RESEAT
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Silicon Valley · Mid-Peninsula

The lease is handled. The furniture is not.

Moving, consolidating, or renewing somewhere between Palo Alto and San Jose? There is a floor of furniture that has to go somewhere, and on most projects that decision gets made about three weeks out. By then the only quote left is a disposal quote.

Thirty minutes with our CEO. No pitch deck, no proposal, no obligation. You leave with a liquidation strategy for the space you are leaving.

Brandi Susewitz, RESEAT co-founder and CEO, seated on a conference table surrounded by second-life task chairs
Brandi Susewitz Co-founder and CEO. She takes these calls herself.
Why you are reading this

Three ways this lands on your desk.

The furniture question arrives the same way every time. Someone else has been handling the real estate, and then the contents of the current building turn out to be nobody's job.

01 — Moving

The new space is a different shape.

Benching that fit the old floor plate does not fit the new one. Half the product could follow you and the other half cannot, and nobody has worked out which half. Redeployment is almost always cheaper than replacement, but only if the sorting happens before the movers are booked.

02 — Consolidating

Three sites, one floor of need.

Two or three offices collapse into one and you are left with several floors of furniture for a fraction of the seats. The surplus is the part with real recovery value, and it is also the part that sits in a hallway until someone calls a hauler.

03 — Renewing

Staying put, refreshing anyway.

You signed the renewal and the space is getting reworked around a hybrid count. The old product still has to leave the building, usually on a landlord's schedule, usually while people are trying to work in the same space.

The cost of leaving it late

Almost none of it is worn out.

A task chair from 2015 has fifteen good years left in it. The reason it ends up in a transfer station is a calendar problem, not a condition problem. That is the entire gap this call is about closing.

17B

Pounds of office furniture the US throws away every year.

99%

Of quality commercial furniture that ends up in a landfill.

12M+

Pounds RESEAT has kept out of landfills so far.

40-60%

What second life product saves a buyer against the same piece new.

Local specifics

A Sand Hill suite and a Moffett Park campus are not the same job.

Most of what decides a decommission around here is the building, not the furniture. These are the things that come up on the first call, because they are the things that move dates and change the number.

RESEAT founders Brandi and Eric Susewitz at Best of NeoCon
Who you are booking

You get Brandi. Not a rep.

Brandi Susewitz is RESEAT's co-founder and CEO. She and Eric Susewitz started the company on a single observation: 17 billion pounds of office furniture goes in the ground every year in the US, and 99% of the good commercial product follows it. Not because anybody is careless. Because nobody had a plan for it.

That is the whole company. Furniture sits in a hallway for two weeks and ends up on the curb, and the difference between a curb and a check is almost always how early somebody thought about it. RESEAT has kept 12M+ pounds out of landfills working that one problem, and the work has been recognised at Best of NeoCon.

On this call she is working your building, your dates, and your brand mix. What resells, what is worth a donation letter, what genuinely has to be recycled, and the order it should happen in so the value is still there when the crew arrives.

Brandi Susewitz Co-founder and CEO, RESEAT
The 30 minutes

What the call actually covers.

Four things, in this order. If your situation is simpler than this, it takes twenty minutes and you get the rest back.

01

What is in the building

Rough counts, rough condition, and the brands. Estimates are fine. This is the part that sets what the floor is worth.

02

What your dates really are

Lease expiry, landlord turnover, build-out schedule, the day the new tenant walks in. Timing decides recovery more than condition does.

03

The disposition split

What resells, what redeploys into the new space, what gets donated with a tax letter, and what has to be recycled. In that order, because that is the order that recovers value.

04

The sequence and the number

What has to happen when, who does it, and a realistic range for what the whole thing recovers or costs. Not a quote. A plan you could hand to your PM.

Book the call

Pick a time. Bring your dates.

Thirty minutes with Brandi Susewitz, RESEAT co-founder and CEO. Bring your lease dates and a rough sense of what is on the floor. You will leave with a liquidation strategy whether or not you ever work with us.

Before you close the tab

Reasons people wait, and why they do not hold.

We have not signed the new lease yet. Is it too early to call?
It is the best time to call. Timing decides recovery more than condition does. Ninety days of lead time means the furniture gets sorted, listed, and sold into demand. Three weeks means it gets a disposal quote. The call costs you half an hour either way.
We do not know our exact counts. Does that matter?
No. Estimates are fine, and "about forty workstations, mostly Steelcase, plus whatever is in the two conference rooms" is enough to work with on a 30 minute call. Nobody needs an asset register to have this conversation.
Our broker and project manager are already handling the move. Why add another call?
Because they are handling the space, not the contents. A broker negotiates the lease and a PM runs the build-out; the furniture in the old building is usually the line item that gets assigned to whoever is standing closest, three weeks out. Bring them on the call if that is easier.
Our move is nine months out.
That is the call that recovers the most money. At nine months every option is still open: resale, donation with a tax letter, redeployment into the new space, or a phased clear-out that works around your build schedule. At three weeks the only option left is a truck.
Honestly, we think most of it is worthless.
Sometimes that is true, and we will say so. Brand drives resale value more than anything else, so a floor of Aerons is a very different conversation than a floor of unbranded task chairs. Either way you will know in 30 minutes instead of guessing.
Is this a sales call?
No. There is no quote at the end of it and no proposal to sign. It is a working session on what you have, what it is worth, and what the sequence should be. If the answer is that you do not need us, that is a fine outcome.
What does decommissioning actually cost?
It depends on what comes out and what it recovers. On a lot of Silicon Valley floors the resale value of the furniture covers a meaningful share of the clearing cost, and occasionally more. Line-item and transparent either way, with the 70/30 RESEAT/dealer split on the proposal rather than buried in markup.

A little bit of forethought can end a lot of waste.

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