The firms that win with AI in this cycle won't be the ones with the best models. They'll be the ones with the best data. My Demo Day podcast/YouTube guest today is Michael Mandel, co-founder and CEO of CompStak. Key takeaway: clean data is the moat - AI is the multiplier. CompStak spent 14 years crowdsourcing lease and sales comps from nearly 50,000 brokers and research professionals. That foundation is what makes their AI tools actually useful rather than just impressive. The practical applications worth knowing about: natural language search across 1.3 million lease comps, AI-powered rent estimations weighted by hundreds of comparable deals, and dynamic market narratives that replace what used to take an analyst team days to produce. For institutional players, the real value is portfolio benchmarking - seeing whether your rents, concessions, and lease positioning are above or below market. Not against your own assumptions, but against actual comp data. Coming in 2026: enterprise clients will be able to plug CompStak data directly into their own internal platforms, and a new prospecting tool for tenant rep brokers that surfaces opportunities based on upcoming lease expirations and tenant growth patterns. *** At GowerCrowd, we are bringing the most advanced AI tools to our clients for both capital formation - but across other operational verticals too (like acquisitions). If you'd like to learn more about how we can assist you too, please reach out. Subscribe to my newsletter and get access to this transformational intel before anyone else: https://gowercrowd.com/subscribe Email:
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