This is how CFP is using AI to build the next generation of real estate software
Artificial Intelligence is not only transforming the real estate sector, but also the way organisations operate. While CEO Bram Adema explains the impact AI is having on the sector in the article ‘The real challenge for AI in real estate is not AI’, CTO Jarno Schimmelpennink demonstrates how CFP Green Buildings is already putting these developments into practice today.
Within CFP, AI has become an integral part of software development, business processes and ongoing product innovation. Not as an end in itself, but as a way to accelerate innovation, support employees more effectively and help clients make better decisions.
According to CTO Jarno Schimmelpennink, the greatest value of AI lies not in replacing people, but in enhancing their expertise. “We continuously look for opportunities where AI can make our work smarter. Sometimes this means major innovations within our software, and sometimes it involves small improvements that save colleagues time every day.”
AI accelerates software development
Within the development team, AI supports software engineers in testing, optimising and documenting code. This enables new functionalities to be developed more quickly and creates more time for innovation.
Software changes are also increasingly supported by AI. CFP follows extensive quality assurance and compliance processes. AI helps document changes in a structured way, keep documentation up to date and automatically create new development tasks in line with internal procedures.
AI supports business processes
AI is also playing an increasingly important role beyond software development. It supports employees with research, documentation, analyses and internal knowledge sharing. One practical example is the management of energy prices used within the Green Buildings Tool. With the help of AI, CFP has automated this process, ensuring that energy prices are updated automatically every day. This provides more up-to-date data and improves the quality of the insights generated.
AI also supports the development of internal tools that make business processes more efficient. Examples include applications for time registration and other recurring tasks. This creates more capacity for work where human expertise truly adds value.
“For CFP, AI is not an objective in itself. The real innovation lies in what it enables for colleagues and clients.”
AI makes the Green Buildings Tool smarter
According to Jarno, the greatest opportunities lie in the further development of the Green Buildings Tool. One of the most significant innovations is the continued development of the Green Buildings Tool with AI-assisted functionality. Rather than simply presenting data, AI will actively help users interpret building information, plan sustainability measures and substantiate decisions. These recommendations will be based on current and validated building data. According to CFP, this combination of AI and reliable, validated data is essential for responsible AI applications in real estate.
CFP is also exploring how AI can help enrich building data automatically. Examples include identifying solar panels from aerial imagery, automatically supplementing building characteristics and making complete datasets available more quickly. This allows analyses to be carried out sooner and provides users with reliable insights faster.
According to Jarno, one principle remains central: “The power lies not only in AI itself, but particularly in the combination of AI and validated building data. Only then can you genuinely support users in making important decisions.”
With the development of NXTBLDNG, this data foundation will be strengthened further in the coming years. By combining AI with current building data, digital twins and hundreds of validated building characteristics, CFP is creating a foundation that enables AI not only to analyse but also to provide transparent and traceable recommendations. This marks the next step towards AI solutions that support users in addressing complex challenges relating to sustainability, financing, risk management and asset management.
Read in this article how NXTBLDNG is responding to the future of AI in the real estate sector.
Technology that makes a difference
For Jarno, AI is not an end in itself, but a means of making software and processes smarter. This philosophy forms the foundation of how CFP applies AI. From software development and internal processes to the Green Buildings Tool, the focus is always on where AI can demonstrably add value for both colleagues and clients.
Developments are moving at an extraordinary pace. That is why CFP continues to invest in new AI applications and in the further development of software that helps real estate professionals address increasingly complex challenges. Always with the same objective: using technology to help users make faster, smarter and better-informed decisions.
