TENANT ADVISORY + CONSULTING / SAN FRANCISCO

Real estate that works

for your business

Resource is a tenant advisory and consulting firm. We work exclusively for companies, never landlords. We bring brokerage depth and consulting thinking to every engagement, and we're straightforward about which one your situation actually needs.

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A MANIFESTO / SAN FRANCISCO / 2026

SIX PRINCIPLES / CLICK TO EXPAND

Where your company works shapes how your company works.

Real estate decisions should begin with what the business needs—not with a list of available spaces.

A lease is only one possible outcome. Sometimes a company needs to renew, shrink, relocate, bridge a timing gap, or simply wait.

We start by understanding what is changing inside the business: headcount, budget, workplace policy, hiring plans, and the pace of growth. Those factors should shape the real estate decision, not the other way around.

We have made these decisions from inside companies. Resource connects portfolio planning, workplace strategy, and brokerage so the advice holds together from the first conversation through execution. The same senior team stays involved throughout.

The goal is not simply to get a deal done. It is to make the right call and execute it well.

We do not represent landlords. That matters when the best answer is to stay, wait, renegotiate, or walk away.

Before we tour space, we get clear on the business case, timing, economics, and who needs to be involved.

Portfolio planning, workplace questions, financial analysis, and negotiation should not be handed off between separate firms.

We have sat inside companies making these calls—with changing headcount, competing priorities, limited time, and imperfect information.

Signing a lease is not the finish line. We help carry the decision into planning, transition, and whatever comes next.

Every company enters the process with a different level of urgency, clarity, and internal capacity. We adapt our role to what you need, from advice on a single decision to hands-on support through execution.

A MANIFESTO / SAN FRANCISCO / 2026

SIX PRINCIPLES / CLICK TO EXPAND

SIX PRINCIPLES / TAP TO EXPAND

Pierce Neinken & Andrew Nicholls

CO-FOUNDERS, RESOURCE

Built for companies that want sound advice, strong execution, and a real estate partner who understands the full business context.

02 / WHAT WE DO

We don't start with a service.
We start with a question.

We don’t start with a service.
We start with a question.

What does your real estate need to make possible?

Resource is one integrated tenant advisory firm for companies making high-stakes real estate decisions. We bring together brokerage, workplace strategy, project management, portfolio advisory, and senior operator support. Clients move from uncertainty to decision, and from decision to execution, without stitching together disconnected advisors.

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DECIDE

Advisory & Transactions

We help companies define the requirement, evaluate the market, negotiate the lease, and protect the tenant's interest from first question to final signature.

We help companies define the requirement, evaluate the market, negotiate the lease, and protect the tenant’s interest from first question to final signature.

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DELIVER

Workplace &
Project Delivery

We connect the real estate decision to workplace strategy, buildout planning, vendor coordination, budget, schedule, and move-in.

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ADAPT

Portfolio &
Executive Support

We support renewals, multi-location portfolios, executive reporting, process design, and fractional real estate leadership through our Executive in Residence model.

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These aren't separate products with separate teams. They're two ways of engaging the same capability. For clients who need both, the integrated experience is where we're most powerful.

These aren’t separate products with separate teams. They’re two ways of engaging the same capability. For clients who need both, the integrated experience is where we’re most powerful.

What working with us

Looks Like.

04 · The engagement

The difference between a transaction and a trusted partner.

Where the standard broker operates

Strategize

Plan

Negotiate

Sign

Build

Move-in

Operate

Where Resource operates

Strategize the business

We weigh growth scenarios, financial constraints, headcount uncertainty, and culture before we look at a single building or make a single recommendation.

See the whole picture

Every option that fits your criteria. Every commission structure disclosed. No recommendations steered by what pays us more.

Execute with precision

Negotiate, manage, implement. With the same rigor whether it's one lease or a multi-city portfolio.

Stay in the room

We don't disappear at signing. Ongoing advisory, renewal strategy, and support that continues for the life of your lease, and into your next decision.

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What working with us

Looks Like.

04 · The engagement

The difference between a transaction and a trusted partner.

Standard broker

Resource

Strategize

Plan

Negotiate

Sign

Build

Move-in

Operate

Strategize the business

We weigh growth scenarios, financial constraints, headcount uncertainty, and culture before we look at a single building or make a single recommendation.

See the whole picture

Every option that fits your criteria. Every commission structure disclosed. No recommendations steered by what pays us more.

Execute with precision

Negotiate, manage, implement. With the same rigor whether it's one lease or a multi-city portfolio.

