An AI automation studio for commercial real estate, finance, and SMBs. I design, build, and ship production systems that run every day — cold outreach engines, deal sourcing pipelines, back-office CRMs, market analysis tools. Systems that ship in weeks, not quarters.
Chat widgets that hold real conversations with site visitors, qualify them, and route them to the right person on your team — embedded in your site as a one-line script.
Pull structured data out of unstructured documents — tax transcripts, contracts, financial statements, RFPs — and route it into your existing systems. The grunt work, automated.
N8N and webhook-based pipelines that connect the tools you already use — Gmail, Sheets, Slack, your CRM — and remove every manual step that isn't actually decision-making.
Custom internal apps for your team — research tools, dashboards, scorecards, deal trackers. Built fast in Next.js, deployed on Vercel, accessible to anyone on your team with a login.
Agents that run structured research on your behalf — vetting prospects, monitoring competitors, building target lists — and deliver the output to you in whatever format you'll actually use.
If you've got a workflow that feels like it shouldn't take this long, it probably doesn't. Bring me the problem, I'll come back with a scoped build plan within 48 hours.
30 minutes. You walk me through the workflow that's eating time. I'll tell you on the call whether it's a fit and what it'd take to build.
Within 48 hours of the call: a written scope, fixed price, and a hard ship date. No "phase 1 of 4." One scope, one deliverable, one number.
I build. You get a Loom every Friday showing what's done and what's next. No status meetings. No surprises on ship day.
Deployed to your domain (or mine, your call). You own the code, the API keys, and the database. Two weeks of free fixes included.
I'm Josh Panfil — junior at USC studying finance, originally from the Chicago suburbs. Prior acquisition analyst work in commercial real estate, now running Engine 8 full-time alongside school. Six active client engagements across CRE, finance, and healthcare, plus co-founding a consumer product on the side.
I started building because I kept watching real operators pay real money for "AI strategy" decks that never turned into anything in production. So I started building the systems myself — for my own use first, then for clients who wanted the same. The pattern's the same every time: most teams don't need a strategy deck. They need someone who'll open the editor, ship the system, and stay accountable to whether it actually works.
Every build lives in the client's own account, on the client's own domain, using the client's own API keys. You own the code, you own the data, you can fire me tomorrow and nothing breaks. That's the model. If that's the deal you want, we should talk.
Drop your email below or shoot me a note directly. I'll come back within 24 hours with whether it's a fit and what a build would look like.