The Last Mile of a Real Estate Closing Is Still a Logistics Problem
We tend to talk about real estate closings as financial transactions. They are. They’re also logistics operations. A signing requires the right documents, the…
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Christine Alifrangis
Cloud, AI, software architecture and engineering leadership — from someone who still builds the systems.
I help companies solve difficult technology problems, and I write about software, AI, infrastructure, startups, real-estate technology, and the things I learn while building them.
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Building Things Because They Should Exist
A surprisingly large percentage of the things I build begin with the same sentence: “Why the hell doesn’t this exist?” This is not always…
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Stealing a house sounds like it should be difficult. It’s a house. You can’t exactly put it in your pocket and walk away. What…
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Building Weather With Regerts for Home Assistant Home automation has a recurring problem: it is remarkably easy to make your house smart, and surprisingly…
Read article →Why Does a Real Estate Transaction Still Require So Many Phone Calls?
There is a particular sentence that makes my systems-integration brain itch: “I’ll call them and find out.” Sometimes a phone call is exactly the…
Read article →The Notary Is a Security Boundary, Not a Rubber Stamp
People outside the notary industry sometimes have a wonderfully simple idea of what a notary does. Look at an ID. Watch somebody sign. Stamp…
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