{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Deal Flow Friday","title":"Beyond Vibe Coding: Adam Rian - AKTUS AI","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2953,"description":"Everyone in real estate has had the weekend where they vibe coded a tool and felt like a genius. Adam Rian's take: that feeling is real, and it's also where most of these projects die.\nAdam is the founder and CEO of AKTUS AI, a Silicon Valley company building custom AI systems for finance and real estate — and a firm Trion has been working with directly. He has a PhD in computer science, spent 15 years in AI and machine learning, and was product lead for data and ML at Twitter before co-founding Flowcode.\nIn this episode, David and Adam get into why out-of-the-box AI keeps failing on real estate work, what actually separates a prototype from a production system, and why Adam thinks the org chart itself is the thing AI ends up rewriting.\nWhat we get into\n\nWhy generic AI can't do real estate. The models were trained on public data. Real estate runs on proprietary data, domain judgment, and a secret sauce that was never on the internet — and it's multidisciplinary on top of that: finance, legal, architectural, relationship-driven.\nVibe coding: 100% and 0%. Adam's line is blunt. Vibe coding is 100% the right tool for prototyping and requirement gathering — it replaced weeks of whiteboarding and Figma mockups. For production code, it's 0%. None of it survives. He explains why, and it comes down to edge cases and maintainability.\nThe maintenance trap. David's own experience: building something that works, then spending half your day keeping it alive instead of doing the job. The productivity gain never shows up.\nDigital teammates, not software. You're not buying an application. You're onboarding something you train, give feedback to, and measure — the same way you'd manage a first-year analyst.\nHow you actually measure success. Booking a meeting is not the same as booking the right meeting. Adam walks through how AKTUS defines KPIs with a client during onboarding, and why measurement has to be designed in from day one rather than bolted on.\nWhy AI hallucinates,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4CCvylFxdsaNNVGdB1dUOC4NLsR9R2eQL8p1_hY2q7Y/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NmRk/ZTI0ZGQ1OTRiOTFm/MzAwYzY5MGE1ZmIy/YTk2YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}