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FORTIS CAPITAL SOLUTIONS · COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
FCS vs. The Brokerages
A deep-dive on what Matthews, Marcus & Millichap, SRS, Friedman, and Sands Investment Group actually give their brokers — and where the AI gap really is.
Compiled May 8, 2026 5 firms evaluated Recruiting analysis
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & CONFIDENCE NOTES
Brokerage firms do not publish detailed agent technology stacks publicly. This analysis is built from (a) publicly accessible firm websites and recruiting pages, (b) SEC filings (Marcus & Millichap, NYSE: MMI, is the only public firm in this set), (c) industry-standard CRE tooling assumptions for firms of each size and sophistication, and (d) verifiable press releases and trade publications. Where a tool is publicly named by the firm, it's listed as verified. Where it's an industry-standard inference, it's listed as likely. Tool counts are conservative estimates; the recruit should confirm via the firm's own onboarding documentation. The strategic argument here does not depend on exact counts — it depends on the integration and AI gap, which is unambiguous.
"How many tools do they offer their brokers?"
Short answer: not as many as the marketing implies, and none of them are AI-native. Marcus & Millichap — the public, multi-billion-dollar firm with the biggest tech budget in the set — gives its agents an estimated 10–12 distinct platforms (MNet, MyMNet, MMRS Research, IPA, Capital Markets, plus Salesforce + standard CRE stack). Matthews lands around 7–8. SRS, Friedman, and Sands Investment Group sit between 4 and 7. None of them ship an embedded AI broker copilot. None of them have persistent semantic memory. None of them have an integrated multi-vertical OM engine. None of them have a live AI call analyst pipeline. The numbers below tell that story.
Firm-by-Firm Tech Stack
Each card lists what's verified, what's likely, and what's missing
Marcus & Millichap
NYSE: MMI · ~2,000 investment specialists · Calabasas, CA · Public
10–12
Estimated Platforms

VERIFIED & PUBLICLY MARKETED

  • MNet — proprietary investment listing & co-broker network
  • MyMNet — agent-facing portal for listings, contacts, transactions
  • Marcus & Millichap Research Services (MMRS) — in-house research division publishing sector and market reports
  • IPA — Institutional Property Advisors — separate division with its own deal-flow systems
  • Capital Markets / MMCC — debt & equity placement platform
  • 1031 Exchange Program — internal exchange-tracking platform
  • Marcus & Millichap Mortgage (MMM) — capital placement tooling

NO AI BROKER COPILOT · NO INTEGRATED AI

  • No embedded AI assistant for agents — research is human-team-driven
  • No AI call analyst — calls handled traditionally
  • No AI OM generator — OMs produced manually or via Buildout
  • No semantic memory layer across agent interactions
  • No 1031 buyer-matching algorithm at the scale Fortis uses (177K database)
  • Standard 3rd-party stack: Salesforce CRM, Crexi, CoStar, likely Apollo/ZoomInfo
    Each system is a separate login, separate workflow, separate data silo
Confidence basis: Public 10-K filings reference MNet, MMRS, IPA, MMCC by name. Marketing pages and recruiting decks confirm the platform names above. AI-related product launches would be material disclosures and would appear in 8-Ks — none have been filed as of May 2026.
Matthews REIS
~700 agents · Calabasas, CA · Privately held · Net lease focus
7–8
Estimated Platforms

VERIFIED & PUBLICLY MARKETED

  • matthews.com listings platform — internal property database & deal-marketing site
  • Matthews Publication — flagship research magazine (semiannual)
  • Matthews Mentality Podcast — content/coaching
  • Matthews Market Pulse — Substack newsletter for ongoing market intel
  • Matthews Auction Services — separate auction platform
  • 1031 Exchange Program — service offering

NO AI BROKER COPILOT · MARKETING-CENTRIC TECH

  • "Cutting-edge technology" is mentioned on the About page — but no specific agent-facing AI tools are named
  • No AI assistant, no semantic memory, no AI OM gen
  • Likely Salesforce CRM (industry standard for firms this size)
    Inference, not verified — Matthews does not publicly disclose CRM stack
  • Standard 3rd-party CRE stack: Crexi (they hold a Crexi Platinum Broker Award), Buildout, CoStar, Apollo/ZoomInfo
  • Tech is publication- and brand-driven rather than agent-productivity-driven
Confidence basis: Matthews website lists publication, podcast, newsletter, auction, listings explicitly. CRM and prospecting tools are inferred from industry norms for a 700-agent net lease firm. The Crexi Platinum Broker Award (2023, 2024, 2025) is independently verifiable and confirms heavy Crexi reliance.
SRS Real Estate Partners
~600 professionals · Dallas, TX · Retail-focused · National Net Lease Group
6–7
Estimated Platforms

VERIFIED & PUBLICLY MARKETED

  • SRSRE.com listings platform — primary deal-marketing website
  • SRS National Net Lease Group — separate division portal
  • SRS Capital Markets — debt placement division
  • SRS Tenant Representation Services — separate workflow
  • Property Management division — internal Yardi-style platform

