AI systems for real estate, built around your firm.

We turn your firm’s knowledge and working practices into software that handles recurring work in the tools your team already uses. Your firm owns every system we build.

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Selected clients

  • Colliers
  • Mosaic Homes
  • Institutional
    buy-side firm

In use for institutional REIT research

An institutional investor uses a system we built in 2025 to research public REITs, model their properties and submarkets, and prepare investment memos. The same system runs on each new company.

I was skeptical AI output could meet the standard this work requires. The workflow surprised me: research and assembly at a depth I could rely on, and when I questioned a figure, I could trace it to its source. We’ve kept using it on names since.

Senior portfolio manager, institutional buy-side firm

Built for your firm to own

Built into your existing tools

The system works with the models, templates, and CRM records your team already uses. Supporting sources remain available to review.

A direct line to the builders

The people designing your system stay involved through testing, team training, and handover.

Yours after handover

We train your team and hand over the working system. There is no studio subscription; your software and data subscriptions remain separate.

There are two kinds of work inside every real estate firm. Judgment and assembly. Judgment is the business. Assembly is the work of getting numbers from where they live to the page where someone needs them. Keep the judgment. Retire the assembly.

FAQ

How does it fit the way we work?

We start with your CRM records, reporting templates, and the way your team prepares the work. The written plan names the connections and checks before the build begins.

What happens to our data?

Your records stay in your systems, and the installation never deletes them. Nothing built for your firm is reused for another client. The Security and data page explains how access and data handling work.

What happens after the engagement ends?

We train a member of your team to run the system, adjust templates, and manage routine changes. The working system and documentation are yours.

Background

Ethan Farrar
Ethan Farrar · Founder

Founded in 2022 by Ethan Farrar, Provenance Studio combines software engineering with a background in finance. We build reporting and prospecting systems for property operators and brokerages.

The studio is based in Vancouver.

Writing

May 2026 · 3 min read

The Rented Part

Why “which model do you use” is the wrong question.

Nobody asks which spreadsheet a rival runs. Excel never gave anyone an edge.

Read the essay

December 2025

Process Capital · Turning the way your firm works into an asset it owns.

See how a system would fit your firm

In a free, 30-minute call, we’ll walk through the relevant system, discuss your team’s current setup, and explain what an installation would involve. If the fit is there, a written plan with scope and prices follows within days of the call.

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