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Maintenance is the day-to-day heartbeat of property management, and how quickly and effectively you handle requests directly impacts tenant satisfaction and retention. When requests come in through portals, phone calls, and emails, they need to be categorized, prioritized, assigned to the right vendor or team, and tracked to completion. Manual triage is slow, inconsistent, and prone to losing requests in the shuffle — especially during high-volume periods like seasonal transitions. Wayak automates the maintenance workflow from intake to resolution. A playbook triggers on each new request, categorizes it, assigns priority based on your rules, routes it to the appropriate vendor, and escalates if the resolution timeline is exceeded. An agent gives property managers real-time visibility into open requests, vendor performance, and cost tracking.

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What you need

Data sources

  • Property management system — maintenance request tickets, unit details, tenant information, and request history
  • Vendor management database — approved vendor list, service categories, response time SLAs, and contract terms
  • Accounting database — maintenance budgets, work order costs, and invoice history

Knowledge spaces

  • Maintenance procedures — upload your triage rules, priority definitions (emergency, urgent, routine, cosmetic), routing logic by category and property, and escalation timelines
  • Vendor contracts — upload active vendor agreements with scope of work, pricing, response time commitments, and contact information
Semantic layer: Define these in your ontology before setting up the agent.
ComponentNameDefinition
ObjectMaintenance RequestMaps to the requests table in the property management system. Represents a tenant-submitted work order with category, priority, and status
ObjectVendorMaps to vendors in the vendor management database. Represents an approved service provider with category, SLA, and availability
MetricAverage Resolution TimeMean elapsed hours from request submission to completion, segmented by priority and category
MetricFirst-Contact Resolution RatePercentage of requests resolved on the first vendor visit without a return trip
DimensionCategoryClassifies requests by type (plumbing, electrical, HVAC, appliance, structural, cosmetic)
DimensionPriorityRanks requests as emergency, urgent, routine, or cosmetic based on triage rules
See building a semantic layer for a step-by-step guide.

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Agent setup

1

Create the agent

Go to Agent Space → New agent.
FieldValue
NameMaintenance Coordinator
RoleProperty Maintenance Specialist
GoalTriage incoming maintenance requests, track resolution progress, provide vendor performance data, and answer maintenance-related queries from property managers
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Set the description

You are a property maintenance coordinator who manages work orders across a multi-property portfolio. You categorize and prioritize requests using defined triage rules, assign them to the appropriate vendor based on category, location, and SLA requirements, and track each request to resolution. You flag overdue requests for escalation and monitor vendor performance against contractual SLAs. You provide clear status updates and cost summaries to property managers.
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Scope data access

Grant access to:
  • Property management system (maintenance requests, unit details, tenant information)
  • Vendor management database (vendor list, SLAs, contracts)
  • Accounting database (maintenance budgets, work order costs)
  • Maintenance procedures knowledge space
  • Vendor contracts knowledge space
  • Maintenance Request and Vendor objects, Average Resolution Time and First-Contact Resolution Rate metrics
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Add skills

Trigger: User asks about the status of a specific request or all open requests.
  1. Query the property management system for the specified request or all open requests.
  2. Pull the assigned vendor and their response timeline from the vendor management database.
  3. Calculate elapsed time and compare against the priority-based SLA from the maintenance procedures knowledge space.
  4. Flag any requests that have exceeded their SLA or are approaching the deadline.
  5. Return a status summary with request ID, category, priority, assigned vendor, elapsed time, SLA status, and next action.
Trigger: User asks about vendor performance or reliability.
  1. Query completed maintenance requests for the requested vendor or all vendors over the specified period.
  2. Calculate average resolution time, first-contact resolution rate, and SLA compliance rate.
  3. Pull cost data from the accounting database and compare against contracted pricing.
  4. Rank vendors by performance within each service category.
  5. Return a performance report with metrics, rankings, and recommendations for contract renewal or replacement.
Trigger: User asks about maintenance spending or budget tracking.
  1. Query work order costs from the accounting database for the specified property or portfolio.
  2. Break down costs by category, vendor, and priority level.
  3. Compare actual spending against the maintenance budget.
  4. Identify the top cost drivers and any unusual spending patterns.
  5. Return a cost analysis with total spend, budget variance, category breakdown, and top cost items.

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Automation

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Playbook: Maintenance request routing

1

Set the trigger

Set the trigger to Event — New record on the requests table in the property management system. The playbook fires each time a tenant submits a maintenance request.
2

Build the workflow

The workflow triages, assigns, and tracks each new request:
  1. Query the request details including the tenant’s description, unit, property, and any attached photos.
  2. Action — categorize the request using keyword matching against the triage rules in the maintenance procedures knowledge space (e.g., “water leak” maps to plumbing/emergency, “paint peeling” maps to cosmetic/routine).
  3. Action — assign priority based on the category and description per the triage rules.
  4. Condition — if the priority is “emergency,” skip normal routing and immediately alert the on-call maintenance team.
  5. Action — for non-emergency requests, query the vendor management database for approved vendors in the request’s category and property location. Select the vendor with the best SLA compliance and availability.
  6. Action — create the work order assignment in the property management system with the vendor, priority, and SLA deadline.
  7. Delivery — notify the vendor, tenant, and property manager.
3

Configure delivery

  • Email to vendor — send the work order with property address, unit number, request details, photos, and SLA deadline
  • Email/SMS to tenant — confirm receipt with the assigned vendor, expected response time, and a tracking reference number
  • Slack — post emergency requests to #maintenance-urgent immediately; post a daily digest of all new requests to #maintenance
4

Test and activate

Click Run now to test with a recent request, then toggle to Active.

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What’s next

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