Stay in the room

We don't disappear at signing. Ongoing advisory, renewal strategy, and support that continues for the life of your lease, and into your next decision.

Scroll

What working with us

Looks Like.

04 · The engagement

The difference between a transaction and a trusted partner.

Where the standard broker operates

Strategize

Plan

Negotiate

Sign

Build

Move-in

Operate

Where Resource operates

Strategize the business

We weigh growth scenarios, financial constraints, headcount uncertainty, and culture before we look at a single building or make a single recommendation.

See the whole picture

Every option that fits your criteria. Every commission structure disclosed. No recommendations steered by what pays us more.

Execute with precision

Negotiate, manage, implement. With the same rigor whether it's one lease or a multi-city portfolio.

Stay in the room

We don't disappear at signing. Ongoing advisory, renewal strategy, and support that continues for the life of your lease, and into your next decision.

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05 / THE TEAM

Small by design.

We keep our client roster deliberately curated. Every engagement gets our full attention, the partners included. Our team brings together brokerage experience and operator-side perspective: people who’ve been on your side of the table, and who understand what real estate decisions mean for a business, not just a transaction.

Pierce Neinken
Managing Partner & CEO
Founder, CEO and portfolio strategist helping companies connect real estate, workplace, technology and enterprise growth.
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Pierce Neinken
Andrew Nicholls
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Tenant advisory leader helping companies turn real estate decisions into flexible, scalable operating advantages.
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Andrew Nicholls
Brandon Leitner
Principal
Senior tenant representation and transaction advisor helping occupiers improve leverage, cost control, and workplace outcomes.
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Brandon Leitner
Tara Riefler
Senior Vice President
Office leasing specialist helping San Francisco companies understand the market, negotiate well, and secure the right workplace.
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Tara Riefler
Alexis Escaranio
Senior Associate
Tenant representation advisor helping scaling teams find workplaces that are productive, inspiring, and built for how they actually work.
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Alexis Escaranio
Zev Newman
Senior Associate
San Francisco native helping founders and early-stage companies find first offices, expand intelligently, and build in the city.
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Zev Newman
J'tier Favors
Operations
Real estate operations and project management professional helping teams turn complex workplace workstreams into organized execution.
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J'tier Favors
Danielle Ryan
Workplace Solutions Principal
Workplace strategist helping organizations connect people, space, operations, and real estate performance.
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Danielle Ryan

Pierce Neinken

Managing Partner & CEO

Founder, CEO and portfolio strategist helping companies connect real estate, workplace, technology and enterprise growth.

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Pierce Neinken

Andrew Nicholls

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Tenant advisory leader helping companies turn real estate decisions into flexible, scalable operating advantages.

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Andrew Nicholls

Brandon Leitner

Principal

Senior tenant representation and transaction advisor helping occupiers improve leverage, cost control, and workplace outcomes.

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Brandon Leitner

Tara Riefler

Senior Vice President

Office leasing specialist helping San Francisco companies understand the market, negotiate well, and secure the right workplace.

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Tara Riefler

Alexis Escaranio

Senior Associate

Tenant representation advisor helping scaling teams find workplaces that are productive, inspiring, and built for how they actually work.

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Alexis Escaranio

Zev Newman

Senior Associate

San Francisco native helping founders and early-stage companies find first offices, expand intelligently, and build in the city.

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Zev Newman

J'tier Favors

Operations

Real estate operations and project management professional helping teams turn complex workplace workstreams into organized execution.

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J'tier Favors

Danielle Ryan

Workplace Solutions Principal

Workplace strategist helping organizations connect people, space, operations, and real estate performance.

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Danielle Ryan

06 / SELECTED ENGAGEMENTS

The work, plainly.

07 / Start the conversation

Let's get started.

Every engagement starts the same way: a short diagnostic call. A short call to understand your situation and point you in the right direction. You'll leave with a clearer view of your options, the leverage you have, and the questions worth asking next. Whether or not we end up working together.

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08 / Providing Value

Resources

Looking up at glass office towers against a clear sky

Resources

8 Min Read

What Is Tenant Representation? The Tenant-Only Advantage in Commercial Real Estate

Resources

9 Min Read

How to Negotiate a Commercial Office Lease: A Tenant's Playbook

Articles

7 Min Read

Workplace Strategy for Hybrid Teams: How to Right-Size Your Office

Real estate that works

for your business

Where your company works shapes how your company works.

Pierce Neinken & Andrew Nicholls

Built for companies that want sound advice, strong execution, and a real estate partner who understands the full business context.

We don't start with a service.We start with a question.

We don’t start with a service.We start with a question.