Profile
Zed Truong
Zed Truong is a co-founder and partner of Pacific Software Ventures (PSV), the AI firm for commercial real estate, and the founder of the CRE AI Institute, PSV's AI training program and community for CRE professionals. He previously worked in institutional real estate at PGIM Real Estate and in brokerage at Voit Real Estate.
Who is Zed Truong?
Zed Truong is a co-founder and partner of Pacific Software Ventures (PSV), the AI firm for commercial real estate, and the founder of the CRE AI Institute, PSV's AI training program and community for CRE professionals. He previously worked in institutional real estate at PGIM Real Estate and in brokerage at Voit Real Estate. He has closed $1B+ in commercial real estate transactions and underwritten $11B+ across asset classes.
Co-founder and Partner, Pacific Software VenturesUpdated
What he works on
Three ways PSV works with CRE firms
Build
Company Brain
Your firm's knowledge, processes, and decisions, structured so AI can use them. Built by PSV, deployed inside the tools your team already uses.
Advise
AI Consulting
Paid discovery that maps how your firm works and determines what should be built.
Teach
The CRE AI Institute
The AI MBA for commercial real estate. Weekly live office hours, taught by CRE investors out of PGIM and AI engineers out of Goldman Sachs and AWS.
Evidence. The work is public. The case studies document how CRE teams run the systems PSV builds, and the CRE AI Institute is the program he founded.
Teaching
The CRE AI Institute
Zed is the founder of the CRE AI Institute, PSV's AI training program and community for CRE professionals. It teaches CRE operators to run their own work with AI, on real deal files, with no coding required. The Institute runs weekly live office hours.
Writing
Written by Zed Truong
Guides on this site that carry his byline, and the newsletter he writes on Substack.
- Claude vs ChatGPT for commercial real estate underwriting
- Claude for real estate underwriting
- Claude MCP for commercial real estate
- AI agents for commercial real estate
- AI for real estate investing
- Commercial real estate underwriting software
- PropTech AI
- The CRE AI security audit
- CRE AI training
- The best AI course for commercial real estate
- The CRE AI guide
- The CRE Giants report
- AI orchestration for commercial real estate
Newsletter: The CRE AI Institute Newsletter on Substack.
Background
Before PSV
PGIM Real Estate
Institutional real estate
Voit Real Estate
Brokerage
Elsewhere
Find Zed online
Frequently asked
About Zed Truong, answered
- Who is Zed Truong?
Zed Truong is a co-founder and partner of Pacific Software Ventures (PSV), the AI firm for commercial real estate, and the founder of the CRE AI Institute, PSV's AI training program and community for CRE professionals. He previously worked in institutional real estate at PGIM Real Estate and in brokerage at Voit Real Estate. He has closed $1B+ in commercial real estate transactions and underwritten $11B+ across asset classes.
- What does Zed Truong teach?
Zed Truong is the founder of the CRE AI Institute, which teaches commercial real estate professionals to run their own work with AI, on real deal files, with no coding required. One lesson is free to watch before joining.
- How can I work with Zed Truong?
Three ways. Book thirty minutes with Zed on what your firm should build first. Take the free PSV AI Assessment for an honest read on where your firm stands and which engagement fits, if any. Or join the CRE AI Institute and learn the workflows yourself.
Where to go next
See the team and the work
The team
About PSV
Meet the three partners and three advisors behind PSV.
The work
Case studies
How CRE teams run PSV AI systems: underwriting with every number cited to its source, BOV drafting, inbound triage, and deal origination.
Start here
Free AI assessment
Ten minutes. An honest read on where you stand, the highest-value opportunities, and which engagement fits, if any.