Voice: Laura (ElevenLabs voice ID: FGY2WhTYpPnrIDTdsKH5) Settings: Stability 0.35 / Similarity 0.75 Target: ~2,250 words / ~15 minutes at 150 wpm Date: April 25, 2026 Purpose: Owner walkthrough narration — synchronized with agent9-vision-apr25.html
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Ohio has the [emphasis]highest FSBO rate in the country[/emphasis].
Thirteen point six percent of all Ohio home sales happen without a real estate agent.
That's roughly seventeen thousand one hundred transactions every year.
Families selling their most valuable asset — without professional representation.
They're doing it on Zillow, a spreadsheet, and their personal cell phone.
And they're doing it because they don't want to pay fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars to someone whose job is mostly coordination.
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Agent9 is the answer to what those seventeen thousand families actually need.
Not a listing platform.
Not a flat-fee MLS service.
[emphasis]An AI communications layer[/emphasis] — routing every conversation between buyer and seller through a system that handles everything they couldn't handle alone.
Voice calls. Text messages. Emails. Showing schedules.
All of it, running through us.
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Here's what FSBO actually looks like today.
A family in Columbus decides to skip the agent.
They list on Zillow.
Then their phone starts ringing.
Buyers, curious neighbors, people who want to low-ball them, investors who want to wholesale the property — all calling the same number, at all hours.
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The seller has no way to filter them.
No professional layer between themselves and the noise.
They're scheduling showings by text, one at a time, with strangers they've never verified.
Coordinating the inspection window, the appraisal, the title company deadline — all on their own.
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And when an offer comes in?
The buyer has an agent.
A professional negotiator.
The seller has a blank contract they found on a government website and a gut feeling about whether the number is fair.
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The platforms that exist today don't solve this.
Houzeo charges two hundred forty-nine dollars upfront plus at least half a percent at closing — [emphasis]a minimum of fifteen hundred and thirty-four dollars on a median Ohio home[/emphasis] — and after all that, the seller is still managing their own inbox.
The friction is unchanged.
The stress is unchanged.
The risk is unchanged.
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FSBO is declining nationally. The national rate hit a forty-year low of five percent in 2025.
Ohio, at thirteen point six percent, is a significant outlier.
And we believe that's because the FSBO [emphasis]experience[/emphasis] is broken — not because sellers want to pay agents.
Fix the experience. Expand the market.
That bet is the foundation of Agent9.
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So what is Agent9 actually doing?
We are an [emphasis]AI communications layer[/emphasis].
Every conversation between a buyer and a seller — voice, text, email, scheduling request — routes through our system.
The buyer never has to call the seller's personal cell.
The seller never has to manage a buyer's chaotic timeline.
We translate. We de-escalate. We format. We schedule. We document.
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Think about what that means for a seller in Cleveland.
Their listing number isn't their personal number.
It's ours.
When a buyer calls, our AI answers — professionally, immediately, at two in the morning if that's when the buyer calls.
It qualifies the interest. Books the showing. Sends the confirmation. Follows up with feedback.
The seller sees a clean summary.
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And we built this for Ohio first, because Ohio is where the market is.
But the architecture is multi-state-ready.
Indiana FSBO rate: twelve point seven six percent.
Texas: thirteen point twenty-two percent.
[emphasis]Ohio is the test market. The model scales.[/emphasis]
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Let's walk through what a seller actually does with Agent9.
Step one: list the property.
Add photos, details, asking price.
Our AI generates the MLS-ready listing copy, runs a comparable sales analysis, and distributes to Zillow, Realtor.com, and Ohio-native channels.
That takes about fifteen minutes.
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Step two: sign the compensation agreement.
This is the binding contract that establishes the nine-hundred-ninety-nine-dollar fee at the moment of account creation.
[emphasis]Not at closing. At first showing.[/emphasis]
The payment triggers when the first buyer showing is confirmed.
That decoupling matters — it means our fee is never contingent on the deal closing, and there's no ambiguity about when it's owed.
