Data Driven Decision Support for Ground Floor Strategy
AEKPI is a data intelligence platform that helps property owners, investors, and municipalities identify the tenants, brands, and operators that create long-term value beyond traditional real estate metrics.
Built on decades of experience in leasing, placemaking, retail, hospitality, and analytics, AEKPI helps stakeholders create stronger destinations, more resilient portfolios, and places people genuinely want to be part of.
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We deliver data-driven analyses that enable placemakers and property owners to make informed, strategic decisions about their ground floor mix and leasing direction, for both existing and prospective tenants. By combining social media performance, engagement metrics, activation value and expertise in our proprietary AEKPI Index, we assess and compare how different operators contribute to placemaking, foot traffic, brand positioning and long-term value creation, beyond traditional rent per square meter.
Our analytics platform provides a structured evaluation framework to benchmark current tenants, assess new leasing candidates, and model the potential impact of different tenant scenarios before decisions are made. It transforms complex engagement and performance data into clear, decision-ready insights.
We Measure What Truly Creates Value
Input signals are the data sources the analysis is based on. We use a range of data from social media, ratings, reviews, related accounts, physical traffic indicators, traditional media and cultural presence.
Depending on the quality of the data we generate a Signal Strength. This graph indicates where data is harvested from and the quantity from that area. The Signal Strength is unique for each business and is connected to their online, cultural and medial presence.
Activation value is the value the business creates for other brands, places and real estate companies. The activation value is delivered as per month and per year.
The index is the puzzle piece that clearly puts a concept or business in the context of the area. This gives placemakers and developers a powerful tool to design the area.
Data is not everything, our analysis always comes with an expert commentary to provide some background to the data and helps explain the soft values the business contributes and how it fits to a strategy and place identity.
Our Vision
At AEKPI, we love the colorful café owner who knows every regular by name, the ultra-niche store hidden on the corner that somehow becomes the soul of a neighborhood, the weekend flea market that turns a quiet street into a destination, the local culture that gives a place authenticity - and the international influences that make it exciting.
Because the future's most attractive cities will not be built through scale alone - they will be built through identity.
Our vision is to help municipalities, developers and property owners create global destinations within the scale of a single block. Places where people want to work, live, meet and return to - not because they have to, but because they feel something there.
For too long, cultural and social value have existed outside traditional real estate logic. The most important qualities of a place - energy, relevance, uniqueness, belonging - have been difficult to quantify, despite often being the very things that drive attraction, movement and long-term value creation - AEKPI exists to change that.
By creating a framework where cultural and social capital can be measured, valued and aligned with financial strategy, we help bridge the gap between municipalities, landlords, global brands, local entrepreneurs and independent operators. We create a common language between long-term city building and commercial decision making.
Our ambition is not to standardize cities - It is the opposite.
We want to give the industry the tools to protect uniqueness, enable brave concepts, support local culture and create urban environments where small, medium and large actors can grow together. Because truly great places are never built by one type of player alone.
They happen when ambition, personality and long-term thinking align.
They happen when ambition, personality and long-term thinking align.
That is the future we believe in.