Hire Your 1st AI Employee: How to Put an AI Team to Work in Your Business, with Damon Remy of REI BlackBook. MAREI Meeting, November 10, 2026, Overland Park, KS.

Damon Remy has a question for every business owner who feels stretched thin: what if your next hire never slept, never called in sick, and never forgot a follow-up? On Tuesday, November 10, the founder of REI BlackBook shows MAREI how to hire your first AI employee and put an AI team to work in your business.

You sit down to look at a deal, and the phone rings. A contractor needs an answer. A seller calls back. By dinner, the deal is still open on your screen. That is the work an AI team can start taking off your plate.

What Damon Remy will teach about AI employees

Damon’s Five Levels of AI (Advisor, Analyst, Coach, Agent and Operating System) show what happens as you give AI real jobs in your business. You will leave knowing:

  • Your AI level today and your next step
  • The roles on an AI team: an Advisor for planning, Analysts for deal and market research, a Coach for seller conversations, and Agents for follow-up and marketing
  • Where you are the bottleneck, and which recurring task needs you less than you think
  • Your first hire: the AI role that fits a real need in your business
  • How the team works together, and why a shared Business Brain keeps every role on the same page

You stay the boss. Decisions, offers, negotiations and relationships stay with you.

Who should be in the room

Anyone who runs a business and is still the one doing most of it: wholesalers, flippers, landlords, lenders, and the businesses that serve them. No tech background needed.

Help Damon prepare: take the AI assessment

Damon is tailoring the night to this group. Tell him where you are with AI today and what keeps landing on your plate. The questions alone may show you uses you had not considered.

Take the AI Assessment: → survey.reiblackbook.com/ 

Who is Damon Remy

Damon Remy is the founder and CEO of REI BlackBook, the St. Louis software company that has helped thousands of real estate investors build systems and take back their time. He taught himself technology in the Marine Corps. In 2008 he was running a mortgage business and building tools for his investor clients; those tools became REI BlackBook. Today his focus is putting AI to work, so one person can run what used to take a team.

MAREI co-founder Kim Tucker spent three days with Damon at the National REIA Mid-Year Conference and came home with an AI Army now doing real work for MAREI. On November 10, Damon shows you how to build yours.

Meeting Agenda

  • 5:30 — Doors open: Trade Show, food and networking
  • 6:30 — Take your seats: Deal Room and member announcements
  • 7:00 — Damon Remy
  • 8:30 — Networking

 

Where: Holiday Inn & Suites, 8787 Reeder Road, Overland Park, KS 66214. Main Ballroom, enter from the back hallway.

FREE for MAREI members and first-time guests. Been to a meeting before and not a member yet? Join MAREI, or pay the $35 guest fee at the door.