Make your firm AI-native.
Grow AUM. Hold headcount.
Built by operators. Engineered alongside your team.
We connect all your tools
Stack Architecture
Your Microsoft Azure tenant
Ask in plain English. Cited to source. Never invents a number.
Regressions · forecasts · Monte Carlo · scoring · variance. Every number ties.
Yardi · CoStar · MRI · AppFolio · Excel · Docs, connected, governed, in your tenant.
Every layer builds on the one below
Trusted by firms managing billions in AUM



US-based. Global client base. Built by operators with experience at funds backed by Blackstone, Ares & Angelo Gordon
$0M+
In Operational Savings Delivered
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Analyst Hours Freed for Deals
0x
AUM Growth Without Adding Headcount
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CRE Transactions Supported
Reflects our founder’s experience prior to and including RealQuant.
One stack. Built to compound.
AI doesn’t do math. Deterministic systems do. That’s the whole stack.
AI · Natural Language
Ask in plain English. Cited. Guardrailed. Never invents a number.
Statistical + Deterministic Math
Every number ties. Every formula auditable. Never AI-computed.
Clean Data Foundation
Yardi, MRI, AppFolio, CoStar, Excel, Docs feed into one governed warehouse in your tenant.
of RE CFOs say they need AI. Only 14% have it.
CBRE Global Investor Survey; BDO RE CFO Survey, 2024
How we engage
Long-term strategic partnership.
Build, Operate, Scale. Deployed inside your cloud tenant, operated by forward-deployed engineers, tailored to your firm. Engagements compound: every phase reinforces the next, every quarter increases your team’s leverage.
Build
We deploy your data infrastructure into your Microsoft Azure tenant. Cloud warehouse, ETL connectors, CRE ontology, governance, plus the initial AI workflows on top. Every engagement starts with a paid discovery phase that produces the architecture blueprint and per-department SOWs.
- Cloud data warehouse and ETL inside your Microsoft Azure tenant. Pre-built connectors for Yardi, MRI, AppFolio, CoStar, ESRI, Entrata.
- CRE ontology and governance so every number ties, every output cites a source, every refresh is validated.
- Paid discovery phase at kickoff. Architecture blueprint and per-department SOWs lock the scope before any build begins.
Operate
AI workflows run every day on your platform. OM and rent roll parsing, IC memo drafts, variance reports, capital call automation. Operated alongside your team by forward-deployed engineers. We keep the platform on the current generation as the frontier moves.
- AI agents handle OM parsing, rent rolls, IC memos, variance reports, capital calls
- New model versions, new connector versions, security patches flow continuously into your tenant
- Customer success led by CRE operators, not a generic SaaS support desk
Scale
Forward-deployed engineers ship new workflows, agents, and integrations every quarter. Department by department, deal by deal, your firm becomes AI-native. Same team, more leverage every cycle.
- New AI workflows, new agents, new integrations on a quarterly cadence
- Acquisitions to Asset Management to IR. Every department augmented over time.
- AUM grows. Headcount holds. The platform compounds with your business.
Founder track record
The systems behind $11.2B in deal volume.
These outcomes came from systems our founder designed and ran at institutional CRE platforms in prior operating roles. The same operational patterns shape every RealQuant Labs engagement.

5x Growth
Same Team
Blackstone-Backed Self-Storage Platform
The portfolio grew 5x. The ops team didn't. Deal pipeline, underwriting, P&L automation, and reporting rebuilt as one system.

Days → Hours
IC Packages
$3B NYC Multifamily Platform
Rent-regulated housing has economics no standard model captures. We built unit-level MCI and IAI models that changed how IC evaluates every deal.

Weeks → Days
Reporting
$10B Pan-European Fund
Five jurisdictions, two currencies, layered holding structures. Reporting that took weeks now ships in days.
Why RealQuant
Built by people who closed deals.
Operator Built
Our founder spent 12+ years on the institutional buy side across multifamily, self-storage, industrial, and mixed-use, with personal involvement in 150+ transactions and $11.2B in aggregate deal volume across prior roles. The systems we deploy were first built to solve real underwriting and asset-management problems on the buy side.
Purpose-Built CRE Workflows
A library of pre-built workflows mapped to the actual CRE deal lifecycle: OM and rent roll parsing, IC memo drafting, variance attribution, capital call automation, LP reporting. Every workflow comes from a real problem on a real deal. We tailor the framework per client instead of starting from a blank repo.
Quant in the Stack
Statistical and deterministic models layered on your clean data: regression-based seller-propensity scoring, time-series rent forecasting, Monte Carlo on hold-period IRR, variance attribution. The math runs in code you can audit, never inside an LLM. Every number cites lineage to source.
Runs in Your Tenant
Every system we deploy runs in your Microsoft Azure tenant. Your data stays in your tenant and is not routed through RealQuant infrastructure. You receive your data, your configured workflows, your dashboards, your reports, and full documentation.
Grow AUM. Hold Headcount.
Case examples from prior buy-side roles include scaling from $300M to $3B in AUM with a flat deal team. IC packages that took days ship in hours. Reporting that blocked half the month runs itself. Your team scales by leverage, not by hiring.
Forward-Deployed Engineering
Engineers embed with your team during build, not a ticket queue after handoff. Customer success led by CRE operators who speak your language: deals, cap rates, waterfalls, GP waterfalls, lease economics.

About
Zachary Shapiro
I spent 12+ years in institutional real estate private equity across multifamily, self-storage, industrial, office, and mixed-use. I underwrote, closed, and asset-managed at operating platforms backed by Blackstone, Ares, and Angelo Gordon. Personally involved in 150+ transactions and $11.2B in aggregate deal volume across those prior roles.
At every firm, I built what didn't exist: the underwriting models, the data pipelines, the reporting infrastructure, the deal tracking systems. Tools that saved my teams thousands of hours and millions of dollars in operational overhead. I got tired of waiting for vendors to build what operators actually need.
RealQuant Labs is the firm I wished existed when I was on the buy side. We build the models, data systems, and automation that let CRE teams operate at institutional scale without the overhead.
Tell us what's broken. We'll show you what fixing it looks like.
Walk us through your stack and your pain points. We map the engagement and outline the path from there. Paid Discovery scopes the SOW, blueprint, and timeline.