Cambio
Also known as: Cambio.ai, Cambio AI
Cambio is an AI native commercial real estate operations platform, built by former institutional investors, that uses large language models and agentic workflows to reason across thousands of pages of unstructured building data, automate compliance reporting, and surface ROI ranked retrofit investments across entire portfolios.
Cambio is the AI native commercial real estate operations platform, founded in 2022 by Leia de Guzman, formerly Investments Director for Oxford Properties Group and OMERS, and Stephanie Grayson, who launched platforms at Goldman Sachs, KKR, and JPMorgan, who met while earning their masters degrees at Stanford. The company went through Y Combinator in summer 2022, spent time in research mode, and announced its public launch alongside an eighteen million dollar Series A on January 22, 2026, led by Maverick Ventures at a one hundred million dollar valuation, with total funding of about twenty two million dollars and angels drawn from OpenAI, Anthropic, Notion, and other technology leaders.
The product is built from the ground up around agentic AI rather than the static rules and manual inputs of legacy real estate software. Cambio uses large language models and agentic workflows to reason across thousands of pages of unstructured building data, run multi step analyses, and continuously adapt as regulations, assets, and market conditions change, compressing months of manual review into minutes. For asset managers, sustainability leaders, investors, and property managers, it unifies building data, automates compliance reporting, and identifies ROI ranked retrofit investment opportunities across hundreds or thousands of buildings at once.
The platform ingests building attributes like age, asset class, size, and location, assesses performance, flags retrofit potential, and generates capital expenditure strategies, reframing regulatory compliance from a static reporting obligation into a continuously learning decision engine. Cambio is SOC 2 Type II compliant, ISO 27001 certified, and built to meet GDPR requirements. It counts among its customers Principal Real Estate, Nuveen Real Estate, BGO, LaSalle Investment Management, Oxford Properties Group, Madison International Realty, and Beacon Capital Partners, and has launched across more than thirty five countries and over two billion square feet of assets.
Cambio fits institutional commercial real estate investors, private equity real estate firms, and asset managers who need to turn sprawling building data into investment grade capital planning and compliance decisions. It runs an enterprise SaaS model and is a weaker fit for buyers wanting published pricing or a self serve product.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.cambio.ai
Category
Enterprise operations agent
Subcategory
Agentic AI for commercial real estate capital planning and compliance
Funding status
Cambio is independent. It was founded in 2022 by co founders Leia de Guzman, formerly Investments Director for Oxford Properties Group and OMERS where she deployed eight billion dollars globally, and Stephanie Grayson, who launched platforms at Goldman Sachs, KKR, and JPMorgan; the two met at Stanford. It took part in Y Combinator's summer 2022 cohort, then announced its public launch and an eighteen million dollar Series A on January 22, 2026 led by Maverick Ventures at a one hundred million dollar valuation, bringing total funding to about twenty two million dollars. Investors include Y Combinator, Adverb Ventures, Peterson Ventures, and angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, Notion, Procore, Vanta, Vercel, ServiceNow, and Amplitude. It has roughly sixty employees and is headquartered in San Francisco with a London office. The CTO is Leon Chen, formerly of Faire.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Cambio automatically ingests a wide array of building data from diverse property sources including spreadsheets, PDFs, invoices, utility bills, energy audits, regulatory filings, and building assessments, harmonizing thousands of pages of unstructured documents into structured, investor grade inputs. It is deployed across portfolios in more than thirty five countries covering over two billion square feet of assets.
In practice
An asset manager holds thousands of buildings and no practical way to see which retrofits pay off. Cambio ingests the unstructured building data, ranks retrofit opportunities by ROI, and generates capex strategies in minutes instead of months.
A compliance deadline looms across a multi country portfolio. Cambio automates the reporting and adapts continuously as regulations shift, turning a static obligation into an ongoing decision engine.
A fund evaluating a portfolio acquisition needs investment grade analysis of building performance fast. Cambio reasons across spreadsheets, PDFs, invoices, and energy audits to deliver a defensible view of decarbonization potential and returns.
