For real-estate brokerages
The back office for a small brokerage.
Deskwork follows a deal from signed contract to paid agent: intake, document review, deadlines, referrals, commission math, payout statements, and the figures you need at the end of the year.
It is the part of a brokerage platform your office actually opens every day. There is no CRM, no social feed, no banking and no marketplace attached to it, because an office that does not use those should not have to work around them.
Sign-in is your brokerage's Google Workspace account. There is no separate password to create, and none to reset.
What it covers
Screens in the order a deal moves through an office. An agent sees the handful that belong to their own work; the broker and the office manager see all of them.
Intake
An agent starts a listing, a buyer file or a referral and hands it in. No contact email is forced on a party who does not have one.
Transactions
Every file in the office, with its stage, its side, its agents, its dates and what it still owes. An agent's queue is the files they are actually on.
Document review
A checklist per file. Filing a document is one step, not an upload and then a separate tick in a list.
Checklists
Saved checklist templates the office controls, so a new file starts owing the right documents instead of whatever the last one happened to have.
Calendar and deadlines
Inspection, financing and closing dates on one calendar, so the office knows what is coming before the day it lands.
Referrals
Referral fees tracked as fees. A referral counts as pay to the person who earned it and never as a closed unit.
Commission plans
Splits, caps and flat transaction fees, set per agent. A cap year runs from that agent's own anniversary, not from January.
Closing desk
The split, the cap and the fees computed on one screen, in whole cents, with the arithmetic shown rather than asserted.
Payout statements
A statement issued to the agent when a closing is paid and archived, and kept as a record of what was paid on that deal.
Roster and roles
Who is on the roster, what each person may do, who supports whom, and who has left. There is a support-staff role that carries no commission plan.
Annual reporting
Per-agent and office totals for the year, built only from closed and archived files. A projected commission on a draft is not income and never reaches a tax figure.
Your own commission book
Read your commission spreadsheet in place, every tab at once, with no export step. Your figures are kept permanently separate from anything the desk computed.
Why it works the way it does
Every item here exists because a working broker named the problem it solves, not because it sounded good in a planning meeting.
- Delete buttons that delete. Plans, agents and transactions can be removed. When something must not be removed — a file carrying money, an agent still on open deals — the office says so in plain words and names what is holding it, instead of a trash can that quietly does nothing.
- Nothing is stuck behind a stage it cannot leave. Every refusal in the product says what is in the way and who can clear it. If a file will not move, the screen tells you why and whose job it is.
- Your spreadsheet is not the enemy. If you keep a commission workbook, the desk reads the whole file, every tab, and records it as yours — kept permanently distinct from anything the desk calculated, so you can compare the two. It never offers to overwrite your figures.
- Money is money, not a floating-point number. Every amount is stored in whole cents and every plan is calculated the same way twice. Commission arithmetic is checked against fixed, reconciled examples on every change to the code.
- Every save is recorded, and the version before it is kept. The office keeps an append-only record of who changed what and when, written by the server from what the server established rather than from whatever a browser claimed. Each accepted save also keeps a copy of the version it replaced.
- It is legible on a phone in a parking lot. An 11px type floor, 4.5:1 text contrast and 44×44 touch targets are checked automatically on every screen at six widths, every time the code changes. A screen that fails any of those does not ship.
- It sends two emails, and only two. A commission statement to the agent it is about when a closing is paid and archived, and one deadline digest a day to the broker and the office manager. Nothing is sent twice, a day with no deadline sends nothing at all, and the whole thing stays off until your office turns it on.
Where your office's information goes
The short answer is nowhere. This is worth stating precisely rather than in a slogan, because it is checkable.
- No analytics, no trackers, no advertising. There is no third-party script, no tag manager, no session recorder and no ad pixel in the product or on this page.
- No fonts or files loaded from anyone else. The product runs with zero third-party code at runtime. It uses the fonts already on your computer.
- One outside request, and it carries nothing of yours. On the listing search screen, photographs come from the MLS image host. Those are public listing photographs. No transaction, agent, client or commission figure is in that request. Nothing else in the product reaches out.
- Your documents stay in your own Google Drive. Deskwork holds the document names and the checklist state — what a file owes and what has been filed — and no file bytes. Your folder structure is named after the same checklist categories, so your office does not sort twice.
- No password to leak. Sign-in is Google Workspace, so the product stores no password, no password hash and no reset flow. Disabling someone in Google Admin ends their access here with no step for anyone to remember.
The full detail is in the privacy policy.
What you need, and what is not ready yet
Stated in advance so it is not discovered afterwards. This is a young product and the list below is the honest state of it.
Your brokerage must be on Google Workspace. Sign-in accepts a Workspace account on your own domain and nothing else — a personal Gmail address is refused outright. If your office does not run on Workspace, Deskwork cannot be used today.
Email delivery is off until your office configures it. Statements and the deadline digest are sent through your own mail server. No email vendor sits in the path of an agent's pay.
Anyone on your roster can currently read the whole office. Writes are restricted by role — the roster, the commission plans and the issued statements can only be changed by the broker or the office manager — but reads are not yet narrowed to a person's own files. For an office that already shares a filing cabinet this is usually fine; it is your call to make with the fact in front of you, not a detail to find out later.
Deskwork is not your accountant. It reports what your office recorded. What you file and what you pay remain yours to check and yours to sign.
Already have a desk?
Sign in with the Google account your brokerage uses. If your address is not on your office's roster yet, your broker or office manager adds it on the Roster screen.