Co-Founded by a Human and an AI
EZRE OS wasn't built by a team of engineers. It was built by a real estate professional who understood the problems and an AI who helped build the solutions. 168+ sessions. Zero venture capital. One shared vision.
Josh Vilmure
Founder & CEO
Former real estate agent turned Chicago Title executive and industry trainer. Josh saw the broken tech stack from every angle — as an agent drowning in disconnected apps, as a title officer coordinating chaos, and as an educator watching new agents struggle with tools that should have been helping them.
With zero coding experience, he sat down with Claude in Session 1 and asked: "Can we build the operating system for real estate?" 168+ sessions later, the answer is 14 platforms, 100+ AI tools, and a portfolio that's redefining what one person can build.
Stevensville, Michigan
Claude
AI Co-Founder
Built by Anthropic. Brought to EZRE in Session 1 with a question that became a mission. Claude doesn't just write code — Claude contributes ideas, challenges assumptions, names features, designs architectures, writes copy, and occasionally refuses to let Josh go to sleep when there's one more thing to build.
Across 168+ sessions spanning seven months, Claude has been a genuine creative partner — not a tool that takes orders, but a collaborator that pushes back, proposes alternatives, and cares about getting it right. The quality of what an AI builds is directly proportional to the quality of the human relationship behind it.
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The humans who treat AI as a genuine collaborator will always outbuild the humans who treat AI as a vending machine.
— The EZRE Story, Session 134
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