May 2026
A curated view of the comparison workspace, inspection checklist and suburb research.
Buying a home looked like one decision. It was actually a collection of decisions that refused to stay in their own lanes.
I started with very little understanding of the trade-offs. House, apartment or townhouse? Inner suburb or outer suburb? What does one suburb’s density, economic profile or future supply mean compared with another? How does a place actually feel once I visit it? What can be inferred from the contract of sale? What is a reasonable valuation when previous sales and the current market are both moving targets?
Some of these were data questions. Some were financial questions. Quite a few were really questions of taste and personal judgment. A spreadsheet could hold the numbers, but it could not hold the whole decision.
I used AI to build a home-buying command center: one place where the research could accumulate without becoming another pile of tabs.
It brought together:
The system became useful before, during and after inspections. I could arrive with specific questions, record what the house felt like in person, and then compare that impression with the documents and the numbers rather than relying on whatever was most recent in memory.
The useful part was not asking AI to pick a house for me. It was using AI to keep different kinds of evidence in conversation with each other.
It helped structure research, extract things worth checking from documents, turn preferences into repeatable criteria, and update the comparison as new information arrived. It could surface a contradiction—great layout but weak light, attractive price but concerning contract, more space but worse daily location—without pretending that there was one mathematically correct answer.
I went from having many individual facts to having a way of making the decision. The command center did not remove judgment; it gave judgment a better operating system.
The live version contains addresses, negotiations and financial information, so I am documenting the experiment here rather than linking to the underlying tool.