DealDesk on Claude, the first CRE platform you can talk to.

If you've been watching where business software actually gets used, the chat window is winning. Brokers, lawyers, finance pros, the people who used to live in spreadsheets and CRMs, are increasingly doing their thinking inside Claude or ChatGPT and only switching apps when they have to. The chat window is the new home screen.

Today we're shipping the version of DealDesk that meets brokers where they already are: DealDesk is now a Claude connector. We're the first commercial-real-estate platform you can talk to from inside Claude. Connect once, and Claude can read your deal pipeline, pull lease abstracts with citations, search your firm's comp library, and draft LOIs, all scoped to your workspace via OAuth, all using the same data you'd see in DealDesk's web app.

Why this is the bet, not just a feature

Every CRE software company is going to ship some kind of AI in the next twelve months. Most of them will paste a chat panel into the corner of their existing app and call it done. That's not the same product. The bet we're making is that the actual interface for AI-native CRE work is the AI itself, Claude, and the job of the platform underneath is to be a really good tool surface for that AI to call.

It's a different shape of company. Instead of asking brokers to learn a new dashboard, we're asking Claude to learn DealDesk. Claude already has the broker's attention; we just need to be present and useful inside the surface where they're already working. That's why MCP, the open Model Context Protocol Anthropic shipped at the end of 2024, is more important than any feature we could ship in our own UI this quarter.

What brokers can actually do today

Once the connector is installed (a 30-second OAuth flow at /docs/mcp), Claude can do all of these without app-switching. Some examples we've been using ourselves:

• "What's the largest active deal in my pipeline?" → list_deals + summary in chat
• "Pull the abstract for the 1500 Market lease and tell me the option-rent formula." → get_abstract with cited page references
• "Find me three comps in SoMa under 15K SF, plug-and-play, signed in the last 18 months." → search_comps with filters
• "Draft a counter LOI for the Bonsai deal at $48/SF, three months free, $40/SF TI." → drafts a market-standard LOI in your firm's house style
• "What's my pipeline weighted value this quarter?" → pipeline_summary + commission projection

Eight tools at v0, all read-only, meaning Claude can pull data and draft outputs for you to review, but can't push changes back to your pipeline without your explicit confirmation. Write tools (create deal, send LOI, save comp) ship in v0.2 with per-call consent prompts. We're being deliberately conservative on the write side; brokers' deal records are the most sensitive data in the workflow and we'd rather earn that trust slowly.

What's next

Three things we're building on top of this in the next quarter. First, deeper write integration, "send this LOI to the landlord" should fire the email through your Gmail and update the deal stage in one round-trip. Second, multi-firm support so a broker working a co-broker deal across two firms can have Claude pull data from both with appropriate scoping. Third, agent-mode workflows, "every Friday, summarize all deals that haven't moved this week and email the team", using Claude's agent SDK on top of the same MCP server.

If you're a working broker, tenant-rep, landlord-rep, or capital markets, and you spend any of your day in Claude already, the connector is free to set up at /docs/mcp. The free tier of DealDesk works through the connector with read access to anything you upload. Pro is $49.99/month with the full pipeline, write tools, and the branded PDF generators. We'd love your feedback as we ship the next layer.

And if you build CRE software and have been wondering where the puck is going on AI integration: it's already here. The brokers are in Claude. Meet them there.