● About · coconnect

Built by operators. Run by the network.

We started Community Connect because shared-use facilities were stuck on paper, and the operators running them were stuck managing instead of growing. coconnect is the operating system we wished we had — built inside our own buildings first, opened to the network in 2026.

Why we exist

Shared space has been undermanaged for decades.

Shared-use facilities — commissary kitchens, makerspaces, studios, cold storage — run on text bookings, paper invoices, and the honor system. Equipment activates for free. Off-peak hours sit empty. Off-hours members come and go uncounted. Every corner of the building leaks revenue.

We built coconnect from inside nine operating BC facilities to solve our own problem first. Patented hardware enforces what the contract promised. Software handles the work an on-site manager used to do. The result is a building that earns every dollar it could earn — and an operator who actually has time to grow the business.

Two organizations stand behind the platform. Community Connect is the technology — the hardware, the software, the network. Commissary Connect is the operator and training arm — the playbooks, the curriculum, the live-site experience that makes new operators successful from day one.

Team · founders

The people behind the build.

Sarb Mund

Founder & CEO

Founded Commissary Connect after years inside shared-use kitchens — building, signing tenants, billing, and fixing what broke. Built coconnect because no software vendor was solving the problems operators actually face. Today, runs the company, the network, and the operator program.

Jeffrey Shmigelsky

CTO

Engineering and hardware lead. Built the patented hardware-to-billing controller stack and the ECU Pro / ECU Lite product line. Owns platform architecture, firmware, and hardware deployments across every site in the network.

Hiring across firmware, platform engineering, and operator success through 2026. If you’re a builder who’s spent time inside an industrial building, get in touch.

By the numbers

A network already running.

We didn’t come from a deck. The platform is live across British Columbia today and stabilized at our flagship Industrial Ave site since 2024.

9Sites live in BC
128+Workstations managed
163Equipment units controlled
100%Operator retention
Patented technology

The hardware that closes the loop.

Our patented hardware-to-billing controllers tie equipment activation directly to a member’s contract. No other platform in the category can meter to the second, gate access by hour, and bill on actual usage — because no one else owns the hardware that makes it possible.

  • United States11,151,495Granted
  • Canada3,032,325Granted
  • European Patent Office17889039.8Pending