The Real Playbook for AI in CRE: What to Build, What to Skip, and Why It Matters

09/05/2025 18 min

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode of The Concrete Voice, I sit down again with Todd Terry, Co-Founder of Ascendix Technologies, to go beyond AI buzzwords and talk about the real-world process of building and adopting AI in commercial real estate.From search evolution to contract abstraction and CRM automation, Todd shares lessons from two decades of product development AND what every CRE leader should consider before diving in.We discuss:What makes AI tools actually useful in a CRE environmentWhere to start: contract abstraction, CRM input, note automationWhy user experience still trumps technical eleganceHow to choose the right use cases, and ignore the restWhat Colliers taught us about building tools brokers will love📩 For more insights, subscribe to the newsletter:linkedin.com/theconcretevoice