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Stories, field notes and release notes from the people who build and run Lab Nexa, written for the staff and students who use it every single day.

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01Insights

What 4,000 taps taught us about lab peak hours

We dug through a semester of session data across twelve labs. The pattern was consistent, surprising, and immediately useful for timetabling.

02Tutorial

Onboard a whole cohort from one Excel file

Two hundred students, one spreadsheet, zero manual entry. A step by step guide for university admins, plus the three mistakes to avoid.

05Technology

Why we hash NFC tokens, and what we never store

A look under the hood at how tap tokens are generated, bound to devices, and rotated, plus the personal data we deliberately keep out of the system.

06Insights

Read your maintenance board like a budget

The priority score is not a ranking to argue with. It is a spending plan. Here is how to turn it into a maintenance schedule your technicians will actually follow.