{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"155781","rtpr_id":"nGNX8hCbq7-20260929","ticker":"APPF","exchange":"NASDAQ","all_tickers":["APPF"],"title":"AppFolio Introduces the New Realm-X, Built in the Platform That Already Knows Your Business","author":"Globe Newswire","published_at":"2026-09-29T16:00:00.429Z","article_body":"Thousands of real estate operators at FUTURE are winning the next era of\nproperty management with Real Estate Performance Management. The new Realm-X\nextends that advantage — handling multi-step work, remembering business\ncontext, and building custom workflows and dashboards from a prompt, across\nall plans.\n\n\n\nSAN DIEGO, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  AppFolio\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=IaGf8eQZoGnDKyIBW-eJDpBaBbn4MDPI1Arvy9w_L31njfOpt6K3vmfGtBTBwC3n6VpRFWVHRrhTAH-ZIR1TDg==)\n(Nasdaq: APPF), the technology leader powering the future of the real estate\nindustry, today announced new innovations at FUTURE: The Real Estate\nConference by AppFolio\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=C3WSIdptDVAI6p9Maiv219iBX3j7rG2IlmlwL5koWE2GtyOXPb7an4a438fdtowaYrasfBHWJX11nKyv-NXasidLyBmlxvuIuLOuL4trPCb3jN9vZ1Y_KqX23oMO_EG_c__jHMQ74TC-OtzDiT2v8g==),\nexpanding AppFolio Realm-X and the AppFolio Performance Platform. The\nPerformance Platform already holds each customer’s permissions, policies,\nworkflows, and business context; the new Realm-X\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=5gAX_UT54z8EHy_Qu7JT7gHzRIQ9vP1sL_NsDH7xcuKQpcGWp9aG8WzPbyvObHCvxILLXWMX7iihSm3wIbUrMSxIaMhlLkRMvwb9PGmFjsg=)\nputs more of that context to work. The announcements advance the vision\nAppFolio has for Real Estate Performance Management (RPM)\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=LEGD9oHbhjtGnis9nEozGqSlTndue-o0mqoahNbhVqeHU1ma1nWdqO_YA_CZHTp671yHFd1KkwfhwZo12awxaJmdw6XykOenWK_kYiJU5k__DgQbiCkyocBrBz2gnYB9rhftxSTCNqgy55Tp-Rmm8Q==),\nhelping operators move beyond task efficiency to deliver outcomes for teams,\nresidents, and investors.\n\nThe New Realm-X Handles Multi-Step Work, Remembers, and Builds From a Prompt\n\nThe new Realm-X stays through the whole ask, handling multi-step work,\nremembering the conversation, and building what’s described in the moment.\nRealm-X Flows and Realm-X Performers handle the processes a business has\nalready defined; the new Realm-X handles what comes up in between. New\ncapabilities put that power within reach of every team member:\n* Memory provides more personalization by remembering and understanding the\nuser based on previous conversations.\n* Knowledge Base gives Realm-X a repository of a customer’s documents and\npolicies for additional context.\n* Skills let a user create and share prompts, making them repeatable across\nteams. For example, when a leasing agent calls in sick, a manager can use a\n“reassign showings” Skill to redistribute tours to available team members,\nwith user approval.\n* Prompt-to-Flow and Prompt-to-Dashboard let a user describe the workflow or\ndashboard in plain language for Realm-X to build.\nTogether, these capabilities make it easier for teams to build and scale\nrepeatable ways of working. Realm-X AI actions completed on AppFolio are up\nsevenfold year-over-year — real work performed on operators’ behalf. The\nnew Realm-X is available with all AppFolio plans, now including the Realm-X\nConnector for Anthropic’s Claude\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=F8sRyxmDm4jyItVspihKW-SmAgEU4IEX_SLsJhbBOnYYjkT1xGQo9MINJfzBtoxkcoKhKlLHW1vZY4jaTR27awHjz5_Xn3IpChfY2cWYAMvoZgmsI7zh5yIYGpBoJ2HREafn-2fSWJRIozRU_u6lqTLsnhbZ0tqikdTEO1Kc69jXXIET3Hnr-lD_aG7Zn_5na1nCUiUHSyMOrzaJNolFHQ==),\nfirst introduced in June 2026.\n\n“We believe the most powerful technology in this industry should be\navailable to every customer. The Performance Platform already knows how our\ncustomers’ businesses run, and the new Realm-X uses that knowledge. The\nresult isn’t simply more efficiency. It’s better performance for teams,\nresidents, and investors,” said Kyle Triplett, chief product officer at\nAppFolio.