What an incredible week in New York for the GEM community. Another GEM-Resident dinner in the books, a night consisting of founders and operators building, trading notes on what’s actually working — go-to-market, capital strategy, hiring, partnerships, and the hard stuff in between. Our personal sharing prompt was "if you could teleport for 24 hours tomorrow, where would you go?" Responses varied widely, ranging from to Austin to Dubai to Greenland to to Shanghai to Egypt to Mars.

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In this Weekly Radar, we cover:

• Why GEM Walks the Camino is the perfect way to slow down and find a state of calm to ensure the priorities guiding your life and business, are the right ones. I call it finding your quietude.
• 3D-printed tiny homes from Azure Printed Homes broke ground in San Luis Obispo.
• The GEM Proptech Index decreased 6.58% from the previous week.

New GEM Members

• Shayan Hamidi from rechat

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Transmission Recap:
Most recently, Jeff Turner wrote an important essay about AI voice, perhaps the most important topic of the whole year. If you're not thinking deeply about the implications of AI voice technology advances, you're building in the past. Dig in. Before that, Jesse Wright dropped the State of the GEM 2026, our annual look at membership composition, resolutions for the coming year, and a look back on how we did over the past twelve months.

BIZ INTEL

PROPTECH INDEX WEEKLY - AS OF 2/6/2026
By: Community Relations

Consisting of 25 stocks, the GEM Proptech Index had a combined market cap of $247.100B, a decrease of 6.58% from the previous week.

GEM MEMBER NEWS

• Restb.ai released a new API called Feature UAD to simplify UAD 3.6 appraisals ahead of 2026 mandate. — Nathan Brannen
• Frank Rohde and Stuart Allan were guests on Housing Insiders' Shared Equity Series with Jeremy Potter and Jonathan Lawless: Listen to the episode.
• Purlin and Final Offer merged to create an integrated platform for search, negotiation, mortgage, and title. — Tim Quirk and Cade Madison
• Zumper launched a new rental search app within ChatGPT, giving renters the ability to find available homes and access real-time market insights through conversation. — Anthemos Georgiades
• VeriFast acquired Opsansa, an AI-powered property management platform. — Tim Ray
• Frank Rohde was a guest on the Tangent Proptech podcast: Listen to the episode.
• California Regional MLS is now offering Tuesday — Coleton Boyer, Greg Robertson, and Dan Woolley
• Solid Earth and the Vail Board of Realtors partnered to add a layer of security and identity management to the VBR ecosystem, with a full deployment scheduled for this spring. — Eric Stegemann
• Canvas rebranded to Twindo. — Sarah Bird
• Kurt Carlton was a guest on the Padsplit podcast with Atticus LeBlanc: Listen/watch the episode.
• Joe Stockton was a guest on the Oril podcast: Listen/watch the episode.

STARTUPS

CHANNELING QUIETUDE ON THE CAMINO
By: Drew Meyers

Building companies is hard. Heck, life is hard. Even if you're not leading a company.

We've all done it. You get caught up in the day to day, checking one thing after the next off your endless task list. Selling your next customer on your value proposition. The third reply to an industry advocate you need at your next event. Reporting a bug for your engineers. Signing a venue contract for your upcoming event. Going over monthly burn figures. Pitching the 162th investor to participate in your Seed round.

You and I both know, the end of that list is a myth. So, you grind. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month.

That's sustainable, for a while. But, you'll inevitably reach a breaking point. You'll get tired. Start making careless mistakes. Snap at your CTO. Forget your nieces' birthday. Realize two days before a conference you never booked the flight. Lose track of what is actually moving the needle after spending weeks working on the wrong things. Not talk to your parents for multiple weeks.

Or, even worse, you burn out. And if that happens, the chances of success for your company go down the toilet.

There's no magical potion to avoid reaching the breaking point. You need to slow down and find a state of calm to ensure the priorities guiding your life and business, are the right ones.

Some call it solitude. I'll call it something slightly different…

Quietude: a state of stillness, calmness, and quiet in a person or place.

Enter ❇️GEM Walks the Camino (Part II)❇️, which ❇️gave me exactly that needed quietude a year ago❇️. So much so that we're doing it again this year, taking place May 9th-16th, seven days and 100 kilometers of incredible scenery, deep conversations, amazing dinners, a supported journey, pre-booked accommodations, and life-altering memories. You'll be in the midst of "pilgrims" from all walks of life, each there for their own set of personal reasons. It should tell you something that the majority of those who trekked last year are undertaking it again in 2026.

I have no doubt this trip will be the most impactful trip of the year for me. Flights are booked, May 5th through the 18th, when I'll immediately emerge back in the thick of the grind at the Housing Innovation Summit. But, for those seven days, I'm thrilled that I won't be hammering away on the keyboard. Won't be taking meetings. Won’t be checking Inman or X. Won't be writing articles. Won't be in the weeds of pitch decks. Won't be worried about filling the next dinner table. Won't be worried about any of that, but instead focused on exploring my own thoughts, in the company of other amazing humans choosing to prioritize their own self-exploration.

If you're ready for a dose of quietude in 2026, I strongly encourage you to join us on the ❇️GEM Walks the Camino trek in May❇️. We have two or three spots left. If this all sounds amazing but you're on the fence, I HIGHLY HIGHLY encourage you to watch The Way.

When I've completely disconnected from digital life are the times in life I've felt the most free. Even of the Camino trek doesn't fit your schedule, don't forget to look up and experience the moment that you are in from time to time. You'll find it ushers in a renewed energy when you get back to the grind, focused on what truly matters. At least, it has for me.

Want to learn more? Shoot us an email at community at geekestate dot com or check the event calendar via GEM Primer for further details.

PS: International excursions are not going anywhere in GEM's programming. But it's unsure whether a third GEM Walks the Camino trek will take place. I'm thinking a different quietude journey will be in order for me in 2027.

CONSTRUCTION

3D TINY HOMES IN SAN LUIS OBISPO
By: Drew Meyers