
An AI Skill for the A.CRE Advanced Mortgage Amortization Module
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…

Advanced Mortgage Amortization Module (Updated July 2026)
In recent months, I've been working on an advanced real estate investment amortization table with interest-only capability, fixed and variable interest rates, multiple interest calculation methods (i.e. 30/360, Actual/Actual, Actual/365, Actual/360),…

An AI Skill for the A.CRE Data Center Development Model
We'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…

Episode 12 of Multipliers: Ask Why Until the Answer Changes
Every industry has a default way of doing things. A standard buy box. A standard funnel. A standard set of tools that everyone uses because everyone uses them. The people who build lasting advantages are the ones who look at that default and…

An AI Skill for the A.CRE Short-Term Rental Acquisition Model
We'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…

Short-Term Rental Acquisition Model (Updated June 2026)
In today's real estate landscape, short-term rentals (STRs) stand out as one of the most dynamic and potentially high-yield asset classes. From compact urban units serving business travelers to luxury vacation homes attracting high-net-worth…

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…

Commercial Mortgage Loan Analysis Model (Updated June 2026)
Over the years, I've received various requests to augment our library of real estate Excel models to include a model for underwriting and analyzing commercial mortgage loans. Specifically, people have asked for a tool to calculate the loan amount…

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…
Episode 11 of Multipliers: Most People and Companies Are Ill-Prepared for the AI Wave
The re-skilling wave is not coming. It is already here. And most people and most organizations in commercial real estate are ill-prepared for the AI Wave.
That is not a criticism. It is an observation from two people who are in this every…

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…

Residential Land Development Pro Forma (Updated June 2026)
As many of you know, I started my career in residential land development first as a broker and later as a principal. During that time, I built my fair share of residential land development Excel pro formas, modeling returns and forecasting cash…

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…

A practical guide to Claude Skills on desktop and web
If you use Claude often, Claude Skills are how you teach it to work the way you do, without repeating yourself every time. Instead of pasting long instructions in every new chat, you write down your process once as a reusable Skill, save it,…
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…
