Commercial Real Estate · Consultancy

Workplaces
that compound.

A boutique advisory firm helping India's growing companies architect workplace strategies that build, not bleed, value — across core leases and flex agreements.

Begin a conversation → Our approach
A.
Approach No. 01
Core & Flex™
Thinking
The principle: a stable core for the team you have today, flex capacity for the team you'll have in three years. Cost discipline meets optionality.
12,000+
Desks transacted across flex & managed office mandates over the founder's career
All major
Indian metros
Transactional presence across Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, and Kolkata
India to
Hong Kong
On-ground transactional experience across India, Singapore, and Hong Kong
Our Philosophy

Most brokers chase deals.
We help you avoid the wrong ones.

The commercial real estate industry is built on transaction volume. We're built differently — fewer clients, longer relationships, and counsel that holds up to scrutiny five years after the lease is signed.

"The best workplace decision a CFO can make is the one that still looks smart in 2030. That's the only test that matters."
— Founding Principle
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Boutique by design

We take on a small number of mandates each year. Every CFO, Admin Head, and CEO we work with deals directly with the founder — never an associate, never a junior broker.

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Independent and unhurried

We don't chase volume and we don't pitch every brief that crosses the desk. The right answer for a client is sometimes "wait six months" or "stay where you are." Counsel like that is hard to find from a firm with quarterly targets — so we built one without them.

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The Core & Flex™ framework

Most companies oscillate between long leases that can't bend and coworking that can't scale. We help you build a portfolio that does both — anchored, agile, and always sized to the next phase of growth.

What we do

Five disciplines.
One compounding outcome.

Whether you're signing your first office lease or restructuring a 50,000 sq. ft. portfolio across cities, our work spans the moments where workplace strategy meets balance sheet impact.

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Real Estate Advisory

Strategic counsel on portfolio, location, and timing — backed by India-wide market intelligence. The decisions made before the search begins are often the ones that matter most.

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Tenant Representation

End-to-end occupier services: from market scan and shortlisting through commercial negotiation, technical due diligence, and lease execution. Our loyalty sits with the tenant alone.

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Landlord Representation

Selective representation of distinctive assets — Grade A buildings, IT parks, and curated commercial portfolios — where we help owners attract enterprise occupiers without commoditising the offer.

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Commercial Leasing — Core

Long-term leases for stable, anchored teams. We negotiate not just rent, but escalation clauses, rent-free periods, fit-out terms, exit flexibility, and the dozen other levers that move a deal's economics.

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Flex & Managed Offices

Coworking, managed offices, and built-to-suit flex agreements — the side of the industry where I built my career, and where boutique advisory pays for itself many times over.

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Workspace Strategy

Pre-transaction consulting for companies redesigning how, where, and why their teams gather. Hybrid policy, headcount modelling, sub-market trade-offs, and the cost-of-occupancy math behind each path.

The work itself The buildings change. The questions rarely do.
How much space, for how long, on what terms, and at what cost.
Recent engagements

The work,
quietly told.

A small selection of recent transactions. Names of clients are anonymised by sector — full case studies are available on request, with client permission.

Elder Care · Healthcare Tech

300+ desks built-to-suit for India's leading elder care brand

Workstations 300+
Format Fully managed

A renowned elder care brand came to us needing more than an office — they were building the nerve centre of a mission that touches thousands of elderly lives across India. We did what we always do: listened first, walked their existing setup, understood what energised their people and what didn't, and only then started looking. The answer was a built-to-suit, fully managed space in Gurugram — designed and constructed from scratch, exclusively for them, with Quattro Spaces as build partner. We stayed through every step: lease structuring, design inputs, build oversight, move-in.

Security Services

Managed office mandate for a US-based security services firm

Location Udyog Vihar, Gurugram
Format Managed office

A US-based security services business wanted a Gurugram presence that read corporate without committing to vanilla Grade A pricing. We placed them in a managed office format with private cabin density and a meaningful saving against equivalent leased space.

Operator network

The flex and managed office partners
we work across.

An operator-neutral consultancy depends on breadth of relationships. We have working ties — transactional, advisory, or both — with most of India's leading flex and managed office providers, alongside select international operators.

IWG
WeWork
The Executive Centre
JustCo
Awfis
Table Space
CoWrks
CorporatEdge
91Springboard
Innov8
Skootr
AltF
India Accelerator
Nukleus
Incuspaze
AIHP
Avanta
Quattro
OfisSquare
Akasa
Simpli Works
TruWorx
Circle Work
Altrade
Cabin & Co.
In their words

What clients say.

A few words from people we've recently worked with. We let them speak for themselves.

"

Adhiraj was extremely helpful securing a great office space for us. He's professional, responsive, and easy to work with — and definitely someone you'd enjoy having a coffee with too. Highly recommended.

Fardeen Siddiqui CEO, Grocliq Verified via LinkedIn · July 2025
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Adaptive provided steady guidance throughout our office leasing process. The team was responsive, practical, and supportive — even beyond the transaction, assisting with fit-out coordination to ensure a smooth transition. We appreciated their consistent and client-focused approach.

Rahul Sharma CEO & Founder, Diginature
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Adaptive provided valuable guidance during our recent office lease. Adhiraj supported us with sound lease structuring advice, clear communication, and steady follow-through. His experience and market understanding helped us make informed decisions. We appreciated their practical approach and professionalism.

Chetan Arora CEO & Founder, LevelUpForWomen
Adhiraj Thakur, Founder & Director, Adaptive Workspace Solutions
Adhiraj Thakur Founder & Director
The Founder

Twenty years inside the industry.
Now outside the noise.

I spent the better part of two decades on the operator side of commercial real estate — first at Regus / IWG, then leading sales and growth at CorporatEdge, and finally as part of the team that scaled The Work Project into Singapore's fourth-largest coworking platform with eightfold revenue growth.

My on-ground career has been based across three markets — India, Singapore, and Hong Kong — with roughly 12,000 desks transacted along the way. That cross-market perspective shapes how I read the Indian market today: which trends are local, which are arriving from elsewhere, and which assumptions deserve to be questioned.

Adaptive exists because I now want to sit on the other side of the table — representing tenants and occupiers in India with the same insight that landlords once paid me for. Adaptive is intentionally small. We don't aspire to broker every deal in the market. We aspire to be the firm a small number of CFOs and founders trust with the workplace decisions that matter most.

Regus / IWG CorporatEdge Workbuddy The Work Project
Adaptive.
Begin a conversation

If your next workplace
decision matters,
so does the counsel.

A short conversation costs nothing and clarifies a great deal. We'll listen first, share what we've seen across similar mandates, and tell you honestly whether we're the right firm for the work.

By email
hello@adaptiveworkspace.in
By phone
+91 85952 47470
Registered office
D-804, Godrej 101
Sector 79, Gurugram
Haryana 122051
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