Fractional CTO
A fractional CTO for real estate firms
AI strategy, security and vendor audits, and the internal systems your team will actually use. From a real estate team that builds and runs its own software on live deals every day.
Thirty minutes, free. No commitment and no sales pressure.
Matt Yellin
Co-founder, Deal Manager AI
Your consultation is with the team that ships the product, not a sales rep. We will tell you what we would do in your seat, including when the answer is to change nothing.
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When firms call us
None of these need a full-time CTO. All of them need someone technical who is accountable for the answer.
Your LPs and your investment committee are asking what you are doing with AI, and the honest answer is a pilot that never shipped.
You are paying for eight tools that overlap, and nobody on the team owns the stack.
Someone built an internal tool with AI. It works, and no one has audited what it touches.
You need a technical voice for diligence, vendor negotiations and hiring, but not a full-time CTO on payroll.
What the engagement covers
AI strategy grounded in your deals
We start with the work your team actually does: underwriting, sourcing, asset management, investor reporting. You get a ranked plan of what to automate, what to buy, and what to leave alone.
Security, data and vendor audits
A written review of what your systems touch, where your data goes, who has access, and what your vendor contracts actually commit to. Written so your IT provider and your investors can both read it.
Systems your team will use
Models, pipelines, dashboards, integrations. Designed around how your team already works, then built and maintained, rather than handed over as a template nobody opens twice.
Fractional technology leadership
Roadmap ownership, vendor selection and negotiation, technical hiring, and someone who can sit in an LP or IC meeting and answer the technology questions directly.
We do not just advise. We ship.
Everything below is production software our own team runs on real deals. It is the reason our advice comes with a build behind it.
An underwriting platform inside Excel
Institutional models with AI built into the spreadsheet your analysts already live in. Our own team underwrites live deals with it every day.
An off-market sourcing engine
20M+ parcels across six states with owner contact, zoning, permits, traffic counts and distress signals stacked into one map.
A deal room that reads the documents
Pipeline, documents and financial analysis in one place, with an assistant that reads the OM and answers with the numbers rather than a summary.
How an engagement works
01
Free consultation
Thirty minutes on your portfolio, your team, and where the work backs up. You leave with at least one thing worth doing whether or not you hire us.
02
Scoped plan
A written plan: priorities, risks, what it costs and what it saves. Scope and fee are agreed before any build starts, so there is no open meter.
03
Build or advise
A monthly engagement sized to the work. Advisory only, hands-on build, or both, and it flexes down as your team takes the work back in house.
Book a free consultation
Tell us what you are looking at and you will hear from us right away. Worst case you get a straight answer about whether this is worth your time.
- Thirty minutes, no commitment
- You talk to the people who build the software
- Scope and fee in writing before any work starts
Common questions
What does a fractional CTO actually do for a real estate firm?
Owns the technology decisions a principal should not have to make alone: what to build, what to buy, what to shut off, who to hire, and what the risks are. In practice that is a mix of strategy, vendor management and hands-on building, sized to a few days a month rather than a full-time hire.
How is this different from hiring a development agency?
An agency builds what you specify. We work in real estate every day, so we argue with the specification first. The engagement starts with the deal workflow, not a feature list, and we are accountable for whether the thing gets used after it ships.
Do we have to use Deal Manager AI?
No. Plenty of engagements involve tools we did not build, and if your current stack is the right one we will tell you and save you the money.
What does it cost?
Every engagement is scoped to the work, so there is no list price. The consultation is free, and you get scope and fee in writing before anything begins.
How quickly can you start?
Audits and strategy work usually start within a week or two of the consultation. Build work depends on scope, and we will say so honestly if the timeline you need is not one we can hit.
Can you work alongside our existing IT provider?
Yes, and usually we should. Your IT provider keeps the laptops, network and identity running. We handle the applications, data and AI decisions, and we write the audits so their team can act on them.