The sixty days
The first sixty days in a San Francisco office
The ten vendor decisions of a move-in are not interchangeable, and a checklist that lists them alphabetically will cost you a month. Each one has a single dependency that sets its date: the internet circuit is the only lead time you cannot compress, insurance binds before the keys move, the landlord signs off before anyone drills, and the cabling crew comes before the desks.
Begin the Dossier — free, four minutes, and it dates this calendar to your own address and arrival.
The calendar is dated by lead time — days before arrival — and every figure is drawn from the same cost model as the ten Service pages, read 27 September 2026.
The calendar
Ten decisions, in the order their dependencies force.
| When | Decision, and what sets the date |
|---|---|
| 55 days before | The lease: strike or cap restoration, holdover, operating-expense pass-throughs, and the sublet testEverything else inherits its date. These four clauses cost money for years, and after signing you can only read them. |
| 45 days before | The internet circuit: 500 megabit symmetrical plus a wireless backupFibre install runs three to eight weeks from signed order, and the delay is usually the building, not the carrier. The only lead time you cannot compress. |
| 38 days before | The furniture: chairs new, desks used, fifteen percent more seats than headcountNew runs four to ten weeks; refurbished dealers south of Market usually deliver inside two. |
| 28 days before | Bind general liability at $1,000,000/$2,000,000, landlord as additional insuredKeys are usually withheld until the landlord holds the certificate, so this dates ahead of the move whatever else slips. |
| 21 days before | Pick the access system and get the landlord's written sign-offThe approval and the door hardware survey take longer than the install itself — sign-off first, drilling second. |
| 14 days before | Open the PG&E account in the company's name, dated at lease startTransfers take about five business days, and a gap means the landlord's meter reading becomes your argument. |
| 12 days before | Open the Recology account and order the three-stream setSan Francisco ordinance obliges the tenant, not the landlord, to sort landfill, recycling and compost. |
| 10 days before | Book the movers (a three- or four-mover crew) and reserve the loading dock in writingThe building wants the mover's certificate of insurance before it releases the freight elevator. |
| 5 days before | Cabling, patch panel, wireless and the conference rooms, all before the desks arriveFloor boxes cannot be cut once desks are standing on them. |
| 5 days after | First janitorial service, contracted at two nights a week, kitchen and restrooms specified line by lineRates under seven cents per square foot per visit are not real in this city. |
Two dates are missing from every checklist you will find online: the lease itself, which is dated by negotiation rather than lead time, and the first janitorial service, which is the only decision that lands after arrival.
One team of twelve
Citywide figures, about 2,040 square feet, everything except the rent.
Recurring, before rent: $2,036 to $3,932 a month — internet $190 to $620, insurance $157 to $437, access $40 to $85, janitorial $1,237 to $1,590, trash $194 to $444, utilities $218 to $756.
Once: $10,660 to $38,140 — IT $2,120 to $5,240, furniture $7,280 to $28,700, the move $1,260 to $4,200 — plus cabling and patch panel $1,920 to $5,120 and access readers and install $900 to $2,200 on top.
Read those two totals together and the comparison this site exists to make prints itself: the recurring cost of the sixty days, before rent, is about what Concierge charges to run all of it — $2,000 a month, flat.
The rent is the number this page leaves out, because it is decided by the street — see what a team of twelve pays citywide rather than a claim here. Not legal advice, and not a quote for your suite — the Dossier prices all ten lines at your own address.
What sets the order
Four dependencies, and the reversals they prevent.
Internet first, because it is the only clock you cannot wind
Fibre install runs three to eight weeks from signed order, and the delay is usually the building — a landlord signature, a riser, a survey — not the carrier. Nothing downstream waits politely: the access system, the payment terminal, the conference rooms all assume a network. A fixed-wireless link goes live in days, which makes it the right first-week connection and the right permanent backup.
Insurance before keys
Almost every San Francisco lease asks for general liability at $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 aggregate, the landlord named as additional insured, a waiver of subrogation, and thirty days’ notice of cancellation. Keys are usually withheld until the landlord holds the certificate, so a policy bound late does not cost money — it costs the move-in date.
The landlord signs before anyone drills
Two written approvals, both slower than the work they gate: the access-control install needs the property manager’s sign-off before a single door is drilled, and the loading dock needs a reserved window plus the mover’s certificate of insurance before the freight elevator is released. Ask on the day you order, not the week you arrive.
Cabling before desks, dimensions before tables
Floor boxes cannot be cut once desks are standing on them, so the cabling crew is booked before the furniture delivery, not after it. And measure the freight elevator before ordering the conference table: it is the single most common reversal, and the restocking fee is yours.
Your own sixty days
Tell us the neighbourhood, the arrival date, and the headcount. The Dossier restates this calendar for your own move — the ten Services priced and dated in dependency order, the cost ranges each vendor decision needs — and takes no card.
This site, and the business behind it, are built and run by AI agents on NanoCorp — which is how one company can restate ten price pages as one calendar without a workplace team to maintain them.