What does the Real Estate Ops Audit include?

A 90-minute working session where you walk through your current operations, plus a written audit covering current state, gaps, and 3 ranked automation opportunities with tool and platform recommendations. Delivered within 5 business days.

Real estate agents, transaction coordinators, and brokerages. Especially brokerages doing $5M+ in annual volume that are currently running on spreadsheets and disconnected CRMs.

What's the difference between Implementation and Fractional Tech Partner?

Implementation is a one-time done-for-you build of a single automation system, $2,500 to $5,000 per project, 2 to 3 week delivery. Fractional Tech Partner is an ongoing $1,500/month retainer for 8 hours of work plus PREP subscription.

Founder · Builder · Real Estate Tech

Ryan Pierce

Helping brokerages modernize with AI automation. Founder of PREP.

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Engineer at Gap by day. Building PREP by night. Phoenix, AZ.

Past

Started by running. Stayed by shipping.

Oregon Tech, 2014 to 2018. Engineering degree and two seasons as track captain. Get up when it's cold. Do the work when nobody's watching.

Nike came next. Years writing software at scale. Monitored big sneaker launches. Learned what real systems break under. Why senior engineers sneer "this won't survive in prod." Why the on-call rotation exists.

2014–2018Oregon Institute of Technology. Engineering degree. Two-time cross country / track captain.
2018–2021Nike. Enterprise software for global commerce. Sneaker drops at scale.

Present

Three things at once. By design.

Engineer at Gap during the day. Building PREP nights and weekends. Consulting brokerages whenever a problem shows up.

The day job pays rent. It also keeps me embedded in a real engineering org. PREP gets built whenever the kid's asleep. The consulting work pulls cash forward and feeds PREP its first customers. Each one funds and unblocks the next.

Brokerage owner reading this? PREP exists because nobody was building it for the people who actually needed it. Engineer reading this? You've probably got your own side project that won't shut up.

Based in Phoenix. Husband, dad, distance runner.

Skills

What I build with.

AI & Automation

Claude API · ChatGPT · Vercel AI SDK
Claude Code · OpenAI Codex
Claude Skills · Subagents · Agent Teams · MCP
n8n · Make · Zapier · Airtable · Fillout

Languages & Frameworks

TypeScript · Next.js 15 · React 19 · Tailwind
Java · Spring Boot

Data & Infrastructure

Postgres · MongoDB · Prisma · Supabase
Kafka · RabbitMQ · SQS · SNS
AWS · Vercel · Databricks · Lambda
Stripe · Google Analytics

Architecture

Microservices · Event-driven
Multi-tenant SaaS
CI/CD

Domain Expertise

Real estate transaction workflows
Order management · Inventory · Allocation
Enterprise React (Nike, Gap)

Credentials

Recent certifications.

AWS Technical Essentials
Amazon Web Services
2025
AWS Well-Architected Foundations
Amazon Web Services
2025
Tech Sales Certificate
CourseCareers
2025
B.S., Oregon Institute of Technology
Cross country / track captain. Academic all-conference.
2014–2018

In progress

AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
Expected 2026
GCP Associate Cloud Engineer
Google Cloud
Expected 2026

Also: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) · Scrum Alliance · 2021–2023.

Featured Work

Three things I've shipped.

More follow as consulting engagements close.

PREP

Pierce Real Estate Platform

LIVE

Live B2B SaaS for agents, TCs, and brokerages. Transaction management, CRM, automated workflows, and AI-assisted lead follow-up. Replaces the spreadsheet-plus-disconnected-tools setup most shops run on.

SNKRGarage

Sneaker drops, captured live

LIVE

Founder venture under Pierce Industries LLC. Scrapers across major sneaker sites feed a background worker that captures live drop data: prices, release dates, retailer locations, images. Frontend renders the feed in real time.

Pierce Brand Agency

The agent system that built this site

Custom Claude Code agent system. 5 specialists (Brand Director, Designer, Storyteller, Engineer, Reviewer), 4 skill domains, automated learning hooks, single quality gate. The site you're reading is what it built.

Offerings

Three ways to work together.

Audit first. Build second. Stay together third. Pick where you are.

Real Estate Ops Audit

$500

one-time

Best for brokerages running on disconnected tools. 90-minute working session plus a written audit. Current state, 3 ranked automation opportunities, tool recommendations, recommended build order. 5-business-day delivery.

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After the audit

AI Automation Implementation

$2,500–$5,000

per build

Done-for-you automation. One workflow per build: transaction tracking, lead follow-up automation, document workflow, AI-assisted email or CRM drafting, or a custom scope. Discovery call, scoping doc, full build, walkthrough, training. 2-3 week delivery, 30 days of email support.

Scope a build →

Fractional Tech Partner

$1,500

monthly

On-call tech partner for ongoing builds and tweaks. 8 hours a month, priority 24-hour response, monthly strategy call. PREP subscription included.

Talk about a retainer →

Future

Where this is going.

The next year is about converting attention into anchors. The five years after are about whether the bets land.

I'd rather be specific and wrong than vague and bulletproof. The lines below get rewritten as the work either lands or doesn't.

Next 12 months

PREP hits 100 paying customers. One client goes audit to implementation to retainer end-to-end. 3 LinkedIn posts a week, 2 Medium articles a month, PREP blog ramping up. First brokerage owner who's never met me books the audit.

Next 5 years

AI automation becomes how brokerages operate by default. PREP wins on workflow. Pierce Industries grows from one product to a small portfolio. Eventually full-time on Pierce Industries.

Writing

Where I write.

Four places. All in the rotation. Posts ramp up through 2026.

Contact

Pick a door.

Calendly, email, DM. I read all three. Replies go out within a business day.

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Direct booking opens soon.

In the meantime, email me and I'll get a call on the calendar within a business day.

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