AI-native intelligence from site selection to stabilization.
Elevation combines two decades of institutional real estate execution with enterprise-grade AI to give developers, investors, and GPs the decision intelligence they need — across acquisitions, capital deployment, and portfolio performance.
Not bolted-on AI. Not another dashboard. A purpose-built operating system that understands real estate the way an experienced developer does — and moves at machine speed.
Alpha Platform
Acquisition Intelligence
Project Intelligence
Full Lifecycle Platform
Merchant multifamily development and value-add acquisition across Chicago and primary midwest markets. Ground-up to stabilization with institutional capital partners who require GP-level execution and oversight.
Specialized acquisition and leasing of large-format commercial real estate for experiential sports and activity operators. Site selection, lease negotiation, and acquisition execution for franchise and independent venue expansion across the midwest.
Enterprise architecture across cable, aviation, and banking. Designed United Airlines' first interactive web platform. Built the online intelligence layer above First Chicago's legacy treasury systems.
$1.2B+ in transactions across multifamily development, acquisition, and capitalization. Deep expertise in TIF structures, municipal finance, ground-up development, and capital stack design.
Co-founded and scaled a healthcare services company to 20+ providers. Built operational systems, managed regulatory complexity, and drove sustained growth across a decade of operations.
Bringing enterprise systems thinking to real estate intelligence. The same architectural instinct that modernized legacy banking infrastructure — applied to the development lifecycle.
The founders who build enduring real estate platforms are not pure technologists, and not pure operators. They are the rare individuals who have lived both — deeply enough to know where the real friction lives.
"The same systems thinking and operational discipline that helped scale the world's largest behavioral health platform from $40M to a global enterprise — now applied to building the intelligence layer for real estate."
Ron Plonis — Founder, Elevation Real Estate IntelligenceThe best mid-size developers aren't looking to just hire a VP Investments. They're looking to build a repeatable acquisition machine — one that scales with deal flow, not with overhead. Elevation gives your leaner team the infrastructure to operate like an institutional investment shop from day one.
We aren't just looking for a role — we're looking for a strategic partner to help build the systems that define our future success.
— VP Investments search brief, mid-size Chicago multifamily developerNot a SaaS platform with AI bolted on. An AI-native system that understands project context, document relationships, and financial state — and reasons across all of them simultaneously.
Existing tools — Excel, Procore, QuickBooks, email — stay in place. Elevation builds the intelligence layer above them: ingesting, interpreting, and surfacing decisions from what already exists.
Every artifact, workflow, and decision connects to a project. Not transactions, tasks, or units. The project entity is the organizing principle — the same way experienced developers think.
Elevation is actively pursuing co-GP multifamily acquisitions and commercial site selection across the midwest. If you're a capital partner looking for operator-grade execution with AI-powered intelligence, let's talk.
ron@elevationrealestate.ai · 312-248-1444 · Chicago, Illinois