Trammell Crow Company 'Weeks to hours'

• Weeks of site assessment cut to hours
• Rollout to all TCC US offices
• No consultants needed for site review

TCC's development team needed a tool set that gave them an edge when exploring new development opportunities, especially since they would often review dozens of sites at a time to find the best option. Giraffe let the team analyze opportunities at a much faster speed, and its ease of integration into TCC's existing deal flow systems meant development staff could adopt it without disrupting how they already worked.

Beyond speed, Giraffe gave TCC's pursuit teams a shared visual language for evaluating sites, which reduced the risk of ideas getting lost in translation between team members. That combination of faster analysis and clearer communication is what convinced TCC to move Giraffe from a pilot program into a company-wide rollout across all of its U.S. offices.

TCC's development teams regularly needed to review dozens of potential sites at once, but evaluating that many opportunities manually meant each site assessment could take weeks to complete. That pace was difficult to reconcile with deal timelines that often moved much faster, putting pressure on teams to move quickly without cutting corners on due diligence.

Relying heavily on outside consultants for feasibility work also added cost and time to the process, and the traditional format of static reports and spreadsheets made it easy for ideas and context to get lost in translation between team members working on the same pursuit.

Before adopting Giraffe, TCC's development teams assessed potential sites manually, reviewing dozens of properties at a time with heavy reliance on outside consultants to evaluate feasibility and support decision-making. That process could take weeks per site, especially when comparing many opportunities across a market at once.

TCC needed a tool set that gave its team an edge when exploring opportunities without slowing down deal timelines that were often measured in days rather than months, but the manual review process made that difficult to sustain as the company pursued more sites at once.

Giraffe's biggest impact for TCC has been speed: site assessments that once took weeks now take hours, with virtually no consultant involvement required. That time savings compounds significantly at TCC's scale, saving development teams weeks of work across hundreds of projects a year, which the company estimates translates into several years' worth of development time recovered in a single year.

Beyond raw time savings, Giraffe has become a powerful communication device for TCC's pursuit teams, bringing visual clarity to the site evaluation process and helping prevent ideas from getting lost in translation between team members. After a six-month pilot, the tool's success led TCC to roll Giraffe out to all of its offices across the U.S., making it a standard part of how the company evaluates new development opportunities.

Giraffe is a real estate development platform used for site analysis and feasibility assessment. Dusti Wofford, Head of TCC Digital & Technology at CBRE (TCC's parent company), spoke to the broader value of the rollout beyond the development team's own workflow.

"We chose Giraffe due to the partnership they offered TCC to help automate what was previously a manual and time-consuming process for our development teams. We were able to easily integrate the Giraffe technology into our current deal flow systems, which saved valuable time for all of our teams and resulted in more efficient outcomes for our business and elevated some of our processes from an IT perspective." – Dusti Wofford, Head of TCC Digital & Technology, CBRE