Buildout
Buildout is a commercial real estate software platform for brokerages, combining CRM, listing marketing, prospecting, and back-office deal management in one connected suite used by tens of thousands of CRE brokers.
Best for: Commercial real estate brokerages and brokers managing listings, marketing, prospecting, and the full deal lifecycle in one platform.
Last reviewed 6/2/26
- Pricing
- Solutions starting at $125/user/month; priced per user seat and platform maintenance, with enterprise pricing for 100+ user brokerages. Full pricing via demo.
- Integrations
- Property types
- commercial, office, retail, industrial, multifamily
- Geography served
- United States
How Buildout uses AI[1][2][3]
Buildout applies AI across the CRE deal lifecycle for brokers. Its listing assistant "AL" drafts property and location descriptions using OpenAI's API and refines them as brokers edit. AI also surfaces likely-to-sell owners for prospecting, structures property and contact data automatically, and runs repeatable deal-stage tasks across one shared data layer.
- • AL listing assistant generates property and location descriptions via OpenAI's API and personalizes from broker edits
- • AI-assisted prospecting surfaces likely-to-sell property owners
- • Automatically structures property and contact data and propagates it across the deal lifecycle
- • Automates repeatable operational and deal-stage tasks within a unified CRM and marketing suite
AI type: Generative AI (OpenAI API) for content drafting plus AI-driven data structuring and workflow automation
Legacy platform API: unknown MCP: no
Key numbers[1][2]
- • Trusted by 50,000+ commercial real estate brokers nationwide
- • Acquired Apto (CRE CRM) and integrated it into its end-to-end deal engine
- • Notable brokerage clients include Coldwell Banker Commercial, Newmark, NAI Global, Lee & Associates, and SVN
Credibility[5][6][1]
- Founders
- Founded by Vishu Ramanathan and Jason Tillery (2010, Chicago).
- Customers
- Used by 50,000+ CRE brokers; clients include Coldwell Banker Commercial, Newmark, NAI Global, Lee & Associates, and SVN.
- Investors
- Backed by The Riverside Company and Susquehanna Growth Equity; ~$22M+ total funding raised.
Founded
2010
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Stage
Private equity-backed
Employees
100-250
Sources
- Buildout official site (AI brokerage solution, products, AI capabilities)
- Press: Buildout launches CRM, AI-powered end-to-end deal engine for CRE
- Blog: Meet AL, the AI assistant (OpenAI API, learns from broker edits)
- Buildout pricing page ($125/user/month starting)
- Crunchbase: Buildout funding and investors
- PitchBook: Buildout company profile (founding, employees)
- Buildout LinkedIn company page
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