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Glossary

Plain definitions of the words used in CRE Agents and these docs: Vic, connector, task, skill, catalog, Essentials, seat, department and more.

Term What it means
CRE Agents The product: a connector that makes your AI smart about commercial real estate.
Vic The seasoned CRE pro inside CRE Agents. Vic teaches your AI how the work is done and hands it the data. Call on Vic with “Use Vic to”.
Your AI The AI you already use: Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and others. It does the work.
Connector How CRE Agents plugs into your AI. Its name is CRE Agents (Vic).
Task One ready-to-run job, like abstracting a lease or scrubbing a pro forma.
Skill A written method for one piece of CRE work. Tasks bring the skills they need.
Data source Live market, property or location data a task pulls in while it runs.
Catalog A set of tasks for one line of work, like Acquisitions or Development. You pick yours on Task + Data.
Essentials Tasks everyone has, whatever catalogs they pick. Always on.
Ask Vic The portal’s quick way to get a doc, a task or a data file from Vic. See Ask Vic.
Workstream A stage of the job inside a catalog, like “Underwrite the basis”.
Private catalog A catalog CRE Agents builds for one firm. Only that firm sees it.
Deliverable What a task produces: a spreadsheet, a memo, a dashboard.
Portal The CRE Agents website at app.creagents.com, where you manage your account, catalogs and AIs.
Seat One person’s access to CRE Agents.
Admin A seat that can manage the firm: people, departments, identity and plan.
Member A seat that runs tasks and picks its own catalogs.
Department A group of people with its own catalog menu, set by an admin.
Menu The catalogs a department’s people can pick from.
Request A member asking for a catalog that isn’t on their menu, or for another seat.
Time saved The hours of manual work your finished tasks took off your plate, based on each task’s benchmark.
Credits The firm’s shared monthly pool that tasks draw on when they pull live data. Only admins see it.
MCP Model Context Protocol, the open standard AIs use to connect to tools like CRE Agents.