What AI Gets Wrong About Lucid Private Offices

Have you ever been a bit confused about what your company does?

I have.

Despite being an employee of Lucid Private Offices, I found myself questioning whether we are actually what we claim to be–a coworking company. After all, when I think of coworking, my mind immediately jumps to shared, open workspaces, and Lucid Private Offices boasts more turnkey offices and suites than large collaborative rooms.

So like everyone else these days, I went to AI to solve my conundrum. I was a bit taken aback to find my company’s own AI assistant accusing us of hypocrisy.

“While Lucid Private Offices uses the term ‘coworking’ in some of its self-descriptions, and offers some elements associated with it,” it replied (and the condemning italics are not mine), “they are primarily structured as a private office provider or executive suite company.”

What skepticism.

Now to be fair, most feedback I received from various AI platforms did admit that Lucid Private Offices is a coworking company. Each admission, however, came with a series of clarifications such as that we are a “unique hybrid model” or focus more on the private office side of the “flexible workspace industry.”

In other words, what qualifies us as a coworking company–according to AI–is not our essence, our entirety, but rather that we have coworking characteristics: shared workspaces and amenities, flexible lease terms, and ample opportunities for networking and collaboration. We are a mule of sorts–more horse than donkey– and fittingly mulish about being not just “a type,” but the Quintessential coworking space.

And that’s what AI gets wrong. My company doesn’t just fit the coworking label because we share a few of its donkeyish characteristics–we are the Ideal Coworking Space, Coworking As It Ought To Be.

Why?

Because coworking is more than just open space and collaboration. It’s work–work by the individual, amongst teammates, and work by the company to provide the solutions our members need to work well. And frankly, for the majority of us, excellent work takes more than 100% privacy or 100% exposure to the people around us. It takes a mix of the two.

Enter Lucid Private Offices.

We aren’t characterized by the open spaces associated with coworking. We aren’t known for the “small private offices” that AI claims we prioritize. Rather, what makes us the coworking model is that we customize a solution that anyone needs for good work. We have hot desks. We offer private offices (and not just small ones, at that). More importantly, we offer any mix or match a team might need. Want a large collaborative room just for your team? Need suites of private offices? Access to offices and hot desks? You name it, and we have you covered.

Lucid Private Offices is the ideal coworking company because people don’t just collaborate here. They work well, and they work successfully–and sometimes that takes more than the coffee-shop-esque atmosphere of open space coworking. And since our members are successful, our offices are the perfect place to connect with fellow professionals. The meeting might just occur at our unlimited coffee bar, rather than at a hot desk.

I don’t think “coworking spaces” as AI primarily represents them–large, open rooms–should be the rule. They should be the exception.

Lucid Private Offices should be the rule.