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Connect the decisions.
The Development Playbook exists because the most consequential real estate decisions happen between disciplines.
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Land · Capital · Design · Delivery · Operations
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Raphael Mwito
An architect, CFA charterholder, real estate executive, and AI practitioner working at the intersection of the built environment and investment decisions.
A note from Raphael
I trained as an architect and later became a CFA charterholder because I wanted to understand both the physical and financial logic of development.
Across real estate, the same problem appears repeatedly: design is separated from underwriting, development from operations, and individual projects from the city systems they depend upon.
This platform is an effort to reconnect those conversations—and to make useful professional knowledge more practical, legible, and widely available.
Read why I moved toward finance →Areas of practice and inquiry.
Development Logic
How projects move from land, through uncertainty, to income.
Capital and Underwriting
How assumptions, finance, and return requirements shape what gets built.
Urban Growth
How Nairobi and African cities are changing—and what development changes in return.
Design and Delivery
How architecture, approvals, procurement, and construction affect enduring value.
AI for Real Estate
How AI can improve research, feasibility, inspection, reporting, and judgment.
Speaking · Advisory · Collaboration