\n\nA Connected System of Action, A Growing Suite of Performers\n\nRealm-X and the Realm-X Performer suite work from the same platform, business\ncontext, and governance, rather than operating as disconnected agents sitting\nin different parts of a technology stack, and operate within the permissions\nand guardrails each customer sets, with human oversight. The goal is connected\nAI that gets more capable the more of it a business puts to work – and\nthat’s showing up in what each Performer delivers.\n* Leasing Performer boosts showings by up to 35%, a third of them from\nafter-hours leads.\n* Maintenance Performer resolves one in four work orders directly with the\nresident.\n* Resident Messenger Performer fully resolves over 30% of conversations on the\nspot, day or night.\n* Accounting Performer beta customers report saving an average of 17 hours per\nmonth.\nReceptionist Performer is the newest example of this approach. It answers\nincoming calls, handles simple questions on the spot, and routes anything else\nto the right person or Performer — so every caller reaches someone who can\nhelp, at any hour. Receptionist Performer is customizable with a range of\nvoice options available at launch.\n\nBuilt In, Not Bolted On\n\nThe AppFolio Performance Platform gives customers an AI-native foundation to\npractice RPM: a system of record that connects their business, a system of\naction that does the work, and a system of growth that creates value across\ntheir ecosystem. One data model ties it together, giving customers the\nflexibility to work with their data where they work and build their business\ntheir way.\n\nAt FUTURE, AppFolio announced new capabilities that expand the platform across\naccounting and resident experience.\n* In accounting, AppFolio is expanding entity-based accounting, portfolio cash\nmanagement, and credit card accounting. The Realm-X Accounting Performer, now\navailable to customers, automates bill entry, financial close, and budgeting.\nComing soon, it will add reconciliation, connecting bank data directly to the\nledger through AppFolio's partnership with Column\n(https://www.appfolio.com/newsroom/appfolio-and-column-announce-strategic-partnership-to-transform-financial-operations-for-real-estate).\n* In resident experience, AppFolio is extending the platform across the\nmoments that matter most in a resident's journey. A new partnership with\nSnappt (https://snappt.com/) adds document fraud detection inside\nFolioScreen™ Trusted Renter\n(https://www.appfolio.com/services/tenant-screening), catching fraudulent\nincome documents before an application is approved. Online Certified Funds at\nMove-In enables residents to pay move-in costs with guaranteed funds instead\nof a check or a trip to the bank. All of it now runs through FolioSpace™\n(https://www.appfolio.com/property-manager/resident-experience), AppFolio’s\nresident experience app, to which every resident has transitioned.\nProof in Practice\n\nAcross the platform, customer performance is showing up in the numbers:\n* Stratton Vantage Property Management (https://www.brewerstrattonpm.com/):\nNearly 40% of residents upgraded their move-in package through Resident\nOnboarding Lift in August 2026, paying about a third less than they'd pay for\nthe same services on their own.\n* Enclave Property Management (https://www.enclavepm.com/): 57 Realm-X Flows\nhave completed more than 25,000 workflows in the past 12 months.\n* MultiFamily Property Group (https://multifamgroup.com/): After-hours leads\nare converting 42% more often — demand that used to go unanswered overnight\nis now revenue.\nEucalyptus Real Estate\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=7KDuUnJ7nLwVI48oO45VcwJomFUEddq85teKyL3JpQX3g0kbJ82xeI-7Z9esNfhLQmJIskeLkAhQeETAeFQa2_KDOkXRAVY5xziVk5UnmFHwNDt8knM-TYbxjHlQ6R2O),\na family-owned operator managing nearly 14,000 units and 106 separate tax\nentities across Oklahoma City, Wichita, and Topeka, previously ran its three\ncities independently — on paper checks, paper work orders, scanned\napplications, and fax machines. Since moving to the AppFolio Performance\nPlatform less than a year ago, 85% of Eucalyptus’s receivables are now paid\nonline, leasing runs digitally from application to signature, a single\nautomated Flow delivers move-in disclosures consistently across every\nproperty, and 53% of maintenance requests now resolve without a work order\never being created.\n\n“We didn’t move to AppFolio just to change tools. We moved to change how\nwe run this business,” said Megan McGinnis, president of Eucalyptus.