An interviewer asks about your firm's underwriting stack — your models, your AI usage, what happens when someone asks you to prove a number — and scores as you talk. Ten to fifteen minutes. Results are instant and stay in your browser.
Two axes decide everything: how much AI is actually in your workflow, and whether a number it touches can be proven afterwards.
The market today: 66% of CRE professionals use AI weekly, 5% trust it for a deal decision¹ — most of the industry is drifting right along the adoption axis without moving up the proof axis. The firms that win the next cycle move diagonally.
The further each point reaches, the stronger the practice.
Ranked by score. Each one comes with the first concrete move — none of them needs a budget line.
The firms that trust AI with deal work didn't get there by adopting harder. They got there by making the output provable first.
P&L, balance sheet and cash flow computed together, with a balance check that reads zero in every period — including under stress scenarios. If the statements don't tie, no citation and no confidence score rescues the number.
The assumptions the IC votes on are locked under a named signature before the vote. Any drift from them afterwards surfaces automatically and is re-approved — not discovered in month fourteen by an LP's advisor.
"Show me the model the committee approved, and prove nothing has changed" is answered in an afternoon, not a bad week. The approved version re-runs and reconciles a year later, provably unchanged.
AI is let loose on the mechanical layer — extraction, drafting, assembly — which is 60–70% of analyst time². Nothing it touches reaches an IC pack until it passes reconciliation. The boundary is enforced by the system, not by vigilance.
Zero budget, no vendor required.
Paste these into your own AI assistant. Each one targets a gap this interview found and carries the interviewer's read of where you are today.
This assessment was built by IC FIDES. We convert a firm's own underwriting model — its conventions, its waterfall, its house style — into a governed calculation engine: three statements that balance to zero, a methodology that is signed and frozen for IC, and live Excel your analysts keep.
The next step is a Bench Audit: a working session on your actual model stack. You keep the gap map whether or not we ever work together.