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NEW YORK, NY

Ethan Surfas

Real estate analyst & AI product builder

Open to AI implementation, product operations, and product roles at startups.

PRIMESPACE CAPITAL

Used every day by 15+ colleagues

In my first eight months at PrimeSpace, I shipped tools for underwriting, research, and accounting alongside my acquisitions role. People bring me broken workflows; I build the fix and help them use it.

Pricing report pipeline
What it replacedManual extraction of pricing from PDF reports.
Who uses itUnderwriting
Market data integration
What it replacedSeparate ownership, pipeline, and supply lookups.
Who uses itAcquisitions
Journal Entry Builder
What it replacedManual reformatting of CubeSmart, Extra Space, and Public Storage financials.
Who uses itAccounting

These examples describe internal workflows. Source code and company data remain private.

CURRENT PERSONAL PROJECT

Feature.graph

A development environment for working with Claude Code and Codex: map a codebase, propose a feature, run the implementation, and review the change before keeping it.

I use Feature.graph for all my coding.

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Feature.graph mapping its own source repository into product capabilities

SHIPPED PRODUCT · 2025–2026

FlipTarget

Launched to my first paying subscriber.

A residential investment screening SaaS I built with Claude Code, with after-repair value scoring and photo-based condition models.

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Experience

JANUARY 2026 — PRESENT

PrimeSpace Capital

Acquisitions Analyst

I work in development underwriting, lead zoning and entitlement diligence across dozens of jurisdictions, and draft LOI/PSA terms, including entitlement-period extensions.

Screened 500+ sites across 40+ markets and authored 20+ investment committee memos representing $200M+ in underwritten project cost. Submitted 10+ LOIs and supported negotiations from initial screening through offer.

SEPTEMBER 2025 — JANUARY 2026

CoStar Group

Sales · Visual Lease

Sold lease-accounting and administration software to commercial real estate owners and occupiers. Ran discovery calls and product demos around customer workflows.

About

My background is finance and real estate. Working inside an investment firm gives me direct exposure to the spreadsheets, reports, and repeated tasks that software can improve.