Free CRE Guide · The 15-Minute Field Guide
A free CRE field guide from PSV. What a large language model actually is, which tool to use for which job, and how to build your first AI agent, written the way we'd brief a new associate over coffee. Six sections, fifteen minutes, and by the end you'll understand AI better than 99% of the people posting about it. No buzzwords survive.
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Inside the field guide
01
Strip the hype and an LLM is a prediction machine: an analyst who has read every OM, lease, and appraisal ever published, but showed up to your office with no files and no memory of your deals. That one picture explains almost every AI behavior you'll see, and exactly why generic prompts give generic answers.
02
Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Perplexity, sorted by the job rather than the brand. Then Section 03 walks you through building a working deal-screening agent in five minutes: no code, copy-paste included. Reading about agents is like reading about golf swings, so you do this one for real.
03
The mistake that quietly wrecks an agent's output, the judgment calls AI should never touch, and a one-page translator for RAG, agents, tokens, and context windows. Keep the last section open as your cheat sheet for every AI conversation from here on.
At a glance
| Inside the guide | What it covers | What you walk away with |
|---|---|---|
| What an LLM actually is | An LLM as a prediction machine: an analyst who has read every OM, lease, and appraisal, but has none of your files | One picture that explains almost every AI behavior you'll see, and why generic prompts give generic answers |
| Which tool for which job | Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Perplexity, sorted by the job rather than the brand | You pick the tool by the task in front of you, not the brand |
| The five-minute agent build | A working deal-screening agent you build yourself: no code, copy-paste included | Your first agent, built for real; reading about agents is like reading about golf swings |
| Where AI fits, where it doesn't | The mistake that quietly wrecks an agent's output, and the judgment calls AI should never touch | Clear lines on where AI belongs in your work and where it doesn't |
| Every buzzword decoded | A one-page translator for RAG, agents, tokens, and context windows | A cheat sheet to keep open for every AI conversation from here on |
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