Sources & related URLs
Related / legacy domains
Research sources
Agentic Index coverage score
6.5 / 14 capabilities · 46%
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Cambio documents a named set of integrations: thousands of utility providers, EnergyStar Portfolio Manager, property management systems and the customer's corporate data lake, connected through API connections and multi language OCR with live data and no manual uploads, plus automated data collection from stakeholders and tenants. Most of what is documented brings data into Cambio, and no custom tool framework is described. SourceCambio, cambio.ai/platform and cambio.airead 2026-09-06 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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The homepage documents a five step workflow from ingestion through retrofit identification, compliance reporting, integration and escalation, and the launch announcement on the vendor's own news page describes agentic workflows that run multi step analyses and update outputs as regulations and asset data change. No named runtime or customer facing workflow builder is documented. SourceCambio, cambio.ai and cambio.ai/news/series-aread 2026-09-06 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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Building data from utility bills, energy audits, drawings and property systems is ingested with quality validation into a single system of record spanning 12,201 buildings and 2 billion square feet, held persistently and queried for retrofit recommendations, performance tracking and framework reporting. How retrieval itself works is not described. SourceCambio, cambio.ai/platform and cambio.airead 2026-09-06 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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The homepage's how it works sequence includes an Escalation and collaboration step in which the platform automatically collects data from key stakeholders, routes decisions for approval and coordinates implementation across asset management, property management and engineering, and retrofit recommendations are surfaced for the investor to act on. The approval step appears in that one feature description only; how approvals are configured and what guardrails bound the agents are not detailed. SourceCambio, cambio.airead 2026-09-06 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Partial |
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Cambio's security page and homepage state SOC 2 Type II with the audit report available on request (partnered with Vanta), ISO 27001 certification and GDPR aligned handling, though the security page's own meta description still reads SOC 2 Type 1. The access controls documented (least privilege for employees, AWS IAM for Cambio's infrastructure) govern the vendor's own staff, and no customer facing SSO, SAML or SCIM, roles or permissions are documented. SourceCambio, cambio.ai/securityread 2026-09-06 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Partial |
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Performance dashboards visualize targets and monitor progress, and reporting is described as audit ready. That is reporting on portfolio outcomes, not a reconstructable record of what the agent did, and no agent level run trace or action log is documented. SourceCambio, cambio.ai/platformread 2026-09-06 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Not documented |
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No memory layer with a stated scope and lifetime and no conversational session state is documented. The platform is a system of record over the portfolio, and the launch announcement describes a continuously learning decision engine, but learning absorbed into a recommendation model is not a memory layer, and the portfolio dataset is the application's data model. SourceCambio, cambio.ai/platformread 2026-09-06 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Not documented |
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No hosting region, region selection, VPC, on premise or customer tenant option is documented: the security page states all Cambio environments are hosted on AWS, and GDPR alignment is legal cover rather than residency. SourceCambio, cambio.ai/securityread 2026-09-06 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Full |
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Cambio ships a named set of prebuilt reporting templates the customer selects among: GRESB and CRREM, TCFD and SFDR, EPC and EnergyStar reports, each generated at the click of a button, and Cambio is an official GRESB partner. Each framework report does its own job without the others. The four solution pages (asset management, sustainability, investments, property management) are persona views of one platform rather than separate packs. SourceCambio, cambio.ai/platformread 2026-09-06 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Partial |
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Work reaches the platform through live utility and EnergyStar data feeds with no manual uploads, automatic data collection from stakeholders and tenants, and outputs that update as regulations change. No schedules, webhooks, event subscriptions or inbound channels are documented as such. SourceCambio, cambio.ai/platformread 2026-09-06 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Not documented |
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The platform is described as using large language models, but no model provider is named on the site or the security page and no customer or admin model selection is documented. SourceCambio, cambio.ai/security and cambio.ai/news/series-aread 2026-09-06 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Not documented |
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No API, SDK, MCP server or developer documentation for calling the Cambio platform is published, and the footer carries no developer link. The only API mentioned is inbound: Cambio connecting to the customer's data lake and utility providers to pull data, which is integration rather than a way to build on Cambio. SourceCambio, cambio.ai/platformread 2026-09-06 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Not documented |
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No evaluation harness, test cases or optimization loop is documented. Built in quality validation on ingested data checks the customer's inputs, not the agent. SourceCambio, cambio.ai/platformread 2026-09-06 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Not documented |
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SourceNo browser or computer use capability is described on the vendor's pages, cambio.ai retrievedread 2026-07-08 |
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The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded
Pricing
No public pricing; enterprise SaaS contracts are quoted through sales
enterprise SaaS; axis not published, likely scales with portfolio size and buildings under management
What is public
Nothing numeric is public. The company confirms an enterprise SaaS revenue model and describes its products, customers, and scale, but publishes no rates.
Billing mechanics
Cambio runs an enterprise SaaS model, sold directly to institutional real estate investors, private equity firms, and asset managers.
Cost watchouts
As a portfolio scale platform, cost likely tracks the number of buildings, square footage, and geographies under management, so large multi country estates should expect contracts to scale accordingly.
Variable cost rationale
No public rates exist. As an enterprise SaaS platform operating at portfolio scale across thousands of buildings and billions of square feet, cost presumably scales with the size of the managed estate rather than pure usage, but the company publishes no mechanics, so treat exposure as unquantified and quoted per deal.
Additional watchouts
Deployments span portfolios across more than thirty five countries and over two billion square feet. Inference, not stated by the vendor: scope and pricing scale with the size of the estate rather than a flat platform fee.
Sales call required
Yes, required for paid access
Free / trial
No free tier or trial is documented on retrieved pages
Key ambiguities
It is not stated whether pricing scales by buildings, square footage, assets under management, or seats.
Missing data
No rates, tiers, minimums, or contract terms are published.
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Alternatives to Cambio
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- Pennant Technologies6.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Cambio
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- Alloy.ai8.0 / 14Adds documented APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility
- Deposco6.0 / 14Adds documented APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility
Similarity is computed from each vendor's Agentic Index coverage score evidence, axis by axis, not from the totals. How this evidence is graded