AI Blueprint for CRE
The advantage isn't in using AI. It's in redesigning work around it.
A private workshop programme that takes one real workflow from your business through a complete decomposition and strategic redesign - and leaves your team owning the methodology, not depending on an adviser.
Three sessions. Two proprietary frameworks - the CRE Automation Matrix and RIRA (Release–Imagine–Redesign–Actualise). Your team leaves with a validated task map, a populated Automation Matrix, and a redesigned operating model for that workflow - with verification architecture, evidence chains, and a 30-day pilot plan with named owners.
Private cohorts for your organisation only. From £12,000 for the full programme.
Live online or in-person · all sessions recorded · provocation document and materials included.
Contact antony@antonyslumbers.com to discuss a programme for your team.
This Is Capability Transfer, Not Consulting Dependency
The CRE industry has no shortage of people who understand that AI matters. What it lacks is teams who know what to build, how to verify it, and how to capture the value before it's competed away.
#AIBlueprintforCRE is a working programme run privately for one organisation. Your team takes a live workflow - a real one, from your own business - and decomposes, classifies, and redesigns it across three sessions. You leave with a redesigned operating model and a pilot plan you can act on immediately, and with the methodology to run the next workflow yourselves.
That last point is the whole point. The first workflow is facilitated. Every workflow after that is yours to run. You are not buying an ongoing advisory relationship - you are buying the operating system for making good AI decisions autonomously, repeatedly, at every level of the organisation.
The programme is built around two proprietary frameworks that answer the two questions every CRE team building with AI has to answer:
What kind of work is this? - the CRE Automation Matrix, which classifies work by complexity and verifiability to determine the right automation strategy for each task.
How should it change? - the RIRA Framework, which turns that classification into a redesigned operating model with verification and governance built in.
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're 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. The Blueprint is built to prevent all four.
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I loved it! Was very insightful - I've generally found it tough to find AI insight specific to our sector. The level of detail you covered was perfect.
Theo Obayori
Analyst,
HBReavis, UKThanks again for the interesting course. It opens the mindset and gives ideas on how to implement AI into our business.
Anthony Verstraete
Vesta Development, BelgiumIt's been really helpful Antony. Really appreciate the great service you are doing for our industry.
Lorri Rowlandson
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Innovation, BGIS USAThe Programme
Three sessions, structured to separate thinking from doing. Session 1 builds the conceptual foundation. Sessions 2 and 3 are applied workshops, run a week apart - so the decomposition work settles before the redesign begins.
Session 1 - The Frameworks (Online, 2 hours)
A guided deep dive into the two frameworks that structure the programme, with worked CRE examples throughout. Why the Automation Matrix's two axes - complexity and verifiability - produce four quadrants with fundamentally different automation strategies. Where value will be defensible in five years, not just what's easiest to automate today. Why RIRA is an iterative cycle, not a one-time exercise, and why most ideas are H1s - and why knowing the difference matters. This session establishes the shared language for everything that follows.
Pre-Work - The Provocation Document (Issued after Session 1)
Before the workshops, Antony provides a structured provocation document: a detailed, argued decomposition of your chosen workflow into its constituent tasks, each one classified on the CRE Automation Matrix, with a reasoned rationale for every classification. It maps the constraints AI removes and the ones it introduces, flags where local regulation or market structure changes the analysis, and names the tasks your team may be resisting out of habit rather than necessity. It is designed to be wrong in productive ways - so your team arrives at Session 2 with opinions, disagreements, and stakes, not a blank page.
Session 2 - Decomposition & Matrix (2 hours)
A structured confrontation with how the workflow actually works in your organisation - not how anyone assumes it works. Your team validates the decomposition task by task, assigns every task to a quadrant, debates the contested classifications (these reveal where your assumptions about what requires human judgement are habit rather than necessity), and builds an aggregated constraints register for the whole workflow. You leave with a validated task map and a clear picture of where the workflow's real complexity sits.
