The Journal
A publication for people who run properties and want to understand what AI and technology are making possible. Written from inside real operations.
The letter, every Sunday.
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A building becomes easier to manage, assess and hand over when the work done to it can be followed. AI gives us better ways to assemble that knowledge and use it while we still own the property.
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AI agents have given me capacity I would otherwise have needed to hire for. Managing them is becoming a larger part of my own work.
Three signals about AI at work, the data it reaches and where it is processed. Plus our new article.
The work repeats, the buildings remain, and what we learn can be useful again. That gives a property professional somewhere to begin.
On the week we first told anyone RENAVID exists, on the most ambitious system we have ever started building, and on what it has already taught us.
The first letter: what we build in our own operation, a rule we had overstated, and five places to start reading.
I did not set out to start a company. I set out to run our buildings better, and the systems I built along the way, with AI at hand, turned into one. There is a paradox in how the idea of RENAVID first took root in me, then began to grow, and now, at last, seems to be on its way to becoming something real.
It never said which ones it hadn’t. What a contractor needs to know before the next visit, and why the fix starts with the record.
We use more AI tools than ever. We find the question of which one is best less and less useful.
It’s that building your own systems suddenly became possible
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One letter a week from The Journal, on AI, technology and property operations.
