PropTech equity funding hit $1.7B in January 2026 alone — a 176% year-over-year jump per Center for Real Estate Technology & Innovation tracking. AI-building specific funding has run at roughly 275% of its 2024 baseline through the first quarter.
Five surveyed CRE AI platforms — Cherre, VTS, Yardi Virtuoso, Altus ARGUS Assist, ProptechOS — have shipped agentic features in the last 60 days. None of them ship a privacy broker.
92% of enterprise CRE teams have piloted AI in the last 18 months. About 5% have shipped it into production. The gap is not a model problem. It is a methodology problem — and it has a name.
Published: 27 April 2026 · Strategic Reframe · 8-min read For most of the last decade, the answer to "what makes a smart-building platform defensible?" was "the BMS engine." If you owned the building automation core — protocols, drivers, point…
A practitioner's IPMVP walkthrough for verifying a published vendor savings claim before it reaches your capital plan.
In January 2026, PropTech venture capital hit $1.7 billion — a 176% year-over-year increase. That's not a trend. It's a market re-rating. For facilities managers and CRE directors evaluating AI building platforms, this capital surge creates a…
When the vendor report claims savings, the IPMVP framework is how you check it — measurement boundaries, baselines, and adjustments.
The Industry Leaders Who Called It First In early 2025, a handful of practitioners made specific, verifiable predictions about where commercial real estate AI was heading.
For the first time in Forescout's annual Riskiest Connected Devices report (2026), BACnet routers made the list — marking the protocol's formal entry into enterprise OT threat models. BACnet is the backbone of building automation.