Over the past two years, we've been compiling Thesis Driven's Real Estate Operator Database, the largest data set of active real estate developers and operators out there. 8,500+ firms and 72,000+ principals with contact information as well as details on each operator's asset classes, markets, recent events, and much more. All curated by hand.
Today, we're making it available for all database subscribers in API format. You can now connect directly to our full dataset and pull it directly into your CRM or whatever you're building.
NB: our operator database is a separate login and subscription from the Thesis Driven newsletter you're currently reading.
Why it matters
The Operator Database has always been a tool you log into. The API makes it infrastructure you build on. While we built it with vendors in mind, we've also seen great use cases from capital markets and investment sales brokers as well as real estate investors.
Through the API, your CRM stays enriched without manual updates, your platform gets contact data embedded directly, and your AI workflows get clean, structured data on demand. No more exporting CSVs, importing them somewhere else, and hoping the data syncs.
What it looks like in practice
Jeff Hoch's team at ePropertyCare already tracks the multifamily development pipeline in real time through their internal platform. Hoch's team layered our API on top to enrich that pipeline with contact data, then used it to generate outreach that actually gets read.
Instead of generic cold emails, his sales team now sends messages that reference a prospect's recent capital raise, a new groundbreaking in their market, or a regulatory shift hitting their portfolio directly.
His words: "just checking in" vs. showing up with something worth reading.
He built this in one day.
Get started
If you are already a database subscriber, API key is waiting in your account dashboard. [Documentation is here.]
Once you've built something with it, reply to this email. We're featuring use cases in a newsletter next month and want to hear what you're working on.
If you'd like to learn more about the database, you can request a demo here.
