PropTech equity funding hit $1.7B in January 2026 alone, +176% YoY. Capital flowing into a category does not mean the category is healthy. Five filters separating durable capital from theater.
Five Tier-1 CRE AI platforms shipped agents in 60 days. None ship a privacy broker. Why the gap exists, what the broker actually does, and what to put in your 2026 RFP.
92% of enterprise CRE teams pilot AI; about 5% ship it to production. The gap is methodology, not model. Four invariants separate the deployments.
When CONTEXUS, OpenRemote, and Schneider EcoStruxure converge on the same architectural reframe in 90 days, the field is telling you the moat moved. The 6-12 month commoditization window on the BMS engine layer is short — here is where the durable defensibility lives now.
Siemens published a 20% energy reduction claim for its Digital Twin Composer. Without IPMVP methodology disclosure, it's unverifiable. Here's the three-step practitioner audit for any AI building savings claim.
PropTech VC hit $1.7 billion in January 2026 — up 176% year-over-year. Fast-moving markets produce inflated claims. Here are the five evaluation questions that separate vendors with real measurement methodology from those with compelling positioning.
Your AI-HVAC vendor claims 23% energy savings. But how were those savings measured? IPMVP is the international standard for verifying energy performance claims — and almost no AI building vendor uses it. Here's how to apply it to your deployment.
Antony Slumbers, Nicolas Waern, Brendan Wallace, Jon Gray, and James Dice made specific predictions about AI smart buildings in 2025. Here's the verification that every one of them was right.
BACnet made Forescout's riskiest OT protocols list for the first time in 2026. Microsoft's reference architecture explicitly refuses BMS control. Here's why recommend-only AI governance is the only defensible architecture for commercial buildings.