It’s a big day here at Flyhomes. This morning we launched the world’s first AI-powered home search (and research) portal. Since our founding in 2016, customers have come to rely on us for the best home buying and selling solutions, including our Flyhomes Cash Offer* and Buy Before You Sell products, and now they’ll rely on us for the most complete information in real estate.
Flyhomes.com (and our new app) is now the most intelligent real estate search (and research) portal on the planet. I keep adding “research” because we go so far beyond just searching for the homes that are for sale. That’s what traditional real estate portals do – they give you the basics like the number of bedrooms/bathrooms, a map, a brief description, and photos. But there’s so much more that buyers want to know about the home, the neighborhood, the market, even the process of buying a home. Buyers have had to do all that research separately – by opening a hundred different tabs on their computer, going to the house in person, and asking a real estate agent. Flyhomes now enables all of that research in a single portal.
Our new AI-powered portal is trained on nearly 1,000 data points from a bunch of different sources – big sources like government agencies (the US Census, FEMA, USGS and others), as well as smaller sources like records from states, counties, cities, and even local fire departments! That’s a LOT of data to parse and layer on top of each home and neighborhood. It’s also vastly more data than you’ll find from competitors Zillow, Realtor.com, Redfin, and Homes.com. We’re essentially trying to bring in all the data that a local real estate agent would have stored in their brain, and even data that they wouldn’t know offhand and would have to go research themselves.
In fact, our portal offers so much data that it’s simply too much to present on a single listing page. That’s where generative AI comes in, with a proprietary tool we call “Flyhomes AI.” Talking with Flyhomes AI is like talking with the absolute most knowledgeable local real estate agent in your area. Ask Flyhomes AI about a specific home, a neighborhood, market conditions, the process of buying a home, or anything else you can think of. You can get nuanced responses to open-ended questions like, “Is this home a good deal compared to others in the neighborhood?” or specific responses to pointed questions like, “How is my cell phone carrier’s coverage in this home?” If Flyhomes AI doesn’t give you a satisfactory answer, let us know! We’re making it smarter every day, so even though I think you’re going to be blown away by how good it is today, it’s only going to get better!
When you’re ready to move forward in your home buying journey, you can use our platform to connect with an agent or even schedule a tour of a specific home with an agent. We now have a nationwide network of top real estate agents who can take you the rest of the way in buying a home. It’s important to have smart representation from an agent in such an important transaction as buying a home. We think our partner real estate agents will love Flyhomes, too, because the buyers we send their way will be thoroughly prepared and ready to move forward. (And agents can also refer to Flyhomes AI when they get tough questions from their clients!) We currently cover 75% of the U.S. population, with more on the way.
My confidence in this launch and where we’ll be able to take it from here is the result of our acquisition of assets from the Sam Altman-backed AI startup, ZeroDown. What we’re launching today represents four years of development by their team, which I think is one of the best AI engineering teams in technology overall, and certainly in the real estate space. That incredible team is now part of Flyhomes, led by ZeroDown’s co-founders, Laks Srini and Abhijeet Dwivedi, who also joined Flyhomes as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Growth Officer (CGO), respectively. Laks and Abhijeet previously worked together at SaaS HR platform, Zenefits, as Co-founder/CTO and as COO. It has been so fun working with them and seeing the incredible things they’re able to build. As I said before, it’s only going to get better!
For more information, you can read our press announcement here, or better yet, click back over to our new homepage or download our new app on iOS or Android.
I invite you to make Flyhomes your new go-to for all your real estate search and research, and experience the power of AI today!
All the best,
Tushar
Co-founder and CEO, Flyhomes
*Flyhomes Mortgage, LLC, NMLS #1733272, an affiliate of Flyhomes, Inc. 160 NW Gilman BLVD, Ste 441, Issaquah, WA 98027. An Equal Housing Lender.