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Volo Ventures × CBRE

Finding the
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An AI Strategy Session for CBRE Leadership

Clarity, Not Chaos

Big firm experience.
Without the theater.

Volo Ventures is a boutique strategic consulting firm with over 20 years of experience across Aviation, Travel & Hospitality, Financial Services, and Commercial Real Estate. We bring senior-led expertise and direct access without the overhead of large consulting structures.

We don't arrive with a 90-slide deck and a vague next steps section. We arrive with a point of view, a framework built on real experience, and a commitment to moving from identification to action fast. Straight talk. No corporate theater.

Today's session is about one thing: finding the signal in your operation. Where is friction stealing time? Where can AI create an asymmetric advantage for your team — starting now?

CRE Domain Expertise
We understand your world — BOVs, OMs, capital markets, investment committee timelines, BD cycles. We speak the language before we walk in the room.
Senior-Led
Every engagement is led by Michael Cattanach directly. No hand-offs to junior consultants. Twenty years of pattern recognition in the room.
Outcome-Focused
We wrap up when the job is done — not when the contract runs out. We're here to solve problems, not extend engagements.
FROM SIGNAL TO ACTION
We move from identification to action fast — delivering real results in real time, not slide decks and recommendations that sit on a shelf.
The Volo Ventures Framework

The Common Thread

Every decision — and every problem — has a common thread running through it. Four inputs. One signal. The clarity to act.

DATA EXPERIENCE EMOTION CONTEXT SIGNAL
01 / DATA
Anchors reality
What can be measured — and where measurement ends
02 / EXPERIENCE
Pattern recognition
Scar tissue that shapes — and biases — the read
03 / EMOTION
The human read
Most powerful when balanced. Most dangerous when not
04 / CONTEXT
Changes everything
The variable that shifts the weight of all others
→ SIGNAL

What allows a leader to identify, commit to, and secure the next waypoint forward.

The Noise Trap
You're not short on data. You're caught in it.

In commercial real estate, the arms and legs never stop moving. BOVs called by clients on short notice. Deadlines set externally. Emotion in every deal because you want to win. Data everywhere — but it's incongruent, manually rebuilt, and living on individual drives. That's the Noise Trap. And it's where most teams live.

Finding the Thread
Every pain point has a root cause.

Every challenge your team surfaces today gets run through this lens. Is it a Data problem — incongruent, inaccessible, or missing? An Experience gap? An Emotional barrier to change? Or a Context shift? The thread determines the solution.

The Waypoint Ahead
From identification to action. Five weeks.

No 90-slide deck. No vague next steps. We leave today with a prioritized list of your real challenges, a clear diagnostic on what's driving them, and a concrete first waypoint. Then we build. Five weeks. One solved problem. Straight to action — no theater.

The Volo Diagnostic Lens

Where Challenges Live

Most teams operate inside-out — buried in the center with no time to look up. The highest performers start at the edge.

COPS POPS TOPS FOPS
04 / FOPS — Forward-Looking Operations
The Strategic Horizon
The market doesn't wait. FOPS is your recurring cadence for looking forward — tracking relationships at every level, measuring progress, orienting the team. Measure what matters.
03 / TOPS — Travel Operations
Intelligence in Motion
The highest-value deals don't close on Zoom. TOPS is your system for knowing who to see, when to be there, and never missing the handshake that turns into a mandate.
02 / POPS — Personal Operations
Individual Velocity
Once the team is moving in harmony, every person has their own targets and growth goals. POPS is where individual ambition gets the room it deserves.
01 / COPS — Core Operations
The Engine
Your systems, workflows, people, and tools. When friction lives here, it compounds. Every hour rebuilding the same spreadsheet is an hour not spent in front of a client.
Today's Working Document

Capturing the Pain Points

As we surface challenges, they go into one of two buckets. Tag each by ring and category. Team pain points get prioritized first.

Priority Bucket — Sequence First
Team Pain Points

Shared challenges across the group. Drag to reprioritize.

Pain points will appear here as the conversation unfolds

⚑ Please select at least one category before adding. Multiple categories may indicate more than one pain point.

Sequenced after discovery — ranked by impact, feasibility, and AI readiness.

Follow-Up Session — Captured Now
Personal Pain Points

Individual challenges for each leader. Captured today, addressed one-on-one.

Individual pain points captured here throughout the session

⚑ Please select at least one category before adding.

Revisited individually to identify bespoke AI-assisted solutions.

The Capability Map

What AI Can Actually Do

AI isn't magic. But applied to the right challenges in commercial real estate, it creates advantages that compound.

01The Visual Advantage
Make the Complex Legible

Interactive deal dashboards. Dynamic market narratives. Presentation decks that update in real time. No one in commercial real estate is doing this at scale — and the firms that get there first will own the room before the pitch even starts.

02Market Intelligence
See What Others Miss

There's no shortage of market data. The challenge is connection — seeing the relationship between a tenant's lease expiration, a capital partner's recent exits, and an investment committee's known appetite before anyone else does.

03Eliminate the Manual
Remove the Repetitive

BOV prep, comp pulling, deal tracking updates, pipeline reports, lease abstracting. Every hour your team spends recreating the same spreadsheet is an hour not spent in front of a client.

04Intelligent Composition
Sharper Messaging, Every Time

Your best OM and your weakest one probably have more in common than you'd like. AI reviews for consistency, flags language misalignment, and pulls signal from what's landed well historically.

The Point of All This

Built Monday.
Presented Tuesday.

This site was built in a single evening — for this room, for this conversation, for your team. What used to take a team three to four weeks to produce, a high-signal operator with the right tools and the right frameworks can produce overnight. That's not a party trick. That's what we're here to build for you.

1
Evening to build
3
EVPs in the room
1
Hour to find your first signal

"The leaders who move aren't the ones with more data. They're the ones who've learned to trust a well-calibrated judgment call."— Michael Cattanach, Volo Ventures