First time seeing? Sign up here April 15, 2026 | Read Online Your pitch deck has a new first reader and it's not your investor. It's their AI. [I've built an automation tool to optimize your pitch decks - reply to this email if you'd like me to send it to you.] Every institutional deal platform now runs automated extraction on incoming pitch decks before a human analyst touches them. Dealpath - used by Blackstone, Nuveen, MetLife, and 300+ other firms managing over $10 trillion in...
9 days ago • 5 min read
First time seeing? Sign up here April 8, 2026 | Read Online The Window Is Open. It Will Not Stay That Way. The gap between what AI can do today and what most CRE firms are actually doing with it is the subject of this week’s newsletter - and the gap is closing faster than most sponsors have planned for. At GowerCrowd, we build AI-powered marketing and capital formation systems for sponsors raising equity, and we are deploying the same technology across the full deal lifecycle, from...
16 days ago • 9 min read
First time seeing? Sign up here April 1, 2026 | Read Online After several years of compressed deal flow and constrained capital, conditions are shifting. Liquidity is re-entering the market. Bank deregulation is loosening credit. The stock market has come off its highs and investors are actively looking for alternatives - longer-term, less volatile places to put capital that has nowhere obvious to go. For sponsors who are positioned correctly, this is a significant opportunity. The challenge...
23 days ago • 4 min read
First time seeing? Sign up here March 25, 2026 | Read Online Bank capital rules just got easier which is good news for commercial real estate - with one important caveat. U.S. regulators unveiled a sweeping revision to bank capital requirements on March 19, cutting the amount of equity capital the largest banks must hold against their loan books and explicitly signaling a desire to expand credit availability in commercial and residential real estate. For CRE professionals, the direction is...
30 days ago • 4 min read
First time seeing? Sign up here Feb 11, 2026 | Read Online Hey – For the last 18 months, we’ve been deep in advanced AI with clients. It started in capital formation but now it touches everything. Pre-acquisition screening.Deal sourcing.Underwriting in seconds.Operations.Renewals and ancillary income.Exit positioning. Clients are using agents to find deals automatically, tools to underwrite OMs instantly, systems that increase renewals while improving resident satisfaction. And a lot more....
2 months ago • 3 min read
First time seeing? Sign up here February 4, 2026 | Read Online I have been conducting extensive AI research and am starting to roll out the results to clients (let me know if you'd like us to help you gain an unfair advantage with AI too), and today I am going to introduce you to a tool that is revolutionizing how the CRE industry is functioning. Most conversations about AI in commercial real estate focus on marginal gains at the edges - faster emails, document summaries, or chat-based Q&A....
3 months ago • 3 min read
First time seeing? Sign up here January 29, 2026 | Read Online ChatGPT is amazing – but it is barely scratching the surface of what’s truly revolutionizing the commercial real estate industry today. And trying to figure out which AI companies are making the difference (they are not the ones you think) plus trying to figure out how to use them can be overwhelming. But I’ve done the work for you. Over the last few months, I’ve been researching AI companies that are bringing profound, measurable...
3 months ago • 7 min read
First time seeing? Sign up here January 20, 2025 | Read Online Despite writing, posting, and speaking publicly for years, someone who’s followed me for almost two years told me last week that he didn’t know what services we provide at GowerCrowd. (Gasp.)So, as you know, and probably to my detriment, I don't say this often enough, here's what we do at GowerCrowd: -> Who I Work WithI work with seasoned, best-in-class CRE professionals who:• Have real, multi-cycle operating track records• Raise...
3 months ago • 7 min read
First time seeing? Sign up here January 13, 2026 | Read Online Morning, Last week, I showed you exactly how AI decides which sponsors get cited and which ones never show up. That wasn’t theory. That was the playbook. Here’s the reality though: Knowing how this works and actually implementing it are two very different things. Doing it properly means: Choosing the right investor-facing questions Structuring answers the way AI can actually use Quantifying experience instead of describing it...
3 months ago • 4 min read