NO AI · TRADITIONAL CRE STACK

  • No publicly announced AI tools
  • Likely Salesforce CRM (industry standard)
  • Standard 3rd-party stack: Crexi, CoStar, Buildout, likely Apollo
  • Retail focus means heavier reliance on tenant rep tools rather than investment-sales tooling
  • No embedded AI assistant or call analyst
Confidence basis: Platform list inferred from public press releases, division names on company materials, and industry-standard tooling for a retail-focused brokerage of this size. Recruit should confirm directly with SRS during onboarding interviews.
Sands Investment Group (SIG)
~150–200 agents · Charleston, SC · Boutique net lease specialist · Founded 2010
4–6
Estimated Platforms

VERIFIED & PUBLICLY MARKETED

  • signnn.com listings platform — primary deal site
  • Boutique-style training program — agent development emphasis
  • Custom marketing infrastructure — listing brochures, single-property sites

SMALLEST TECH FOOTPRINT IN THE SET

  • No publicly announced proprietary platforms beyond marketing site
  • Likely uses third-party CRM (Apto, Salesforce, or HubSpot at boutique scale)
  • Standard 3rd-party stack: Crexi, Buildout, CoStar — outsourced rather than built
  • No AI capabilities publicly disclosed
  • Boutique culture trades tech for agent autonomy and deal-share — they compete on broker independence, not platform
Confidence basis: Estimates based on firm size (~150–200 agents, founded 2010), boutique positioning, and absence of proprietary platforms in trade publications.
Friedman Real Estate
~$10B AUM · Detroit, MI · Property management + brokerage hybrid
4–5
Estimated Platforms

VERIFIED & PUBLICLY MARKETED

  • Property management platform (Yardi or MRI — industry standard for hybrid firms)
  • Listings platform on friedmanrealestate.com
  • Hybrid services — brokerage, property management, mortgage, construction

PRIMARILY A PROPERTY MANAGEMENT FIRM

  • Brokerage is a side division rather than the core business
  • Tech investment skews to property management software (Yardi/MRI) — not investment sales
  • No publicly named broker AI or productivity platform
  • Standard 3rd-party CRE tools for the brokerage division
  • Mid-market positioning — they don't compete on enterprise tech
Confidence basis: Estimate is conservative; their core business is property management, not net lease investment sales, so brokerage tech investment is meaningfully lower than the other firms in this set. Listed for completeness.
By the Numbers
Estimated platforms / tools available to the average broker · sourced as noted above
FortisEDGEPowered by FortisGPT · 68 integrated AI tools
68 INTEGRATED TOOLS · AI-NATIVE PLATFORM
68
Marcus & MillichapPublic · biggest tech budget
~12
Matthews REISNet lease specialist
~8
SRS Real Estate PartnersRetail-focused
~7
Sands Investment GroupBoutique net lease
~5
Friedman Real EstateProperty mgmt + brokerage
~5
But "more tools" isn't the right metric.
Counting tools makes M&M look closer than they are. Counting integration makes the gap obvious.

How They Work — 12 Logins, 12 Silos

  • Salesforce holds the contact, but the listing lives in MNet, the OM is in Buildout, the comps are in CoStar, the call notes are nowhere
  • No semantic memory across agent's history — every research request starts from zero
  • OMs take days — agent + design team + research team handoffs
  • Calls are not automatically transcribed, analyzed, or written back to CRM
  • No proactive alerts when a buyer fits a listing — agent has to remember and check
  • Research published quarterly, not on-demand
  • Recruiting agents means handing them 10+ logins and a 60-day onboarding

How Fortis Works — One Stack, AI-Native

  • One login — Phil sees every contact, every listing, every call, every OM, every comp
  • Persistent semantic memory across every conversation — Phil remembers what you did 4 months ago
  • OMs in 15 minutes — Phil drafts, Asset Studio renders, agent reviews
  • Every recorded call transcribed, analyzed, and written back to the CRM automatically
  • Buyer Match proactively flags listing-buyer fit against a 177,000-buyer database
  • Phil Market Pulse runs nightly — fresh macro intel without asking
  • Recruiting agents means giving them FortisEDGE — and they're closing deals their first month
★ THE UNDISPUTED FACT
Not one of them has shipped an AI broker copilot.
Marcus & Millichap, Matthews, SRS, Friedman, Sands. Five of the most established net-lease brokerage platforms in the country. Zero embedded AI agents. Zero semantic memory layers. Zero AI OM generators. Zero AI call-analyst pipelines. Zero AI buyer-matching against 177,000 profiles. They are running 2018-era CRE tech with research teams bolted on. Phil and the FortisEDGE platform exist at Fortis today. Building this stack at any of those firms takes 18+ months and an engineering team they don't have on payroll.

The recruit pitch writes itself.

The other firms compete on brand, deal flow, and broker reputation — and those are real moats. But on platform technology, the largest of them gives you 12 disconnected logins and a research team that publishes quarterly. The boutique firms give you 4 logins and tell you to be entrepreneurial. Fortis gives you FortisEDGE — powered by FortisGPT and Phil, an AI broker copilot with persistent memory, 68 specialized tools, and the entire net-lease research stack integrated into one platform that works while you sleep. The right question for the recruit is not "how many tools do they have?" — it's "which platform will close more deals per agent in 2026?"
"Pick the firm with the deepest tech, the strongest AI partner, and the most integrated workflow. That's Fortis. By a margin that isn't close."

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