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Library Report

Taipower's 2026 Demand-Response Window: The 90-Day FM Playbook for Taiwan Commercial Buildings

The 90-day demand-response playbook for Taiwan commercial buildings, keyed to Taipower's published outlook.

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Library Report

MRI Software's $10B Exit + 200-Person AI Layoff: 4 Vendor-Contract Clauses to Lock In Before Q3

The proptech category leader for property management software is mid-transaction at a $10B valuation while simultaneously cutting 200 roles citing "AI adoption." Q1 2026 proptech deal volume jumped 64% YoY, and 163 proptech M&A transactions closed…

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ai-hvac

Grid-Interactive Buildings in CRE 2026: How ASHRAE 90.1-2022 Addendum G Turned Load Management into Procurement Language

ASHRAE 90.1-2022 Addendum G — the Load Management section — turned grid-interactive operation from a voluntary efficiency story into a code-anchored procurement question. Seven G-modules (G01 through G07) now name the operator actions that count.

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Library Report

The Sensor Fusion Decision Tree: What the Butlr-Disruptive Partnership Signals for CRE Occupancy in Q2 2026

Three Q1-Q2 2026 moves — Butlr's partnership with Disruptive Technologies (12 March 2026), Ricoh's follow-on investment into Butlr (27 April 2026), and VergeSense's Large Spatial Model launch (29 January 2026) — have collapsed the "single sensor…

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ai-hvac

Why JCI Just Co-Invested M in a Fusion Model Competitor — and What the Cap Table Tells Owner-Operators

What a $125M cap table tells owner-operators about the next 24 months of AI-HVAC architecture — read in the practitioner's voice, not the cap-table-as-PR voice. The AI-HVAC category is past the "is this real" phase.

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agent-architecture

The Agentic Operator: Why the Atomic Unit of CRE Productivity in 2026 Is a Process, Not a Person

The atomic unit of CRE productivity in 2026 is a process, not a person. This is what that means for an owner-operator who has to ship. The PropTech category has spent eighteen months arguing about whether "agentic AI" is a real wave or a labeling…

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ai-hvac

The Honest Procurement Number for AI-HVAC: 10-15% Year-1 Ramp / 20-35% Steady-State / DOE-Validated 50% Ceiling

Practitioner reference band. Owner-operator voice. Built for the AI-HVAC procurement review you have to defend. The AI-HVAC procurement category has a single-tier numbers problem.

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Library Report

The M&V Acceptance Window: Three Numeric Floors Your AI-HVAC Vendor Should Cite Before You Sign

Every AI-HVAC vendor pitch in 2026 cites "verified savings" and "IPMVP-aligned M&V." Almost none cite the two numbers that decide whether the verification actually held: CV(RMSE) and NMBE .

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building-intelligence

Why 88% of CRE AI Pilots Fail — Causal Decomposition Across Eval, Governance, and Reliability

Most coverage of the "88% AI pilot failure rate" stat treats it as a single black-box number. That framing is wrong. The 88% is recoverable when you split it into its three operational failure modes — and each mode maps to an architectural primitive…

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