AI Blueprint for CRE
The workshop series for CRE professionals who are ready to build.
3rd, 10th, 17th & 24th April, 2026
Session 1 opens with an introduction to the RIRA framework suite.
Three intensive workshops follow - one per framework - each two hours, each delivering a tangible output.
£995 per person | Team rates available
Less than a week of wasted effort on the wrong automation. Skills that compound for a career.
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This Is Not Another AI Awareness Course
The CRE industry has no shortage of people who understand that AI is important. What it lacks is people who know what to build, how to verify it, and how to capture the value before it's competed away.
#AIBlueprintforCRE is a working session, not a lecture series. You will leave with a pilot-ready redesigned workflow, a prioritised automation backlog, and a prompting discipline your team can standardise on immediately.
It is built around three proprietary frameworks - RIRA, the CRE Automation Matrix, and the CRE Prompting Framework - that form a complete stack: from strategic vision to analytical decision-making to operational execution.
Together, they answer the three questions every CRE professional building with AI needs to answer:
- How are we creating value? (RIRA)
- What kind of work is this, and how should it be automated? (CRE Automation Matrix)
- How do we actually get that work done? (Prompting Framework)
What Goes Wrong Without It
Most CRE organisations adopting AI don't fail loudly. They fail quietly - in one of four ways.
Productivity theatre. Teams generate more documents faster, but decisions are no better. Quality becomes subjective. Risk quietly increases. Nobody notices until something goes wrong.
Shadow AI. Adoption happens informally. Sensitive data leaks into consumer tools. Auditability is lost. Governance reacts too late - and usually to an incident rather than a process.
Brittle automation. Organisations automate workflows that should have been redesigned first. Exception-handling chaos follows. Trust in automation erodes, and the rollback is expensive.
Uncaptured value. Real productivity gains occur - but they are never measured, productised, or defended. The benefit gets competed away, or simply absorbed as busyness. The firm worked hard and has nothing to show for it.
These aren't hypothetical. They are the default outcome for organisations that treat AI adoption as a tool-selection problem rather than an operating model change.
#AIBlueprintforCRE is built to prevent all four.
Is this Course For You?
You're responsible for building new products or services that leverage AI. Not just using it - designing it in. This course is for the people making architectural decisions, not just operational ones.
You've moved past the basics. You've used the frontier models. You know there's more. What you need now is a systematic framework for deciding what to build, how to verify it, and how to defend the value.
You want your team aligned on how to build with AI. The course runs as an open cohort. Colleagues from the same firm can join together and work as a group, or mix with peers from other organisations. How you deliver your services is competitively sensitive. It never has to leave your building. The workshops are built around shared example workflows - you learn the method here, you apply it to your own operations privately.
You want outputs, not just insights. By the end of this course, you won't just understand the frameworks - you'll have applied them to a real workflow from your own business.
New to the course entirely? The frameworks are self-contained and you'll get full value if you're already comfortable working with the frontier models. If you're earlier in your AI journey, we'd recommend starting with #GenerativeAIforRealEstatePeople first - not as a hard requirement, but because AI fluency and framework depth compound each other.
What You’ll Build
A Pilot-Ready Redesigned Workflow
Using the RIRA Framework, you'll take a real workflow from your business through a structured Release–Imagine–Redesign–Actualise process and leave with a concrete pilot plan — complete with verification checkpoints, evidence architecture, and a 30-day implementation roadmap.
A Prioritised Automation Backlog
Using the CRE Automation Matrix, you'll map your team's tasks across four quadrants — High ROI Automation, the Karpathy Frontier, the Messy Middle, and Human-Led Strategic — and leave with a prioritised list of what to automate, in what order, and with what governance pattern.
A Prompting Playbook Your Team Can Use Immediately
Using the Prompting Framework, you'll practise the four prompting modes (Guided Exploration, Scaffolded Production, Accelerated Analysis, Precision Delegation) and leave with at least two standardised prompt templates your team can adopt from next week.
What You’ll Learn
Why "Using AI" Is Not Enough - And What Comes Next
The steam engine analogy isn't just history. Bolting AI onto existing workflows produces productivity theatre, not competitive advantage. You'll learn why value creation rebundling is the correct frame - and what it demands of you as a builder.
The RIRA Framework: From Strategy to Execution
Release–Imagine–Redesign–Actualise is the operating model change discipline that prevents four common failure modes: productivity theatre, shadow AI, brittle automation, and un-captured value. You'll learn to run it as an iterative loop, not a one-time exercise.
The CRE Automation Matrix: Where Value Actually Lands
Not all automation is created equal. The matrix classifies work along two dimensions - complexity (plumbing vs cognition) and verifiability (rule-based vs hard-to-verify) - to produce four quadrants with fundamentally different automation strategies and value trajectories. Crucially, it shows you where value will be defensible in five years, not just what's easiest to automate today.
The Karpathy Frontier: Verifiable Cognition
The most valuable quadrant for CRE firms is work that feels cognitive but can be engineered to be verifiable through evidence links and logic tests. Lease abstraction with citation, valuation model QA with logic tests, investment memo coherence with evidence links. This is where good money lies - and where most firms aren't looking yet.
