CollabRE is a community-driven networking platform built for a leading real estate firm to strengthen collaboration, connectivity, and knowledge sharing across its ecosystem. The platform brings together residents, professionals, universities, and partners into a unified digital space where people can discover opportunities, share expertise, and grow together. Traditional networking approaches create silos, making it difficult for ecosystem participants to identify complementary expertise, collaborate across boundaries, or leverage collective knowledge. Our client needed a solution that could connect diverse stakeholder groups while enabling intelligent discovery of collaboration opportunities and maintaining institutional oversight of research and community engagement.
We built CollabRE, a comprehensive community networking application that blends intuitive design with advanced AI-driven personalization. The platform uses intelligent matchmaking to identify individuals with complementary skills, interests, or professional backgrounds, enabling meaningful collaboration and stronger community engagement. We engineered a knowledge-base engine that captures and organizes information about people, research, and intellectual assets across the ecosystem, making it easy for users to discover expertise, connect, and share insights. The platform delivers personalized recommendations and connection opportunities while upholding high standards of data privacy and security. CollabRE features three distinct portals—Member, University, and Admin—each tailored to specific user roles while maintaining unified data and seamless integration. The result is a powerful, trusted community companion that makes networking more accessible, collaboration more seamless, and collective knowledge more valuable.
Members gain powerful tools to find meaningful collaboration opportunities and connect with the right people. The Smart Match feature helps users discover optimal connections by using free-form natural language input to interpret their collaboration needs. The platform dynamically ranks matched users based on alignment with expressed intent, providing explanatory context highlighting relevant experiences and skills.
Create and maintain professional profiles showcasing work experience, education, publications, patents, and grants. Members can edit all profile information in real-time through a multi-tab interface, ensuring their expertise is always visible and up-to-date. The guided onboarding process captures professional presence links (LinkedIn, ORCID, Google Scholar) and chosen areas of expertise for enhanced discovery.
Discover knowledge across people, organizations, intellectual assets, and research areas. Level 1 offers advanced keyword-based search with filtering capabilities. Level 2 provides intelligent question-based querying through predefined templates covering common use cases—finding experts, locating patents, or identifying research collaborators. Both methods integrate seamlessly for comprehensive knowledge discovery.
Integrated blockchain explorers enable users to view and verify transactions within the application, while all transactions are also recorded on the public Ethereum network for third-party validation.
Stay informed with actionable notifications about introduction requests, connection confirmations, and collaboration opportunities. The chat system provides real-time messaging and organized conversation threads exclusively with accepted connections. Users receive notifications via bell icon and email alerts.
University administrators access a central command center providing oversight of institutional research performance. The dashboard displays Primary Research Metrics including Total Publications, Total Citations, and Total Funding amounts. Grant Analytics visualize funding trends, while Research Focus Areas show interactive charts of institutional expertise distribution.
Manage and maintain accurate institutional data across all organizational levels. Administrators can edit institution-level data, manage colleges and schools, oversee department details, and comprehensively view and edit faculty profiles including grants, publications, and patent data. A complete faculty directory with custom search and filtering ensures data accuracy.
Structured table views provide comprehensive management of university publications, patents, and grants. Advanced search functionality and custom filtering options (by year, research area, funding agency) enable deep exploration of institutional intellectual property. Export functionality enables reporting and external sharing.
Unified search accessible from anywhere in the university portal simultaneously searches faculty, publications, patents, and grants with categorized real-time suggestions. Users receive instant access to institutional knowledge through a single search interface.
Manage users across their complete lifecycle from onboarding through offboarding. Assign user statuses (Active, Pending, Suspended, Invited), manage role assignments, and apply multi-criteria filtering. Full profile editing privileges enable administrators to maintain accurate user data, and the ability to add meeting notes tracks interactions and engagement history.
Create and manage the structural foundation of the platform including Person Onboarding (single user or bulk CSV upload), University Integration via URL-based data extraction, Organization Data Capturing, and dynamic Community creation. Administrators orchestrate the entire ecosystem architecture ensuring seamless data flow across all stakeholder groups.
Centralize incoming member introduction requests in a prioritized queue dashboard. Requests are logged, prioritized (High/Medium/Low based on discovery path), and reviewed by Admin/CRM staff. Admins process requests by sending introduction emails using customizable templates and track success metrics through automated follow-up sequences that collect collaboration outcome feedback.
Centralize incoming member introduction requests in a prioritized queue dashboard. Requests are logged, prioritized (High/Medium/Low based on discovery patAccess comprehensive reporting dashboards for Member Metrics and University Metrics providing insights into platform health, engagement, and research output. Track Key Performance Indicators including Total Registered Users, Collaboration Success Rate, and community growth trends. Data-driven insights enable continuous platform optimization.h), and reviewed by Admin/CRM staff. Admins process requests by sending introduction emails using customizable templates and track success metrics through automated follow-up sequences that collect collaboration outcome feedback.
IntuitioLabs partnered with a leading real estate firm to build CollabRE, a sophisticated networking platform that transformed how ecosystem stakeholders discover collaboration opportunities and share knowledge. We architected a unified yet multi-faceted platform serving members, universities, and administrators with tailored experiences. The system launched successfully and continues to facilitate meaningful connections while providing institutional oversight of community engagement and research impact.
