Michael Sanchez
Founder, CEO & Lead Developer
Product, operations, and platform direction
Bridge began with a maintenance technician seeing the same problem repeat: work was getting done, but the facility still had no shared record of condition, ownership, cost, or what changed next.
Across operator conversations and market research, the same pattern kept appearing: work orders in one system, asset history in another, costs in spreadsheets, and decisions buried in messages. Even expensive software can leave teams rebuilding the operating picture by hand.
The ambition
Bridge is building one modern operating system for condition, work, service history, and cost. Maintenance is the starting point; the whole facility is the opportunity.
Bridge is a working beta, and the milestones around it are public. These links collect the competition results, independent coverage, conversations, and official Bridge channels behind the story.
Featured proof · UMass Lowell News
Bridge earned UMass Lowell's campus-wide award, the top prize at the 2026 DifferenceMaker finals.
Proven result
Top prize
Campus-wide award
Rist DifferenceMaker · Spring 2026
Linktree
The public social hub for Bridge coverage, podcast appearances, and competition links.
Professor Kev Show
Why traditional task trackers fail facility teams.
UMass Lowell News
Public competition coverage from the UMass Lowell newsroom.
Helport AI
Public program announcement for the AI entrepreneurship competition.
The next phases are deliberately simple: learn from operators, harden the rollout, and only then turn the structured history into predictive guidance.
Now
Core modules, facility health, and the connected operating record are ready for structured feedback.
Summer 2026
Test day-one setup, floor reporting, work handoffs, and dashboard clarity in live operating environments.
Fall 2026
Turn what testing teaches us into clearer onboarding, capacity planning, support, and a repeatable launch path.
2027+
Use aligned score, issue, work, and maintenance history to surface degradation patterns and evidence-backed next actions.
Operations, business, electrical engineering, biomedical systems, and computer science come together around one goal: make facility condition easier to understand before small problems become expensive.
Profile links were verified against each teammate's public LinkedIn. Competition photography is credited to UMass Lowell News.
Founder, CEO & Lead Developer
Product, operations, and platform direction
Financial Officer
Finance, electrical engineering, and commercialization
Explore how facility health, daily work, maintenance records, and connected History come together—then start a beta conversation.