AI Investment Transforms Commercial Real Estate Firm

After 13+ years in commercial real estate, I made a career-defining gamble - investing everything into building a proprietary AI deal analyzer when most brokers were still using spreadsheets and gut instinct. My partners thought I was wasting money on tech nobody asked for.

The risk was massive because I spent six months and significant capital developing the system while competitors were closing deals. I had to turn down immediate commission opportunities to focus on building something that might never work. The breakthrough came when our AI started identifying lease escalation clauses and auto-renewal traps with 98% accuracy compared to the 15% error rate from manual reviews.

The results transformed everything - we've prevented clients from inadvertent 5-year auto-renewals, increased tenant-side renewals by 35%, and shortened negotiation cycles from 45 to 28 days. When our AI flagged rising rental rates in Northwest Doral six months before CoStar's public report, we helped three clients renew early and avoid a 12% spike, saving them over $200K collectively.

That bold tech investment became our competitive moat and positioned us as the data-driven CRE firm in Miami. We've now saved clients over $2 million in lease negotiations because we accepted technology when the industry was still analog.

Brett Sherman, Real Estate Broker, Signature Realty