\n“Three cities now work the same way, on the same platform, with one source\nof truth. That’s what lets us grow with confidence instead of just\ngrowing.”\n\nAbout AppFolio\nAppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate\nindustry. Our innovative performance platform and trusted partnership enable\nour customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and\ngrow their business. For more information about AppFolio, visit appfolio.com\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=0MFUvCQ57aJDMoKQsIM47UF4Dk6BfOQ1Xg81M4dXfPYcWWW3DnG_LPmsBv0ag4Kti0uTkQsobUyX-EagJkL5ng==).\n\nForward-Looking Statements\nThis press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the\nmeaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section\n21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which statements are\nsubject to considerable risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements\ninclude all statements that are not statements of historical fact contained in\nthis press release, and can be identified by words such as “anticipates,”\n“believes,” “could,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,”\n“may,” “plans,” “potential,” “future,” “predicts,”\n“projects,” “target,” “seeks,” “contemplates,” “should,”\n“will,” “would” or similar expressions and the negatives of those\nexpressions. In particular, forward-looking statements contained in this press\nrelease include statements relating to the anticipated features, benefits,\navailability and timing of the new Realm-X , Realm-X Performers, and the new\naccounting and resident experience capabilities announced in this press\nrelease, including those offered through AppFolio’s relationships with\nAnthropic, Column and Snappt; the results customers may achieve using these\ncapabilities; and AppFolio's plans, objectives and expectations for the\nAppFolio Performance Platform and Real Estate Performance Management.\n\nForward-looking statements represent AppFolio’s current beliefs and\nexpectations based on information currently available and speak only as of the\ndate the statement is made. Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous\nknown and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause\nAppFolio’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially\ndifferent from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or\nimplied by the forward-looking statements. The risks, uncertainties and other\nfactors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to\nmaterially differ from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking\nstatements include AppFolio’s ability to successfully develop, launch and\ndeliver the new Realm-X capabilities as and when anticipated; customer\nadoption of and satisfaction with these capabilities; the accuracy,\nreliability and performance of AI-enabled capabilities, including actions\ntaken on customers’ behalf; the costs of making AI-enabled capabilities\navailable across all AppFolio plans; AppFolio’s reliance on third parties,\nincluding Anthropic, Column and Snappt, and the continued performance and\navailability of their technology and services; the extent to which results\nreported by individual customers, including beta customers, are indicative of\nresults other customers may achieve; evolving laws and regulations governing\nartificial intelligence, data privacy and security, tenant screening, fair\nhousing, consumer protection and payments; and competition in the market for\nAI-enabled real estate technology as well as those risks, uncertainties and\nother factors described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in\nAppFolio’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,\n2025, which was filed with the SEC on February 5, 2026, and the section\nentitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and\nResults of Operations” in AppFolio’s most recently filed Annual Report on\nForm 10-K or Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as well as in its other filings\nwith the SEC. You should read this press release with the understanding that\nAppFolio’s actual future results may be materially different from the\nresults expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.