InvestorKit's EDGE Platform Wins
Technology Platform of the Year 2026

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• EDGE won Technology Platform/Tool of the Year at the inaugural Australian Buyers Agent Awards in 2026.
• EDGE stands for Evaluation, Data and Growth Engine.
• The platform runs due diligence models built on PropTrack, ABS, Domain and Cordell data.
• It was built over roughly two and a half years as headcount grew from fewer than 20 to close to 100.

EDGE, short for Evaluation, Data and Growth Engine, is InvestorKit's in-house platform. It combines market research, portfolio strategy, property acquisition tools and post-purchase performance tracking in a single system.

Staff use it to assess markets, track client portfolios and manage the property journey from strategy through to settlement and beyond. It also serves as the communication hub between staff and clients, and handles task management across the acquisition process.

The award recognised a platform already working at scale rather than one demonstrated in a pitch.

EDGE runs InvestorKit's proprietary due diligence system, backed by data models built with inputs from PropTrack, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Domain, Cordell and a range of other providers. It identifies which markets are positioned to move, and it keeps tracking how a client's portfolio performs years after purchase.

The clearest measure of what that enables is the firm's rejection rate. InvestorKit filters out approximately 92 per cent of the opportunities it assesses. Turning down more than nine in ten candidate markets and properties only works if the analysis behind each rejection is fast, consistent and available to every person on the team.

Arjun Paliwal, Chief Executive Officer and Head of Research at InvestorKit, framed the platform in terms of decisions rather than features: “EDGE is not about fancy charts or features. It is about outcomes.”

EDGE was developed over roughly two and a half years while InvestorKit expanded from fewer than 20 employees to close to 100.

Ankit Paliwal, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at InvestorKit, described the origin of the project directly: “Two and a half years ago, the company was running on spreadsheets with fewer than 20 staff. The brief from Arjun was straightforward: give the team superpowers.”

He was explicit that the aim was capability rather than headcount reduction: “Our core focus in technology investment and AI has never been to replace people. We have grown from under 20 to nearly 100 employees. The technology exists to make every person in this company better at what they do. When the team is empowered, our client wins.”

Research is only useful if it reaches the person making the decision at the moment they need it. That is the problem EDGE was built to solve.

For a client, it shows up in three places. The market shortlist they receive has already survived a screen that rejected the large majority of alternatives. The acquisition process is tracked in one place rather than across email threads. And performance monitoring continues after settlement rather than ending at handover.

Since 2018, InvestorKit has supported more than 2,600 clients across over 3,000 property purchases nationwide, generating over $500 million in equity for clients.

This is general information and not personal advice. Individual results depend on borrowing capacity, timing, market conditions and personal circumstances. Past performance does not guarantee future results.