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I help CRE teams source, underwrite, and market deals faster.

I combine institutional net lease transaction experience with AI-enabled workflows and productized tools to improve deal velocity, reduce process friction, and sharpen execution for brokerage, advisory, and principal-side teams.

[email protected]·Sun Valley, ID·LinkedIn
Open to principal-side roles, contract engagements, and product-driven workflow conversations.
Ben Smith

Selected Track Record

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Ways to Work With Me

Full-Time · Advisory

Join Your Team

Principal-side, advisory, or strategic roles focused on sourcing, underwriting, transaction execution, and workflow leverage.

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Engagement · Contract

Contract Support

Underwriting, transaction execution, process design, and recurring workflow optimization for active CRE teams.

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Tools · Frameworks

Products & Systems

Operational tools such as OM Generator and OM Framework designed to reduce friction and improve speed, consistency, and output quality.

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What I Do

I help firms find opportunities earlier, evaluate them faster, and execute with less friction. My background is in single-tenant net lease transactions across sourcing, underwriting, negotiation support, and execution. I also build practical AI-assisted workflows and products that improve recurring deal work without replacing human judgment.

Who I Help

  • Principal-side teams hiring for acquisitions, asset management, or strategic growth roles.
  • Brokerage teams that need contract support on underwriting, execution, or process.
  • Owners and advisors looking to improve recurring transaction workflows through practical AI and systems.

Selected Track Record

Representative transactions across retail, industrial, office, and specialty net lease assets, including sourcing, buyer representation, execution, and full-cycle origination.

Impact & Performance

Directly responsible in sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and closing a total of $595MM.

Off-Market Expertise
11
Exclusive off-market transactions
$309.4M
Off-market volume
Off-market deals represent 80.9% of all investments closed.
Revenue by Role
Producer
$3,790,175
14 deals
Buyer Representative
$1,503,050
6 deals
Manager
$665,000
13 deals
Total
$5,958,225
33 deals

Transaction Experience

Representative transaction history across retail, industrial, office, and specialty net lease assets. Some tenant names and purchase prices have been generalized to preserve confidentiality.

Property / TenantRolePurchase Price
Investment Grade Green HouseTeam Member$140,000,000
CVS 18 Property PortfolioProducer$60,250,000
Medical Office HQTeam Member$52,500,000
7 Property Medical Office PortfolioBuyer Rep$51,000,000
Amazon Distribution CenterProducer$46,250,000
6 Property Drug Store PortfolioBuyer Rep$42,929,482
Financial Services HQTeam Member$42,673,000
Medical Manufacturing FacilityProducer$41,000,000
Home Improvement Distribution CenterBuyer Rep$42,152,003
PharmacyTeam Member$40,239,000
Riddell Sports Manufacturing HQProducer$37,500,000
Medical Office PortfolioManager$36,394,692
VonsTeam Member$35,384,220
Regional Bank HQProducer$33,000,000
Ground Lease Structured Credit InvestmentProducer$29,000,000
CVS 3 Property PortfolioBuyer Rep$25,000,000
Shown Total ($25M+ transactions)$755,272,397

Full transaction history available upon request. Ben will review and grant access directly.

Role Legend

Producer

Sourced both the buyer and the seller — full transaction origination on both sides.

Buyer Rep

Sourced and represented the buyer in the transaction.

Manager

Transaction Manager — took the property from LOI to Close, managing all parties, due diligence, and execution.

Team Member

Active contributor on a team transaction — supporting sourcing, underwriting, or execution.

NOTE: This does not include all transactions. In order to conserve confidentiality, some tenant names and actual purchase prices have been generalized.

How I Operate

Human-Led, AI-Enhanced Execution

I do not outsource judgment, relationships, or accountability to technology. I use AI as leverage to compress time, reduce friction, and surface better decisions faster. AI amplifies my experience; it does not replace it.

This same operating approach informs the tools and frameworks I build, including OM Generator and OM Framework.

What I Personally Own

Judgment & Strategy

Determining what matters, interpreting risk, and structuring solutions when standard playbooks break.

Relationships & Trust

Direct institutional and private capital relationships, confidential seller conversations, and full accountability through close.

Execution & Outcomes

Negotiation control, sequencing, and management of complex credit, tax, debt, and timing constraints.

Where AI Fits

AI is embedded inside my workflow to compress intelligence, recognize patterns at scale, and sharpen pricing and positioning before capital is engaged.

Compress
Intelligence
Recognize
Patterns at Scale
Sharpen
Pricing & Positioning

Opportunity Sourcer

Surfaces motivated sellers via debt, timing, and portfolio signals.

Outcome: Earlier access, higher close probability, fewer wasted conversations.

OM Generator

Institutional-quality offering memorandums without filler or blank pages.

