40+ properties. Two states. AI at every step.

Next Play Capital buys real estate in two markets, Florida and Ohio, and builds a separate plan for each of the people it works with: athletes, artists, and founders whose income arrives in waves. That is a lot of analysis for a small team.

Every property needs comps. A flip needs a renovation and resale case. A hold needs a cash-flow projection someone can rely on. And once a renovation starts, someone has to keep scope, schedule, and contractors moving. Done by hand, that work caps how many deals a team this size can take on.

Michael already ran a brokerage that had rebuilt itself around AI with us between January and March 2026: Claude Code, agents and skills for research, underwriting, and outreach. Next Play Capital started from that footing. The team did not have to learn the tools and then find a use for them. They brought the habits with them.

AI now runs through every stage of how Next Play works. The team uses it to find properties worth buying, pull comps, and analyze a flip before an offer goes in. It projects cash flow on the properties they hold. And once a flip or renovation is underway, it handles the project management: scope, schedule, contractors, and what is left to close out.

The output changed shape along the way. In June 2026 we built a deal page for a duplex in Cleveland: one web page per property, with the price, the costs, the projected cash flow, and the assumptions behind them, in place of a spreadsheet and a PDF.

Our read: this is a fully AI-native team at this point. AI is not a tool they open for special occasions. It is how the work gets done.

Michael’s team talks with us two to three times a week. Some of those conversations are AI strategy: what to automate next and which tool fits the job. Some are about getting a stuck project over the line. Some are brainstorming a tool that does not exist yet. And some are plain troubleshooting when something internal breaks.

That cadence is the point. A team running its whole operation on AI hits new questions every week, and the fastest way through them is a partner who already knows the setup.

More than 40 properties purchased across Florida and Ohio, with AI in the work from the first search to the finished renovation, and a standing line to our team for whatever comes up next.

What comes up next is the system that holds it together. Next Play is adopting a CRM, and the open question is the one most AI-native teams reach: buy one off the shelf, or build their own around the workflow they already run. We are working through that decision with them now.