What Every FM Should Know on Day One | Facilities Unfiltered | Episode 18

What's the number one thing every facility manager should know? Josh and Nic went digging — through AI, Google, articles, job postings — and the answer was so obvious it actually caught them off guard. It wasn't PM strategy. It wasn't finding the right CMMS. It was asset inventory: know what you have and where it is. Sounds simple, right? And yet only 25–35% of FM job postings even mention it as a responsibility. In this off-the-cuff (and timely) Episode 18, they unpack why that gap exists, why most of us skip step one (hands raised), and what happens when we do. Along the way, they explore how scale changes the approach (most FMs manage under a million square feet), where institutional knowledge helps — and where it fails — and how hidden assets can quietly become safety, budget, and reliability problems. Chapters (00:00:06) - Facilities Unfiltered: Know What You Own(00:06:26) - asset inventory for small and medium-sized facilities(00:10:11) - Fire Safety Systems: AI and Bad Data(00:16:56) - Facilities Inventory and Soft Services(00:22:07) - Asset Inventory and Condition Assessment