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Join Chris Duff, Managing Partner at Serious Land Capital, as he shares short, value-packed episodes about his team's journey building a world class real estate business focused on land in the US. Succeed or fail, ALL will be shared. Occasional interviews may be published. Have a land deal that needs funding? Visit https://seriousland.capital/ Want to price land more accurately and simpler than ever before? Visit https://landpricer.ai/

  1. 23h ago

    Marc Benioff's Theory: The Missing Layer Between You and AI | Ep 312

    In this episode, the compounding productivity gains from AI workflows take center stage, framed against a debate over whether human talent now breaks even against raw token costs. The argument lands on a double-factor effect (models improving while operator skill improves week over week) and pulls in Mark Benioff's view that a middleware layer will soon sit between LLMs and end users to stop tokens being wasted rebuilding work from scratch. Serious Land Capital ties it back to its own roadmap, moving deal-comp analysis from a standalone web app toward an internal cowork-style system. Get our exclusive weekly newsletter every Monday at Serious News.Deal breakdowns, AI for operators, behind-the-fund decisions.Operator-to-operator. No fluff.→ https://seriousland.capital/newsletter/ #seriouslandcapital #landinvesting #aiproductivit #realestateinvesting #marcbenioff

    18 min

  2. May 27

    The Land Game Is Shifting: Inside a Real Entitlement Deal | Ep 311

    In this episode, an entitlement deal in the Western US is structured to convert an eight acre parcel into a fully platted 36 home site project, with a national home builder already locked under an LOI. The underlying land runs roughly $2M against a $4M builder LOI, with all-in soft costs of $200K to $300K. Serious Land Capital funds only the soft costs, tranched to milestones, in exchange for a 20% preferred return that accelerates to a 100% preferred (a 2x) on close plus a portion of the promote. Get our exclusive weekly newsletter every Monday at Serious News.Deal breakdowns, AI for operators, behind-the-fund decisions.Operator-to-operator. No fluff.→ https://seriousland.capital/newsletter/ #landinvesting #realestateinvesting #entitlements #landdevelopment #SeriousLandCapital

    20 min

  3. May 21

    Louisiana Subdivide: The Land Deal That Tested Our Underwriting | Ep 310

    In this episode, the disposition of a $475K Louisiana minor subdivision (three 10-11 acre parcels) finally closes after nearly a year on market, with all three lots under contract following a collapsed second-half 2025 real estate market. The deal moved from a base case underwriting of $29K PPA down to fire-sale pricing, ultimately delivering a projected 1.17x net multiple to investors after aggressive price cuts and back-to-back bidding wars. Get our exclusive weekly newsletter every Monday at Serious News.Deal breakdowns, AI for operators, behind-the-fund decisions.Operator-to-operator. No fluff.→ ⁠https://seriousland.capital/newsletter/We fund larger land deals that others can’t reliably underwrite. With a 100% close rate on committed capital and over $6M funded, we are the relentless funding partner for experienced operators. Submit your next deal for funding ($50K - $1M+) and experience underwriting that turns over every stone. Partner With Us Today → ⁠Seriousland.Capital⁠

    32 min

  4. May 13

    Inside the SLC Chat: Building an AI Underwriting Brain | Ep 309

    In this episode, the build of SLC Chat (Serious Land Capital's proprietary underwriting AI) gets dissected, from architecture decisions to API economics. The product is positioned against off-the-shelf LLMs that miscompare land deals because they lack proprietary data and nuanced pricing formulas. Total build cost came in around $60 and half a week of solo work. You can request an invite by emailing chris@seriousland.capital, or join directly via this link: https://meet.google.com/cgg-hsye-zkw Get our exclusive weekly newsletter every Monday at Serious News.Deal breakdowns, AI for operators, behind-the-fund decisions.Operator-to-operator. No fluff.→ ⁠https://seriousland.capital/newsletter/ I'll walk through how we built it (the underlying knowledge base architecture, voice calibration process, and what it took to get answer accuracy where we need it), do live demos on real deal-comping and underwriting questions, and open up Q&A. We fund larger land deals that others can’t reliably underwrite. With a 100% close rate on committed capital and over $6M funded, we are the relentless funding partner for experienced operators. Submit your next deal for funding ($50K - $1M+) and experience underwriting that turns over every stone. Partner With Us Today → Seriousland.Capital

