Speed-to-Lead Revolution: How AI Transformed a Real Estate Sales Workflow

Speed-to-Lead Revolution: How AI Transformed a Real Estate Sales Workflow

Speed-to-Lead Revolution: How AI Transformed a Real Estate Sales Workflow

The Challenge

A rapidly expanding real estate agency found its growth hindered by one major obstacle: manual inefficiency.

The sales team was drowning in repetitive tasks, slowing their ability to respond to fresh leads. Their process involved:

  • Manually searching property listings stored in Airtable

  • Crafting personalized emails one by one using fragmented data

  • Switching across multiple tabs to locate brochures, features, and images

This fragmented workflow led to delayed replies, mental fatigue, and lost deals—all while lead volume was rising.

The Strategy

Oleo stepped in with a clear mission: eliminate friction in the lead response process and empower the sales team with speed, structure, and intelligent automation.

Primary Goals:

  • Consolidate all property data into one smart system

  • Provide instant, queryable access to property listings

  • Use GPT to auto-generate personalized emails

  • Format responses into clean, professional summaries

  • Package the entire experience inside a user-friendly chatbot

The Solution

We built a custom AI chatbot assistant, powered by GPT and fully integrated with Airtable and automated via Make.

Here’s how it worked:

  1. Natural Language Input
    Sales reps used a simple interface to ask for exactly what they needed:
    “Show me 2-bed apartments in Estepona under €700K.”

  2. AI-Powered Property Matching
    The system searched Airtable using a vector database, enabling accurate matches based on natural language—not just keywords.

  3. Summary Generation
    GPT formatted the results into polished summaries, including:

    • Location & price

    • Key amenities

    • Brochure links

    • Selling points tailored for clients

  4. Automated Email Drafting
    Drawing from past sales communication styles, GPT generated personalized emails featuring the most relevant listings per inquiry.

  5. End-to-End Automation
    Behind the scenes, Make managed every step—webhook inputs, Airtable lookups, scraping via Apify, OpenAI completions, and final email delivery.

The Results

This AI-powered workflow allowed the sales team to go from spending 10–15 minutes per lead to under 2 minutes, without sacrificing quality.

Instead of sifting through data manually, reps simply asked the AI—and got everything they needed, fully formatted and client-ready.

Key Wins:

  • 85% reduction in time spent handling new leads

  • 38% increase in lead response rates

  • 42% boost in lead-to-showing conversion

  • Consistent tone and professionalism across all communication

  • Ability to handle 3x more inquiries with the same team size

Final Thoughts

Oleo’s custom-built automation helped this real estate team scale their lead handling without increasing headcount—by transforming GPT into a real-time sales assistant.

If you’re ready to modernize your sales process and give your team superpowers, let Oleo show you what’s possible with AI-driven automation.

Contact us today to book a consultation.