Research, analysis, and perspectives on the built world.
Weekly status decks consume 2-4 hours of senior project manager time per project. AI can now automate milestone status, budget versus actuals, RFI logs and lender reporting inputs from existing systems. This post explains what to automate, what to keep human and how to sequence the deployment.
March 20, 2026 ·4 min read
Power availability is the most common reason viable data center sites stall or fail. This post walks through the five grid variables developers must analyze before committing capital, and explains what AI can and cannot automate in this process.
March 20, 2026 ·4 min read
AI consulting for real estate means deploying agentic AI to augment — not replace — the professional services that drive development decisions. Here's how it works across due diligence, site selection, and underwriting.
March 19, 2026 ·5 min read
A layer-by-layer breakdown of the technology stack institutional real estate development teams are running in Q1 2026, from site data and market analytics to agentic AI workflows and LP reporting tools. Covers seven distinct layers with named platforms at each. A point-in-time snapshot with quarterly refresh scheduled.
March 19, 2026 ·4 min read
A practitioner breakdown of the five risk categories in real estate development, with an honest account of where AI adds genuine value versus where human judgment remains irreplaceable. Covers market demand, entitlement, construction, capital, and environmental risk with specific tools and workflow applications for each.
March 19, 2026 ·5 min read
Build-to-suit industrial development starts with a tenant spec, not a site. This post walks through how AI-assisted site screening matches complex tenant requirements against parcel data, utilities, labor markets, and permitting patterns, and where human judgment still drives the final decision.
March 19, 2026 ·5 min read
An AI services firm delivers business outcomes using agentic AI as the primary delivery mechanism — charging for results, not hours or software seats. Here's what that means and why it's a distinct category.
March 18, 2026 ·5 min read
AI-powered site selection for energy infrastructure automates the constraint-stacking process — overlaying transmission data, interconnection queues, environmental exclusions, and zoning to shortlist viable sites in hours. This post walks through what AI can automate, where human judgment is still required, and why speed to queue position is the defining competitive variable in energy development.
March 18, 2026 ·4 min read
AI and drone-based construction monitoring are moving from pilot to portfolio standard for institutional CRE developers. This post breaks down the deployable stack by construction phase, covers real cost benchmarks, and identifies where human oversight remains essential.
March 18, 2026 ·5 min read