"Tech Stack"... What do we have? What do we use? What is missing across the prop-tech landscape?
CRE folks...

*What technology / applications do you use regularly? Is it browser based? Is it proprietary? Is there anything vertically integrated?*

Because my current position *(which is development management at a small REPE / CRE Development firm in the states*) I've been lucky to use a slurry of products (MS Suite / Adobe Suite / Asana / VTS / CoStar / AvidExchange / Sage / Procore / Etc.) across phases from acquisition through entitlement, construction, and disposition. Also, my background is in architecture so I've also been deep into that side of the tech stack as well (AutoCad / Revit / Sketch Up / Etc).

I was recently put in charge of implementing some new software for the project management side of the house. The built world / commercial real estate seems to have endless need-specific enterprise-level solutions for underwriting, asset management, accounting, etc. and I'm sure I've only toyed with a few.

**I'm curious what everyone else uses, how reliant on it you are, and what field you're in!**

Lets hear from some brokers, capital markets folks, GCs, design side, lawyers, anyone who is willing to chip in.

Lastly please let me know what your missing!

Excited to hear your responses, and get a conversation rolling! Thanks in advance.
[{"id": "hqvlt2p", "text": "Excel is all knowing, all powerful. I need nothing else in my life other than excel (well and the basic ms suite - word and ppt).", "replies": [{"id": "hqvmyl6", "text": "I take it you're on the financial side?", "replies": [{"id": "hqvnp3i", "text": "Yes", "replies": [{"id": "hqvnsye", "text": "No Argus?", "replies": [{"id": "hqvpg78", "text": "I mean sure when I was younger. Not anymore.", "replies": [], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hqw2rhq", "text": "Procalc is basically an excel plugin", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hqz7u9f", "text": "Second this. Depending on your excel skills and various add-ins, you could do everything in excel. For example, we wanted to implement a project management software like SmartSheets, but my group just built some look up formulas to do the work. \n\nI work in our finance and accounting group. In 2022, we are going to implement \u201cspread sheet server\u201d, which talks to our accounting software (Yardi) with the hopes of closing books quicker.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hqvpen7", "text": "ask jeeves and my fx-300 ES Plus", "replies": [{"id": "hqvqncj", "text": "Why not just excel and duck duck go?", "replies": [{"id": "hqw98wt", "text": "Oh man, just did the upgrade to monterey and now excel is moving slow as balls, like unworkably slow\n\nSo back to the fx-300\n\n&amp;#x200B;\n\nHere's a huge tech innovation: when excel works properly on a mac,\n\n though I am pretty sure they intentionally fuck these things up to force you into buying a windows machine", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hqw2z1a", "text": "We use Smartsheet a lot. Also work for a development firm on us. We have a template for projects we use and plug\nAway for CM", "replies": [{"id": "hqw43go", "text": "Our asset management team uses Smartsheets. They rave about it. Do you guys use the gantt charts?", "replies": [{"id": "hqxqxib", "text": "Dependes if we\u2019re using it strictly for schedules. If it\u2019s just as a task list then no", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hqw8gl0", "text": "Agent: Excel, LandVision and a desk phone is all you need.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hqwbks1", "text": "Mostly the back of a napkin. Don\u2019t know what suite of software that is though.", "replies": [{"id": "hqwdnig", "text": "I work for a fella now who likes it that way as well. There is some worry that we may shift away from the intuitive nature of development and become reliant on the data.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hqwjz3b", "text": "asana, excel, costar/propertyshark is all you need", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hs7thud", "text": "I strongly disagree that Excel is all you need. This was true 20 years ago in markets with limited competition. It's like telling a hedge fund not to use Bloomberg...\n\nTop solutions include: [Workspace](https://www.goworkspace.com/) for asset management / Moody's [REIS](https://cre.moodysanalytics.com/products/reis/) for traditional CRE data / [Whiterock AI](https://www.whiterock.ai/) for alternative data and trends.\n\nThen you have a dozens of data-specific providers (e.g. [Placer.ai](https://Placer.ai) for demographics, [Carto.com](https://Carto.com) for geospatial data etc).", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hs9x2rr", "text": "At the end of the day, deal details end up being defined through email and call :(", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]