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Commercial Real Estate Guides for AI & Tech Companies
Plain-English guides to leasing, expanding and planning space for teams that grow faster than their leases.
Space decisions move as fast as your roadmap
AI and technology companies hire in bursts, raise capital in rounds and sometimes change direction mid-lease. The standard office lease was not written for that. These guides cover the questions we see technology tenants run into, from choosing a broker to the power, cooling and growth rights to negotiate before you sign.
Guides
Choosing a partner
How Should an AI Company Choose a Commercial Real Estate Broker?
The broker you hire shapes every term in your lease. Here is how AI and technology companies can tell a true tenant advocate from a landlord agent with a tech pitch.
Read the guide →How does tenant representation work for tech companies nationwide?
What a tenant representation broker actually does, step by step, and how the process scales when a technology company leases space in more than one city.
Read the guide →Guides
Negotiating the lease
Which Office Lease Terms Matter Most for a Fast-Growing AI Company?
Your headcount plan will change before your lease does. These are the clauses that let an AI company grow, shrink, raise, or sell without being trapped by its office.
Read the guide →Security Deposits, Letters of Credit and Guarantees for Startups
How to size, structure and shrink the credit support a landlord asks of a company that is growing fast but not yet profitable.
Read the guide →Sublease, Coworking, Spec Suite or Direct Lease for an AI Startup?
Each option trades flexibility, control and cost differently, and the right one changes as an AI startup grows.
Read the guide →Guides
Planning the space
How much office space does an AI team need as it grows?
A practical way to turn a hiring plan, a hybrid policy and the way your team actually works into a space program you can take to market.
Read the guide →Power, Cooling and Connectivity: What AI Teams Should Ask a Landlord
The infrastructure questions to settle before you sign, not after your first GPU workstation trips a breaker.
Read the guide →Office, Flex, Lab or Industrial Space for AI Hardware and Robotics?
The right property type depends on what your team physically builds, tests and ships, not on the word "AI" in your pitch deck.
Read the guide →Questions
About this resource center
Who is this resource center for?
Founders, COOs, heads of operations and finance leads at AI and technology companies who are leasing, renewing, expanding or buying commercial space, whether in Chicago or in another U.S. market.
Does Tenant Advisory Group work with AI companies?
Yes. We represent AI and technology companies as tenants and buyers of office, flex and industrial space. Our track record includes software, data and technology firms such as 8th Light, Label Insight, OAO and BridgePoint Technologies, whose own accounts are published on our testimonials page.
What does it cost to work with a tenant representative?
In a standard commercial lease the landlord pays the brokerage commission, so tenants typically engage TAG at no direct cost.
Need space for an AI or tech team?
Chicago-based, working nationally. Tell us what you need and we’ll bring you options and negotiate the terms.