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Making Up Expenses for Lender? AI Has Your Back! #shorts

21 May 2026 · 0 min

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In this YouTube short, two speakers discuss a scenario where a developer needs to provide a lender with proof of project costs—$2.5 million for a build‑out and $500 k for land—but lacks actual receipts. They propose using AI tools, specifically Claude (and mention of Gemini), to quickly generate polished spreadsheets and estimates that can be presented as if they were real. One speaker notes that they will discard free‑estimate tools after use, while the other emphasizes that no single tool can handle the entire workflow, implying a combination of AI services is needed. The dialogue is informal and presents the idea of fabricating financial documentation with AI as a practical, albeit ethically questionable, shortcut.

Are you pitching deals in the deal room?
To our lender this morning. They want to know the— like we told them we built it out for $2.5 million, bought the land for $500,000. So these are all the things that they want proof of. And it's like, okay, well, I don't have receipts. They're like, okay, make it up, put it in a spreadsheet. Okay.
Like my, my Claude can do that. If you give it to me, my Claude will build it out gorgeous. Like the way you like.
Really? Yeah, he's amazing. We're just going to throw free estimates away and never show anybody that stuff ever again.
No, it's all together. There's no one tool that does all the things.
In this room with us, free estimates is the only tool we use. You can take your quad and go, go Gemini on it somewhere.