Who We Are
A selective AI engineering firm built by engineers who came out of research and operations, not agency hand-off. We partner with operations-intensive businesses as a long-term technical team, not a project vendor.
Pacific Software Ventures is a selective AI engineering firm founded by AWS AI research award recipients and NSF-funded researchers who have published peer-reviewed work on physics-informed neural networks. PSV maintains 100% client retention.Trusted by teams at
The PSV Story
Commercial real estate runs on judgment and relationships. AI can take the operational weight off: OMs, rent rolls, IC memos, comp pulls, follow-ups. But the read on a sponsor across the table, the trust-building call with an LP, and the discretion to bend a buy-box for the right deal stay with you. We build for that division of labor: AI as the copilot, you as the principal.
The engineering practice is grounded in real research: the AWS AI Research Award for machine learning infrastructure, NSF- funded peer-reviewed work on physics-informed neural networks, paired with operators who have closed $1B+ in CRE transactions and underwritten $11B+ across asset classes. That combination shows up in how the systems ship: explicit uncertainty handling, principled guardrails, and audit trails that hold up under IC scrutiny.
Our conviction is simple. The only people who should be building AI for commercial real estate are people who understand both halves of the problem. Deep AI expertise without institutional CRE experience produces demos that don’t survive IC. Institutional CRE experience without research-grade AI produces faster wrong answers. We sit at the intersection on purpose.
Our Partners
Every engagement is led by one of our three Partners, never handed off to a junior on a managed portfolio. Each brings a distinct foundation: applied research, institutional real estate, and production systems engineering.
Partner
Zed is a Partner at Pacific Software Ventures. Former PGIM and Voit Real Estate, he has closed $1B+ in commercial real estate transactions and underwritten $11B+ across asset classes. An active real estate investor, he brings operator-level insight into which workflows are worth automating first and which ones demand human judgment.
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Partner
Aidan is a Partner at Pacific Software Ventures and a longtime custom-software builder. At Kochava, he worked on high-throughput infrastructure for Fortune 500 customers in ad tech, and co-authored physics-informed neural network research that won an NSF grant and university recognition. That mix of production-scale engineering and applied AI shapes how PSV builds for scale and reliability.
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Gedeon is a Partner at Pacific Software Ventures. A former Goldman Sachs engineer and AWS AI Scholar, his work on AI battery degradation models earned recognition and a feature in an AWS documentary. He brings Goldman's data-security rigor and AWS-scale reliability discipline to the infrastructure PSV's AI employees run on.
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We work closely with a small group of advisors who have built and exited category-defining companies in proptech and AI. They review our technical and commercial direction, introduce us to operators in their networks, and keep us honest about what real institutional adoption actually requires.
Advisor
Engineering · Uber
Uber's 7th employee and first Head of Engineering. Built the real-time dispatch system that scaled Uber from a few thousand rides a day to millions, and led engineering across Uber, UberEats, and UberFreight for seven years. Earlier: Expensify and Akamai. Now researches applied AI at UC Berkeley / UCSF.
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Co-founder & CEO · Doorvest
Co-founder and CEO of Doorvest, the vertically-integrated platform for buying and operating single-family rental homes online. Raised ~$98M across equity and debt, including a $50M asset-backed credit facility from Pollen Street, to deploy institutional capital into single-family rentals at scale.
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Founder & CEO · Nestment
Founder and CEO of Nestment, the platform that lets friends and family co-buy real estate together. Previously Executive Chair at Enwoven (NYT-backed SaaS) and co-founder of Ansible Mobile (acquired by Mediabrands). Multi-time proptech operator and exited founder, investing and advising across AI and real estate.
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ARC operates as PSV’s business development partner into commercial real estate and capital markets. Run by an operator who has already shipped production AI inside the largest CRE firm in the world, ARC fields the engagements and routes the engineering to PSV.
Founder & CEO · ARC
Maxwell is the founder of ARC. Inside CBRE, one of the largest commercial real estate firms in the world, he designed and shipped 50+ production AI agents across capital markets, debt, investment properties, leasing, tenant rep, research, and marketing, serving 30+ enterprise teams. ARC operates as PSV's business development partner into commercial real estate and capital markets, fielding interest from operators who want production AI pipelines and routing the engineering to PSV. Based in San Diego.
How We Engage
Every engagement begins with rigorous workflow mapping. Success criteria are defined before a line of code is written. Deployments proceed iteratively: shadow mode first, then graduated rollout once accuracy thresholds are met.
01 , Human-in-the-Loop
When a system cannot verify a number or action with sufficient confidence, it escalates to a human, it does not guess. That principle is non-negotiable in every system we build.
02 , Enterprise Security
AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, least-privilege access controls, full observability, and structured escalation paths. Designed for enterprise review from day one.
03 , Selective Engagement
We work with a limited number of clients at any given time. A senior member of our team is meaningfully involved in every engagement, not managing a portfolio from a distance.
Thirty minutes. We'll tell you whether PSV is the right partner for what you're trying to build.
Or reach us directly at zed@pacificsoftwareventures.com