
An AI Skill for the A.CRE Commercial Mortgage Loan Analysis 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…

CRE Market Risk Heat Map: AI-Powered Risk Scoring in Minutes (Updated June 2026)
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…

An AI Skill for the A.CRE Residential Land 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…

Financial Modeling in the Era of AI – Watch Me Build
In a recent post, I made the case that AI and financial modeling follow the same logic as long division and calculators. Learn the mechanics first. Once you've got them, the tool multiplies your output. The calculator only helps if you…

AI Tools for Commercial Real Estate (Summer 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…
Episode 10 of Multipliers: Modeling Like a Deal Seasoned Pro in the Era of AI
For years, AI real estate financial modeling was a promise that kept arriving too early. Every new model, every new tool, produced more errors than it saved time. You would spend longer validating the output than you would have spent building…

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…

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.…

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,…

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…

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…

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…
