The AI Edge Podcast: CRE & AI

Recent Episodes

1. Industrial Leases Take 12 Weeks. He Says They Can Take One Day

   Sep 14, 2026

   James Holbrook, Founder and Executive Chairman of Warehub, discusses how he's reimagining industrial short-term leasing by eliminating information asymmetry and standardizing workflows. With 20 years in the industry and roughly 2,500 transactions completed, Holbrook identified that the core problem wasn't a lack of warehouse space, but rather the manual, fragmented infrastructure surrounding transactions—email chains, negotiations, and document exchanges that stretch 12 weeks. Warehub restructures the entire transaction lifecycle using third-party verified property data, standardized lease terms, and integrated workflows, compressing timelines to a single day while preserving the judgment and relationship-building roles of brokers.

2. He Says His Pharmaceutical Company Was Born in a Prison Cell

   Aug 25, 2026

   Steele Clark Smith III, CEO of C3 Pharmaceuticals, discusses his nearly 20-year mission to move cannabinoids from dispensary counters to prescription pads through a standardized pharmaceutical tablet called Idrasil. The conversation covers his personal journey through opioid withdrawal, his incarceration and the origin of his product idea in a prison cell, and his pivot from pursuing commercial cannabis markets to partnering with government agencies like the VA and military to address the opioid crisis. Smith explores the operational challenges of building a 100,000 sq ft manufacturing facility, leveraging AI for hiring and document management, and distinguishing pharmaceutical cannabis from recreational markets.

3. What Happens When America’s 90-Day Food Supply Runs Out?

   Aug 17, 2026

   Kendall Lang, CEO of mOrganic Holdings, discusses America's fragile food supply system and his mission to build hyperlocal, regenerative food production ecosystems. Drawing from 30 years in real estate development and infrastructure, Lang explains why the global agricultural supply chain operates on only 90 days of inventory and how controlled-environment agriculture combined with regenerative outdoor farming can create food security and sovereignty at the community level. The conversation covers his personal journey—including his late wife's battle with glioblastoma and the role of cannabis and plant medicine—and his vision for transforming farming from a dying profession into a high-margin, technology-enabled business that heals both people and planet.

4. Your 800 Credit Score Might Be Completely Useless

   Aug 15, 2026

   Dave Burgio, founder of Trifecta Credit Solutions, discusses why a high credit score alone doesn't make someone fundable and why entrepreneurs and real estate investors should build capital readiness before urgently needing money. The episode covers credit positioning fundamentals, the difference between credit score and lender qualification, how to strategically prepare for business funding and private lending, and why waiting until capital is urgent creates unnecessary risk and limits options.

5. They Both Got Laid Off the Same Day, Then Built a 7-Figure Business

   Aug 4, 2026

   Mike Deaton, co-founder of Flipping Dirt, shares how he and his wife transitioned from 20+ years in corporate roles at Motorola, Nokia, and Microsoft to building a seven-figure national land investing business after being laid off on the same day in 2016. The conversation covers the land flipping business model (buying vacant land below market value and reselling at profit), how Mike applies operational excellence from his corporate background to keep the business lean and scalable, and how he's leveraging AI and automation to compete effectively. Mike discusses his philosophy of eliminate-automate-delegate, market selection strategy, pricing psychology, and his vision for scaling both the land business and his coaching program through systemization and AI-enhanced tools.

6. Stop Letting AI Make Decisions for You

   Aug 4, 2026

   Brooks Saye, Partner at Varro Capital, discusses why AI should augment human decision-making rather than replace it in multifamily operations. She argues that the industry's core problem isn't a shortage of technology but poor coordination between existing tools, inadequate change management, and failure to build solutions with both operators and renters in mind. The conversation explores why PropTech implementations fail, the regulatory pressures facing operators, and how companies can leverage AI to reduce administrative burden while keeping residents at the center of operational strategy.

7. Trillions in Property Are Being Managed Through Email

   Jul 30, 2026

   Sally Hamini, Founder and CEO of On Property Technologies, discusses the state of HOA and property management operations, where billions of dollars in aging infrastructure are still managed through email and spreadsheets. She explains how her AI-enabled platform connects property managers, vendors, boards, and technicians into a unified operating system to automate maintenance workflows, improve vendor accountability, and enable data-driven decision-making across the entire property management ecosystem.

8. He Fired His Software... And Built His Own AI Instead

   Jul 28, 2026

   Guillermo is a 29-year-old commercial real estate broker and founder of Panther Capital Group, who has closed over $350 million in industrial and outdoor storage transactions. He discusses building his brokerage from scratch through cold outreach and relationship-building, and reveals how he fired expensive software and built his own AI-powered platform (Bill Kraxus) to automate deal sourcing, underwriting, contract drafting, and client reporting. The episode covers his journey from Spain to the US, his philosophy on people-first leadership, and how proprietary data and AI automation create competitive advantage in industrial real estate.

9. The Biggest AI Risk Nobody Is Talking About

   Jul 28, 2026

   Matthew Schneider, President and CEO of Building Incorporated, discusses why real estate's biggest challenge is not technology but data integrity and workflow. Building provides a platform that organizes, verifies, and activates property data using blockchain-based fingerprinting and AI to prepare real estate assets for financing, compliance, reporting, transactions, and digital markets. Schneider argues that AI and tokenization cannot succeed without trustworthy data foundations, and warns against treating AI as a silver bullet while skipping fundamental data governance.

10. Everyone Sells Data. He Sells Decisions

    Jul 24, 2026

    Andrew Weiss, 24-year-old founder of HomeStream, discusses his AI-powered residential real estate investment analysis platform designed to replace manual deal analysis workflows. Born from his own investor pain point of juggling spreadsheets and fragmented data sources, HomeStream compiles property data, comps, cash flow analysis, and financing scenarios into a single investment decision report scored 0-100. The episode covers real estate investing fundamentals, how HomeStream differentiates against incumbents like PropStream and Batch Leads by delivering decisions rather than just data, and Andrew's path from bootstrapping a $300K e-commerce business to building PropTech.