PropTech Startup AskPorter Launches Real Estate Industry Pioneers Program

In late 2018, AskPorter was all over the news with the announcement that Google Assistant had made a significant investment into the company. They had set out to build an AI-powered property maintenance chatbot but, since the Google investment and with their tech and business development support, have been focusing on expanding it vertically and sideways to automate every part of property management, end to end. I sat down with AskPorter's CCO Curran McKay, who explained to me the dual goal of what the company is developing. On the one hand, they seek to automate repetitive tasks for agents. On the other, they want to help property managers manage more properties with less headcount.