Podcast: The AI Brain and the Human Brain
At the start of 2026, Mark Burgess said something important: The biggest problem coming for estate agents wouldn’t be AI itself. It would be the explosion of cool-looking AI from random suppliers. At the time, it sounded negative. Today, it’s starting to look obvious. In this podcast he dives further into the problem facing Estate Agents.
The Illusion of Progress
Right now, the industry is heading into a phase where AI is everywhere.
New tools. New features. New suppliers.
Everything looks like progress.
And the assumption most people are making is simple:
More AI tools = a better business.
The problem is the absence of a central brain.
No central intelligence.
No shared rules.
No single understanding of the customer.
Estate agency has already been through this once and over the next 6–12 months, the market will be full of:
- impressive demos
- strong marketing
- convincing use cases
All of it will look like progress.
But most of it will be building fragmentation.
While this is going on, something else is happening. A smaller group of agencies are building something different.
Meanwhile, inside our own business, we’ve seen something interesting.
Over the last 8 months, we’ve lost six senior team members.
We haven’t replaced them.
The business is operating better.
Not because AI replaces people.
But because it changes what people are actually there to do.
If you want the full breakdown and the thinking behind this, you can listen to the full podcast episode from Mark Burgess here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-brain-and-the-human-brain/id1887643141?i=1000763313837
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