#23 - Jason McCann on How Vari Built a $2 Billion Empire Starting from a Cardboard Box

I, so yeah, big fan of AI and I've started really really getting into cloud co-work.

Awesome.

And I'm just, I'm curious what you're doing these days on workflow.

And it's been maybe a couple months since, I don't know, I think you were on Powers back in April or March.

And I know you had a bunch of stuff.

I just feel like with how fast AI is changing, it's like every couple months there's new capabilities, there's new models, and probably new things that you're utilizing it for.

I'm curious what... how you're implementing it or

what

we've got new

things.

Yeah, we've got an entire team working on it.

And so I would say the team started pushing me into AI very early on, um, probably almost a year ago, I'm guessing on the timeline here, um, and started to, you know, with the language learning models and these are the things that go out.

And then I started to personally mess around with, Oh, chat GPT and what's going on and, and Claude and some others.

And so those two things started happening.

So for us, we started to the low hanging fruit and we're seeing a lot of that on the process innovation.

It's like, oh, these tools, a lot my team is using in Claude was able to help just process stuff and take people's work days down, knock out eight hours here on some of these mundane tasks here and for our teams in Taiwan as well.

And so that was sort of the process side.

Then it became sort of, well, how do we help drive revenue? And I think we're all looking for that.

And so visualization tools became the next thing.

It was like, hey, we've got space planning design and we do it for all of our clients as they're navigating either spaces within our building.

So inside of our bare space, we can do a quick test fit and we're using the Revit files and doing a layout.

But sometimes people can't visualize what does that actually look like? I mean, y'all are in the real estate business and you kind of can walk into a blank space and see it.

So now we've been able to amp up the visualization tools to make it almost feel like it's really real.

And that has helped a lot.

And so it's helped on the Verispace buildings, but also we have transformed, I think, over 6,000 offices across the country.