Why LLDesk
Made for NYC owners and managers.
We don't do property tech in general. We do NYC compliance — LL97, LL11, LL152, LL84, LL126 — and the operational mess that surrounds it. Built by people who've worked with NYC owners, lenders, and developers for nearly a decade.
Why we built it
Six things we think NYC compliance software should do.
BIN-level granularity
Compliance lives at the building, not the LLC.
If you operate in NYC, you don't think in portfolios — you think in BINs and BBLs. A single LLC can hold buildings with wildly different LL97 limits, FISP cycles, and gas-piping community board years. LLDesk models compliance the way the DOB does: per building, per BIN.
Real fines, not theory
We track the math that actually hits your bank account.
LL97 is $268 per metric ton CO₂e over the limit, no cap. LL11 late-filing is $1,000+/month plus $5,000 for failure to file. LL84 benchmarking violations stack at $500/quarter. We model your real exposure, by building, with the city's penalty schedule baked in — so when your CFO asks 'what's our worst case?' you have a number.
City data, not a wiki
We pull from HPD, DOB, and OATH directly.
Most 'compliance guides' age the moment they're published. LLDesk syncs violations from open data feeds — HPD complaints, DOB ECB violations, OATH hearings — so what you see in your dashboard reflects what the city sees. If a violation lands overnight, you find out in the morning, not at renewal.
One workflow
From applicable-law scan to vendor dispatch — without leaving the app.
Most compliance tools stop at the calendar. We don't. When LL11 is coming due, you can dispatch a QEWI from inside LLDesk. When a B-violation needs a licensed plumber, the marketplace surfaces vetted vendors in your borough. The deadline, the document, the dispatch — one place.
Built for the messy middle
Not a 2-building owner. Not a REIT. Everyone in between.
Spreadsheets work fine for one walk-up. Enterprise property software costs six figures and assumes you have a full ops team. LLDesk is for the 5–200 building operator — the property manager juggling Brooklyn brownstones and Bronx mid-rises, the co-op board wrangling QEWIs across two buildings, the family office that inherited a portfolio.
Honest about what we don't do
We don't file for you. We don't lobby. We're not your lawyer.
LLDesk is software. We surface what's due, surface the documents you need, and connect you to qualified vendors who handle the filings. We don't claim SOC2 (yet), we don't file FOR you, and we don't replace your engineer or attorney. We make the rest of the job dramatically less painful.
A note from the founder
Why I'm building this.
I've spent almost a decade working in NYC buildings — construction, existing-building due diligence, sustainability consulting. I work with lenders sizing up acquisitions, owners running portfolios, and developers handing over keys at TCO. The view from each chair is different, but the gap I see is the same: the information that determines whether a building stays compliant is real and public, and almost no one has it organized.
I've watched lenders flag DOB BIS history in the eleventh hour of a refi. I've sat with owners blindsided mid-FISP cycle by a sub-cycle deadline they didn't know existed. I've seen developers hand over buildings with open OATH NOVs and unresolved HPD violations still attached to the BIN. Everyone is paying consultants — including me — to chase information that should have surfaced itself months earlier. The LL97 cliff is going to make this worse, not better.
LLDesk is the bet that this is a software problem. The data exists across DOB, HPD, DEP, and OATH. The penalty math is public. The vendor network is real. None of it should require a phone call and a $400-an-hour invoice to get to. We're building the layer that makes it routine.
— Lucas Giacalone, Founder, LLDesk