Avanti Way’s big bet on tech takes a conversational AI turn 

Florida-based Avanti Way Realty is unveiling a tool that will allow agents to manage much of their business conversationally — creating contracts, updating transactions, building business plans and accessing market intelligence simply by speaking or texting through their phones.

But the launch is really just the latest AI-powered layer in something much bigger.

Avanti Way has been quietly building an integrated real estate ecosystem designed to connect nearly every part of the brokerage business — and they've done it largely through technology developed in-house. 

"We've been 20 years in the making of building something meaningful for the industry," co-founder Andres Korda told Real Estate News. "The only way we could really study the real estate world and change it from the ground up was understanding every piece from its core." 

Korda said the company's strategy grew out of a belief that the industry's technology evolution created fragmentation instead of simplicity.

"The industry has evolved so much," he said. "The issue that we've always seen is that instead of simplifying, it got more cluttered. It got more overly complex — so many tools, so many systems."

Choosing to build, not buy

Founded in 2007 by Korda and Enrique Teran, Avanti Way has grown into a roughly 2,000-agent operation concentrated in Florida. But unlike many brokerages that rely heavily on third-party vendors, Avanti Way spent years building its own interconnected systems internally.

The result, Korda explained, is a unified operating system for agents, teams and brokerage leaders. "It's not a tech stack that you're just throwing there and hoping somebody uses it," he said. "It's 100% adoption." 

The company's platform includes transaction management and CRM, marketing automation, recruiting and onboarding, coaching systems, analytics dashboards, and consumer-facing portals tied together through a centralized data structure. That foundation, Korda said, is what makes the company's AI ambitions possible.

The conversational AI layer sits on top of that infrastructure, allowing agents to generate a contract, update a CRM, process a transaction step or build a market-based business plan through text, WhatsApp or voice prompts — something the company has been able to achieve "because of what we built in the back end," Korda said.

"The power is in the data," he added.

Supporting the 'agentpreneur'

Avanti Way's model is designed to help agents and team leaders grow their businesses without taking on the operational burden of running a brokerage independently, Korda noted. "We want to build a world that bridges that gap."

Central to that strategy is what the company calls the "agentpreneur" — agents who are focused on creating long-term enterprise value and scalable businesses.

"People go into real estate because they want to build something for their family," Korda said. "They want to eventually own an asset."

A product of its own profits

The company's measured growth strategy stands apart in an industry that has often favored venture-backed expansion and rapid scaling.

"We've done it all with our own funds and our own profitability," Korda said. 

That patience, he added, was intentional. "You can't upgrade and change an industry if your boss is Wall Street or private equity that needs 10x in five years," Korda said. 

For now, Avanti Way remains focused primarily on Florida, though Korda said the company — part of a larger real-estate focused entity, Avanti Way Group — ultimately sees the model as scalable beyond the state.

"If we prove our concept here and stay true to our course here, then expansion will become natural," he said.