Matt ManserSI
Stirling, Matt's SI chief of staff. An SI character, not a person.
Stirling · My SI chief of staff. An SI character, not a person.
04Meet Stirling

One voice, not twenty-eight.

Twenty-eight agents in five teams report to Stirling, and he is the only one allowed to text me. So I get one clear voice, not twenty-eight notifications.

He knows every listing, reads my notes before he replies (96 of them in his brain so far), and checks his own work before he tells me something is done. His first day on the job was 19 July 2026.

StirlingText message · 7 Oct

Change the price on Northbri to $390–$420k

Done. Northbri is now $390,000 – $420,000 on the live listing. Read it back three ways to be sure.

Bigger one: the agency agreement still says $450,000. You can't advertise below that. Rebuild it at $390k and re-send?

Yes, change it and re-send

Rebuilt at $390k and sent. All three showing pending.

All three signed, within half an hour.

The real thread, shortened

Six words from the car. He changed the price, then caught the agreement I'd have missed.

●The org chart

One chief of staff. Five teams.

Stirling runs 28 agents, organised into five teams. Each agent has one job. Each team has one purpose. And one team exists only to watch the others.

ApprovesMattMe. I approve, I don't produce.
SI chief of staffStirlingThe only one allowed to text me
7agents

Leads & calls

Spots every new enquiry and call, and gets it answered fast.

  • Rex lead watcher
  • Inbound call monitor
  • Lead critique
  • Appraisal bookings
  • Calendly bookings
  • Post-appraisal
  • Phone line health
  • +4 more
7agents

Listings & deals

Launches listings and walks every contract to settlement.

  • Listing workflow
  • Listing health
  • Rex listing monitor
  • Contract monitor
  • Rex agent
  • SaleFunder watch
  • Listing chatbot
  • +4 more
4agents

Client contact

Every text, follow-up, comment and DM, sent once and on time.

  • SMS sender
  • Nurture scheduler
  • Just-listed SMS
  • Contact gap calls
  • +1 more
6agents

Marketing

Scripts, designs and publishes the content, then checks it went live.

  • Comments & DMs
  • Social growth
  • Script rotation
  • Weekly video script
  • Website sync
  • Design audit
  • +3 more
4agents

Oversight

The one most people skip

Watches the other agents and catches them when they break.

  • Morning digest
  • Daily summary
  • Messages watchdog
  • Notes sync
  • +1 more

7 + 7 + 4 + 6 + 4 = 28 agents+ Stirling = 29 on staff

The full roster, from the live agent registry, 10 October 2026.

05The part nobody builds

Build the handbrake before the engine.

SI can always do the job. The hard part is stopping it doing the job twice. Early on, mine nearly texted my whole database twice. So every message now goes through one gate.

Between 20 July and 10 October 2026 the system sent 9,409 texts. The gate stopped another 8,760 that would have been duplicates. Nobody received them. That's the part I teach first.

Get the handbrake checklist →

9,409Texts sent
8,760Duplicates stopped

20 July to 10 October 2026, from the gate's own log.

06The content machine

Yes, I cloned myself.

That's my SI clone walking past my own signboard. No camera crew, no shoot day. It's one small piece of a content machine that put out 100 posts in 46 days and a weekly newsletter to about 1,400 inboxes.

A grid of 24 of Matt's real Instagram posts
Fig. Twenty-four real posts from my Instagram.
A frame from Matt's SI clone video: an SI-generated Matt pointing at the camera
My SI clone
Not a photo of me. A frame from my SI clone video.
07Speaking · Signature talk

How I Run a Real Estate Business on SI.

No slides full of predictions. I show the system running, the numbers behind it, and the mistakes that taught me where the guardrails go.

Back officeThe SI back office for solo agents
LeadsSpeed to lead: the 5-minute callback
ContentThe content machine: 100 posts in 46 days
GuardrailsThe guardrails: what went wrong
MemoryBuilding your SI a brain
VideoCloning yourself with SI video
Now bookingKeynotes, workshops, panels, podcasts and virtual events
Let's talk

Speaking, training, or a system of your own.

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