Giraffe is a spatial planning and feasibility platform for real estate development. It serves developers, architects, planners and government land teams, and pairs the software with professional services and custom apps built on the platform. Platform plus services. Professional services encode a client's building types and financial logic, and custom apps are commissioned on Giraffe.
TCC's development teams often reviewed dozens of sites at a time to find the best option, a manual, time-consuming process typically requiring outside consultant.
HKS's static planning documents took ~5 months to produce and were often outdated by delivery in a fast-changing downtown.
Traditionally an architect makes a plan, sends it to a cost estimator, and the revenue side is evaluated separately, a slow, siloed sequence.
Government agencies used inconsistent, broadly manual, inflexible methods for land-use analysis, individual searches across distinct databases, often outsourced to.
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