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From that point forward — the seller's job is done.
Our AI handles every inbound inquiry.
Qualifies buyers before they get a showing slot.
Drafts counter-offers when an offer comes in.
Coordinates inspection windows, appraisal scheduling, and the closing timeline with all third parties.
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The seller shows up at closing, signs, and receives the proceeds.
They paid nine hundred ninety-nine dollars.
A traditional agent would have taken fourteen thousand seven hundred.
[emphasis]The difference — thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars — stays in their pocket.[/emphasis]
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Buyers have a problem with FSBO today that doesn't get talked about enough.
FSBO listings feel unprofessional.
They call the number on Zillow and reach a nervous homeowner who doesn't know how to answer their questions.
Scheduling a showing requires three text exchanges with someone who may or may not respond.
The whole experience signals: this seller doesn't know what they're doing.
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Agent9 changes that from the buyer's side completely.
The listing number connects to our AI.
Response time: seconds, not hours.
The AI provides property details, comparable sales context, and valuation reasoning — before the buyer even asks.
Showing requests are confirmed within the hour.
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When the buyer is ready to make an offer, our AI drafts Ohio-compliant offer language from their stated terms and the comparable sales data.
The buyer's contact information stays protected through our layer until both parties have signed a purchase agreement.
No unsolicited follow-up from agents who crawl listings.
No awkward direct call to the seller's cell.
[emphasis]The buyer gets a professional experience on a FSBO listing for the first time.[/emphasis]
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Let's be specific about what's actually happening inside Agent9 on every transaction.
When a buyer calls the listing number, [emphasis]our AI transcribes that call in real time[/emphasis].
It detects urgency, qualifies intent, and surfaces the top leads for seller review — without the seller ever hearing the call.
Unqualified inquiries get answered professionally and redirected.
The seller's attention is preserved for the conversations that matter.
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When a buyer-seller text exchange starts getting emotional — an unreasonable demand, a frustrated seller about to send something they'll regret — our AI flags it.
It rewrites the response draft.
Sends the seller a suggested message that keeps the deal alive.
[emphasis]Real estate deals fall apart over tone, not terms.[/emphasis]
That's a solvable problem. We solve it.
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When both parties agree on terms, our AI generates the full Ohio purchase agreement.
Pre-filled with the agreed terms.
State-compliant.
Ready for e-signature in minutes, not days.
Addenda, inspection response letters, counter-offer language — all drafted from the transaction context that Agent9 has been building since the first inquiry.
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And here's the part that compounds:
Every Ohio transaction that runs through Agent9 makes the system smarter about Ohio specifically.
Neighborhood-level pricing accuracy.
Which objections kill deals in Cincinnati versus Columbus.
Which buyer behaviors signal a serious offer versus a tire kicker.
[emphasis]Competitors who enter this market eighteen months from now start from zero.[/emphasis]
We don't.
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The Ohio market math is straightforward.
Approximately one hundred twenty-six thousand Ohio homes sold in 2025.
Thirteen point six percent of those sold without an agent — roughly seventeen thousand one hundred transactions.
At nine hundred ninety-nine dollars per transaction, the Ohio total addressable market is seventeen point one million dollars.
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At one percent market capture — one hundred seventy-one transactions — Agent9 is at a hundred and seventy-one thousand in annual recurring revenue.
At five percent — eight hundred fifty-five transactions — eight hundred fifty-five thousand.
[emphasis]At ten percent, we're over one point seven million.[/emphasis]
The bold case — thirty percent, category leadership — is five point one million in Ohio alone.
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And that's before Stage Two.
Indiana has a twelve point seven six percent FSBO rate.
Texas has thirteen point twenty-two percent.
If we replicate Ohio across five comparable states, the total addressable market scales to eighty to a hundred million dollars before we reach national coverage.
[emphasis]Ohio is the proof. The model is the product.[/emphasis]
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The question we hear: if the seller already has a buyer lined up, why would they pay you?
Here's how we protect the fee.
