About
Operators building technology for operators.
RealQuant Labs is the firm we wished existed when we were on the buy side. We build the data infrastructure, agents, and software that let CRE teams operate at institutional scale without consultant overhead.
Founder
Zachary Shapiro
Founder & CEO, RealQuant Labs
12+ years in institutional real estate private equity across multifamily, self-storage, industrial, office, and mixed-use. Underwrote, closed, and asset-managed at operating platforms backed by Blackstone, Ares, and Angelo Gordon. Personally involved in 150+ transactions representing $11.2B in aggregate deal volume across those prior roles.
At every firm, built the tools that didn't exist: underwriting models, data pipelines, reporting infrastructure, deal tracking systems. Tools that saved teams thousands of hours and millions of dollars in operational overhead. Got tired of waiting for vendors to build what operators actually need.
RealQuant Labs exists because most CRE software is built by consultants who have never run a portfolio, or by platform vendors who optimize for their own roadmap. Operators need tools that match how deals, IC, and asset management actually work. That is what we build.
How we deliver
Forward-deployed engineers. Operator-grade customer success.
Forward-deployed engineers
Our engineers embed with your team during build. They sit in your workflows, pair with your analysts, and ship alongside your operators. Not a ticket queue after handoff. The model produces faster iteration, better-fit deliverables, and real knowledge transfer.
Operator-grade customer success
Customer success is led by real estate operators who sit at the intersection of investing, tech, and AI. They speak your language: deals, DCFs, schedules of REO, leasing, cap rates, waterfalls. You are not explaining commercial real estate fundamentals to a generic SaaS account manager.
Deployed in your cloud
In-tenant engagements deploy into your Microsoft Azure tenant. Your data stays in your tenant and never routes through ours. Full access to everything built for your firm.
Templated, then customized
A library of pre-built CRE workflows and templates from our own deal experience. Each engagement starts on a modular foundation that we tailor to your firm, multiples faster than a pure consultancy build.
Principles
How we think about CRE technology.
1. Infrastructure before agents.
Every AI agent in a CRE firm depends on clean, governed data underneath. Most firms skip the Foundation and deploy agents on top of spreadsheets. The agents break on the second question. We build the data layer first, always.
2. Custom infrastructure, not custom software.
Every firm wants custom outcomes. Nobody wants a 12-month custom build. We bring a templated CRE stack that collapses the timeline. SOW and timeline are locked during a paid discovery phase. Control of custom, speed of a platform.
3. Agents are a UX layer, not a magic layer.
An agent is only as good as the data layer underneath. The agent is the interface; the governed warehouse, ontology, and CRE definitions are the reason it works. Most CRE AI tools skip that layer and wire agents to raw data. That is why they hallucinate and miss context.
4. Grow AUM without growing headcount.
The point of this work is not to sell more software. The point is to let a team that ran 36 properties run 180 with the same people. Our case studies prove it has been done. Every engagement we design is built around that outcome.
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.