
The Productivity Rocket Ship
From The Real Estate Espresso Podcast by Victor Menasce
April 25, 2026 · 6 min · Season 9 · Episode 114
About this episode
The episode discusses recent innovations in artificial intelligence and their implications for business systems in real estate.
On today’s show we are talking about yet another transformative innovation in the world of artificial intelligence. I realize that this is a real estate podcast and not an AI podcast. But any business that builds its business systems around AI will experience transformation. So on today’s show I’m going to showcase two different innovations that have launched in the past week. Spoiler alert, not all of them are worth embracing. The first one is a new product called Claude Design. The idea is that you should be able to provide a description of what you want to create and the AI will generate it. You can seed the process with examples. In one test case, I wanted to create a new building design. The floorplan is based on an existing design with 2BR apartments. I wanted to change the 2BR apartments with a 1BR apartment, but maintain the overall theme of the building. After half a dozen iterations, each one as bad as the one before, I gave up and realized that I would not converge on anything useful anytime soon. Unfortunately I have to give Claude Design a failing grade. I’m sure it will improve, but it’s not close. You will see dozens of YouTube videos talking about how great Claude…
People in this episode
Host: Victor Menasce
Topics covered
- artificial intelligence
- real estate
- business systems
- innovation
- technology
Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- Claude Design
- Codex
- real estate
- business innovation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: OpenAI
Products: Claude Design, Codex
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