We typed in one address. Algoma came back with a full feasibility study in minutes: zoning, a 142-lot site plan, flood zones, and transportation noise, all on the table before a dollar was spent. The same work normally takes weeks and five figures. We ran it live with founder Joe Bromovsky, and the full demo is inside the Collective.
Before jumping in…
THE CLAUDE FOR CRE MASTERCLASS HAS ARRIVED
Weeks of heads-down work, and it is finally here. The most comprehensive Claude Masterclass for commercial real estate is live. 15 modules that map every Claude capability to real CRE work: underwriting a stack of OMs, building institutional decks in your brand, wiring Claude into Yardi, Gmail, your calendar, and more.
It opens to the public on June 15, 2026 at $997.
Premium Collective Members already have it. It is sitting in your classroom right now. Go watch Module 1.
Standard Collective Members can grab it as a standalone for $249 during the first 7 days, then the price goes up. Upgrade to Premium later and we reimburse the difference, so there is no penalty for jumping in now.
If you get in before it goes live, we have one ask. Go through it, then tell us what lands and what does not. That feedback matters to us.
WHAT’S COMING UP
Drafted Podcast drops | Wednesday, June 17 | 12 AM PT | Nick Donahue, Founder and CEO of Drafted. Feed it a lot size, a room count, and a few preferences, and Drafted generates full floor plans, elevations, and 3D layouts in seconds, with CAD and PDF export. Nick grew up around homebuilding and built this to make designing a house as fast as editing a website. If your work starts with what actually fits on a parcel, this one is for you.
Kolena Webinar | Tuesday, June 23rd | 12PM PT / 3PM ET | Kolena is an AI platform for CRE due diligence and document review, and we are going live with the team. This session follows an acquisition team through the full deal lifecycle, from the moment you source a deal to the day you close. Expect a working walkthrough of how Kolena automates due diligence, lease abstraction, lease audits, contract review, deal underwriting, loan sizing, and mortgage diligence, with live questions throughout. If you run acquisitions or asset management, don’t think too hard, registration is below. Collective members also get 1 free month of access to the Kolena Platform (details in the AI for CRE Tool Database).
TOOL OF THE WEEK: Algoma
Algoma is an AI-native development platform with one promise: turn a street address into a deal you can actually evaluate, in minutes.
For most developers, pre-development is the most expensive guessing game in the business. Zoning lives buried in PDFs. Capacity is a back-of-the-envelope estimate. Comps get scraped by hand. A real feasibility study means weeks of consultant time and five figures in fees, and half the time the answer is that the site does not pencil. Algoma collapses that entire front end into a single AI workflow you steer in plain English.
What it pulls together from one address:
Site search across all 50 states: Search by criteria, by owner, or by drawing a boundary on the map, then skip-trace straight to the owner’s contact info so you can reach them before your competition does.
An AI zoning agent: Ask any zoning question and get answers cited straight to the municipal code, with minimum lot sizes and setbacks already pulled for your parcel.
Thousands of GIS layers: Flood zones, wetlands, elevation and grade, transportation noise, opportunity zones, and points of interest like parks, transit, and grocery, all layered onto one interactive map.
Site capacity and generative layouts: It auto-applies the zoning rules, lays out buildable lots, and lets you drop in your own product mix, stormwater, and road entry points.
Market intelligence: Rent comps, supply pipeline, and demographics in one view instead of a separate spreadsheet.
Outputs that travel: Photorealistic renders plus an investor-ready report exportable to PDF, PowerPoint, or CAD, white-labeled to your brand for enterprise.
The use case we ran. We treated it like a real new deal: address in first, with zero dollars going to any consultants. Within minutes we had a working read on whether the site was worth pursuing, the kind of decision that normally costs weeks of calendar time to reach.
What stood out:
The conversation: You talk to the agent in plain English and refine on the fly, with no training and no model to reverse-engineer.
The flood zones, live: Algoma first laid out 142 lots on the parcel. We pointed at the flood-zone areas, told it to cut them, and it redrew the entire plan in seconds. Those intersections quietly cap how many homes a site can actually hold, and most teams do not model them until far too late.
The noise nobody maps: It surfaced transportation noise across the site. We evaluate sites constantly and almost never see this flagged this early. It is the risk you find after the homes are built and the first freight train rolls past, and here it was on the map before a dollar was committed.
Scenarios on tap: Where a traditional process tests one or two layouts, Algoma runs hundreds in minutes, so you are choosing the best yield instead of settling for the first that pencils.
The proof: In Algoma’s own Everhome case study, the platform found 47 units an architect’s original plan missed, a roughly $27.7M swing in revenue on a single parcel.
What really matters: Feasibility work that traditionally ran four to six weeks and ten to fifteen thousand dollars in fees comes back in minutes.
Who it is for: This is purpose-built for residential, multifamily, and mixed-use feasibility, aimed squarely at the developers and homebuilders who do not have a large in-house analysis team. It is not an office, retail, or institutional underwriting tool, and it is not trying to be.
Our honest take.
Inside its lane, Algoma is genuinely impressive, and the team has the resume to back it up. CEO Josef Bromovsky spent years at firms like AECOM building AI for construction and holds a CFA, and his co-founders include an award-winning architect and an ex-McKinsey operator.
The honest caveat.
Joe said it himself on the episode, is the financial side. The pro forma and underwriting tools are still basic today and getting built out, and live comps were not part of the demo. So treat this as a fast, high-quality front end for feasibility and site planning, not a replacement for your underwriting model… yet. As with any feasibility engine, the output also leans on local data, so pressure-test it on your own market first. But if it fits your market, this is a game changer. Especially when the underwriting tool gets improved.
The AI for CRE Collective really, really likes Algoma.
BONUS
The feature that quietly impressed us was how the zoning agent handles risk. You can ask it what is clear in the code and what you still need to clarify with the city, and it flags the ambiguous, as-of-right gray areas. That is the entitlement risk that usually surfaces months later in a planning meeting. Catching it on day one is the difference between a clean deal and a stalled one.
WATCH THE FULL EPISODE:
TRY IT YOURSELF
Start here: Algoma. Drop in an address and watch it work.
PRICING
Algoma has a free Basic plan to explore any US address at no cost.
Paid pricing is per seat.
Standard is $99 per seat per month billed annually ($1,188/year) and covers the core feasibility toolkit.
Pro, their most popular, is $199 per seat per month billed annually ($2,388/year) and layers in market intelligence like site search and rent comps.
Enterprise is custom, with org-wide access and project delivery.
No long-term contracts, and annual plans save 20%.
AI for CRE Collective members get a free trial + 10% off for 12 months (woah!). Discount code located in the AI for CRE Tool Database.
WHO WE ARE
We run the AI for CRE Collective: the place where 740+ CRE professionals learn how to implement AI into their business.
Hundreds of video walkthroughs and live demos for practical use cases.
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If you’d like more hands-on-help, we work with several large enterprise and institutional clients helping them learn, utilize, and implement AI into their business.
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