About A27M
A coalition of operators.
Not a course. Not a fund. Not a roll-up that ate the people who built it. A27M is a small private group of real estate media agency owners who decided that what we can build together is worth more than what any of us could exit on our own.
Founder
Brendan Hsu
Aerial Canvas · ACRE Seattle · ACRE Partner
I’ve spent the last decade building real estate media agencies. Aerial Canvas grew to roughly $4M a year. ACRE Seattle (Nathan Brown, formerly Patrick Szydlik’s agency, which I acquired in 2021) is around $1.5M. ACRE Partner is the open coaching program where I work with operators who want to grow.
A27M is the room I always wanted to be in and couldn’t find. Eight operators, real numbers, no pitching, no guru, no upsell. Built for the people who already know how to run an agency and want to do something bigger than run one.
What the coalition actually does
Day-to-day. Not in theory.
- 01
Share real P&Ls
Not the vendor-friendly version. Margins, costs, comp, the whole stack — visible to the room, treated as confidential by default.
- 02
Negotiate vendor terms together
Matterport, iGuide, AutoHDR, Giraffe 360. A coalition of operators has leverage no single $1-4M agency has. We use it.
- 03
Build the shared tech layer
Common dashboards, automation, financial reporting. The infrastructure that lets a coalition of service businesses be priced as one tech-enabled platform when the time comes.
- 04
Coordinate the path to exit
Build first, buy second. Standardize the platform. Reclassify the business. Then — and only then — use the coalition’s capital and risk tolerance to acquire competitors.
- 05
Show up for each other
Sales hiring frameworks. Pricing decisions. The hard people calls. The kind of conversations operators almost never get to have with peers actually at their level.
The bar
What Core Cooperative Partners agree to.
This is not a Slack group with a deck attached. The commitment is real, and the filter is intentional.
- 1Share real P&Ls — not the vendor-friendly version.
- 2Show up consistently. Coalition, not curriculum.
- 3Give more than you take. If two questions asked, answer three.
- 4Fund your own due diligence — $15K–$25K into escrow.
- 5Genuine exit intention within 18–24 months.
If this is the room you’ve been looking for.
Five questions. Reviewed personally. Confidential by default.