CREW MULTIFAMILY COUNCIL · APRIL 14, 2026 · DENVER

Built for This Room

A session on AI in commercial real estate.

Connor Johnson · Optimization & AI Manager

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01 — WHO'S HERE

The Room

22 leaders across every discipline in commercial real estate. Here is what this room looks like by function.

PM & Operations
5
Finance & Capital
5
Development
4
Legal & Risk
3
Architecture
2
Insurance
1
Tax
1
Research
1
AI Adoption
Workflow Automation
Document Intelligence
Deal Research
Meeting Prep
Expense Management
Team Coordination
Market Analysis
Risk Assessment
Portfolio Operations
Travel Planning
Custom App Building

02 — THE PLAN

What We'll Cover

01
Where AI Actually Is Right Now
Cutting through the hype with real data. CREW's own numbers, adoption rates, and the gap nobody's closing.
02
How Prologis Approaches This
2,800 people, massive global portfolio. How business-unit AI innovation works alongside a centralized IT team.
03
Micro Workflows
Travel prep, expense reports, team coordination. Small wins anyone in this room can steal on Monday.
04
Workflow Demos
Seven recorded demos. Meeting prep, document analysis, deal research, and building a custom app from scratch.
05
Snake Oil Detection
Five red flags when evaluating AI vendors. The questions to ask before you sign anything.
06
Championing AI at Your Company
Don't wait for IT. How to be the person who pushes this forward at your organization.
07
Open Discussion
30 minutes for your questions, your challenges, your use cases.

03 — BY THE NUMBERS

The Data

0%
Of CRE Firms Exploring AI
JLL 2024 Tech Survey
0%
Have Fully Deployed AI
Deloitte CRE Outlook
0%
Who Use AI Report Efficiencies
CREW Network 2024
0%
Time Saved on Research Tasks
McKinsey 2024
0
Leaders in This Room
CREW Multifamily Council
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Live Workflow Demos
Recorded with Screen Studio
0
Person Built Everything
This presentation included
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Evening to Build It
AI-assisted development

04 — WHAT I SHOW

Workflows That Actually Work

Real things I built. Real time saved. No vaporware.

MICRO · Steal These

01
Travel Prep
Calendar event to a full trip brief. Flights, hotels, local context.
02
Expense Reports
Receipt photo to categorized entry. Amounts, vendors, dates.
03
Team Coordination
Agendas, thread summaries, follow-up emails drafted from context.

PRO · Build These

04
60-Second Meeting Prep
CRM, email, news, and LinkedIn into a one-page brief.
05
Document Intelligence
Lease, LOI, or contract. Key terms, risks, comparison tables.
06
Deal Research Automation
A company name becomes a full intelligence brief.
07
Custom Apps
Idea to working, deployed application in an evening.

05 — TOOLKIT

Resources

Start Here

Claude
Anthropic · General AI Assistant
ChatGPT
OpenAI · General AI Assistant
Gemini
Google · General AI Assistant

CRE Tools

EliseAI
Leasing & Resident AI
Togal
Construction Takeoffs
Prophia
Lease Abstraction
Document Crunch
Contract Intelligence
Procore
Construction Management
Bluebeam
Plan Review & Markup

Reports

CREW Network
AI as a Business Advantage in CRE
JLL
Global CRE Technology Survey
EliseAI
State of AI in Multifamily
Deloitte
Commercial Real Estate Outlook

ABOUT

Who's Talking

Connor Johnson

Connor Johnson

Optimization & AI Manager · Prologis

Civil engineering, SMU. U.S. Army, Fort Carson. Project manager at Majestic Realty on the 2M sq ft Shamrock Foods build. Not always a computer guy. Caught the bug automating processes, taught myself to code on the side, and doubled down on AI when it became clear this was the move.

Now I lead AI strategy and execution optimization for the development team at Prologis. Only person with AI in the title who doesn't sit in IT. I run global office hours for teams across 6 countries, working the gap between an idea and its application.

Feel free to contact me to chat if you have any questions.

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