Development Management Platform
Never start from scratch again. Giraffe Developer connects every step from discovery to delivery in an efficient, repeatable process.
Click a column to move the deal
This is the core of Giraffe. One project carries the whole workflow — the site, the design, the numbers and the report are the same data model.
Nothing is handed off and rebuilt. The massing you draw at design options is what the feasibility measures, and what the investment case renders.
So a late change is a change, not a restart. Click any column to hold the deal there.
The Problem:
Every project, even if it never moves forward, takes effort and slow, pricey consultants just to determine viability.
This manual, disconnected work is so slow that others win deals faster than your team can even submit a bid.
Bids you do win might turn out to be bad investments because you couldn’t see the full picture without a system.
Introducing Giraffe
1. Pipeline
2. Due Diligence
3. Design Options
4. Feasibility
5. Investment Case
Case study · Trammell Crow Company
In 2021 Giraffe was rolled out to all of Trammell Crow Company’s offices across the U.S. Having Giraffe in the development team’s hands has saved weeks of work across hundreds of projects a year.
“Our ability to assess a site went from weeks to hours with virtually no consultant involvement.”Andrew WallaceSenior Development Manager, Trammell Crow Company
Find sites, confirm viability, model yields, and prep for the investment committee.
Learn more →Move from regional investment thesis to viable opportunities in minutes.
Learn more →Determine commercial feasibility in hours, not weeks, by reducing reliance on consultants.
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Learn more →Find sites for solar and battery projects, evaluate constraints, and compare scenarios in one place.
Learn more →Plan large-scale developments, explore different land use scenarios, and evaluate their feasibility.
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Giraffe is a software platform you can start using today.
If you would like help, our team of forward deployed engineers (FDEs) can help you strategise, prototype and productionise a custom development management system.
You can buy the software and start building your system yourselves. Many teams do.
If you would like our help, we recommend starting with a two-week prototype sprint. We take one real workflow, such as residential concept feasibility, and configure it around your data layers, design standards and assumptions on a live site. We then compare the results against your existing feasibility approach, so you're judging it against your own benchmark.
You finish with a working prototype, validated against your existing approach, and a clear path to production.
Keep the spreadsheet if you want it. Giraffe connects the design to the feasibility while it's still moving.
The areas come directly from a massing model on the actual site, so moving a setback or adding a storey updates the feasibility instead of starting another version of the file. The massing, area schedule and cashflow are one model, not three files somebody has to reconcile.
Your assumptions stay visible and under your control, and you can export models and financials whenever you need them. Keep the tools you trust; change how the inputs get there.
It finds parcels that match your criteria, pulls details out of broker PDFs, generates layouts against your rules and creates slides for your investment paper.
It doesn't make the investment decision, and it doesn't replace your architect. It reduces the need to commission repeated test-fit rounds for sites that never proceed.
When a site goes ahead, you can continue developing the design in Giraffe or export it to CAD or BIM for detailed design. Your architect can pick up where you've left off, rather than starting again from a sketch.
Giraffe includes thousands of searchable layers across hundreds of cities, including parcels, zoning, contours and other spatial data. You can bring your own data, and enterprise teams can connect internal sources directly.
Every number traces back to an input you control, sitting next to the output it produces. That's the only way a feasibility survives a room of people who disagree.
Giraffe is SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 certified, and your data isn't used to train AI models.
Yes. Giraffe is designed to adapt to how your business operates. Your data layers, design standards, screening criteria and feasibility methodology can all become part of the system, so your team applies the same logic across every site.
You can also build custom apps against the JavaScript SDK, connecting internal data sources and extending Giraffe with your own workflows and financial models. Or have our team build them with you.
The result is a system that reflects how your business makes decisions, rather than another tool your team has to work around.
Prototype sprints start from $10k. Over two weeks, we configure one workflow around your own standards and test it on a real site, so you can see what works before committing to anything more.
From there, pricing depends on the number of users, the capabilities you need and how much custom development is involved. We scope the platform licence, custom apps and ongoing development around what the sprint proves.
Yes. You can start with a free two-week trial of Giraffe Design to track sites, run massing studies and do high-level feasibilities, with no credit card required.
Individual plans start at $45/month. Team plans, which include private apps, are $2,250 per user per year for businesses with 5 or fewer staff in total; larger organisations move to enterprise pricing. Talk to us →
