Available for project work Remote Little Rock, Arkansas
Paul David Thompson

I buy commercial real estate.I build the software that runs it.

Roughly 40 transactions since 2015. Along the way I built the tools the work needed: lead triage, offer generation, underwriting screens, document pipelines, and AI agents running on my own call recordings. Most people selling AI work have never owned the process they are automating. I own mine.

~40 transactions closed 15 yrs enterprise engineering Stack Next.js, Supabase, Node, Claude Code, Whisper

Built

Client engagement

Lead triage and custom offer generation

Problem

A real estate operator was sorting inbound leads by hand, then building offer terms one deal at a time. Two hours of work before a single number reached a seller. The bottleneck was not deal flow. It was the operator.

Built

An intake pipeline that scores and routes incoming leads against the operator's own criteria, then generates customized offer structures for the ones that clear. The judgment stayed with the operator. The typing did not.

Underwriting time per deal
Before
2h 00m
After
15m
What I would do differently

Started it sooner. On this build I would layer in light CRM functionality from the start instead of leaving it for later.

Shipped to paying users

Offer structuring and LOI generation

Problem

Investors stall at the offer. They can find a property and still not know what to send, so nothing gets sent. Every deal dies in the gap between interest and paper.

Built

A tool that takes a property and produces three viable offer structures, including seller financed terms, then generates the letter of intent. In daily use by paying members of my education company.

What I would do differently

We did add the light CRM on this one. What I would change is pulling in customer feedback sooner instead of building in a vacuum. The feedback surfaced corner cases we had not considered and made the tool much better.

Internal AI stack

Call transcription and retrieval agent

Problem

Hundreds of hours of recorded coaching calls held answers nobody could find. The knowledge existed and was functionally unsearchable.

Built

A Whisper transcription pipeline feeding an assistant that answers member questions from what was actually said on those calls, with the source. Not a chatbot bolted onto a FAQ. Retrieval over real proprietary material.

What I would do differently

Build in fault monitoring for the scheduled job. It ran for six months, then a backend billing issue stopped the transcription, and nothing alarmed on that failure, so it sat broken for a while before we caught it.

Hire me for projects

Next.js
Supabase
Node.js
Claude Code
Whisper
Netlify

Workflow sprint

Pick one manual process that eats hours every week. Two to four weeks, a working tool at the end, your team using it.

Internal tooling

Intake forms, scoring and routing, document generation, approvals. The unglamorous software that decides whether a team ships or drowns.

Voice and document pipelines

Transcription, summarization, and retrieval over your own calls, contracts, and files. Answers with sources, not guesses.

AI agents on your own data

Agent stacks that read your systems and act inside them, scoped so you can see what they did and undo it.

Advisory for proptech and AI vendors

You are selling into real estate operators. I am one, I use the category daily, and I will tell you where your product loses the room.

Second opinion before you fund a build

Someone quoted you a number and a timeline. I will tell you what actually gets delivered and what breaks in month three.

Remote only. Fixed fee projects from $7,500. Advisory on monthly retainer.
Travel up to 25 percent. Currently taking two engagements.

Background

Fifteen years in enterprise network engineering at a Little Rock internet provider, ending as Director of IP Networking at Windstream with a large budget and team. That was about ten years ago and I do not claim it as current expertise. What carried forward is the part that still matters: change control, blast radius, and rollback. The reason most AI projects die is not the model.

Since 2015, roughly 40 commercial real estate transactions. I help everyday investors scale out of single family rentals into small multifamily and commercial assets, with a specialty in creative and seller financed structures. Founder of a commercial real estate education company. Before that I co-founded and co-hosted What's Up Next?, which won the 2019 Plutus Award for Best New Personal Finance Podcast. I stepped back a few years in. My co-host rebranded the show as Earn and Invest and has carried it well since.

Computer systems engineering, University of Arkansas. MBA, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Based in Little Rock with my wife and kids.

Contact

paul@pauldavidthompson.com

Tell me the process that is eating your week. If I am not the right person to fix it, I will say so on the first call.

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