The Challenge
Marvel Fusion is a Munich-based fusion energy company on a mission to build the world's first commercial fusion power plant. Founded in 2019 and backed by over 400 million USD in funding from Siemens Energy, leading venture capital firms, and public investors, the company brings together physicists, mathematicians, engineers, and corporate teams across a Munich headquarters and a smaller office in Denver, Colorado.
The growth has been steep. In two years, the team scaled from 55 to 126 employees, with a clear target of 160 by year-end. At that pace, the office quickly became the bottleneck. Historically, every department had its own area. Physicists and mathematicians, in particular, value stable, familiar surroundings to focus on complex work, and the layout reflected that. As headcount grew, more desks were added to each area, until the physical space simply could not absorb another table.
Adding capacity by buying new desks was not a viable answer. A single workplace costs around 2,000 euros to set up, and even at peak occupancy, the office is never fully booked on any given day. Hybrid work means employees choose when to come in, so paying for the peak meant overspending for the average. The smarter path was to use the desks Marvel Fusion already had more intelligently, in a way that respected how researchers and engineers prefer to work.
Why PULT?
As Office Managerin, Michelle ran a structured evaluation. PULT, Deskly, and DeskBird were each tested by booking the same desk in each tool and comparing the experience end to end. Three factors made PULT the clear choice.
First, PULT delivered a complete floor plan out of the box. Where competitors required additional configuration to map the office, PULT immediately rendered every desk, phone booth, and shared space exactly as it stood. Second, the cost structure fit. For a scale-up watching every euro on its way to 160 employees, PULT was the most viable long-term option. Third, the booking experience was effortless: a single click, and the desk was reserved. That simplicity would matter enormously when over 100 employees needed to adopt the tool without lengthy training sessions.
PULT in Action
Marvel Fusion went live in October 2025 with a two-week pilot in the most flexible departments. Once the pilot succeeded, the rollout expanded across the company. Today, PULT runs natively inside Microsoft Teams, accessible from desktop and mobile, which has changed how employees plan their days. Many now check available seats on their phone during the morning commute, adjusting their plans before they reach the office.
For Michelle, the most valuable workflow is new joiner onboarding. Marvel Fusion welcomes around six new hires every month, and with every desk in active rotation, guaranteeing a starting seat used to mean walking through the office, asking team leads, and posting handwritten notes on screens. Today, she opens the PULT floor plan, selects the desks where new joiners will be onboarded, and reserves them for the first week. The seats disappear from the booking pool, the new hires arrive to a workspace prepared exactly for them, and the rest of the team books around the reservation.
A second benefit emerged that Marvel Fusion did not initially plan for. Because employees now share desks rather than own them, every workspace must be cleared at the end of the day. The Clean Desk Policy, supported by visual reminders in the PULT app, became a natural daily habit instead of a memo that needed enforcement. In an industry where confidentiality matters and external visitors regularly pass through the office, a consistently clean workspace has real operational value.
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The Results
- Workforce scaled from 55 to 126 employees on largely the same office footprint, saving the cost of new workplaces at approximately 2,000 euros each
- Selected over Deskly and Deskbird in a structured side-by-side evaluation, where PULT won on floor plan completeness, cost structure, and booking simplicity
- New joiner onboarding streamlined across six new hires per month, with desks reserved in advance through the floor plan rather than negotiated table by table
- 4 hours saved per week on desk coordination, freeing the office management function for higher-value work
- Clean Desk Policy adopted naturally through the tool, with desk sharing turning clear workspaces into a daily habit
- Microsoft Teams integration adopted across desktop and mobile, with employees checking availability during their daily commute
- Adoption smooth across the team, with most employees keeping their familiar seats and confirming bookings with a single click
- Customer service consistently fast, with replies arriving within hours, never longer than a single business day, and follow-up calls offered for configuration questions
- Recommended for fast-growing scale-ups, especially those planning to double in headcount over the next three to four years, where early adoption prepares the team for the moment when desk capacity becomes critical
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