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Serious News is part land, part AI. Every Monday, Chris Duff shows how the work actually gets done: deal post-mortems with the real numbers, straight reads on the market, and the AI systems we use to comp, screen, and underwrite. Land and AI, backed by the money.

  • Real post-mortems with the figures: the $71K entitlement play, the 65% win rate we walked away from, and why.
  • AI tested on our own deals first: comping parcels, reading soil reports, first-pass underwrites in hours, not days.
  • $6.5M+ funded at 41% margins, a 100% close rate on committed deals. Chris also serves as an AI advisor to companies cumulatively earning $50M+ a year.

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