Artificial Intelligence in Commercial Real Estate

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How to Connect an MCP Server to Claude Desktop (No Developer Experience Required)

A few weeks ago I asked Claude Desktop to reorganize a folder on my computer. It reviewed the entire folder: every file and subfolder inside it, proposed a new layout, and once I approved it, made the changes itself. I didn't set anything…
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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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Episode 4 of Multipliers: AI Crossed the Threshold

AI is not replacing expertise. It is revealing who has it. The professionals who have spent years building real judgment, real methodology, and real domain knowledge are discovering something unexpected: AI does not compete with them. It…
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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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Episode 3 of Multipliers: The Coming AI Divide

The AI divide is not a prediction. It is already here. Some professionals are doing in 20 minutes what used to take two days. Others have not changed a single workflow. Both groups show up to the same offices, live in the same neighborhoods,…
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AI Crossed a Threshold. Let Us Help You Prepare.

I’m sitting in warm Miami, looking out over Biscayne Bay. Super yachts glide past fishing boats. A soft drizzle is settling over the water, and still the steady stream of vessels continues. The sun most certainly will be back out soon and…
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Episode 2 of Multipliers – Cuby: Building More With Less (Plus Sourcing Construction Materials)

The housing problem is not a mystery. It is a math problem. Not enough homes. Not enough skilled labor to build them. Not enough affordable construction materials to make deals pencil. And yet, very few people are attacking the root of…
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New Web App: Short-term Rentals Acquisition Model

I'm continuing to explore how real estate financial models can go beyond traditional Excel without losing rigor, flexibility, or control. Today, I'm introducing a new web application built around our short-term rentals acquisition model, designed…
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Introducing Multipliers: An A.CRE Podcast + Episode 1: Mario Kart Speed Boosts

Some people compound. Others stall. Same hours. Same markets. Same access to information. Very different outcomes. For years, I’ve been quietly fascinated by that gap. At A.CRE, we’ve spent more than a decade helping people build…
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The AI.Edge Q1 2026 Build Competition Is Live!

We’re kicking off the new year with something big. The AI.Edge Q1 2026 Build Competition is now open, a hands-on challenge built for those ready to turn AI exploration into something tangible, useful, and CRE-specific. If you’ve been experimenting…
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Create Your First Excel Macro with AI

Most people in commercial real estate still think Excel macros are for “the IT guy down the hall.” You underwrite, you manage rent rolls, you crank out lender packages in Excel all day… but the moment someone says “VBA,” you are…
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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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AI Network Analysis: Analyze 2,000+ names in one afternoon

This week, I needed to find speakers for an upcoming real estate conference. To do it, I used AI Network Analysis to scan 2,000+ connections on LinkedIn across 15+ panels on topics like Data Centers, Affordable Housing, Office Conversions, and…