The Prompting Framework: Mode Switching as a Professional Skill
Effective prompting is a repertoire, not a template. You'll master the four modes and the expert meta-skill of deliberately alternating between divergent analysis (Mode C) and convergent drafting (Mode D) - the discipline that eliminates rework and produces better outputs with fewer errors.
Governance by Design, Not Afterthought
Verification, evidence chains, exception handling, sign-off roles, escalation triggers. You'll learn to build these in from the start - not retrofit them after a compliance incident.
Session Structure
Session 1 - The Complete Framework Suite
A guided walkthrough of all three frameworks - RIRA, the CRE Automation Matrix, and the Prompting Framework - with worked CRE examples throughout. This session establishes the shared language and conceptual foundation for the three workshops that follow.
Session 2 - RIRA Workshop
A structured 2-hour working session built around the RIRA agenda. You will agree a workflow, map its constraints and risks, horizon-brainstorm possibilities, redesign it into verifiable modules, and commit to a 30-day pilot plan with owners and milestones. You leave with something you can act on.
Session 3 - CRE Automation Matrix Workshop
A working session built around the Automation Matrix agenda. Breakout groups map 10–15 tasks onto the matrix, prioritise a backlog (two Quadrant A tasks, one Quadrant B task, one Quadrant C spine improvement), design governance patterns, and commit to 30/60/90-day milestones.
Session 4 - Prompting Framework Workshop
A working session built around the Prompting Framework agenda. You'll classify real CRE tasks into the four modes, run a live C→D workflow build on an underwriting or IC pack, stress-test with a red-team step, agree five governance house rules, and leave with two standardised prompt templates.
All sessions are recorded and available immediately. Permanent access to all materials and the TDH network.
Pricing & Options
Individual. £995 per person
Team (2+) Discounted rate — contact us
Private cohort. From £8,000 for a minimum of 10 participants
The private cohort is the same four-session programme, delivered exclusively to your organisation. You can mix seniority levels, bring live workflows from your own business, and run the workshops around your specific context. Ideal for firms who want to move fast and keep the learning internal.
For team and private enquiries: antony@antonyslumbers.com
Meet Antony Slumbers,
AI in Real Estate Expert
Antony Slumbers is a globally recognised speaker, advisor, and writer on real estate innovation.
A serial entrepreneur, he has founded and exited several proptech software companies and now consults real estate boards on their transformation, technology and innovation strategies.
The #AIBlueprintforCRE frameworks - RIRA, the CRE Automation Matrix, and the Prompting Framework - have been developed over two years of live testing across 15 cohorts of the #GenerativeAIforRealEstatePeople course, and refined through Antony's newsletter read by senior CRE professionals across Europe and North America.
Students of Antony include senior leaders from WeWork, JLL, Hines, British Land, Oxford Properties, CBRE, Greystar, Tishman Speyer, and many more.
Frequently Asked Questions
about the AI Blueprint for CRE course
If you would like a personal tour around the course website to see what it is all about please contact me:
antony@antonyslumbers.com
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It is designed for CRE professionals who are responsible for building new products, services or workflows that leverage AI - fund managers, asset managers, heads of operations, product leads, and innovation teams. If you make architectural decisions about how AI is used in your organisation, this course is for you.
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No - but it helps. The frameworks are self-contained and designed to deliver full value to anyone who is already comfortable working with the frontier models. If you're earlier in your AI journey, we recommend starting with #GenerativeAIforRealEstatePeople first. AI fluency and framework depth compound each other, and you'll move faster in the workshops if you're not learning the tools at the same time as the strategy.
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Three tangible outputs: a pilot-ready redesigned workflow (RIRA workshop), a prioritised automation backlog with governance patterns agreed (Automation Matrix workshop), and at least two standardised prompt templates your team can use immediately (Prompting workshop).
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Yes - and there are three ways to do it. Two or more people from the same organisation receive a discounted rate (contact antony@antonyslumbers.com for details). If you'd prefer to keep your cohort mixed, colleagues can join the open course individually and work together or alongside peers from other firms - the workshop exercises use non-confidential example workflows, so there's nothing to inhibit open participation. For organisations wanting a private course - your team only, your schedule, your industry context - we offer a closed-cohort version for a minimum of ten participants from £8,000. Contact antony@antonyslumbers.com to discuss
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All sessions are recorded and available after the session ends. You will not miss any content. However, the workshop sessions are designed around live participation - the breakout exercises and peer accountability are a significant part of the value.
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#GenerativeAIforRealEstatePeople is a broad, foundational programme covering the AI landscape, tools, use cases and early frameworks. #AIBlueprintforCRE is an intensive, application-focused course for people who are ready to build - with a narrower scope, deeper frameworks, and a strong emphasis on producing real outputs from your own workflows.
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Yes. Upon completion you will receive a certificate you can share on LinkedIn or include in your professional profile.
