The short version
I post listings on Crexi. I prospect with SCAYLED. They do not compete directly.
- Crexi: a CRE marketplace for listing properties, submitting offers, managing deal rooms, and running transaction workflows. Free to list, Crexi Pro for analytics and data. Positioned as a modern alternative to LoopNet, and honestly, the listing experience is cleaner.
- SCAYLED: live occupier scanning and verified decision-maker contacts for neighbor-first prospecting. I built it after a decade in industrial brokerage because no marketplace solves the outbound problem. Drop an address, get every operator in the surrounding radius with contact details in two minutes.
Crexi helps you market a listing. SCAYLED helps you find the tenants who would want it before you even go live. The same way LoopNet does not replace cold calling, Crexi does not replace active prospecting.
What each tool actually does
Crexi is built for
- Marketing CRE listings to a national buyer and tenant audience
- Managing offers, counter-offers, and deal rooms digitally
- Searching available properties by type, market, and criteria
- Crexi Pro: property intelligence, tenant data, and analytics
- Auction-style transactions for investment sales
- Tracking deal pipeline from listing through close
Crexi is genuinely good at the marketplace side. The deal room feature is something I wish existed when I was running competitive offers on DFW industrial listings.
SCAYLED is built for
- Scanning every occupier inside a radius around any address
- Identifying the decision-maker at each operator (VP Operations, Facility Manager, GM)
- Verifying email addresses against live domain records (98% deliverability)
- Flagging same-building matches for the highest-conversion outreach
- Drafting personalized outreach based on listing context
- Turning an address into a prospecting list in two minutes
I built SCAYLED because marketplaces are passive by design. You post a listing and wait. After ten years of industrial brokerage I learned that waiting is not a strategy. The deals I closed fastest always started with outbound calls to nearby operators.
Where the overlap is
Minimal. Crexi Pro does include some tenant data and contact information for properties in their database. But Crexi's core product is the marketplace and transaction layer, not prospecting. The tenant data is a feature inside a larger platform, not the main event.
Honest constraint: SCAYLED does not list properties, manage offers, or run deal rooms. It does one thing: turn an address into a verified contact list of nearby operators. The tools sit in completely different parts of the brokerage workflow.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Crexi | SCAYLED |
|---|---|---|
| Listing marketplace | ✅ Core product | ❌ Not covered |
| Offer and deal room management | ✅ Core product | ❌ Not covered |
| Auction-style sales | ✅ Supported | ❌ Not covered |
| Property search and filtering | ✅ Comprehensive | ❌ Not covered |
| Market analytics (Crexi Pro) | ✅ With Pro subscription | ❌ Not covered |
| Tenant data (covered properties) | ⚠️ Crexi Pro only | ⚠️ Overlap zone |
| Live occupier scan (any address) | ❌ Not the model | ✅ Any US address |
| Decision-maker contacts (verified) | ⚠️ Limited in Pro | ✅ Per-scan, verified |
| Same-building match flagging | ❌ Not automated | ✅ Automatic |
| Outreach draft generation | ❌ Not covered | ✅ Per-listing personalized |
| CRM for deal tracking | ✅ Built into deal flow | ✅ Built-in |
| Pricing model | Free to list, Crexi Pro negotiated | Per-broker ($0 / $79 / $149 USD/mo) |
Pricing breakdown
Crexi
Crexi's base marketplace is free to list, which is a major differentiator from LoopNet. Crexi Pro (analytics, tenant data, enhanced marketing) is a paid product with pricing negotiated per brokerage. Exact figures are not publicly listed but are typically in the enterprise contract range for larger firms.
SCAYLED
- Free Trial: $0, 50 credits one-time, 1 listing
- Starter: $79 USD / month, 200 credits, up to 5 listings
- Pro: $149 USD / month, 425 credits, up to 10 listings
The practical difference: Crexi is a platform decision, often made at the brokerage level. SCAYLED is a per-broker tool you can sign up for and start using in five minutes. A single listing conversion covers months of SCAYLED subscription cost.
When to use which
You need to market a listing to the broadest possible audience
→ Crexi. That is what a marketplace does. List it, syndicate it, let buyers and tenants find it. I still post every listing there.
You need to proactively find tenants for a listing before it goes live
→ SCAYLED. Drop the address, scan the radius, call the operators who are already in the neighborhood. This is the workflow I built the product around.
You're managing multiple offers on an investment sale
→ Crexi. Deal rooms and offer management are core Crexi features. They do this well.
You want to prospect the neighbors around a vacant industrial building
→ SCAYLED. That is the entire product. Two minutes to a verified contact list. I have seen brokers in Atlanta and Sydney book meetings the same day they scan.
You need market data and property analytics
→ Crexi Pro or CoStar. SCAYLED does not provide market analytics. I am transparent about that.
You're pitching for a new mandate and want to show proactive tenant outreach capability
→ SCAYLED. Walk in with a pre-built list of verified contacts around the property. The brokers I talk to who do this win mandates over teams that show up with only a market overview.
What I tell brokers who ask
I was an industrial broker for ten years before building SCAYLED. Crexi is a good marketplace. The listing experience is cleaner than LoopNet, and the deal management tools are genuinely useful for transaction brokers. If you are choosing a marketplace, Crexi is a strong pick.
But a marketplace is passive. You list, and you wait for inbound. Every broker I know who relies solely on inbound eventually hits a dry spell. SCAYLED is the active layer. You take the listing address, scan the surrounding operators, and start calling the decision-makers before the listing is even on Crexi. The best brokers I talk to do both: passive exposure through the marketplace and active outreach through the scan.
They do not overlap enough to create a choice. Use Crexi for what it does well. Use SCAYLED for the prospecting it does not cover.
Founder - Scayled