Business is about relationships, and success requires focus – doing one thing well.
We genuinely see ourselves as tech and data partners to our clients.
1. Industry focus to be the best
We focus only on the commercial real estate (CRE) industry. CRE is more complex than residential property (see why here). To provide the efficiencies and innovation our industry needs, we focus on doing one thing for our customers, and do that one thing as well as we can.
2. Africa cost base, Silicon Valley tools
We are based proudly in Africa, but use Silicon Valley’s greatest tech solutions. This means you get our lower cost base, supported by extremely powerful tools (which are constantly becoming more powerful). We avoid NIH syndrome.
3. Precise product focus, to deliver best solutions
Collaboration is key.
We do what we are good at, and don’t dabble outside of our area of excellence – like websites, or digital marketing, or accounting systems. We instead choose to work with specialists who we like and respect. Working together, with best-of-breed partners, we believe we can deliver more powerful solutions to you.
4. Responsibility
We see ourselves as our customers’ outsourced tech, R&D and data teams. When our customers win, we win – our customers’ success is our best advertising. Our customers are thus part of our team, and we take our responsibility as team mates very seriously.
Have you ever heard this quote?
“you should be working on your business, not in it”
We understand our customers are overwhelmed with business as usual. The above is what we’re doing for our customers, for their businesses, all the time.
5. Fairness mission
We value fairness. We are inspired by helping the industry evolve for the better. For good professionals to rise to the top. For clients of CRE service providers to be better served. We want good to win and integrity to be front and center of this industry. Having been the victim of bad practices by tech service providers and technologists, we aspire to reverse the pattern. The Gmaven FAQs, assisting you, as a decision-maker, with transparency, is part of this.
6. No shortcuts on the hard stuff
“Data is the oil that the CRE industry runs on”. Gmaven has seen the pain that bad data brings to businesses. And the frustration when decision-makers in business can’t access or use their data. To this end, we are obsessed with data quality, ensuring that data is mastered and stored correctly, that all data changes are tracked in audit logs, and that such data is able to be easily evaluated.
7. Good vibrations
How do you make this world a better place? Serve people in need with noble deeds. We feed off the good we are doing and for the positive impact we are fortunate to make on the world – it motivates us. Automating manual work, supporting people, growing trust and creating fairness and transparency, and helping the businesses who rely on us to grow. This is our way of using our talents to contribute to a world that needs good.