Scott Bierbryer

previously product at compass. veryapt co-founder. real estate thoughts via

[Ben Huang @b3nhuang]

Here's what I've been working on for the last few months!

Introducing BaseStation: Turn PDFs into Interactive Guides
BaseStation is the easiest and fastest way to transform PDFs into interactive guides. Simply upload a PDF, and we'll automatically recognize and create all the inputs. Drag and drop to organize them into steps, then easily record guidance for questions that need detailed explanations. This saves you hours of tagging inputs and exchanging instructions with your clients.

The Story Behind BaseStation
While working at Compass and Side, I noticed there’s still a reliance on sending PDFs back and forth with ambiguous email instructions. This often required agents to schedule calls or in-person meetings, wasting time for both clients and agents.

Clients find this inconvenient, with schedules disrupted during lunch breaks or outside work hours. Agents are limited in the number of customers they can serve.

When I asked agents about vertical-specific portals, about half mentioned trying and then abandoning them. Here's why:
1. Clients hire agents for personalized service. Self-help portals can make clients question the agent's value.
2. Portals can't cover every question, often confusing clients rather than speeding up the process.
3. Portals enforce a single "best" process that may not align with an agent's preferred method, and they often fail to address unique regional or situational needs.

That's why we built BaseStation. Turn any PDF into a web form, creating your own process with tailored instructions for each client in just minutes.

Who is BaseStation For?
BaseStation is designed for professionals in paperwork heavy industries like finance, real estate, and insurance whose core differentiator is their expertise and level of service. We’ve already onboarded a few brokerages, empowering their agents to create highly personalized intake experiences, boosting trust and conversion rates. If this resonates, We would love to show you BaseStation. Sign up for our waitlist, and we will personally onboard you and build your first template.
Want to try it?
Sign up now; we'll personally help you set up your first BaseStation template.

What's Next
Forms are just the beginning. After data collection, agents often generate PDFs for completed forms, quote comparisons, or service agreements. Our customers highlighted this as another trust-building opportunity. We're building a new feature that lets you record directly over PDFs, turning them into interactive guides. Imagine a client confused by a line item on a quote - they hover, and your explanation pops up!

Ask:
Share this with your network or join our waitlist; we'll personally help you set up your first BaseStation template.

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

@mkrtchyanartur @seanpatward Was excited to see that! Going to test as customer-facing portal for support with @VeryAptCo and also piloting a few use cases for transaction management brokerages I advise that struggle with the ux of deal pipelines but benefit from the data structure

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

@moseskagan 1- usually good to just take first step to get leads then qualify them to refine. Quick call will filter down and tell you if channel is promising
2- make creative (image and text over it) clear who you want versus max traffic (promo for X+ unit only; image of X class property)

[Philip Lakin @PhilipLakin]

🚀 After 2+ years of collaborating with ops pros from our community, we're thrilled to announce the launch of Operator Beta! 🎉

They all discovered the magic of #NoCode, built game-changing automations, and became their team's hero. But as word spread and their quick fixes morphed into critical infrastructure, managing those automations required a new level of cross-application observability.

When we noticed that the world's best no-coders were solving for this with sprawling, manually updated spreadsheets, the seed for Operator was planted.

Today, Operator is the world's first automation management platform designed for @airtable and @zapier (with @make_hq and Airtable Automations in dev) that:

🔍 Visualizes cross-app dependencies
📄 Auto-generates current documentation
📜 Unifies activities across apps into one changelog
🚨 Sends proactive alerts for automation issues
🤝 Enhances collaboration, training and onboarding

If you're a no-code automator, we'd love to give you superpowers to fortify the #NoCode ecosystem you've worked so hard to champion. Join the beta below💪 https://t.co/mVh0U4ugeo

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

@jmwass Webflow by far. Can get a nice $50 template from the template store and play around with it and tutorials until you are pretty comfortable after a week getting to something pretty good

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I know nothing about Charlie Munger's UCSB plan, but it appears that he *already* funded a dorm with this design at U Michigan. The building seems to be rated 8.8/10 by residents, and that appears to be the highest rating of any campus apartments.

https://t.co/J3ZFgVJG18

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

@rbierbryer @lol_you_lost @patrickc Worth noting all code was written in a windowless room without natural light. Regardless, there are reviews going back to 2016 - people have flagged lack of windows since then but still appreciate the positives (value, space, amenities, location).

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

CoStar acquisition of Homesnap is incredibly smart. Immediately gets CoStar access to every partner MLS and tour data from hundreds of thousands of agents, two of the hardest data sets to access. https://t.co/TjUhPCGzl6

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

Home buyers are not fleeing cities (in aggregate). This could change, but cities remain hot for home sales. The people fleeing are typically renters- moving back home or trading down to cheaper locations. https://t.co/ooiQOgY7j0

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

A large part of innovation in residential real estate tech is messaging. Creating a brokerage without calling it a brokerage. Employing real estate agents without calling them real estate agents. https://t.co/UxW74Dve6M

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

@robgo Guessing $1.3M. Housing supply is still tight, rates are low, and Manhattan will remain the quality asset, especially looking where there Covid concentration is to date. Rentals get hit because that’s where demand will drastically decline (temporarily?) for 6-12 months.

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

Seems unlikely this data is used to justify hiring back the non agent staff laid off last month.

[modest proposal @modestproposal1]

Latest Redfin data shows home buying demand has now fully recovered after being down 34%. Wild.

https://t.co/UFK7zcoZwb

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

Zillow and Redfin are each worth ~15% more than they were 3 months prior to the pandemic. Two companies that own thousands of homes.

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

Demanding real estate agents stay off their phone is definitely an unexpected request of the executive orders https://t.co/p1a5rQKc35

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

@bhargreaves Agree completely. Also hearing from lots of friends that their normally fine managers are micromanaging. Without both sides being into WFH, can be much worse than in-office. Constant update calls and “what have you been up to?” should not be happening on super short timelines

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

WFH will take a step back
-You need a comfortable setup/space. No time to prepare desk. People trying this with roommates sharing workspace
-Employer needs to trust WFH. Employers forced to accept WFH are more worried that people are at desk than that right output is produced.

[Nikhil Krishnan @nikillinit]

I don't think any of this WFH sentiment is going to stick. If anything I think this is giving people a really shitty experience of working from home that's actually going to taint the remote work movement going forward

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

My twitter feed and friend group often makes me think we're in full quarantine. But here's a chart from the top agent scheduling tool in the country (ShowingTime) showing that real estate showings haven't slowed down across the country. https://t.co/vE1EzHKlTE

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

@jmover Huge fan of Tom Bihn Synapse (https://t.co/Sngv1FiXAl). You can add organization with the o-rings (clip-on pouches etc), so not overly structured in way that makes you feel like the bag has wasted space if you want to put something else in it. But expensive for what it is.

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

@ekta Not yet. One day I can only hope I am wealthy enough that all of my furniture is human shaped (but to be 100 percent clear, not made of real human)

[Scott Bierbryer @sbierb]

Staging a NYC home with a stripper pole, chair in the shape of an upside down human mid/lower body, and ET statues will not stop it from selling for $8.8M https://t.co/y1uGxjYHkL