\n\nAppFolio undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements\nmade in this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date\nof this press release or to reflect new information or the occurrence of\nunanticipated events, except as required by law.\n\nFor more information, please contact:\nAppFolio\nappfolio@missionnorth.com\n\nA photo accompanying this announcement is available at\nhttps://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/3f00ca82-5849-47d7-8e89-69654e016ecf\nthe New Realm-X \n(https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/3f00ca82-5849-47d7-8e89-69654e016ecf/en)\nthe New Realm-X\n\n\nGlobeNewswire, Inc. 2026","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nGNX8hCbq7-20260929","title":"AppFolio Introduces the New Realm-X, Built in the Platform That Already Knows Your Business","author":"Globe Newswire","ticker":"APPF","created":"2026-09-29T16:00:00.429Z","tickers":["APPF"],"exchange":"NASDAQ","article_body":"Thousands of real estate operators at FUTURE are winning the next era of\nproperty management with Real Estate Performance Management. The new Realm-X\nextends that advantage — handling multi-step work, remembering business\ncontext, and building custom workflows and dashboards from a prompt, across\nall plans.\n\n\n\nSAN DIEGO, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  AppFolio\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=IaGf8eQZoGnDKyIBW-eJDpBaBbn4MDPI1Arvy9w_L31njfOpt6K3vmfGtBTBwC3n6VpRFWVHRrhTAH-ZIR1TDg==)\n(Nasdaq: APPF), the technology leader powering the future of the real estate\nindustry, today announced new innovations at FUTURE: The Real Estate\nConference by AppFolio\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=C3WSIdptDVAI6p9Maiv219iBX3j7rG2IlmlwL5koWE2GtyOXPb7an4a438fdtowaYrasfBHWJX11nKyv-NXasidLyBmlxvuIuLOuL4trPCb3jN9vZ1Y_KqX23oMO_EG_c__jHMQ74TC-OtzDiT2v8g==),\nexpanding AppFolio Realm-X and the AppFolio Performance Platform. The\nPerformance Platform already holds each customer’s permissions, policies,\nworkflows, and business context; the new Realm-X\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=5gAX_UT54z8EHy_Qu7JT7gHzRIQ9vP1sL_NsDH7xcuKQpcGWp9aG8WzPbyvObHCvxILLXWMX7iihSm3wIbUrMSxIaMhlLkRMvwb9PGmFjsg=)\nputs more of that context to work. The announcements advance the vision\nAppFolio has for Real Estate Performance Management (RPM)\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=LEGD9oHbhjtGnis9nEozGqSlTndue-o0mqoahNbhVqeHU1ma1nWdqO_YA_CZHTp671yHFd1KkwfhwZo12awxaJmdw6XykOenWK_kYiJU5k__DgQbiCkyocBrBz2gnYB9rhftxSTCNqgy55Tp-Rmm8Q==),\nhelping operators move beyond task efficiency to deliver outcomes for teams,\nresidents, and investors.\n\nThe New Realm-X Handles Multi-Step Work, Remembers, and Builds From a Prompt\n\nThe new Realm-X stays through the whole ask, handling multi-step work,\nremembering the conversation, and building what’s described in the moment.\nRealm-X Flows and Realm-X Performers handle the processes a business has\nalready defined; the new Realm-X handles what comes up in between. New\ncapabilities put that power within reach of every team member:\n* Memory provides more personalization by remembering and understanding the\nuser based on previous conversations.\n* Knowledge Base gives Realm-X a repository of a customer’s documents and\npolicies for additional context.\n* Skills let a user create and share prompts, making them repeatable across\nteams. For example, when a leasing agent calls in sick, a manager can use a\n“reassign showings” Skill to redistribute tours to available team members,\nwith user approval.\n* Prompt-to-Flow and Prompt-to-Dashboard let a user describe the workflow or\ndashboard in plain language for Realm-X to build.\nTogether, these capabilities make it easier for teams to build and scale\nrepeatable ways of working. Realm-X AI actions completed on AppFolio are up\nsevenfold year-over-year — real work performed on operators’ behalf. The\nnew Realm-X is available with all AppFolio plans, now including the Realm-X\nConnector for Anthropic’s Claude\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=F8sRyxmDm4jyItVspihKW-SmAgEU4IEX_SLsJhbBOnYYjkT1xGQo9MINJfzBtoxkcoKhKlLHW1vZY4jaTR27awHjz5_Xn3IpChfY2cWYAMvoZgmsI7zh5yIYGpBoJ2HREafn-2fSWJRIozRU_u6lqTLsnhbZ0tqikdTEO1Kc69jXXIET3Hnr-lD_aG7Zn_5na1nCUiUHSyMOrzaJNolFHQ==),\nfirst introduced in June 2026.