◗ The platform for developers and owners
The platform for the people who decide what gets built.
Most AEC software is for the people who deliver projects — architects, contractors, and consultants. DATUM is built for the developers and owners who originate them — and puts the information they need at their fingertips. One connected record, from proforma through operations.
The industry built tools for the people who deliver projects. Not the people who decide what gets built.
Procore. Autodesk. Bluebeam. Trimble. The software that runs a modern project was built for the supply side — the architects, contractors, and consultants who deliver the work to a developer's plan.
Developers and owners originate projects, allocate capital, and decide what gets built. They run it on a patchwork — a point tool for one phase, a spreadsheet for the next, email for the gaps. The software was written for the hands; the head of the work was left to stitch it together.
The tools aimed at their side tend to own a single slice. Yardi runs the operations; a wave of newer platforms takes the deal pipeline or the cost report. Each is good at its phase — but few carry one project from proforma through operations in a single record. That's not a tools gap. It's a thesis gap. Most of the industry treats demand as solved. We don't.
“AEC tech bakes the pie faster. DATUM helps you bake more pies.”
“I trained as an architect. I learned early that we were optimizing ourselves out of business — making the supply side more efficient while no one was working on the demand side. So I crossed over and became a developer, to figure out how the other half actually works. DATUM is what came out of that — the tool I wish I'd had on the days I was deciding what to build, not just how to build it.”
— Lee Devore, Co-founder
One record, proforma through operations.
Most platforms own one phase. DATUM carries the project across every handoff — each phase opens populated with everything the last one knew.
- Phase 01Proforma
Underwriting · capital stack · returns
- Phase 02Design
Submittals · RFIs · spec traceability
- Phase 03Procurement
RFP · bid leveling · award
- Phase 04Construction
Budget · contracts · change orders
- Phase 05Draws
G702/G703 · lender approval
- Phase 06Closeout
Punch · warranties · COBie
- Phase 07Operations
Rent roll · NOI · lease abstraction
The full lifecycle. Proforma through operations.
These aren't contractor tools. They're the owner's control layer over the same work — capital, exposure, and approvals, not field execution.
Underwriting, capital stack, returns. Condo waterfalls, LIHTC, ASPIRE, year-15 exits.
NYC property records, chain of title, and document analysis at your fingertips.
Entitlements, applications, permits. Track filings, approvals, and conditions across every agency.
GMP and SOV management. Variance against any version. Cost code rollups.
AIA / ConsensusDocs. PCO → COR → CO chain. Retainage, lien waivers, stored materials.
AIA G702/G703. Lender approval flow. Multi-source capital stack.
Cost + schedule + float impact. Routed approvals with budget forecasting.
Cost accounting, GMP tracking, schedule of values, commitments, and billings — the owner's read on the job-cost ledger.
RFP → bid leveling → award. Vendor engagement tracking. CSI alignment.
Notes, decisions, tasks, and meetings — all linked, all searchable, all actionable.
Dynamic plans auto-derived from specs. Spec-to-submittal traceability.
Punch lists, warranties, substantial completion. COBie handover ready.
Rent roll, NOI, lease abstraction. Multifamily unit-level data.
Your notes don't get stuck in a notebook. They become work.
Most platforms treat notes as a side channel — a place where context goes to die. DATUM captures every note, meeting, and decision and threads them into the project's actual work. A scribble from a site visit becomes an open task. A call with the lender becomes a decision on the record. The thinking and the doing live in the same place.
- Note
A scribble from a site visit. A line from a meeting.
- Task
Becomes an open task, assigned and tracked.
- Decision
A call with the lender becomes a decision on the record.
- Outcome
The thinking and the doing live in the same place.
Start with one project. Expand from there.
No big-bang migration. DATUM is priced per project precisely so you can start narrow and grow into the portfolio.
- — 01
Bring one project on
Start with a single active development — usually one mid-construction. Load the budget, contracts, and draws. No migration of the whole portfolio on day one.
- — 02
Let DATUM read your documents
Bid packages, pay applications, loan agreements — DATUM extracts structured data, every value cited back to its source page. You review and approve before anything posts.
- — 03
Run the lifecycle in one record
The proforma, the budget, the draws, and the operating model all read from the same project record. Each phase inherits what the last one knew.
Built for the people who originate projects.
Low-rise & mid-market developers
Owner-managed shops running 1–10 projects.
You wear every hat. DATUM gives you portfolio-level visibility without a controller's headcount — variance, draws, and exposure on one screen.
- →Per-project pricing, no per-seat fees
- →Budget → draws → operations in one record
- →AI extraction replaces the re-keying
Portfolio owners & capital allocators
Owners and funds running a portfolio across phases.
You manage capital across many projects and partners. See cost variance by line item across the whole book without asking anyone for a spreadsheet.
- →Cross-project KPIs and rollups
- →Integrated capital stack and returns
- →Multi-org permissions
Institutional & high-rise development
Institutions with compliance, single sign-on, and module needs.
You have governance requirements and custom workflows. Build private tools on the same shared record, with audit logs and single sign-on.
- →Single sign-on · audit logs
- →Developer kit + private tools
- →Connect your data to the open standard
Your data isn't locked into any vendor. Including us.
DATUM is built on an open standard called RELM, governed by a nonprofit consortium rather than by any one company. Your project record belongs to you, in a format anyone can read. You can take it with you at any time — there is no version of DATUM that owns your data.
Learn more →Built by a developer, for developers and owners. Not by a software company guessing at the workflow.
- SSO / SAML
- Audit logs
- Encrypted in transit & at rest
- Export to the open standard
- SOC 2 — on the roadmap
See the platform running.
We're working directly with a small number of developers and owners, with founder access. Bring one live project — fifty minutes, no pitch deck.