Overview
Explorer is where Trebellar helps teams understand how locations perform today and evaluate where to locate in the future.
It brings together portfolio performance, commute analysis, and location search into a single experience designed for exploration, comparison, and informed decision-making. Explorer is used to compare locations, understand employee commute patterns, and evaluate potential sites when making location-related decisions.
This article explains what Explorer is, when to use it, and how its core features work together.
When to use Explorer
Explorer is useful whenever you want to move beyond a high-level insight and understand location-based tradeoffs in more detail.
Common use cases include:
Comparing how existing locations perform relative to one another
Understanding employee commute times based on different modes of transportation
Evaluating potential locations for future offices or expansions
Exploring how location decisions may affect cost, experience, or accessibility
Explorer supports both current-state analysis and forward-looking evaluation within the same workflow.
How Explorer is structured
Explorer is organized around three core features that work together.
Portfolio focuses on existing locations. It allows you to compare sites across your portfolio and assess relative performance using a consistent set of measures. This helps identify patterns, differences, and outliers across locations.
Commute focuses on employee commute time and experience. It helps teams understand employee commute times to locations across different modes of transportation. Commute can be used to analyze existing offices as well as to evaluate commute implications for potential future locations.
Listings focus on searching for new locations. They allow you to explore and evaluate potential sites when planning for moves, expansions, or upcoming lease decisions. Listings support early-stage evaluation and comparison before deeper planning begins.
Together, these features allow teams to move fluidly between understanding what they have today and exploring what could come next.
How Explorer fits into the broader platform
Explorer is designed to sit between orientation and planning.
Insights surfaced on the Homepage often lead into Explorer when teams want to investigate further. From Explorer, analysis can flow into Dashboards for ongoing monitoring, Reports for sharing findings, or Portfolio Planner for scenario modeling and long-range planning.
Explorer supports ongoing exploration, allowing teams to continue analysis as new questions arise.
What’s next
Explorer is designed to support different types of location questions, depending on what you’re trying to understand or decide.
If you’re focused on how your existing locations are performing, Portfolio helps you compare sites and assess relative performance. If commute experience is a key consideration, Commute helps you understand how employees travel to locations across different modes of transportation. And when you’re evaluating future options, Listings supports researching and comparing potential new locations.