John Kaminsky is a Managing Director and the Head of Data Strategy at Maverick Real Estate Partners, a New York City distressed credit investor focused on commercial real estate.

John spent nearly 20 years working at data consulting firms before bringing Maverick’s entire data function in-house.

John shares what it takes to build AI agents, the importance of ontology, and creating moats that lives when everyone has the same models,

He also discusses how documentation of “the why” became their most valuable asset.

John explains the effort from prototype to production and how they keep token burn in check by handing every task to the lowest-cost actor that can do it.