ATLANTA, JUNE 4 – BIG, a marketplace connecting general contractors, subcontractors, and property owners, has entered into a strategic collaboration with Building, a platform focused on real estate data structuring and tokenization. The partnership helps connect everyday construction work with new tools that make real estate easier to finance and manage online.

At the core of the collaboration is a shared goal: making construction and property processes more connected and easier to follow. BIG helps developers and property owners source and manage contractors across a wide range of scopes, while Building provides the backend needed to organize that project data for audits, financing, and eventual tokenization.

By integrating Building’s data structuring tools into select workflows, BIG users will gain access to organized documents that make it easier to raise money, meet regulations, and show project results to investors.

“In today’s market, the ability to surface clean, verifiable data from operations is a competitive edge,” said Matthew Schneider, Building’s CEO. “This partnership connects the field to the financial layer — where decisions about capital, liquidity, and risk are made.”

The collaboration will begin with pilot projects where Building structures information gathered via BIG — such as project scopes, contractor performance, and cost data — into formats that enable more transparent ownership records and financing preparation. Long-term, the companies aim to close the gap between physical execution and digital representation in real estate.

A Broader Shift Toward Structured, Finance-Ready Data

As real estate workflows become increasingly digitized, the need for structured, interoperable data is taking center stage. Tokenization means turning real buildings or projects into digital files that can be shared or invested in online. It depends not only on blockchain infrastructure but also on clean, verifiable inputs from the physical world. Construction data, which has traditionally been fragmented across contractors, spreadsheets, and local systems, is one of the last frontiers in this shift.

This collaboration reflects a growing industry recognition: that real-world asset tokenization will only scale if operational data — project details like what work was done, how long it took, how much it cost, and who did it — can be captured and structured at the source. By enabling this flow of information from job site to balance sheet, BIG and Building are aligning the incentives of construction professionals, property owners, and capital markets.

More broadly, the integration points between operational tech and financial tech are multiplying. From tracking sustainability, to building digital versions of real projects, to using smart tools to check project value, the future of real estate hinges on how well data flows — and how confidently it can be relied on.

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For information on BIG, visit https://bigapp.work/
For information about Building, visit https://building.inc