
An AI Skill for Our (Original) Apartment Acquisition Model
I've been working on a project to make our library of Excel models AI-ready. The idea is straightforward — pair every A.CRE Excel model with an AI Skill, a packaged set of instructions and reference files that teaches an AI assistant how to…

The AI.Edge Q2 2026 Build Competition Is Live!
The AI.Edge Q2 2026 Build Competition is officially open, and we want to see what you build.
Running from May 14th through June 30th, this quarter's competition continues what's quickly become one of the most exciting things happening in CRE:…

An AI Skill for the A.CRE Ground Lease Valuation Model
I've been working on a project to make our library of Excel models AI-ready. The idea is straightforward - pair every A.CRE Excel model with an AI Skill for CRE, a packaged set of instructions and reference files that teaches an AI assistant…

Episode 9 of Multipliers: The Traffic Engine Nobody’s Building
Most CRE operators spend a fixed percentage of every reservation paying a third-party platform to exist. They know it is happening. They accept it as the cost of doing business. What very few of them have asked is: what would it take to build…

A practical guide to Claude Skills on desktop and web
If you use Claude often, Skills are how you teach it to work the way you do, without repeating yourself every time. Instead of pasting long instructions in every new chat, you write down your process once as a reusable Skill, save it, and then…

Episode 8 of Multipliers: The Multipliers Nobody Talks About
Most productivity content is about systems. The right morning routine, the right tool stack, the right framework for prioritizing your tasks. That stuff is fine. It is also the easy part. The harder part, and the part that actually separates…

Zapier vs. Make vs. n8n: Which Automation Platform Should CRE Teams Use With AI?
Choosing the right automation tools for CRE teams used to be a straightforward question. Pick the easiest platform, connect your apps, save time. That framing made sense a couple of years ago. It does not quite fit anymore.
MCP changed…

What is the best AI model for real estate right now?
With the pace at which new AI models are being released, this has become a surprisingly difficult question to answer.
One week a model is best-in-class. The next week, a new release leapfrogs it. Pricing changes. Benchmark results update.…

AI Tools for Commercial Real Estate (Spring 2026 Edition)
If you haven't noticed, we've been exploring use cases, training, and tools related to AI in commercial real estate a lot lately! The reason is that Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize the commercial real estate industry…

The AI.Edge Q1 2026 Build Competition – Winners Announced!
The Q1 2026 Build Competition has officially wrapped, and what a quarter it was.
From autonomous valuation tools to AI-powered permit assistants, this cohort pushed the boundaries of what's possible when CRE professionals put AI to work. The…

CRE Market Risk Heat Map: AI-Powered Risk Scoring in Minutes
Picture two analysts. Same deal, same market, same deadline.
The first one opens three browser tabs: a CBRE market report from last quarter, a CoStar snapshot, and a news article about a new industrial development two miles from the…

Workshop #4: Give AI the CRE Intelligence It Needs
On a recent live follow-up workshop, we took the Multiplier Framework out of theory and into one of the most important (and most unsolved) problems in CRE AI: data.
Your AI is only as good as what you give it. Without access to real data,…

Episode 7 of Multipliers: Be an Advisor, Not a Broker
There is a version of every professional service job where you are just moving paper. Executing transactions, billing hours, closing deals. And there is another version where the person across from you feels like you are actually on their side.…

Episode 6 of Multipliers: The Skills That Don’t Become Obsolete
Every few years, a new technology arrives and someone declares a skill dead. Spreadsheets killed accounting. Search engines made memorization pointless. Now AI is coming for everything else, or so the argument goes.
The problem is that the…

Episode 5 of Multipliers: It’s All Fundamentals
The real competitive advantage in commercial real estate has never been access to information. It has always been knowing what to do with it.
That was true when the edge was a Bloomberg terminal. It was true when the edge was a well-built…
