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. |