Outcome: Faster market launch and higher buyer confidence through diligence.

Headshot Generator

AI-generated professional headshots — studio quality without the studio.

Outcome: Polished, on-brand portraits ready for bios, decks, and LinkedIn in minutes.

AI for CRE Recurring Actions

The highest-leverage applications of AI in commercial real estate are not one-time projects — they are the repetitive, high-friction tasks that consume broker time every week. Below are the recurring workflows where AI delivers compounding returns.

Deal Sourcing

Off-market seller identification

Scan debt maturity schedules, tax records, and portfolio signals to flag motivated sellers before they list.

Prospect list enrichment

Auto-append ownership data, contact info, and last-sale history to raw property lists at scale.

Outreach sequencing

Generate personalized cold outreach drafts keyed to asset type, hold period, and seller profile.

Underwriting & Pricing

Lease abstraction

Extract rent, term, options, and co-tenancy clauses from PDFs in seconds — no manual review required.

Comp normalization

Reconcile cap rates, price/SF, and NOI across heterogeneous comp sets into a single defensible range.

Scenario modeling

Instantly generate bull/base/bear valuation scenarios with sensitivity tables for buyer presentations.

Transaction Execution

OM drafting

Produce institutional-quality offering memorandums from raw deal data — no blank pages, no filler.

LOI & PSA markup

Flag non-standard terms, missing contingencies, and timeline risks against a baseline deal structure.

Due diligence tracking

Maintain a live checklist of open items, document status, and counterparty responses across all active deals.

1031 Exchange Coordination

Replacement property screening

Filter inventory against equity, debt, NOI, and geographic requirements in real time.

Timeline monitoring

Auto-flag 45-day identification and 180-day close deadlines with buffer alerts.

QI communication drafts

Generate compliant exchange instruction letters and status updates for qualified intermediaries.

Client & Pipeline Management

CRM data hygiene

Auto-update contact records, deal stages, and follow-up tasks from email and call activity.

Investor reporting

Compile portfolio performance summaries and market updates from raw data into client-ready formats.

Meeting prep briefs

Generate one-page deal or client briefs pulling from CRM notes, financials, and market context before each call.

Market Intelligence

Cap rate trend monitoring

Aggregate and summarize broker reports, REIT filings, and trade press into a weekly market pulse.

Tenant credit surveillance

Monitor public filings, earnings calls, and news for credit events affecting net lease tenants in your portfolio.

Competitive deal tracking

Surface comparable listings and closed transactions to benchmark pricing and identify buyer demand signals.

AI Integration & Advisory

Working With Teams

I assist teams and owners in integrating AI into real transaction workflows. The focus is human-in-the-loop systems that preserve judgment, discretion, and accountability.

Outcome: Faster execution, cleaner data, and better decisions without loss of control.

Why Teams Bring Me In

01

Deal Judgment

Experience across sourcing, underwriting, execution, and buyer-seller dynamics in net lease transactions.

02

Operational Leverage

Systems and workflows that reduce repetitive work and turn raw information into decision-ready output faster.

03

Commercial Focus

A practical bias toward velocity, risk control, and close probability rather than analysis without application.

Featured Products

Operational tools built for live deal environments. Each product solves a specific, recurring problem in the transaction workflow.

AI-Assisted Production

OM Generator

Service

Institutional-quality OMs — a fraction of the cost and time of a traditional design firm.

Most OM design firms charge $3,000–$8,000 and take 2–3 weeks. I produce the same institutional output — 20-page, fully designed, deal-specific — in days, not weeks, at a fraction of that cost.

What It Solves

Blank-page friction and inconsistent output across listings.
Slow market launch due to manual drafting and revision cycles.
Buyer confidence gaps from unpolished or incomplete materials.

Outcome: Faster launch, better presentation, less manual drafting.

Repeatable Structure

OM Framework

For Teams

A repeatable structure for building institutional-quality offering memorandums without filler, inconsistency, or blank-page friction. Designed for teams that want to standardize output and accelerate production across listings.

What It Solves

Inconsistent OM quality across team members and deal types.
Time lost to structural decisions that should be standardized.
Onboarding friction for new team members producing marketing materials.

Outcome: Better internal consistency and faster OM production across the team.

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Let's Talk

If you are hiring, need contract support, or want to improve how your team sources, underwrites, markets, or executes deals, reach out directly. I review every inquiry personally.

For OM Generator, OM Framework, or workflow-related inquiries, use the form below or book a short call.

Active Acquisition Criteria

Currently Seeking

Active buyer mandates are posted on the Seeking page. If you have a property that fits — off-market, mission-critical, net lease — submit it directly. All inquiries are reviewed personally and kept strictly confidential.