[emphasis]Layer one: the binding contract.[/emphasis]
Sellers sign a compensation agreement at account creation — before the listing goes live, before any buyers see the property.
The nine-hundred-ninety-nine-dollar obligation is established at that moment.
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[emphasis]Layer two: payment at first showing, not at closing.[/emphasis]
We collect when the first showing is confirmed.
That disconnects our fee from the transaction outcome.
There's no ability to claim the sale "didn't go through us" — because the showing is the trigger, not the close.
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[emphasis]Layer three: the county-auditor deed sweep.[/emphasis]
Ohio deed transfers are publicly recorded at the county auditor's office.
We sweep those records monthly.
Any property that ran through Agent9's listing pipeline and recorded a deed transfer within ninety days gets automatically matched against our paid account database.
Unmatched transfers are flagged for review.
Eighty-eight Ohio counties.
All public record.
The enforcement path exists in Ohio state law.
We operationalize it.
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Who do we lose to?
Let's be honest.
Reeve is the only AI-first FSBO communications platform we found.
They're in California, Florida, Georgia, Texas, and Utah.
[emphasis]Ohio is not one of their five states.[/emphasis]
That window is open right now.
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Houzeo is the volume leader in Ohio flat-fee MLS.
Their customer complaints cluster on three things: surprise closing fees, slow broker intermediaries, and zero buyer communication support.
That's our entire value proposition.
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FSBO.com relaunched in March 2026 with agentic AI — but it's pointed toward loan officers and agents, not toward buyers.
Their direction is the opposite of ours.
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Our window is twelve to eighteen months before a well-funded incumbent notices the gap.
The data moat — every Ohio transaction training our model — is the reason we win the race.
[emphasis]We have to be in Ohio, at scale, before they catch up.[/emphasis]
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Stage One: Ohio, Q3 2026.
Full AI communications layer.
Seller onboarding, all-channel buyer routing, showing scheduling, offer management, document generation, enforcement sweep.
That's the build target.
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Stage Two: multi-state expansion, 2027.
Indiana and Texas are the first targets.
The architecture is already multi-state-ready — we're not rebuilding, we're deploying.
Stage Three: buyer-side products.
Financing coordination, inspection, title — all AI-coordinated through Agent9.
A new revenue stream on the buyer side without touching seller pricing.
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Stage Four: the platform layer.
[emphasis]Agent9 becomes infrastructure.[/emphasis]
Other FSBO-adjacent consumer products run their communications through our AI layer.
Title companies, lenders, and inspection services plug into the Agent9 transaction graph via API.
We stop being a FSBO tool and become the communications backbone of Ohio residential real estate.
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Real estate transactions don't need agents.
[emphasis]They need a translator.[/emphasis]
Someone who takes the emotional, complicated, asynchronous mess of a buyer and seller trying to close a deal — and turns it into a clean, documented, professional process.
That's what we built.
Ohio first.
Nine hundred ninety-nine dollars flat.
No surprises at closing.
No middleman taking fourteen thousand dollars for coordination an AI can do better.
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[emphasis]We're the translator.[/emphasis]
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| Section | Approx. Words | Approx. Time |
|---|---|---|
| Section 1 — Hero | 175 | ~1:10 |
| Section 2 — The Problem | 310 | ~2:04 |
| Section 3 — The Thesis | 200 | ~1:20 |
| Section 4 — Seller Experience | 275 | ~1:50 |
| Section 5 — Buyer Experience | 215 | ~1:26 |
| Section 6 — AI Layer | 310 | ~2:04 |
| Section 7 — Economics | 215 | ~1:26 |
| Section 8 — Monetization | 200 | ~1:20 |
| Section 9 — Defensibility | 165 | ~1:06 |
| Section 10 — Roadmap | 165 | ~1:06 |
| Section 11 — Closing | 100 | ~0:40 |
| Total | ~2,330 | ~15:32 |
At 150 wpm. Actual synthesis time will vary with pause tags and Laura's natural cadence. Trim the closing pause if needed to land under 15:00.