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Featured AI development Spec-Driven Development: What Actually Changes When the Doc Comes First Most explanations of spec-driven development define the term. This is the loop we actually run, why the spec became the reviewable artifact once a model could write the code, and what it costs to keep it running. Read article

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Building a real estate platform

Nine articles on the parts that decide a property platform: listing data, valuation, compliance, the CRM, search, and the AI layer on top.

9 articles · Jul 2026 Start with the overview
  1. How to Build a Real Estate Platform in 2026 (and What's Still Standing in 2028)Overview
  2. The Compliance Fortress: Fair Housing, Algorithmic Bias, and FCRA for Real Estate Platforms
  3. The MLS Data Wall: Building IDX and RESO Integration That Doesn't Break
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  5. The Real Estate CRM: Speed-to-Lead, Multi-Role Data, and Why Generic CRMs Break
  6. Building a Property Management Platform in 2026: Rent Rails, Maintenance, and the Trust-Accounting Trap
  7. The AI Layer That Can't Hallucinate: Grounded Listings, Search, and Lead Agents
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  1. PropTech The Real Estate Advisor's AI Copilot: Capture the Call, Draft the Deal Docs When an agent takes the deal terms on a call, those terms can get re-keyed into paperwork more than once. The copilot captures the call and drafts the documents from vetted templates, with a human approving every draft, because a deal document the AI gets wrong is a liability.
  2. AI development PDF Parsing for RAG: pdfplumber, PyMuPDF, Docling, Marker and MinerU on Page 300 of a Long Manual We ran pdfplumber, pypdf, PyMuPDF, pymupdf4llm, Docling, Marker and MinerU over a 400-page slice of the PostgreSQL manual, a two-column paper and a 1947 scan, and measured headers in the chunk, footnotes, a page-spanning table, OCR and cost per 1,000 pages, with the licence beside each.
  3. AI development Spec-Driven Development Tools: What Each One Is, From a Team That Uses None of Them Spec Kit, Kiro, OpenSpec, BMAD and Tessl, read from their own docs and changelogs rather than their launch posts. What each actually is, what it costs to adopt, and why the tool layer churns while the practice does not.
  4. AI development Spec-Driven Development: What Actually Changes When the Doc Comes First Most explanations of spec-driven development define the term. This is the loop we actually run, why the spec became the reviewable artifact once a model could write the code, and what it costs to keep it running.

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