Notes from the keyboard. Not the conference circuit.
Field reports from production deploys. Contrarian theses about what AI actually fixes in real-estate finance. Tactical playbooks teams can copy. Roughly one post a month.
Anatomy of an HEI eligibility engine: four investor overlays, zero LLMs in the decision
Field report from a multi-program HEI operator. Four investor overlays plus a sale-leaseback product, all driven by one admin-editable settings table. No LLM in the eligibility decision path.
You can't hire a senior AI engineer fast enough — here's the math
Senior AI engineers in 2026 cost $300K–$500K all-in and take six months to land. For a $2–10M revenue operator, that math doesn't work. Here's what does.
How we cut a home equity platform's lead-to-close cycle in half
Field report from a multi-program HEI / HEA / SLB platform. Voice intake, agentic enrichment, eligibility integration. What we shipped, what broke, what stuck.
The 7-specialist review pipeline that keeps AI features from breaking in production
A reusable playbook: seven structured review passes before any AI feature ships. Catches the failures that pilot-stage AI code carries into production.