Fifteen years in real‑estate development: five on the GC side, ten sponsor‑side. Field through investment committee.
For developers, builders, designers, and operators who need optimized workflows and clearer decision tools.
Standing up a development function from scratch, or restructuring how an existing operation runs. I help define the process, the roles, the sequence, and the handoffs, and leave a written playbook you can hand to the next hire.
I sit with the model, the drawings, the term sheet, the entitlement calendar, and the capital stack, and tell you what breaks first.
A review, a one-off tool, a workflow map. I take it on, deliver, and don't linger.
I'm Conor Keilty: a licensed architect with fifteen years across design, GC execution, sponsor-side development, and investment committee decisions. Five years in the field, ten years in the model and the deal.
What I've found, across every chair I've sat in, is that the hardest problems on any project aren't the obvious problems. They're the systems problems. The drawings say one thing, the field says another, the proforma says a third, and somebody has to sit in the middle and decide what is real.
Every engagement starts with a conversation. We'll talk through the project, the decision you're trying to make, and whether it fits my lane. If there's a fit, the work usually takes one of three forms.
Standing access to senior judgment on the calls that don't fit a fixed-scope artifact: weekly meeting, in the model, in the room when the answer matters.
We name the artifact, agree on what 'done' looks like, and I deliver it inside an agreed window.
A bounded problem on a short fuse: a review, a day in the model, a week mapping a workflow.
Not sure what you need yet? That's fine. Send the messy version: the model, the schedule, the open questions, or just a short note. We'll start with a conversation and figure out whether I can help.
Form goes to my inbox. I read every one and reply inside two business days.