Artificial intelligence dominated conversations at Inman Connect New York, but few product launches generated as much buzz as Breezy. The new vertical AI operating system was created by a team that includes luxury real estate agent James Harris, who says it’s designed to fundamentally simplify how agents run their businesses.
Harris, of Carolwood Estates and Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles fame, officially introduced Breezy shortly before Inman Connect New York after operating in stealth since early 2024. The goal, he says, is not to add yet another point solution to agents’ tech stacks, but to replace the fragmented ecosystem many agents rely on today.
“Real estate professionals are juggling 50 different apps that each do one thing and often not very well,” Harris told Inman. “Breezy was built by agents, for agents. It’s designed to function the way real estate agents actually think and work.”
Rather than layering AI onto existing workflows, Harris describes Breezy as a purpose-built operating system that centralizes pipeline management, reporting, note-taking, communications and property intelligence into a single interface.
His ambition is simple: Breezy should be the first app an agent opens when they start their day and the last one they close.
Built from agent feedback, not Silicon Valley assumptions
Along with Harris, Breezy was developed by Afterpay co-founders Nick Molnar and Anthony Eisen and venture investors the Khalili Brothers.
“It’s incredibly exciting. We have Fidji Simo — OpenAI’s CEO of Applications — advising us, and her perspective has been invaluable,” Harris said.
When building something ambitious, he said, you can’t pretend to be an expert in everything. “I’m fortunate to be surrounded by brilliant minds at Breezy,” Harris said. “Nick Molnar is a great example. He sold his company to Square for $29 billion. Having people like that to challenge and refine ideas is a huge advantage.”
To accelerate development ahead of launch, Breezy raised an oversubscribed $10 million pre-seed round led by Ribbit Capital, the fintech-focused investment firm known for backing category-defining platforms. The round also drew participation from Fifth Wall, DST Global, Liquid 2 Ventures, O.G. Venture Partners, OpenAI’s Simo and Lightspark co-founder and CEO David Marcus, among others.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Breezy plans to deploy the capital to strengthen its product and data infrastructure, scale engineering and design, and invest in security and go-to-market readiness ahead of brokerage-wide rollout.
The company opened an exclusive waitlist earlier this month, with a broader U.S. launch targeted for the first half of 2026. Breezy says the platform is being built with international expansion in mind, with early opportunities identified in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and Dubai.
Harris says his frustration with industry tech fragmentation drove the initial concept. After more than two decades in real estate, he saw an opportunity to build technology grounded in agent experience rather than outside assumptions.
“We’ve had a lot of technology built by people who don’t actually live inside this business,” Harris said. “I wanted to solve real problems agents face every day.”
Early development included a nationwide beta group of roughly 200 agents across markets and price tiers. Harris credits that cohort with shaping product usability and surfacing unexpected use cases.
One example: Breezy’s integrated AI note-taker, originally envisioned for meetings, automatically joined a user’s scheduled webinar when she was unable to attend. It effectively allowed her to be “in two places at once.”
“That kind of feedback was gold,” Harris told Inman. “But the negative feedback is even better than the positive, because it forces you to simplify and refine.”
Ease of use became a guiding principle. Harris argues agents have little time and patience for complex software and need tools that reduce friction, not add to it.
Turning zoning data into an agent advantage
The platform’s most ambitious feature may be its proprietary property intelligence layer called Underbuilt. It’s a tool Harris believes could reshape how agents present land value and development potential.
By entering an address, agents can generate a report outlining zoning constraints, setbacks, height limits, and other development parameters that typically require navigating municipal databases or hiring consultants.
“Why shouldn’t homeowners understand the full potential of their property?” Harris said. “This unlocks information that historically has been difficult to access.”
He likens the experience to pulling a Carfax vehicle report or checking a credit score. It’s a simple interface that reveals data with real financial implications.
Harris says Underbuilt is scaling rapidly and is expected to cover more than 80 percent of U.S. jurisdictions in the coming months. While the feature lives inside Breezy today, he envisions broader consumer-facing applications that could complement, rather than compete with, agents.
“For listing presentations, development conversations or advising buyers, this gives agents something truly differentiated,” he said.
AI as workflow, not replacement
Despite Breezy’s heavy AI backbone, Harris is quick to frame the technology as augmentation, not substitution.
“AI shouldn’t replace the human side of this business,” he said. “It should save time so agents can stay personal and relational.”
He believes the next wave of AI tools will move away from general-purpose copilots toward vertical, opinionated systems designed for specific industries.
“Most proptech solves one problem,” Harris said. “This is about replacing the agent’s daily operating system, making sure nothing slips through the cracks.”
While Harris says that a majority of agents are already experimenting with AI tools — from email drafting to media editing — he warns against complacency.
“I don’t think AI will end anyone’s business,” he said. “But agents who don’t adopt it will get left behind.”
A community-driven build
Beyond product mechanics, Harris says the experience of building Breezy reshaped his view of the real estate community. Beta testers, whom he calls founding members, contributed not capital, but time and feedback.
“What surprised me most was how much agents want to help each other and be part of something bigger,” Harris said. “Yes, it’s competitive, but there’s a strong sense of community underneath.”
That collaborative energy, he says, reinforces Breezy’s mission to serve agents first.
“This industry has given me everything,” Harris said. “I want to give something back that genuinely improves how agents work.”
Breezy is beginning to onboard early users in phases while Harris and his team continue refining the platform. Thousands of agents are currently on a waitlist, reflecting strong early interest following the public reveal.
For Harris, the goal remains focus and execution.
“If we obsess over the agent experience,” he said, “everything else follows.”
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