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Real estate runs on data, but most of it is trapped in PDFs, lease agreements, and siloed legacy systems. In this episode, host Daniel Kazani sits down with Dr. Nino Paulus, Co-Founder and CPO of AlphaPrompt, to discuss how generative AI is bringing order to this chaos. Nino explains how his team moved from building simple dashboards to creating an AI that functions like a senior analyst—capable of reading entire data rooms, extracting complex lease terms, and spotting risks that humans might miss.

They discuss the reality of deploying AI in a traditional industry, sharing a story in which their software identified 7 active leases for a property the owner didn't even know they still owned. Nino also opens up about his "live demo" sales strategy and shares his thoughts on the future of autonomous AI agents, including the emergence of "Moltbook," a social network where bots communicate with each other. This is a practical look at how Softup and other tech builders can learn from AlphaPrompt's approach to automation and data structuring.

👤 Guest Bio

Dr. Nino Paulus is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of AlphaPrompt. He holds a PhD from the IREBS International Real Estate Business School, where his research focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the real estate sector. At AlphaPrompt, he leads the development of GenAI solutions that automate due diligence and data structuring for asset and property managers. His work bridges the gap between academic AI research and the practical, messy reality of real estate documentation.

📌 What We Cover

  1. The Data Problem: Why the biggest challenge in real estate isn't a lack of data, but the fact that it is unstructured and stuck in "silos" that don't talk to each other.
  2. Automating "Monkey Work": How AlphaPrompt uses GenAI to handle the tedious tasks—like typing out rent rolls or checking lease addendums—so analysts can focus on decision-making.
  3. The "Live" Sales Pitch: Nino explains why he throws a prospect's actual data room into the tool during sales calls instead of using a canned demo.
  4. Red Flag Reports: Moving beyond just data extraction to "risk alerts," such as spotting a break clause that allows a tenant to leave early.
  5. The "Lost" Property Story: A case study where the AI found seven active leases in a small German town that the portfolio owner thought they had exited years ago.
  6. Bottom-Up Adoption: Why AI initiatives fail when they are top-down mandates and why you need to involve the people doing the daily work to make it stick.
  7. The Future of Agents: A look at "Moltbook" (Moltbot), a social network for AI agents, and what happens when bots start communicating...