The AI for CRE Learning Platform is Here:
Here’s the deal. I’ve been working on something new for a little while. As subscribers to this newsletter, you’re the first people I’m sharing it with.
I’m excited to announce that I’ve teamed up with two outstanding CRE AI professionals, Jonathan Buckelew (VP of Asset Management at PEAK) and Nadine Ezzie (CRE Attorney & Tech Consultant at Ezzie & Co), to bring you all a new way to learn to use AI & automations in commercial real estate.
Introducing: CRE AI Studio, the first AI learning platform of its kind.
If you want to stop spending hours on CRE tasks that should take minutes, and learn to streamline your work using AI-powered automations, check out what we’re offering below..
Here’s what we’re providing at The Studio..
Weekly Step-by-Step AI for CRE Video Lessons: Every week we’ll release a new step-by-step lesson to help you automate specific CRE workflows using AI. These videos will be delivered to you weekly, and you’ll continue to have access to them in the platform to refer back as we roll out new lessons each week. As AI keep progressing, so will the new lessons we roll out, keeping you up to date on the latest ways to use these incredible tools in our industry.
Monthly Live Q&A Sessions: The majority of our lessons will be pre-recorded so you can learn to master AI for CRE whenever you like. But we’ll also offer monthly live round-table sessions with Jonathan, Nadine & myself. These sessions will go over 1 key AI for CRE lesson, which will be taught by all 3 of us and offer live Q&A on all the lessons covered so far.
On-Demand Consulting - Your AI Questions, Answered: The platform will provide a private channel for asking AI X CRE questions directly to myself, Jonathan, and Nadine, all of which will be answered within 24 hours.
Note: Before I continue, you should know that we’re offering our first 50 members half off their the membership price. As a subscriber of this newsletter, you’re the very first to get this offer.
Click here to learn more and secure your place in our Founding 50 by using this coupon code at checkout: FOUNDING50
Now time for lift off..
Here’s what you’ll learn in the Studio:
CRE AI Studio isn’t a course, but the platform will follow a curriculum, kind of like a course. The key difference is that the curriculum will be rapidly updated as AI tools & their capabilities progress.
Within the first 3 months you can expect to learn to:
Use our advanced CRE-focused prompting frameworks (forget trying to find the “perfect prompts”, you need to learn HOW to prompt)
Use AI tools & automations for prospecting, sales, follow-up, deal sourcing & general business development
Streamline your marketing process by using AI to generate stunning images, videos, brochures, pitch decks & more
Analyze and DRAFT your legal docs (taught by an actual CRE attorney)
Build YOUR OWN Customized AI Bots: Reduce minutia by building AI tools to execute specific CRE tasks
Build AI assistants trained ONLY on the CRE sources & docs you provide it, and AI content bots that actually sound like you
AI Automations for CRE: If you can use AI to do something, there’s a good chance you can automate it. We’ll take you through automations from the beginning, showing you how to build them, and then how to build specific automations to help with CRE sales, marketing, and personal productivity, just to name a few
And that’s just scratching the surface..
You can sign up for CRE AI Studio & secure your place in the Founding 50 here.
Meet the AI for CRE Dream Team
This program is led by:
Myself, Topher Stephenson: Head of Operations for Aspire Commercial and author of the ChatCRE newsletter. 11+ years leveraging technology across in-house leasing & sales, marketing, and scaling brokerages.
Nadine Ezzie: 20+ year CRE attorney, former tech executive, Owner of Ezzie & Co where she specializes in legal & technology consulting for CRE firms.
Jonathan Buckelew: Vice President of Asset Management at PEAK, and AI educator. 10+ years of experience across real estate private equity, asset management, financial modeling & analyses, portfolio optimization & much more.
The Goal:
The goal of the learning platform is to provide a way to learn to use AI in the same formats that I’ve used to learn to use technology over the past 11 years:
Step by step tutorials you can watch whenever is convenient to you, that literally show you what buttons to click and how to automate work, not just the high level ideas.
Live sessions so you can get live feedback from us on what we’ve covered, and so you can hear from others about how they’re progressing.
Direct access and answers from people who know what they’re doing and are leveraging this technology in the field.
I’ve told a few people about this project over the course of the past month. Here’s the answers to the most common questions I’ve gotten on the new platform:
Q: Why don’t you just offer a regular course?
A: Listen, courses are great. I pay for courses on all kinds of topics. I’ve taught AI courses in the past. But here’s the issue with AI courses: Once you finish them, they’re out of date. We originally started mapping out a course on AI automations for CRE - The platforms we were covering, and what they can do changed significantly by the time we’d outlined the road mp. Instead of a traditional course, we’re going to provide weekly lessons on how to use AI in our industry, going through a set curriculum AS IF it were a course, but it will be CONTINUOUSLY updated as the platforms and technologies change.
The downside to this? It doesn’t have an end date. But mastering something that changes this fast can’t really have a pre-determined end date. You can obviously exit the platform whenever you feel you know enough to keep going on your own. I imagine some people will subscribe to the platform for 3 months, determine they’ve learned enough, and be good to go. I think many more will continue to take the lessons as long as we continue providing them. But one thing I’m sure of is that every single person who subscribes will learn A TON about AI.
Q: What’s the additional value in being able to ask you all question 24/7?
A: Every week, Jonathan, Nadine and myself get approached by CRE professionals, teams, and companies, looking for an AI consultant. But here’s the kicker, most of them don’t really want or need an consultant. They just want to ask questions and get answers from people in their field who know how to use this technology. Occasionally, we’ll schedule general consulting sessions where people can ask these questions, but the cost is significant for some.
This platform is our approach to provide answers to CRE pros, teams, and companies with burning AI questions, at a cost that makes sense for them. As a note, Nadine is an actual attorney, I’m not aware of another option for getting direct answers from an attorney who specializes in AI and CRE like this (don’t tell her I said that I don’t want to give her second thoughts.)
Q: Will you still do the newsletter?
A: I’m absolutely going to continue sending the ChatCRE newsletter. I LOVE writing this newsletter and providing CRE pros with tactics and tips on using AI in the industry. But some common feedback I get is that while it’s a great resource for getting new ideas on how to use AI, a long-form written newsletter just isn’t the best way for most people to actually learn to use the tools.
All that is to say - The newsletter will keep going out every month unchanged.
But if you need more guidance and want detailed, step-by-step lessons on how to actually execute on the ideas I’ve shared in this newsletter over the past year and a half, that’s exactly that we’ll be providing at CRE AI Studio.
You can sign up for CRE AI Studio & secure your place in the Founding 50 here.
We’ll be looping in folks outside of the newsletter tomorrow, so if you think you’d like to join, please click over and at least check it out before the first 50 slots are gone.
I hope you’ll join us!
But even if you don’t - THANK YOU for being a part of ChatCRE!
(As a token of my thanks, please enjoy this throwback to our first edition, published over a year and a half ago.)
