Jerimiah Taylor

Something shifted last quarter that I don't think gets enough attention: state and national real estate associations are now actively evaluating AI infrastructure for their members — not just watching from the sidelines.

This isn't a handful of forward-leaning staff testing a chatbot. These are formal evaluation processes with committees, procurement checklists, and intent to deploy at scale. When an association adopts a tool, it's in front of tens of thousands of agents almost overnight.

For founders building in this space, that's a fundamentally different distribution motion than selling brokerage by brokerage. And the companies that understand how to operate within association structures — compliance requirements, member trust dynamics, governance processes — are going to have an advantage that's very hard to replicate later.

It's early. It's moving fast. And most people aren't paying attention to it yet.