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Smart Access

Run access, identity, and visitors from one platform

Smart Access replaces the patchwork of badge systems, visitor logs, and manual provisioning across your entire portfolio.

  • Mobile credentials
  • Digital wallet
  • Visitor passes
  • Elevator call
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Mobile KeycardAdded to Wallet
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VisitorsM. Smith Access Granted
Cohesion mobile app showing digital keycards and credentials

The Problem

Access breaks differently depending on which side of the lease you're on.

Workplace Portfolio

If you run a workplace portfolio, your own access control system is the easy part. Every landlord whose building you sit in runs something different, and your employees are the ones stuck carrying two badges.

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  • Challenge

    Every landlord runs a different platform with a different base-building credential and a different process to add, remove, or change access. Employees end up carrying two badges, or can't get to their floor at all, and there's no way to confirm a former employee's credential was actually pulled.

  • Solution

    Smart Access connects to every base-building system your landlords run and syncs with your identity provider, so you grant, change, and confirm access across every building from one place.

Commercial Landlord

If you're a commercial landlord or operate buildings, your occupants want mobile credentials and self-service access, but you can't just hand over the keys to your base-building system.

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  • Challenge

    Occupants want mobile credentials, digital wallet, and visitor passes that work the way their consumer apps do, and they want to administer access themselves instead of emailing security every time someone joins or leaves. You can't hand out the keys to your base-building access control system to make that happen.

  • Solution

    Smart Access delegates credentialing to each occupant inside a partitioned space, so they self-manage their people while you keep master control over the lobby, elevators, and shared areas.

Smart Access handles both sides.

It connects to every access control system that matters, syncs with your identity provider, and supports every credential format your people use. One platform for credentials, visitors, elevators, and access policy across every door and every building.

Connects to the access control systems you already run

No rip and replace. Smart Access layers mobile credentials, visitor management, and identity sync on top of the panels and platforms your buildings already use.

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  • to provision a new tenant (down from 2–3 days)

  • credentials managed per client

  • offices in a single rollout

  • sq ft under access management

One platform for every kind of building

The same architecture runs access whether you operate an office tower, a hospital, a data center, or a studio lot.

Commercial Office

Mobile Wallet
Physical Badges
Identity Provider Sync
Readers
Controllers
Elevators

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What's inside Smart Access

Digital Wallet and Mobile Keycard

People tap in with NFC or open the door from their pocket over BLE, and the same credential works on a smartwatch or wearable. Each person can hold any mix of four formats, physical, mobile, wallet, and biometric, and you set how many active credentials they're allowed. It all runs on the readers you already have, so mobile credentials are a layer on top of your hardware rather than a rip-and-replace.

See how digital wallet credentials work
Mobile credential + wallet pass

Identity Sync & Tenant Partitioning

Bi-directional sync keeps your identity provider and your access control system in lockstep. When someone joins in your HR or identity system, they get building access automatically; when someone leaves, their credentials revoke the moment the record changes. No tickets, no manual steps, no gap between HR action and door lockout.

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Identity + access sync

Visitor Management

Pre-registration, QR check-in, kiosk mode, and credential issuance run as one flow. A visitor's pass is scoped to the floors their host approved and tied to the visit window, so it activates when the booking starts and expires when it ends without anyone going back to revoke it. Guests check themselves in at a kiosk or on their phone and sign any required waivers on the spot, with signed copies stored for compliance.

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Visitor check-in flow

Elevator Integration

A badge tap calls the elevator and sends it to the right floor, so people walk straight to a waiting car instead of hunting for a button in the lobby. Cohesion fits your building either way: it can act as the middleware between access control and the elevators directly, or pass credentials through to the elevator middleware you already run.

Elevator destination dispatch

Compliance and Audit

Every door event, credential issuance, and access change logs to a tamper-evident audit trail. Export SOC 2 and ISO 27001 reports on demand. Real-time security dashboards show who's in the building right now.

Compliance + live dashboards

Book a Smart Access demo

We'll tailor the walkthrough to your access environment, identity provider, and visitor workflows.