AI integration for firms who put their people first
We believe the firms that win won't hire out their AI, pile up tools nobody understands, or delegate it down the org chart. They'll invest in teaching their core leaders to delegate the busywork to AI, so those leaders spend their time on relationships, judgment, and creativity.
Grounded Intelligence is how you make that investment. We partner with your most impactful people and teach them 1:1 how to increase their leverage with AI, no matter where they're starting from.
Most firms hire AI out, pile up haphazard accounts, or try to delegate it to someone who already has a full-time job.
We've met with over 100 leaders, most of them in commercial real estate. Nearly all hit a wall that kept AI competency from reaching the people who run the business.
Pile up AI accounts.
Most firms have scattered ChatGPT or Claude accounts. A few people dig in, most treat it like a chatbot, and nobody at the top can tell what's really working.
Hire it out.
Some firms get excited about a tool they think they need and hire an AI vendor to build it. It may work fine on day one, but it breaks or becomes obsolete as your workflow changes.
Delegate it down.
One person gets told to go "figure out AI." Their impact is inevitably limited by a lack of understanding at the top and the reality that they already had a full-time job before they were "assigned AI."
We work 1:1 with each of your leaders, teaching them to delegate their specific workflows to AI.
01{{ numSep }}We get IT on board from the start
We work with your IT team to set up every leader's machine ahead of time. No one spends a session stuck on a login.
02{{ numSep }}Each leader maps where their hours go
A custom guide and an AI-led interview helps us walk in knowing their week and where they are with AI.
03{{ numSep }}A full-day kickoff in your office
Ninety minutes with the whole group, then ninety minutes 1:1 with each leader. Everyone walks out having advanced or built a skill.
04{{ numSep }}Recurring check-ins + 1:1 sessions
Every two weeks, a call or a working session, so the day job doesn't pull them back before the new habit sticks.
05{{ numSep }}Demo Day, then your roadmap
Demo Day brings everyone together to spread ideas, and our AI roadmap helps prioritize what to build, buy, or teach next.
More growth used to mean more hiring.
More deals meant more analysts. More properties meant more managers. More projects meant more project managers.
It doesn't have to be that way. When AI-native leaders delegate the "robot work" to AI, they open the capacity to run a bigger firm with the same team. More of the day moves to the uniquely human work of relationships, judgment and creativity.
The leaders we coach run the workdays of 640 people and $8.7 billion of real estate.
We measure success by the hours teams get back for relationships and judgment, and the impact leaders are able to have on their teams.
“I am probably the least tech savvy division manager… I was able to complete and send 6 proposals in less than an hour.”
“I use Claude on almost everything I send now, which is easily an hour a day back.”
“I can see the value that you all have created greater than someone who's been with us a year and a half.”
Can't you just build AI tools for us? Yes. But not at first.
We started out building first. We'd spend hours learning a process, then hit the exception nobody mentioned or the spreadsheet nobody told us about.
AI is labor, and only someone who knows your company deeply can continuously train it. A build shop hands you new tools. We prefer to hand you leaders who can build, and their teams will follow. Then we build the big things with them when they need extra horsepower.
We did this to our own work first.
Bonner spent two decades running real estate operations. David spent a decade building a company and four years rebuilding it on AI. Then David taught Bonner to build, the same investment we now make with your leaders. Both of us are in every engagement.
21 years helping grow Kane Realty from 12 people to 330. An operator, not a technologist, who learned to build AI tools for his own work.
Built Offline to 35 employees and 700 restaurant partners, then rebuilt how the company ran around AI.
Our security answers are in the contract.
Nothing starts without an NDA.
We sign a mutual NDA before we see any data, system, or document.
Enterprise AI only.
Plans that contractually prohibit training on your inputs. No personal accounts.
We never train on your data.
Your information never trains any model, even anonymized.
Walled off from other clients.
Your work never touches another client's. When we're done, we delete your data within 30 days and confirm it in writing.
Your IT lead will have more questions.We wrote a page for them →
Owners who want their leaders to own this.
We work with firms that would rather grow their leaders than replace them: several leaders running different kinds of work, and an owner ready to sit in the chair alongside them. Two partners or twelve division heads. Most are in commercial real estate, where we started, and what we teach works anywhere leaders run real work.
Not in commercial real estate? →No long-term lock-in.
If it isn't working, you walk away.
You own what gets built.
Every tool, map, and roadmap stays with your firm.
We come to you.
The sessions that matter happen in your office.
Start with a 30-minute conversation.
Tell us how your firm runs and where the hours go. We'll tell you whether this fits. No deck.