University of Florida Selects Corbis AI to Transform Finance and Real Estate Research
Faculty and students at the Kelley A. Bergstrom Real Estate Center gain access to Corbis, a research desk powered by nearly half a million peer-reviewed studies, current economic and market data, and proprietary commercial real estate intelligence, trusted by users at top institutions and universities.
Gainesville, Fla., August 13, 2026 — Agentic Assets, an AI technology company founded by two finance professors, today announced that the University of Florida has selected Corbis™, its source-grounded AI research platform, for the Kelley A. Bergstrom Real Estate Center at the Warrington College of Business. Corbis passed the university's rigorous vendor security and risk review to earn the agreement.
The University of Florida ranks first in AI readiness among the largest-enrollment public universities in the country, scoring 9.7 out of 10 on the independent AIREDEX assessment reported by UF News on July 29, 2026. For the Bergstrom Real Estate Center, it chose Corbis.
Corbis is built for the part of research that does not scale: working through everything relevant before forming a view. It draws on a continuously updated corpus of nearly half a million peer-reviewed papers across finance, real estate, and economics, together with national economic series and proprietary commercial real estate market data, and synthesizes across that base to answer a question directly. What comes back is not a list of links to sort through. It is an argument built from the evidence, with the studies it rests on attached.
Most of that literature has never been easy to reach. A paper is published as a PDF behind a subscription, written for other specialists, and the finding inside it stays there. Corbis puts academic research to work and makes it usable without a specialist's training. It applies what the literature already establishes to the question actually in front of someone, whether that is one market, one company, or a single investment decision, so a result that would otherwise sit in an archive reaches the person who needs it.
Because every claim carries its source, a reader can check the argument instead of taking it on faith, which is what separates a research platform from a general-purpose one. Guided workflows extend the same discipline to finished work, producing literature reviews, market analyses, and investment committee memos that export to PDF, Word, or LaTeX with a complete source appendix. Access at the university will be delivered through single sign-on, so faculty, researchers, and students at the Bergstrom Real Estate Center can reach the platform with their existing credentials.
“I'm impressed with the work [they] are doing in AI and particularly Corbis.”
“Researchers are held to a high bar of evidence, and Corbis was built to clear it. Faculty and students at the Bergstrom Real Estate Center now have the published literature working on every question they bring, and they can follow any answer back to the studies behind it. That is how we work in our own research, and it is how the platform works.”
The Warrington College of Business is also familiar ground for the company. Dr. Stace Sirmans, who co-founded Agentic Assets and leads its core product development, earned his Ph.D. at the University of Florida.
Corbis is available now at corbis.ai.
About Corbis
Corbis is a research-first AI platform purpose-built for finance and real estate professionals. It works from a continuously updated corpus of nearly half a million peer-reviewed papers, connects economic and market data to the same questions, and generates professional deliverables with complete source appendices. It is used by professionals and researchers at institutions including BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, and Deloitte, along with leading universities. Learn more at corbis.ai.
About Agentic Assets
Agentic Assets is an AI technology company that builds AI-native, source-grounded platforms for institutional commercial real estate. Its mission is to close the gap between the best available research evidence and the day-to-day decisions of commercial real estate professionals. Its platforms span research intelligence (Corbis) and deal intelligence (EQUIRE™), and every output carries the research, filings, or data behind it. The company is a strategic partner of Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI), the trusted source of record for the global institutional real estate investment community since 1987. Its credential line is straightforward: Built by Finance Professors. Trusted by CRE Professionals. Learn more at agenticassets.ai.
About the Founders
Agentic Assets was founded by two finance professors who continue to teach and publish. Dr. Cayman Seagraves is Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Finance at Florida Atlantic University and holds a Ph.D. from Florida State University. Dr. Stace Sirmans is Associate Professor of Finance at Auburn University, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, and leads core product development. They did not start from a technology stack and work back toward the domain. They started from what defensible research requires, then built the platforms to support it.
Media contact
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- Dr. Cayman Seagraves: cayman@agenticassets.ai
- Dr. Stace Sirmans: stace@agenticassets.ai
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