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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Setting Up Your First OpenClaw for Commercial Real Estate Professionals

Back in 2022, when most of the commercial real estate industry had never heard of ChatGPT, we started writing about it. Since then, we’ve published hundreds of pieces of AI content and built AI.Edge, the largest community of CRE professionals…
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What Is MCP and Why Should CRE Professionals Pay Attention?

Everyone in commercial real estate is talking about AI agents right now. Fewer people are asking what is MCP, the piece of infrastructure that makes those agents actually useful. If you haven't heard of it yet, you will. MCP stands for…
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The Multiplier Framework Workshop #3: AI Skills

On a recent live follow-up workshop, we took the Multiplier Framework out of "high level theory" and applied it to one of the most important (and most overlooked) concepts in AI productivity: skills. Every CRE professional has methodology…
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How I Built a Real Estate DCF Web App with AI in Five Minutes (Updated March 2026)

Over the past year, we've been experimenting heavily with (and successfully using) AI coding tools to push the boundaries of what's possible in commercial real estate. We've used v0 to quickly scope frontend designs, and we've spun up various…
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The Multiplier Framework Workshop #2: Double Underwriting Speed with AI

On a recent live follow-up workshop, we took the Multiplier Framework out of “high level theory” and applied it to the most requested target in commercial real estate: Underwriting, the number one task CRE professionals said they want…
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Double Your Output with AI in 2026 Workshop: The Multiplier Framework for CRE (Updated Jan 2026)

On January 15, over 700 commercial real estate professionals joined me live (nearly 1,400 registered) to learn a simple idea: Any CRE professional, regardless of technical skill or AI knowledge, can multiply their output. Not by working…
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We Built an AI Headshot Tool for Real Estate, Here’s Why and How to Use It

At A.CRE, we have always been about training the industry. For the past decade, that has largely meant financial modeling. We've built and shared Excel models that have been downloaded over 600,000 times, because learning to model real estate…