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Source and evaluate development opportunities

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What You Do Today

Identify potential development sites through market analysis, broker relationships, and off-market sourcing. Evaluate sites for zoning compatibility, environmental issues, infrastructure access, and market fit.

AI That Applies

AI analyzes market data, zoning maps, and demographic trends to identify high-potential development sites. Predictive models assess development feasibility based on comparable projects and market conditions.

Technologies

How It Works

The system ingests comparable projects and market conditions as its primary data source. The processing layer applies the appropriate analytical models to the structured data, generating scored outputs that surface the most actionable insights. The results integrate into the practitioner's existing workflow — presenting recommendations, flags, or automated outputs alongside their normal working context.

What Changes

Site identification becomes more data-driven with AI processing vast amounts of market, zoning, and demographic data.

What Stays

Seeing development potential where others don't, understanding community dynamics, and building relationships with land owners and brokers that surface off-market deals require vision and relationship skills.

What To Do Next

This section won't tell you what your numbers should be. It will show you how to find them yourself. Every instruction below produces a real, verifiable result in your organization. No benchmarks, no projections — just the steps to build your own evidence.

1

Establish Your Baseline

Know where you are before you move

Before adopting AI tools for source and evaluate development opportunities, understand your current state.

Map your current process: Document how source and evaluate development opportunities works today — who does what, how long it takes, where the bottlenecks are. You need this baseline to measure improvement.
Identify the judgment points: Seeing development potential where others don't, understanding community dynamics, and building relationships with land owners and brokers that surface off-market deals require vision and relationship skills. These are the boundaries AI won't cross.
Assess your data readiness: AI tools for this area need data to work. Check whether your organization has the historical data, integrations, and data quality to support CoStar tools.

Without a baseline, you can't measure whether AI actually improved anything. You'll adopt tools without knowing if they're working.

2

Define Your Measures

What to track and how to calculate it

Time per cycle

How to calculate

Measure how long source and evaluate development opportunities takes end-to-end today, then after AI adoption.

Why it matters

The most visible improvement is speed. If AI doesn't save time, question whether it's adding value.

Quality of output

How to calculate

Track error rates, rework frequency, or stakeholder satisfaction scores before and after.

Why it matters

Speed without quality is just faster mistakes. Measure both.

When to check: Check after 30 days of consistent use, then quarterly.
The commitment: Give new tools at least 30 days before judging. The first week is always awkward.
What NOT to measure: Don't measure AI adoption rate as a KPI. Adoption follows value — if the tool helps, people use it.
3

Start These Conversations

Who to talk to and what to ask

your VP Operations or COO

Which training programs have the highest completion rates, and which have the lowest — what's different?

They're prioritizing which operational processes to automate

your process improvement or lean lead

How do we currently assess whether training actually changed behavior on the job?

They understand the workflow dependencies that AI tools need to respect

4

Check Your Prerequisites

Confirm readiness before you invest

Check items as you confirm them.