The AI CRE Academy is a self-paced commercial real estate certification in AI-assisted analysis. Three levels, complimentary for students, recent graduates, and early-career professionals.
Short video lessons
Certificates for every level
FREE*
Most commercial real estate courses teach you to build the model by hand. Today, firms also expect you to use AI and check its work.
The Smart Capital Center AI CRE Academy teaches you to do both.
If you are trying to get into commercial real estate, or trying to stay ahead
Students in real estate, finance, or business programs who want a credential before graduation.
Competing for commercial real estate analyst roles and looking for something that separates them from other candidates.
Want to prove they can work alongside AI tools and understand how to validate the analysis those tools produce.
Moving into commercial real estate from adjacent finance roles.
Join the waitlist and we will send you the start date, the full curriculum, and your enrollment link before the AI Academy opens publicly.
Anyone can prompt a tool. This teaches you to find the error in what it returns, which is the part employers cannot train for at scale.
You work from real rent rolls, T-12s, comps, and AI-produced outputs with mistakes in them. Finding those mistakes is the assessment.
The Academy is tool-neutral from start to finish. No platform training, no product walkthrough. What you learn transfers anywhere.
The CRE Academy is a free, self-paced online commercial real estate certification in AI-assisted analysis. It runs across three levels of short video lessons, each level ending in a quiz. It is built for students and early-career professionals who want to prove they can produce and verify commercial real estate analysis in an AI-assisted workflow.
Most commercial real estate courses teach you to build the analysis. This one teaches you to build it and then check it. Levels 2 and 3 are organized around the specific errors AI makes on commercial real estate documents and comps, and the checks that catch each one. It is also tool-neutral, so nothing you learn is tied to one piece of software.
You will be able to take a commercial real estate deal from raw documents through to a defensible investment or credit recommendation, using AI to handle the production work, and verify every number before it leaves your desk. Level 1 covers the fundamentals and the documents, Level 2 covers the full analysis workflow and the checks that catch AI errors, and Level 3 covers assumptions, sensitivities, and writing the memo.
The Academy is completely free. All three levels, every lesson, every quiz, and every certificate are available at no cost, and there is no payment step at any point in the program.
You earn a certificate for each level you complete, and each one carries a credential ID you can add to LinkedIn or list on a resume. Completing all three levels earns the full Certified AI-Augmented CRE Analyst credential.
No prior experience is needed. Level 1 assumes no background at all and starts with asset classes, the core deal documents, and the metrics that drive decisions. Levels 2 and 3 build on that foundation in order.
Level 1 opens this fall. Join the waitlist and we will send you the exact start date, along with the full curriculum, before enrollment opens publicly.
The full program is roughly six and a half hours of video across all three levels, plus the time you spend on the quizzes. Individual lessons run three to six minutes each.
No. The Academy is tool-neutral from start to finish. It does not train you on the Smart Capital Center platform or on any other product, and there is nothing you need to buy or download.
