About the job
About Us: At Mentis AI, we operate at the forefront of institutional finance and cutting-edge AI technology. Our dynamic team merges extensive expertise from financial powerhouses like Lazard and Partners Group with innovative machine learning and applied AI research initiatives. Based in London and San Francisco, we partner with top-tier AI laboratories to enhance the reasoning, generalization, and decision-making capabilities of AI models within critical financial settings.
The Opportunity: As AI technology increasingly integrates into essential real estate investment processes—ranging from acquisitions and underwriting to asset management and debt structuring—this part-time residency offers institutional real estate private equity professionals invaluable early exposure to the development, assessment, and enhancement of advanced AI systems tailored for REPE investment across diverse property types and risk profiles.
Your Responsibilities:
Develop Expert Benchmarks: Construct and validate real-world underwriting models, return analyses, and investment cases to assess frontier AI systems.
Evaluate Model Reasoning: Identify weaknesses in AI-generated real estate analyses, pinpointing where logic, assumptions, or market intuition may falter.
Create Evaluation Frameworks: Transform how REPE professionals assess acquisitions, structure transactions, and manage assets throughout the investment lifecycle into challenges that push AI reasoning boundaries.
Analyze Human vs. Machine Judgment: Methodically compare discrepancies between expert real estate judgments and AI outputs across asset classes, risk levels, and fund models.
Why This Experience Matters
Join a pioneering cohort of real estate investment professionals engaged directly with how advanced AI models interpret acquisitions, underwriting, and asset management.
Establish a unique profile for those aiming to bridge the fields of real estate and AI—whether within a fund, an AI firm, or through entrepreneurial ventures.
Gain hands-on experience in how AI is revolutionizing real estate workflows, from deal screening and underwriting to joint venture structuring, asset management, and limited partner reporting.

