Tuesdays are 3 AI updates, one hot take, one action. Weekends are practical real estate agent workflows.
1. Claude can now open apps, navigate your browser, and complete tasks on your computer while you're away. Anthropic launched a feature this week that lets you message Claude a task from your phone, and it carries it out on your desktop. Export a pitch deck as a PDF, attach it to a calendar invite, pull data from a spreadsheet into an email. It opens applications, clicks through pages, fills in forms, and builds files on your actual machine. It's early and will make mistakes. This is still too complicated for most agents to focus on right now but its getting simpler every week. But the direction is clear: AI is moving from "assistant that writes" to "assistant that works."
2. Not to be outdone, Google just embedded AI directly inside your Docs, Sheets, and Drive. Gemini can now pull information from your Drive files and Gmail to build personalized documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Tell it "draft a client update using the notes from my last three listing appointments" and it finds the files, reads them, and writes the first draft. A new "Fill with Gemini" tool in Sheets populates cells by scanning your existing data or pulling live info from Google Search. Google isn't trying to get you to switch to a new AI tool. They're making the tools you already use smarter. For agents whose entire workflow runs through Gmail and Drive, that might be the strategy that sticks. Requires Google AI Pro ($20/month).
3. The fastest-growing job skill in America is the thing we've been practicing every week in this newsletter. McKinsey's latest workforce research found that U.S. workers in jobs requiring AI fluency jumped from 1 million in 2023 to 7 million in 2025. A 7x increase in two years. No other skill category is growing that fast. AI fluency doesn't mean learning to code. It means working with AI the way you work with a transaction coordinator: giving clear direction, reviewing the output, and knowing when to push back. This is why I talk to agents so much about getting fluent and its’s what the AI Marketing System course is built around. The 88% of agents using AI for copywriting have a head start. The 2% using it for strategy are the ones pulling ahead.
HOT TAKE
All three of today's stories point in the same direction. Claude is moving from chatbot to desktop worker. Google is moving from standalone to embedded AI inside your workflow. The job market is rewarding the people who learn to work alongside these tools, not the people who know how to work under the hood. The gap between "I use AI sometimes for listing descriptions" and "AI is part of how I run my business" is widening quickly. If you're reading this newsletter, you're on the right side of that gap. Are you putting what you read into practice?
1 THING TO TRY
Open Google Sheets and click on the Gemini icon in the top right to open the input bar right next to your empty sheet. Type: "Build me a spreadsheet that tracks my 10 most recent closed transactions with columns for address, close price, days on market, buyer or seller side, and referral source." Don't organize it yourself first. Just describe what you want and see what comes back. If you've never asked AI to build something for you instead of write something for you, this is the fastest way to see the difference. That shift, from using AI as a copywriter to using it as a work tool, is the whole point of AI fluency. Bonus, if you have it connected to your gmail then ask it to search your email for your current active listings as well and include those. All of this should take five minutes.
-Matt