\n\n“We believe the most powerful technology in this industry should be\navailable to every customer. The Performance Platform already knows how our\ncustomers’ businesses run, and the new Realm-X uses that knowledge. The\nresult isn’t simply more efficiency. It’s better performance for teams,\nresidents, and investors,” said Kyle Triplett, chief product officer at\nAppFolio.\n\nA Connected System of Action, A Growing Suite of Performers\n\nRealm-X and the Realm-X Performer suite work from the same platform, business\ncontext, and governance, rather than operating as disconnected agents sitting\nin different parts of a technology stack, and operate within the permissions\nand guardrails each customer sets, with human oversight. The goal is connected\nAI that gets more capable the more of it a business puts to work – and\nthat’s showing up in what each Performer delivers.\n* Leasing Performer boosts showings by up to 35%, a third of them from\nafter-hours leads.\n* Maintenance Performer resolves one in four work orders directly with the\nresident.\n* Resident Messenger Performer fully resolves over 30% of conversations on the\nspot, day or night.\n* Accounting Performer beta customers report saving an average of 17 hours per\nmonth.\nReceptionist Performer is the newest example of this approach. It answers\nincoming calls, handles simple questions on the spot, and routes anything else\nto the right person or Performer — so every caller reaches someone who can\nhelp, at any hour. Receptionist Performer is customizable with a range of\nvoice options available at launch.\n\nBuilt In, Not Bolted On\n\nThe AppFolio Performance Platform gives customers an AI-native foundation to\npractice RPM: a system of record that connects their business, a system of\naction that does the work, and a system of growth that creates value across\ntheir ecosystem. One data model ties it together, giving customers the\nflexibility to work with their data where they work and build their business\ntheir way.\n\nAt FUTURE, AppFolio announced new capabilities that expand the platform across\naccounting and resident experience.\n* In accounting, AppFolio is expanding entity-based accounting, portfolio cash\nmanagement, and credit card accounting. The Realm-X Accounting Performer, now\navailable to customers, automates bill entry, financial close, and budgeting.\nComing soon, it will add reconciliation, connecting bank data directly to the\nledger through AppFolio's partnership with Column\n(https://www.appfolio.com/newsroom/appfolio-and-column-announce-strategic-partnership-to-transform-financial-operations-for-real-estate).\n* In resident experience, AppFolio is extending the platform across the\nmoments that matter most in a resident's journey. A new partnership with\nSnappt (https://snappt.com/) adds document fraud detection inside\nFolioScreen™ Trusted Renter\n(https://www.appfolio.com/services/tenant-screening), catching fraudulent\nincome documents before an application is approved. Online Certified Funds at\nMove-In enables residents to pay move-in costs with guaranteed funds instead\nof a check or a trip to the bank. All of it now runs through FolioSpace™\n(https://www.appfolio.com/property-manager/resident-experience), AppFolio’s\nresident experience app, to which every resident has transitioned.\nProof in Practice\n\nAcross the platform, customer performance is showing up in the numbers:\n* Stratton Vantage Property Management (https://www.brewerstrattonpm.com/):\nNearly 40% of residents upgraded their move-in package through Resident\nOnboarding Lift in August 2026, paying about a third less than they'd pay for\nthe same services on their own.\n* Enclave Property Management (https://www.enclavepm.com/): 57 Realm-X Flows\nhave completed more than 25,000 workflows in the past 12 months.\n* MultiFamily Property Group (https://multifamgroup.com/): After-hours leads\nare converting 42% more often — demand that used to go unanswered overnight\nis now revenue.