The AI feature race is over. Real estate agents need tools they can trust.

An AI button sits on nearly every real estate platform today. CRMs draft follow-up emails. Virtual staging tools furnish empty rooms in minutes. Video platforms turn listing photos into polished reels while the agent is still finishing another task. The novelty has worn off. For agents, teams and brokerages, the question is whether the product—and the company behind it—is dependable when clients, listings and revenue are on the line. You can see the same shift outside real estate. For its 2026 AI Infrastructure Trends Report, Crusoe engaged MetaLab to survey 332 executives, decision-makers, technical influencers and practitioners involved in evaluating or implementing AI and cloud infrastructure. The survey was conducted in March 2025 across several industries. Operational efficiency was the leading reason for investing in AI, cited by 69% of respondents. Participants also reported security and compliance concerns, performance problems, difficulty scaling, unpredictable costs and weak customer support. Ninety-seven percent rated ease of integration with existing infrastructure as important. The study was not conducted specifically among real estate professionals, so its findings sh...