
An AI Skill for the A.CRE Apartment Development 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 operate…

Multi-Tenant Industrial Acquisition Model
Multi-tenant industrial covers a lot of ground. On one end is an older infill business park with 20 small suites leased to contractors and local distributors. On the other is a 400,000 SF cross-dock distribution building split between two or…

An AI Skill for the A.CRE Multi-Tenant Industrial Acquisition Model
We're working through a project to make our library of Excel models AI-ready. The idea is to 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 how to operate…

An AI Skill for the A.CRE Commercial Real Estate Lease Analysis Tool
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 operate…

The AI.Edge – Become an AI Leader in CRE (Updated Oct 2026)
It’s been the go-to line ever since ChatGPT exploded onto the scene in 2022 and AI became a talking point in every office:
"AI won’t take your job, but someone using AI will."
I’ve said that - or some variation of that - myself in dozens…

Episode 19 of Multipliers: Three Things CRE Firms Getting Ahead Are Actually Doing
Most CRE firms have adopted an AI harness like Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot, but very few know what to do next.
That's an accurate description of where the industry is right now. The CEO Spencer spoke with the day before this recording runs…

How to Implement AI Across a Commercial Real Estate Firm
Most commercial real estate firms are already using AI but the problem is that very few are using it systematically. Here's how we it often goes.
Someone on the acquisitions team has figured out how to use Claude to summarize offering memoranda.…

AI Tools for Commercial Real Estate (Fall 2026 Edition)
We've spent the last few years testing, teaching, and building with AI in commercial real estate, and this post is where we keep track of the tools that matter. It started as a list. This Fall 2026 edition is organized differently, because the…

Episode 18 of Multipliers: JEV Is a Bigger Deal for CRE Than LLMs
Spencer posted about JEV on LinkedIn a few days before this episode and very few people from our industry reacted to it. He understands why. This is boring engineer stuff. The end user of an AI system doesn't care how the micro-decisions inside…

AI Courses for Commercial Real Estate Compared (2026)
If you're shopping for AI courses for commercial real estate, you have more choices today than you did a year ago. As of October 29, 2026, the options fall into three groups: university executive education (Harvard GSD, Marquette, Columbia),…

Episode 17 of Multipliers: The AI Tech Stack Every CRE Professional Needs to Master
More commercial real estate professionals are using AI every day. But using AI and understanding how to engineer an AI output are two very different things.
And that distinction is going to matter a lot.
We're moving into a world where…

The Road to Stabilized NOI – Loss to Lease in Multifamily Property Underwriting (Updated Sept 2026)
The calculation of stabilized Net Operating Income for a property is synonymous with building a stabilized proforma. This modeling process starts by estimating revenues and then the expenses, which means we must adjust the anticipated revenues…

The AI.Edge Q3 2026 Build Competition Is Live!
The AI.Edge Q3 2026 Build Competition is officially open, and we want to see what you build.
Running from September 3rd through September 30th, this quarter's competition keeps the momentum going from a strong first half of 2026. Q1 and Q2…

Episode 16 of Multipliers: Grok Bot and Coffee Enemas
This episode starts with discussing shoulder injury recovery, takes a detour through the Panama Canal, spends twenty minutes on why you are not typing anymore, and lands on one of the clearest explanations of the AI tech stack the podcast has…

Data Center Development Model (Updated Sept 2026)
As the built environment evolves to meet the demands of an increasingly digital world, data centers have emerged as one of the most sophisticated and capital-intensive asset classes in commercial real estate. What was once considered a niche…