\nEucalyptus Real Estate\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=7KDuUnJ7nLwVI48oO45VcwJomFUEddq85teKyL3JpQX3g0kbJ82xeI-7Z9esNfhLQmJIskeLkAhQeETAeFQa2_KDOkXRAVY5xziVk5UnmFHwNDt8knM-TYbxjHlQ6R2O),\na family-owned operator managing nearly 14,000 units and 106 separate tax\nentities across Oklahoma City, Wichita, and Topeka, previously ran its three\ncities independently — on paper checks, paper work orders, scanned\napplications, and fax machines. Since moving to the AppFolio Performance\nPlatform less than a year ago, 85% of Eucalyptus’s receivables are now paid\nonline, leasing runs digitally from application to signature, a single\nautomated Flow delivers move-in disclosures consistently across every\nproperty, and 53% of maintenance requests now resolve without a work order\never being created.\n\n“We didn’t move to AppFolio just to change tools. We moved to change how\nwe run this business,” said Megan McGinnis, president of Eucalyptus.\n“Three cities now work the same way, on the same platform, with one source\nof truth. That’s what lets us grow with confidence instead of just\ngrowing.”\n\nAbout AppFolio\nAppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate\nindustry. Our innovative performance platform and trusted partnership enable\nour customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and\ngrow their business. For more information about AppFolio, visit appfolio.com\n(https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=0MFUvCQ57aJDMoKQsIM47UF4Dk6BfOQ1Xg81M4dXfPYcWWW3DnG_LPmsBv0ag4Kti0uTkQsobUyX-EagJkL5ng==).\n\nForward-Looking Statements\nThis press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the\nmeaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section\n21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which statements are\nsubject to considerable risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements\ninclude all statements that are not statements of historical fact contained in\nthis press release, and can be identified by words such as “anticipates,”\n“believes,” “could,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,”\n“may,” “plans,” “potential,” “future,” “predicts,”\n“projects,” “target,” “seeks,” “contemplates,” “should,”\n“will,” “would” or similar expressions and the negatives of those\nexpressions. In particular, forward-looking statements contained in this press\nrelease include statements relating to the anticipated features, benefits,\navailability and timing of the new Realm-X , Realm-X Performers, and the new\naccounting and resident experience capabilities announced in this press\nrelease, including those offered through AppFolio’s relationships with\nAnthropic, Column and Snappt; the results customers may achieve using these\ncapabilities; and AppFolio's plans, objectives and expectations for the\nAppFolio Performance Platform and Real Estate Performance Management.\n\nForward-looking statements represent AppFolio’s current beliefs and\nexpectations based on information currently available and speak only as of the\ndate the statement is made. Forward-looking statements are subject to numerous\nknown and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause\nAppFolio’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially\ndifferent from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or\nimplied by the forward-looking statements. The risks, uncertainties and other\nfactors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to\nmaterially differ from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking\nstatements include AppFolio’s ability to successfully develop, launch and\ndeliver the new Realm-X capabilities as and when anticipated; customer\nadoption of and satisfaction with these capabilities; the accuracy,\nreliability and performance of AI-enabled capabilities, including actions\ntaken on customers’ behalf; the costs of making AI-enabled capabilities\navailable across all AppFolio plans; AppFolio’s reliance on third parties,\nincluding Anthropic, Column and Snappt, and the continued performance and\navailability of their technology and services; the extent to which results\nreported by individual customers, including beta customers, are indicative of\nresults other customers may achieve; evolving laws and regulations governing\nartificial intelligence, data privacy and security, tenant screening, fair\nhousing, consumer protection and payments; and competition in the market for\nAI-enabled real estate technology as well as those risks, uncertainties and\nother factors described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in\nAppFolio’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31,\n2025, which was filed with the SEC on February 5, 2026, and the section\nentitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and\nResults of Operations” in AppFolio’s most recently filed Annual Report on\nForm 10-K or Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as well as in its other filings\nwith the SEC. You should read this press release with the understanding that\nAppFolio’s actual future results may be materially different from the\nresults expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.