Startup Spotlight: Smart Bricks says AI agents can compress a six-month acquisition cycle into minutes
Mohamed Mohamed's Smart Bricks raised a $5M pre-seed led by a16z Speedrun, reported on February 10th, 2026. An undated Speedrun profile separately reports an approximately $12M annualized run-rate without a measurement date or calculation basis.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: a16z SPEEDRUN
Why it matters
Mohamed told TechCrunch that his friends who invested in property coordinated deals on WhatsApp and stored critical information in PDFs, while large institutions used proprietary models and data pipelines. Smart Bricks is selling an institutional intelligence layer to smaller firms and individual investors, with deterministic financial engines under its agents to keep numbers auditable. If buyers accept autonomous reasoning on million-dollar decisions, the underwriting desk becomes software. If investment committees reject that reasoning, Smart Bricks risks becoming another document tool in a crowded proptech stack.
Mohamed Mohamed put Smart Bricks' thesis in one line on Smart Bricks' homepage: "Real estate is the world's largest asset class. It deserves its own AI lab." Mohamed founded Smart Bricks, an applied AI lab for property investing, in 2024. His pitch starts from a contrast he said he saw across institutional and smaller investors.…
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