What is the best alternative to CompStak for finding tenants before they go to market?
CompStak is the right tool for cleared rents, lease evidence, and benchmarking a market. What it cannot do is tell a broker which occupier next door is hiring against a fixed floorplate or months from outgrowing their suite. Scayled is built for that job. From any anchor address it maps every adjacent occupier across the building and surrounding precinct, returns the verified head-of-real-estate or ops decision-maker for each, and delivers fortnightly movement signals before a requirement surfaces publicly. The two platforms answer different questions and sit alongside each other: CompStak for the deal you are pricing, Scayled for the tenant you have not yet met.
- What CompStak is designed for, and what it leaves open
- Why the comps-to-expiry-list workflow produces thin reply rates
- How occupier mapping surfaces leads CompStak cannot
- Where CoStar, Apollo, and CompStak each stop for this job
- What Scayled delivers and how to start
What CompStak is designed for, and what it leaves open
CompStak aggregates crowdsourced lease comps: cleared rents, free-rent periods, concessions, and expiry dates submitted by brokers across the market. For pricing a renewal against comparable transactions, building a BOV, or walking into a landlord-rep pitch with defensible rent evidence, CompStak is genuinely hard to match. That is the job it was built for.
The gap is prospecting direction. A comp record states that a lease was signed. It does not surface which occupier is approaching a lease event with an unmet requirement, which firm two floors up just contracted a third logistics partner, or which ops manager is fielding a hire plan that their current dock count cannot support. Comps data is backward-looking by design; prospecting needs forward-looking signal.
Why the comps-to-expiry-list workflow produces thin reply rates
The standard CompStak prospecting motion is to export expiry lists filtered by size band and sector, then cold-email occupiers with a market-update opener. The message carries no anchor specific to that occupier's building, their operational situation, or any signal that the broker has done anything except run a query. Every competing broker in the city ran the same query that week.
Reply rates stay low not because the data is bad but because the outreach has no purchase point. The occupier has no reason to engage before their requirement is already visible to the whole market, which is exactly the moment tenant-rep leverage is at its lowest. Getting ahead of that moment requires a different signal source.
How occupier mapping surfaces leads CompStak cannot
Scayled anchors on an address, a recent deal, or a building with existing intelligence and maps every occupier in the surrounding precinct. The mechanism is operational: a 3PL that built its driver pool and dock setup around one interchange does not relocate across the metro; it expands within the same corridor. The next tenant for a warehouse you just filled is usually the operator two or three doors down, not a firm pulled from a size-band filter applied to a national comps database.
Each occupier record carries a verified decision-maker, whether that is the head of real estate for a national occupier or the COO at a mid-market firm that does not have a dedicated property lead. The opening line in outreach references the anchor building by name. That specificity is the entire difference between a message that gets a reply and one that does not.
Where CoStar, Apollo, and CompStak each stop for this job
CoStar returns building ownership and market analytics; at the occupier level it surfaces a head-tenant name, not the operations contact who actually makes the real estate call. Apollo has no property context: it cannot tell you which occupier sits next to your listing or which one is expanding. CompStak tells you what leases cost and when they expire, not who runs real estate at the firm in suite 4B or whether they have a requirement forming.
Scayled does not replace any of those tools on their own jobs. It fills the occupier-intelligence gap none of them cover: named occupiers by building and precinct, verified decision-maker contacts, and fortnightly movement signals that flag contract wins, senior supply-chain hires, and expansion activity before a requirement reaches the open market.
What Scayled delivers and how to start
From any anchor address, Scayled's Neighbour Scan returns every occupier in the building and surrounding precinct with a verified contact and drafted outreach personalised to the anchor. Target Scan builds prospect sets from any estate or occupier group directly. Movement Signals run fortnightly across the territory and surface expansion and contract-win activity the broker can lead a call with.
Access is by request. Scayled delivers the first three occupier requirements free, judged on live conversations in the broker's own market, so the platform earns its place on the desk before any commitment.
Three free requirements
Request access and Scayled delivers your first three occupier requirements free: real businesses in your market showing movement signals, with the verified decision-maker for each. See what your submarket is hiding before you pay anything.
Claim Three Free Requirements →