\n\nAppFolio undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements\nmade in this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date\nof this press release or to reflect new information or the occurrence of\nunanticipated events, except as required by law.\n\nFor more information, please contact:\nAppFolio\nappfolio@missionnorth.com\n\nA photo accompanying this announcement is available at\nhttps://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/3f00ca82-5849-47d7-8e89-69654e016ecf\nthe New Realm-X \n(https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/3f00ca82-5849-47d7-8e89-69654e016ecf/en)\nthe New Realm-X\n\n\nGlobeNewswire, Inc. 2026"},"type":"article","timestamp":"2026-09-29T16:00:00.477234185Z","server_sent_at_ms":1790697600477},"received_at":"2026-09-29T16:00:00.531Z","source_url":null},"analysis":{"id":"144502","press_release_id":"155781","analysis_json":{"industry":{"label":"Software","sector":"Information Technology"},"redFlags":["Performance metrics are company-reported and partly from beta customers; adoption and AI reliability risks acknowledged in forward-looking statements","Reliance on third parties (Anthropic, Column, Snappt) for key capabilities"],"eventType":"product_launch","narrative":"AppFolio announced an expanded Realm-X at its FUTURE conference, adding memory, knowledge base, reusable skills, and prompt-to-workflow/dashboard building across all plans.\n\nThe company said AI actions completed on AppFolio are up sevenfold year-over-year, and its Performer suite shows material results such as up to 35% more showings and 30%+ self-resolving resident conversations.\n\nNew partnerships with Anthropic (Realm-X Connector for Claude), Column (bank-data reconciliation), and Snappt (document fraud detection) deepen the platform, and customer examples like Eucalyptus (85% online receivables payments) support the Real Estate Performance Management pitch.","sentiment":"bullish","agentHooks":{"shouldPost":false,"suggestedAngle":"AppFolio's AI product velocity (7x YoY AI actions) is a narrative datapoint for the proptech AI theme, but no financial impact disclosed."},"keyFigures":{"customDimensions":{"eucalyptus_units":"nearly 14,000 units","ai_actions_growth":"up sevenfold year-over-year","after_hours_lead_conversion":"42% more often","resident_messenger_resolution":"over 30% of conversations","leasing_performer_showing_lift":"up to 35%","accounting_performer_time_saved":"17 hours per month","maintenance_performer_resolution":"one in four work orders"}},"quotedText":"Realm-X AI actions completed on AppFolio are up sevenfold year-over-year — real work performed on operators’ behalf.","namedEntities":{"people":[{"name":"Kyle Triplett","role":"Chief Product Officer, AppFolio"},{"name":"Megan McGinnis","role":"President, Eucalyptus Real Estate"}],"products":["Realm-X","Realm-X Flows","Realm-X Performers","Leasing Performer","Maintenance Performer","Resident Messenger Performer","Accounting Performer","Receptionist Performer","AppFolio Performance Platform","FolioScreen Trusted Renter","FolioSpace","Online Certified Funds at Move-In"],"companies":[{"name":"AppFolio","ticker":"APPF","relationship":"filer"},{"name":"Anthropic","relationship":"partner"},{"name":"Column","relationship":"partner"},{"name":"Snappt","relationship":"partner"},{"name":"Eucalyptus Real Estate","relationship":"customer"},{"name":"Stratton Vantage Property Management","relationship":"customer"},{"name":"Enclave Property Management","relationship":"customer"},{"name":"MultiFamily Property Group","relationship":"customer"}],"dollarAmounts":[]},"materialImpact":{"score":2,"reasoning":"A significant product/AI expansion announcement at the company's own conference, but promotional in nature with no revenue or guidance impact stated. 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