What I found
A facilities cost conversation is really a lease conversation. Rent and CAM are about 87% of facilities OpEx, so only around $0.9M is genuinely discretionary. And 79% of CapEx lands in the second half, which means the phasing matters more than the annual total, and H2 carries the forecast risk.
What I built
An FY26 facilities plan built line by line, 240 lines in all, totaling about $9.6M. Every line is tagged with the method behind it, a lease schedule for contractual costs, a trailing run rate for recurring services, or milestone phasing for project work, and with whether it is already committed.
How it works
Hover or tap the OpEx composition to see the method behind each slice. Toggle the committed view to isolate the roughly $1.45M that is already a floor. The CapEx panel shows how little landed in H1 against what is forecast for H2.
Toggle to isolate the committed floor inside the plan.
OpEx composition · $6.8M
Method: Lease schedule for contractual costs
CapEx phasing · $2.8M
79% of CapEx lands in H2, so phasing matters more than the annual total, and H2 carries the forecast risk.
Rent and CAM are 87% of facilities OpEx; only about $0.9M is genuinely discretionary. A facilities cost conversation is really a lease conversation, not a spend-control one.
Impact
- The plan reframed the cost question: cutting facilities OpEx mostly means renegotiating leases, not trimming spend.
- The committed floor was explicit, so the discretionary lever, about $0.9M, was never overstated.
- The H2 CapEx concentration was flagged early, when there was still time to manage the cash.
The transferable lesson
Build the plan line by line and tag each line with its method, and the story tells itself: what is contractual, what is discretionary, and where the cash risk actually sits. A total is an answer. A tagged plan is a tool.