LPT Aperture Holdings acquires Speculo AI platform

LPT Aperture Holdings, parent company of LPT Realty and Aperture Global Real Estate, acquired Speculo, an AI-powered database engagement and intent-detection platform built for real estate professionals, the company announced.

Speculo, founded in 2024 by Riley VanderKaay and Bobby Moats, will keep its own brand and remain brokerage agnostic while expanding its reach across the U.S. and Canada, according to the announcement. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The acquisition fits LPT Aperture Holdings’ (LPTA) strategy of investing in independent, industry-facing growth platforms that can support a range of residential real estate businesses, from solo agents to teams and larger enterprises. Speculo joins other brokerage-agnostic offerings in LPTA’s portfolio, including Reside and AI tools like dezzy.ai.

Speculo’s core product is Remi, an AI “teammate” that works inside a brokerage or team’s existing database to engage clients, detect changes in consumer intent and flag when human outreach is most likely to create value. The company says it has worked with more than 300 real estate organizations and supported millions of consumer conversations since launching two years ago.

“Real estate has spent years optimizing systems for lead volume, when what agents and operators actually need is a system that identifies intent,” Speculo co-founder and CEO Riley VanderKaay said in the announcement. “Remi works inside the existing database to identify changes in consumer behavior, surface the conversations that matter, and signal when an agent should engage and what value they can bring.

LPTA founder and CEO Robert Palmer framed the acquisition as a way to unlock underused data across real estate firms.

“Every real estate business has relationships and opportunities buried inside its existing database,” Palmer said. “The challenge is knowing who needs attention, why and when. Speculo has built that capability at scale.”

Under the deal, Speculo will continue serving operators across different brokerage models rather than becoming exclusive to LPT Realty. LPTA said it plans to provide additional resources to accelerate Speculo’s product development and growth across North America.

LPTA said Speculo expands its AI-supported engagement capabilities beyond dezzy.ai, a marketing and recognition platform used inside LPT Realty. 

Speculo founders bring operational experience in both lead generation and brokerage operations. VanderKaay previously ran a pay-per-click marketing agency, later took over a brokerage. Moats built a RealTrends Verified-recognized team in Texas and later served as director of labs at a national brokerage franchise, working on technology and the tech-enabled agent model at scale.

LPTA announced its acquisition of Reside, as well as Humaniz, AI-powered software for recruiting and management, in early February 2026.

This article was written by Brooklee Han and generated with the assistance of HousingWire Automation, then reviewed by a HousingWire editor before publication.