Notes from the workshop
What we're thinking about, what we're building, and what we're reading — notes on AI-native engineering, product work, and shipping software that lasts.
Real Estate Investment Software: Underwriting, Waterfalls
Real estate investment software is an underwriting engine and an investor-management system. Here is how the pro-forma model computes returns, the deal and scenario data model, how the equity waterfall and capital calls work, what the LP portal carries, and when to build.
Tokenomics: How to Design a Token Economy That Holds Up
Tokenomics is the design of a token's supply, distribution, vesting and demand. This is a founder's guide to designing one: the components, benchmark allocations from 150+ launches, dated examples from Ethereum to Terra, and a step by step method.
Decentralized Exchange Development: Architecture and Cost
A build guide for decentralized exchange development: how AMM, order-book and intent designs differ, what the architecture really contains, what a fork costs you in licence terms, and a cost model with its assumptions written down.
Real Estate Data Analytics: From Rent Rolls to Decisions
Real estate data analytics starts with a data problem: registry, MLS, and rent-roll records that disagree on addresses, units, and timing. Here's what the key joins are, how analytics maturity progresses, and what a useful portfolio dashboard actually answers.
Real Estate Chatbots: What They Need Before Talking to Buyers
Scripted real estate chatbots break when a buyer asks a real question: availability, price, pet policy, how to book a viewing. A chatbot that answers correctly needs live listing data, not canned flows, and guardrails on the failure modes that create legal exposure.
Real Estate Accounting Software: Ledger, Trust, Tax
Real estate accounting software is the system of record underneath a property operation: the general ledger, the trust accounts, and the filings on top. Here is how the ledger and chart of accounts work, how trust reconciles three ways, and when to build.
Property Management Software: Architecture and Build
Property management software is a ledger and a trust-accounting system with portals on top. Here is the data model behind units, leases, and tenants, how the tenant ledger and trust accounting work, how rent payments and screening integrate, and when to build instead of buy.
Commercial Real Estate Software: CAM, NNN, Leases
Commercial real estate software is lease administration plus a recovery engine. Here is why the commercial lease is a harder data model than a residential one, how CAM reconciliation, NNN leases, recoveries, gross-up, and escalations compute, and when to build.
What Is an Automated Valuation Model (AVM) and When to Trust It
An automated valuation model (AVM) estimates property value from comparable sales, hedonic regression, and public records in seconds, without an appraiser. Here's how AVMs produce a number, what confidence scores mean, and where the estimate breaks down.
What Is PropTech? Property Technology Explained with Examples
PropTech means property technology: software that reshapes how real estate is listed, managed, financed, and owned. What the five major segments cover, what each changes in practice, and when custom proptech development makes more sense than buying off the shelf.
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