Session 3 - RIRA (2 hours)
The redesign. Surface the constraints AI removes and the risks it introduces (Release). Decide what becomes possible, and pick your horizon (Imagine). Map the new workflow into verifiable modules with checkpoints, evidence chains, and clear ownership (Redesign). Then commit to a QA plan, a measurement plan, and a 30-day pilot - what gets built first, who owns it, what success looks like, and when you review it (Actualise). You leave with a redesigned operating model you can put into pilot the following week.
All sessions are recorded and available immediately, alongside the provocation document and all materials.
What Your Team Leaves With
A validated task decomposition. Every sub-task of your chosen workflow mapped and classified - confronted against how the work actually happens, not how it's assumed to happen.
A populated CRE Automation Matrix. Your workflow's tasks positioned across the four quadrants - High ROI Automation, the Karpathy Frontier, the Messy Middle, and Human-Led Strategic - with the contested classifications resolved and an aggregated constraints register for the whole workflow.
A redesigned operating model. The workflow rebuilt into verifiable modules with verification architecture, evidence chains, governance structure, and a 30-day pilot plan with named owners and milestones.
And - the deliverable that outlasts the others - the methodology itself, owned and operated by your team for every workflow after this one.
Why a Private Programme?
Your competitive context stays internal. How you deliver your services is competitively sensitive. In a private programme, your team works on your own live workflows, against a provocation document built for your specific operating model. It never has to leave your building.
Shared language, aligned decisions. When everyone uses the same vocabulary for classifying work and evaluating AI opportunities - the four quadrants, the three horizons, the constraints register - decisions move faster and with less friction across the whole team.
The methodology compounds. RIRA is a cycle, not a one-time exercise. Each iteration moves work from constraints and drafting toward verifiable analysis and monetised outcomes. The programme produces one redesigned workflow. The methodology produces an ongoing capability.
Who Is This For?
The buyer is typically a head of asset management, head of innovation, COO, or CTO commissioning a strategic exercise for their team. The participants are the people who own and operate the workflows being redesigned - asset managers, fund managers, operations leads, and the technology or data team members who will implement the changes.
Best results come from a cross-functional group of 8 to 20 participants: asset management, operations, fund management, innovation.
The programme assumes AI fluency - participants should be comfortable working with the frontier models. If your team is earlier in its AI journey, the foundational #GenerativeAIforRealEstatePeople programme builds that fluency first. AI fluency and framework depth compound each other.
Format & Investment
Session 1 - Online, 2 hours. Frameworks deep dive. Runs before the applied workshops regardless of format.
Pre-work - Provocation document issued after Session 1. 30–45 minutes of structured preparation per participant.
Sessions 2 & 3 - Two × 2-hour applied workshops, one week apart. In-person (half-day each, at your offices or in London) or online. Can be combined into a single in-person day if preferred.
Participants - Minimum 8, maximum 20. Best with a cross-functional group.
Deliverables - Validated task decomposition, populated CRE Automation Matrix, redesigned workflow with verification architecture, 30-day pilot plan with named owners.
Investment - From £12,000 for the full programme. Includes provocation document, all three sessions, materials, and session recordings.
For firms wanting to apply the methodology across multiple workflows - a deeper engagement with bespoke task decompositions built against your specific operating model - contact Antony to discuss an extended RIRA programme.
Meet Antony Slumbers,
AI in Real Estate Expert
Antony Slumbers is a globally recognised AI and CRE strategist with 30 years of industry experience. A serial entrepreneur who has founded and exited several proptech software companies, he now advises real estate boards on AI-driven transformation strategy.
The RIRA Framework and CRE Automation Matrix have been developed and refined across 18 cohorts of the #GenerativeAIforRealEstatePeople programme - completed by senior leaders from CBRE, JLL, Hines, British Land, Oxford Properties, Greystar, Tishman Speyer, BXP, Arup, and 50+ other organisations - and applied in facilitated engagements with institutional real estate firms.
Antony publishes the Space as a Service newsletter, read by senior CRE professionals across Europe and North America, and delivers keynotes globally on AI-driven transformation in the built environment.
Next Step
To discuss a private workshop for your organisation:
Email: antony@antonyslumbers.com
Web: antonyslumbers.com/blueprint
LinkedIn: Antony Slumbers
A personal walk through of the programme - including a sample from the provocation documents - is available on request.