Platform engineering & product launch
How do we build and launch a product that actually scales?
A rental listing marketplace with AI-assisted, geolocation-backed property verification.
- Client
- Real estate rental marketplace
- Sector
- Real estate / marketplace
- Solutions
- AI Process & Workflow Automation, Business Platforms & Applications
The situation
A real estate startup needed a platform where owners could list flats for rent, in a market where fake and stale listings are the default reason renters stop trusting a marketplace. Trust was the product, not a feature of it.
What made it hard
- Establishing that a listed flat is genuine, without putting a human inspector in the loop for every listing
- Ranking results usefully against preferences rather than by recency alone
- Verifying media authenticity at upload time rather than after a complaint
What we did
Built from scratch with verification as the core workflow rather than a moderation afterthought. Listing submission captures structured detail, multiple images and a live video recording with a geolocation check; everything then runs through an asynchronous multi-step verification pipeline so the upload experience stays fast while the checking happens behind it.
What was built
Listing workflow
- Structured property submission form
- Minimum five high-quality images per listing
- Live video capture with geolocation checks
Verification pipeline
- Asynchronous multi-step verification on a durable queue
- Computer-vision checks on media authenticity
- Model-assisted content validation
Search & ranking
- Ranking against stated user preferences
- Filters across location, price and amenities
- Preference prediction feeding result ordering
Stack
Next.js · Tailwind CSS · BullMQ · MongoDB · Redis · Azure Computer Vision · OpenAI · Azure
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