ABOUT RESOURCE

Real estate, on
your side of the table.

Resource is a boutique, tenant-only commercial real estate advisory firm in San Francisco. We combine tenant representation, workplace strategy, and real estate project management to help teams make smarter moves. We work exclusively for companies, never landlords.

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A MANIFESTO / SAN FRANCISCO / 2026

SEVEN PRINCIPLES / HOVER TO EXPAND

Where your company works shapes how your company works.

Real estate strategy for companies moving faster than traditional real estate advisory was built to serve.

Space shapes who you can hire, how teams come together, how culture forms, how capital gets deployed, and how quickly the business can change.

Sometimes that means a lease. Sometimes it means a portfolio reset, a workplace strategy, a short-term solution, a relocation, a renewal, or the decision to wait.

The point is not the transaction. The point is the business outcome.

The industry built to serve these decisions was designed for a different era: long terms, predictable headcount, and one question at a time answered by one specialist at a time. That world is gone.

The companies shaping San Francisco’s next chapter move faster than that. They scale in months. They rewrite workplace policy in quarters. They need portfolio strategy, workplace thinking, and transaction execution to move together, because the decisions already do.

We started Resource to be the firm that operates that way.

Three disciplines that usually live at three different firms: portfolio, workplace, and transaction. All on one team. Senior people who have sat in your seat. One side of the table. No handoffs. No triangulating.

We do not think the way space gets done has to stay broken. We think the companies building the future deserve a firm built for the way they actually work.

That is why Resource exists.

SEVEN PRINCIPLES / TAP TO EXPAND

01

Tenant-only representation

We represent companies exclusively—never landlords. One side of the table.

02

Strategy before search

We begin with the business decision, not the listing set.

03

Brokerage depth with consulting discipline

Transaction execution, workplace strategy, financial analysis, and stakeholder alignment—under one roof.

04

Operator-side perspective

Two of our founders ran real estate inside the kind of companies we serve. They know what every decision means for finance, people, and leadership.

05

Lifecycle partnership

The person who pitches you negotiates your lease. Every time.

06

Senior-led by design

The people you meet in the pitch are the people who do the work. Every engagement is led by a founder or principal

07

We meet you where you are

At your speed—same day, not next month. In your tools. At your stage, Series A through global. We adapt to how you operate, not the other way around.

Pierce Neinken & Andrew Nicholls

CO-FOUNDERS, RESOURCE

Built for companies that want thoughtful advice, sharper execution, and a real estate partner who sees the full picture.

05 / THE TEAM

Small by design.

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.

Andrew Nicholls headshot

Andrew Nicholls

Brandon Leitner

Principal

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

Brandon Leitner headshot

Brandon Leitner

Tara Riefler

Senior Vice President

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

Tara Riefler headshot

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.

Alexis Escaranio headshot

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.

Zev Newman headshot

Zev Newman

J'tier Favors

Operations

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

J'tier Favors headshot

J'tier Favors

Danielle Ryan

Workplace Solutions Principal

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

Danielle Ryan headshot

Danielle Ryan

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07 / Start the conversation

Let's get started.

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.