
Becoming AI-Capable in 30 Days – A Proven Roadmap
We’re in a moment where the advantage from being AI native is disproportionately high and the effort to achieve it is surprisingly low. In fact, in most rooms of 10 professionals, the one who’s spent even a few weeks tinkering with AI tools…

Quick AI Wins: Monitoring Tenant Health with Yutori Scouts
We’re kicking off a new A.CRE series called Quick AI Wins: bite-sized, high-impact AI tools and use cases that owners, investors, brokers, and managers can use to create leverage in CRE.
While many of these tools are in the early stages…

AI and the Future of Commercial Real Estate: A Conversation with Ron Rohde
Our very own Spencer Burton recently joined Ron Rohde - CRE attorney, investor, and longtime guest contributor to A.CRE - for a forward-looking discussion about how artificial intelligence is transforming commercial real estate.
Why now?…

Can AI Act Like a Negotiator, a Partner, or a Shark? A New Study Says Yes.
A new paper from researchers at the University of Oxford and Kings College London suggests that large language models like GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini don’t just spit out language, but rather develop strategic personalities. One plays nice.…

Software 3.0 and What it Means for Real Estate Professionals
A couple of months ago, I shared a blog post detailing how I built a DCF Web App using an AI coding tool. What once would have required either deep technical skills or a developer's help took less than 10 minutes to build, with ChatGPT and Lovable…

From AI Analog to AI Native: My View on Where CRE Work Is Going
I thought I'd share a few thoughts that came to mind as Michael and Sam were in town recording the latest season of the A.CRE Audio Series. We spent a lot of time talking about AI - what's real and what's not, where it might take the industry,…

Being an AI-First Member of the Team – The New Baseline Expectation
A few days ago, I came across this internal memo from Shopify’s CEO, Tobi Lütke, which he decided to publicly share because it was already in the process of being leaked. The memo was honest, direct, and (to me) deeply resonant.
“Reflexive…

How I Built a CustomGPT to Manage Development Invoices and Bill Payments at RV@Olympic
As we are currently working to develop our new RV park at Olympic National Park, RV@Olympic, we are dealing with the all too familiar monotonous processes that come with any development project. One of these tasks is organizing, managing, and…

How to Connect a Google Doc to Your Custom GPT: A Step-by-Step Guide
At A.CRE, we’re always exploring new ways to make our work more efficient for you and for us! Whether it’s building custom GPTs for real estate, experimenting with locally installed LLMs, or finding AI-specific tools for commercial real…

How the A.CRE AI Assistant Custom GPT is Built
This past week, we held our monthly 'technical AMA' where I answer technical questions from the audience. These questions usually cover nuanced elements of real estate financial modeling or the application of artificial intelligence in real…

Watch Me Build – Industrial Offering Memorandum Analyzer Custom GPT
In this Watch Me Build session, I'll walk you through constructing a custom GPT that near-instantly sifts through Industrial Offering Memorandums to pinpoint whether an investment aligns with your criteria. At the heart of this build is a tailored…

How to Talk to an AI Large Language Model – As Written by AI
Spencer here. So, every morning one of the first things I read is a summary of AI news. Artificial intelligence, and generative AI in particular, is moving at a breakneck speed. Seemingly every day, a big advancement or announcement in AI comes…

Strategies for Better AI Prompting
In the commercial real estate industry where precision and foresight are essential, artificial intelligence - and generative AI in particular - has emerged as a game-changer. AI, through language models like ChatGPT and Google Bard, can sift…

AI Prompt Engineering in Commercial Real Estate: A Useful Framework
In late 2022, we at A.CRE began to dive in earnest into the world of AI. Since that time, we've shared numerous blog posts exploring AI use cases and training materials. We've also shared and built ourselves, various AI-related tools that we…

Create Your First AI Tool: Sales Comp Database ChatGPT Plugin
Traditionally in commercial real estate, each organization builds its own proprietary sales comp database and then gives its analysts access to that database in order to perform comp analysis. As AI becomes more and more important, pairing the…