    21 min

  5. May 6

    From Doing to Managing: What AI Did to Mitch Klein's Job | Ep 308

    In this episode, a fellow land investor and water/environmental engineer with 13 years of experience, Mitch Klein, walks through one of the most aggressive AI buildouts seen from an operator in the land investing space. Running two businesses, one VA, and six kids, Mitch cut his AI receptionist cost from $250 to $3 per month while collapsing multi-day engineering deliverables into hours. The episode documents what role evolution looks like in practice when a non-technical operator commits fully to building with AI.Enroll in A2A before the cart closes Get our exclusive weekly newsletter every Monday at Serious News.Deal breakdowns, AI for operators, behind-the-fund decisions.Operator-to-operator. No fluff.→ ⁠https://seriousland.capital/newsletter/ May 8 at 11:59 PM CST:Use this link here: https://go.theuncommonbusiness.co/a2a-2026?rootabl=chrisduff&lid=bAFlnac9Connect with Mitch Klein: https://www.xpengr.com/Civil engineering, site analysis, AI consulting, multi-state reach. We fund larger land deals that others can’t reliably underwrite. With a 100% close rate on committed capital and over $6M funded, we are the relentless funding partner for experienced operators. Submit your next deal for funding ($50K - $1M+) and experience underwriting that turns over every stone. Partner With Us Today → Seriousland.Capital

    15 min

  6. Apr 29

    AI Can Already Steal Your Money: Make Yourself a Hard Target | Ep 307

    In this episode, AI-driven financial fraud takes center stage as the new Anthropic Mythos model demonstrates the ability to break through existing cybersecurity infrastructure. The conversation centers on hardening business and personal banking against voice cloning, Face ID spoofing, and agentic AI exploits, drawing on a recent strategy session with AI insider Sam Woods. We fund larger land deals that others can’t reliably underwrite. With a 100% close rate on committed capital and over $6M funded, we are the relentless funding partner for experienced operators. Submit your next deal for funding ($50K - $1M+) and experience underwriting that turns over every stone. Partner With Us Today → Seriousland.Capital Get our exclusive weekly brief on market shifts, underwriting insights, and fundable deal characteristics, curated specifically for serious land operators. Stay sharp and fund-ready. → Serious News A private 90-minute LIVE session with Chris Duff, for anyone who enrolls in Automate to Accelerate (A2A) by April 29 at 11:59 PM CST. Key details: The session is positioned as hot seat coaching It is live only It will not be replayed It will not be sold separately A2A Cart Open Promo: until May 8th, 2026 Enroll in A2A by tonight, April 29 at 11:59 PM CST, and you’ll get access to a private 90-minute live session with Chris Duff - a bonus that disappears after the deadline. Use this link here: https://go.theuncommonbusiness.co/a2a-2026?rootabl=chrisduff&lid=bAFlnac9

    21 min

  7. Apr 22

    Market Cycles Just Got Shorter: Your Business Has to Catch Up | Ep 306

    In this episode, institutional sentiment has ticked up roughly 5% from what was called the worst market conditions in 20+ years, while real estate remains stuck in a buyer's market that hasn't bottomed since mid-2022. AI is compressing market cycles faster than prior eras, forcing operators to check assumptions on a week-by-week basis against a backdrop of record corporate earnings and all-time-low consumer sentiment. Get our exclusive weekly newsletter every Monday at Serious News.Deal breakdowns, AI for operators, behind-the-fund decisions.Operator-to-operator. No fluff.→ ⁠https://seriousland.capital/newsletter/ We fund larger land deals that others can’t reliably underwrite. With a 100% close rate on committed capital and over $6M funded, we are the relentless funding partner for experienced operators. Submit your next deal for funding ($50K - $1M+) and experience underwriting that turns over every stone. Partner With Us Today → Seriousland.Capital

    22 min

  8. Apr 15

    4 Investments Every Operator Should Be Focusing Right Now (Business, AI, Mindset, Health) | Ep 305

    In this episode, Chris breaks down the four investment areas commanding the most money, time, and mental resources at Serious Land Capital right now. Against a backdrop of nearly four years of deteriorating real estate conditions and accelerating AI disruption, the framework cuts through shiny object syndrome to identify where durable ROI actually lives. Each area connects back to a single thesis: the operators who compound across these four buckets are the ones still standing at the finish line. Get our exclusive weekly newsletter every Monday at Serious News.Deal breakdowns, AI for operators, behind-the-fund decisions.Operator-to-operator. No fluff.→ ⁠https://seriousland.capital/newsletter/ We fund larger land deals that others can’t reliably underwrite. With a 100% close rate on committed capital and over $6M funded, we are the relentless funding partner for experienced operators. Submit your next deal for funding ($50K - $1M+) and experience underwriting that turns over every stone. Partner With Us Today → Seriousland.Capital

    34 min
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Join Chris Duff, Managing Partner at Serious Land Capital, as he shares short, value-packed episodes about his team's journey building a world class real estate business focused on land in the US. Succeed or fail, ALL will be shared. Occasional interviews may be published. Have a land deal that needs funding? Visit https://seriousland.capital/ Want to price land more accurately and simpler than ever before? Visit https://landpricer.ai/

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  • Creator
    Chris Duff
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    307
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