You are here: / Multipliers Podcast

Multipliers: An A.CRE Podcast on Leverage and AI in Commercial Real Estate

Multipliers is a weekly podcast from Adventures in CRE exploring what creates real leverage in commercial real estate and in life — from AI and technology to habits, relationships, and frameworks that compound over time. Hosted by Spencer Burton, Sam Carlson, and Michael Belasco, each episode breaks down how thoughtful CRE professionals can multiply their output, clarity, and impact.

Brought to you by AI.Edge, AI training for commercial real estate professionals.

, , ,

Real Estate Financial Modeling Accelerator (Updated May 2026)

Before launching the Accelerator program, Michael and I received countless emails requesting a more structured, step-by-step real estate financial modeling training program. Over the years, we've covered hundreds of real estate modeling…
, ,

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…
, , , ,

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…
, ,

Episode 9 of Multipliers: The Traffic Engine Nobody’s Building

Most CRE operators spend a fixed percentage of every reservation paying a third-party platform to exist. They know it is happening. They accept it as the cost of doing business. What very few of them have asked is: what would it take to build…
, ,

Episode 8 of Multipliers: The Multipliers Nobody Talks About

Most productivity content is about systems. The right morning routine, the right tool stack, the right framework for prioritizing your tasks. That stuff is fine. It is also the easy part. The harder part, and the part that actually separates…
, , ,

Episode 7 of Multipliers: Be an Advisor, Not a Broker

There is a version of every professional service job where you are just moving paper. Executing transactions, billing hours, closing deals. And there is another version where the person across from you feels like you are actually on their side.…
, , ,

Episode 6 of Multipliers: The Skills That Don’t Become Obsolete

Every few years, a new technology arrives and someone declares a skill dead. Spreadsheets killed accounting. Search engines made memorization pointless. Now AI is coming for everything else, or so the argument goes. The problem is that the…
, , ,

Episode 5 of Multipliers: It’s All Fundamentals

The real competitive advantage in commercial real estate has never been access to information. It has always been knowing what to do with it. That was true when the edge was a Bloomberg terminal. It was true when the edge was a well-built…
, , ,

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…
, , ,

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,…
, , ,

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…
, , ,

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…