About Us

By People Who Run Buildings, For People Who Run Buildings

Real Estate Is In Our DNA

In 2015, Prescriptive Data was born in the engine room of 345 Park Avenue, a 1.8 million square foot building in New York City owned by Rudin Management.

The Rudin Management operations team needed a single-pane of glass to visualize all their operational technologies, correlate trends, predict anomalies, and automate building operations across their 15 million square foot portfolio.

So John Gilbert (COO) and Gene Boniberger (SVP, Operations) at Rudin hired a team of software engineers to design a product that solved commercial real estate's biggest operational challenges. They called their solution, Nantum OS.

What Is Nantum?

Nantum is derived from an ancient Native American word, “Nonantum,” meaning prayer or blessing. Nantum is a blessing for real estate operators because it has the ability to answer all their prayers: visualization, analysis, prediction, recommendations, & automation.

Nantum OS is a building operating system. It integrates all operational technologies (BMS, meters, people counters, air quality sensors, weather, IoT devices, distributed energy resources, renewable energy procurement, smart light, shade, and glass…) into a real-time and historical data lake.

  • Visualization: Nantum first makes that data useful through visualization, dataset comparison, and automated reporting.

  • Analysis: Nantum uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze all datasets, learning consistent building patterns and rhythms and alerting operations teams to abnormal behavior (BMS malfunctions, leaks/floods, comfort anomalies…).

  • Prediction: Once Nantum recognizes your building operations pattern, it can predict your building’s future behaviors (occupant arrival times, energy demand and consumption, water usage, future carbon emissions).

  • Recommendations: Once Nantum is able to predict future behavior, it compares your build to similar buildings on its network, and begins to suggest and recommend more efficient building operations (BMS start time, when to ramp up and down building systems, when to shut down the BMS).

  • Automation: Once building operators learn to trust Nantum’s recommendations, Nantum can automate building systems to use the least amount of energy possible, while providing the maximum amount of interior comfort.

Our Mission: Sustainability With An ROI

Commercial real estate represents ~40% of global carbon emissions.

In 2016, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg invites Rudin Management to participate in the NYC Carbon Challenge. By 2018, Nantum OS had reduced the Rudin portfolio’s carbon emissions by 44% (beating their NYC energy reduction commitment by 10 years), while saving the organization over $5 million a year on energy costs.

Our mission is to reduce the commercial real estate industry’s carbon footprint by providing real estate operators with an energy reduction tool that also provides significant financial payback and increases asset valuations.

We come from real estate, we understand what motivates the industry, sustainability is only possible when driven by a clear ROI.

Our History

1995 - NYC’s First Smart Building

In 1995, Rudin Management’s 55 Broad Street became the first fully wired office building in New York City, offering tenants satellite accessibility, single and multi-mode fiber optics, high-speed category 5 copper wire, as well as a wide range of video conferencing, and internet access options and capabilities and a complete state-of-the-art work environment.

2003 - Northeast Blackout

The Northeast Blackout leaves 55 million without power and occupants trapped in elevators and vestibules for hours. Power providers needed to develop a new system to alert real estate owners of potential power outages.

2009 - ConEdison Warning Program

Under President Obama’s stimulus package focusing on smart grid demonstration, ConEdison developed a 45-second demand response warning system. ConEd then approached Rudin Management to develop a 30-second warning system. John Gilbert (COO) and Gene Boniberger (Dir. Ops) of Rudin now needed a platform that could act on this 30-second potential outage warning.

2013 - Rudin Launches Di-Boss

After an exhaustive multi-year search for a platform that could accept a ConEd demand response warning and shutdown non-critical building features, Rudin Management decided to build its own platform, Di-Boss (Digital Building Operating System).

2015 - Prescriptive Data is Born

After two years of actively developing and testing Di-Boss, the product was ready for prime time. Founded by John and Gene, with Rudin Management as the principal investor, Prescriptive Data was born and Di-Boss was renamed to Nantum. “Nantum” is derived from the ancient Algonquin word that means, “prayer or blessing,” answering the prayers of property owners.

2016 - Nantum Wins First Client

A few months after first showcasing Nantum at Realcomm 2016, Prescriptive Data won its first client outside of the Rudin portfolio. Blackstone’s EQ Office integrated Nantum OS into one of its office buildings in downtown Boston, helping EQ reduce its energy usage and utility bills.

2018 - Rudin Announces 44% Reduction in Carbon Emissions

Company’s Pledge of 50% Reduction in Emissions as Part of NYC Carbon Challenge is One of the Largest Commitments; Goal is Nearly Reached, Almost 10 Years Early.

Rudin’s Innovative Approach – Integrating Smart Building Technologies, Retrofits, and Superior Operational Management – Has Driven Energy Usage Reduction and Cost Savings — Read More

2019 - GSA’s Proving Ground Selects Nantum OS For Evaluation

The Connected Building Operating System technology, provided by Prescriptive Data, modifies the operation of heating and cooling systems, and provides energy efficiency recommendations to building operators in real-time. Modifications and recommendations are based on the evaluation of a variety of factors including occupancy levels, weather conditions, and electricity consumption. — Read More

2019 - NYSERDA Case Study Shows Rudin Saves $5M+ /Year Using Nantum

From 2012 to 2018, NYSERDA tracked significant energy and cost savings across eight NYC Rudin properties before and after Nantum OS was employed. Some key savings include more than $5M demonstrated savings across their commercial portfolio, 9.4% average annual normalized occupied building savings, and 13.6% average annual normalized non-occupied building energy savings. In addition to energy savings, NYSERDA also highlights several strategic non-energy benefits of employing Nantum OS. — Download

2020 - Prescriptive Data Selected By KPMG For Climate Accounting & Carbon Trading Program

Nantum OS, Prescriptive Data’s flagship software, will be deployed as part of KPMG’s Climate Accounting Infrastructure capability. KPMG’s CAI is intended to help organizations more accurately measure, report, and offset their greenhouse gas emissions. Prescriptive Data is one of three industry groups, large technology players, and climate technology companies that KPMG is partnering with to bring this new capability to market. — Read More