Tommy Dobczyk's team used to spend three to four weeks analyzing properties, cutting and pasting blueprints on a picnic table and waiting for civil-engineer drawings. AI now does the same work in ten minutes.
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Are you in the deal room? The amount of work that goes into the numbers of building a house or scraping a house and building a house are easily like— I remember sitting around with my partners in the past and anything like this took anywhere between 7 and 10 hours per project. So minimum, we would, we would literally go get a case of beers and some margaritas. We'd get out old blueprints, we'd cut stuff apart and paste it together on the picnic table and we'd say, okay, yeah, that's what we want to build. And then we take, you know, Polaroid pictures, if you remember Polaroids. We would take Polaroids so that we could look at it and make sure it turned out. And then take that in and get that drawn up by a civil engineer. You're looking at 3 to 4 weeks in what I can do in about 10 minutes right here.