PocketBuildings

San Francisco,  CA 
United States
http://www.pocketbuildings.com
  • Booth: 851


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Who is PocketBuildings?

PocketBuildings is a B2B SaaS application designed for commercial real estate professionals. Our platform helps landlords, tenants, and brokers bundle, curate, and share their building plans and rich media. This enables users to streamline communications when developing, managing, or transacting. Founded with a mission to make it ridiculously easy 

to organize and share your building visual information. The company provides an easy-to-use, intuitive platform that empowers commercial real estate professionals to work more efficiently.


 Press Releases

  • Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur: Bryan Chong from PocketBuildings

    Who are you and what do you do?

    Thanks for including me as part of this series. My name’s Bryan Chong and I’m the co-founder and CEO of PocketBuildings. PocketBuildings is a platform that allows commercial real estate professionals to develop, manage, and transact faster by organizing the extensive visual content for their portfolios

    What problem does your product/service solve?

    Not long ago, visual information for a building consisted of paper plans and photographs. Now there are AutoCAD files, drone videos, 360 photos, 3D models, virtual tours, time-lapse photography, not to mention the new technologies on the horizon.

    When my co-founder, Greg Moulton, and I were working together at a Google spinoff, we saw CRE companies having real difficulties managing all this new visual information. Files were everywhere — with the architect, the property manager, the broker, the photographer, corporate drives, or in random Dropbox accounts. Even when the files could be located, the user often lacked the needed software to open them or the access links were expired. Hosting and sharing visual data is an ongoing problem for commercial real estate professionals, so we created PocketBuildings.

    PocketBuildings is a user-friendly platform where CRE companies upload their visual content – floor plans, photos, videos – to create building profiles. We’ve eliminated the constant searching and emailing to track down information. Everything is stored in one easy-to-access location that is secure, visually appealing, and simple to share.

    What are you most excited about right now?

    It’s such an exciting time to be in real estate technology. I’m most excited about the iPhone 12 Pro. When Apple added lidar, it marked the beginning of reality capture for the masses. No longer do you need to be an engineer or architect to have access to the technology needed to digitize your building. There’s a growing trend of remotely performing tasks – like measurements, estimates, and due diligence – and the new iPhone capabilities will help accelerate digitally showcasing and visually sharing information about a property.

    What’s next for you?

    We’re very excited about the release of our mobile app next month. Afterward, we’re turning our attention to building customized tools that allow CRE professionals to quickly and easily perform their unique day-to-day tasks. When people see PocketBuildings for the first time, they often envision using it for a unique purpose. What someone in marketing might do with a building’s visual data is quite different from someone in asset management, property management, or design and construction. Our platform will be easily customizable to meet different users’ needs.

    What’s a cause you’re passionate about and why?

    I’ve always been passionate about building design and town planning. For the past 13 years, I’ve been a volunteer member of my town’s Design Review Board. The board serves the citizens of the community and through it I can “think globally, act locally” – a concept attributed to town planner and social activist Patrick Geddes. Long before governments began enforcing environmental laws, individuals were coming together as part of grassroots efforts to protect habitats and the organisms that live within them. It’s been immensely rewarding to be involved with town planning in my local community.

    https://www.pocketbuildings.com/blog/real-estate-tech-entrepreneur-bryan-chong-from-pocketbuildings

  • Hi All,

    How do you add value to commercial real estate prospects so that they engage you to shoot ...

    ✓ Matterport digital twins
    ✓ photos
    ✓ video
    ✓ provide 2D schematic floor plans
    ✓ provide other digital assets

    Answer: PocketBuildings!

    On WGAN-TV Live at 5 on Wednesday, 3 March 2021 watch:

    ✓ Intro to PocketBuildings for Matterport Service Providers (How to Make Money!)

    PocketBuildings Co-Founder and Senior Vice President Gregory Moulton will demo the PocketBuildings platform for bundling, curating and sharing:

    ✓ Matterport digital twins (as well as RICOH Tours, HaloBuilder and other 3D/360 content)
    ✓ Photos (jpg)
    ✓ Video (YouTube, Vimeo, mp4)
    ✓ Floor Plans
    ✓ AEC Files (SketchUp, Revit, AutoCAD, Point Clouds (las, rcs, e57), Visio and DWG files)
    ✓ Description (Text, doc, ppt, xls, pdf)

    Big Picture Discussion

    1. problems PocketBuildings solves for commercial real estate
    2. Opportunities for Matterport Service Providers
    3. Demo PocketBuildings - front-end user experience
    4. Demo PocketBuildings - back-end for bundling, curating and sharing digital assets.

    Plus, sharing by PortfolioBuilding and Content Bundles for use cases such as:

    ✓ leasing info for Broker
    ✓ sales info Broker
    ✓ marketing (advertising, social media marketing)
    ✓ AEC (ArchitectsEngineers and Construction)
    ✓ Facilities Management
    ✓ Building Plans
    ✓ As-Builts

    PocketBuildings Back-End Demo

    ✓ How to Create a Portfolio
    ✓ How to Create a Building
    ✓ How to Upload
    1. Matterport
    2. Photos (also via seamless integrations with: Dropbox, OneDrive and Box)
    3. Video
    4. Floor Plans
    5. AEC Files
    6. Description / Text
    7. Links

    And, Sharing Permissions (ViewerSubscriberMember and Contributor)

    By the end of WGAN-TV Live at 5, you will understand how to leverage PocketBuildings to add value to commercial real estate prospects so that they engage you to shoot Matterport digital twins; photos and videos and to provide 2D schematic floor plans and other digital assets; and how to upload and share the digital assets to help your commercial real estate clients.

    Questions that I should ask Greg?

    Best,

    Dan

    https://www.pocketbuildings.com/blog/wgan-tv-intro-to-pocketbuildings-for-matterport-service-providers-make