We do not publish a “you save $X” number, because your mix, seats, and contracts differ — and inventing one would be exactly the kind of figure this platform refuses to invent. The ROI worksheet lets you run your own.
What six tools still cannot assemble
Stitching is not the same as unifying. Even with all six licences, three things have no equivalent you can buy separately and staple together:
- Unified physics on one obstacle model — change a wall material and Wi-Fi, camera, and A/V all recompute, because they read from the same building.
- A 3D walkthrough measured live — stand in the space and read every discipline at once, from real datasheets.
- A per-seat conference-room assessment — display, audio, microphone, and camera scored together for each seat.
Six tools give you six answers about one building. The value is not in owning the six; it is in never having to reconcile them.
The real tax
The tax is not the six invoices. It is the re-key between them — the hours, and the quiet drift that turns your as-built into a document nobody trusts. One shared model from survey to as-built removes the seams, so the drawing, the bill of materials, and the record are the same thing seen from different angles.
See the full six-tools comparison, how the project lifecycle runs on one record, or how a virtual survey starts that one model. To see it on your own project, book a demo.
Frequently asked
- What tools does SiteOps Command overlap?
- The jobs teams currently split across predictive Wi-Fi design, camera coverage math, conference-room audio modeling, site documentation, CRM and renewals, and e-signature. The difference is one shared model of the building rather than six that must be re-keyed to each other.
- Why does using six tools cost more than the six subscriptions?
- The subscriptions are the visible cost. The hidden cost is re-keying the same building into six models and keeping them in sync: the hours spent, and the drift when the drawing, the bill of materials, and the as-built stop agreeing.
- How much do those tools cost?
- As published, and framed as the buyer's current spend: Ekahau roughly $4-12K per year plus a $3K Sidekick kit, EASE $5-15K, ConnectWise $2-5K per year; the IPVM Calculator is free but camera-only; System Surveyor and DocuSign are priced per seat or plan. We do not total them into a savings figure.