What happens when a family's side hustle becomes the blueprint to fix decades of paperwork chaos in commercial property deals?

On this episode of Scaling Station, host Will Rodosky sits down with Reader Wang — CEO and Co-Founder of Propaya (YC S24) — who translated his family’s experience in property management into a product that reads, organizes, and explains leases in minutes.

From his mother’s shift into property management to a 70-unit portfolio tracked on shaky spreadsheets, Reader recounts the exact moment he decided: documents should do the work, not people. He reveals how a novel, zero-shot approach turns dense legal contracts into traceable data and a conversational assistant that remembers your entire portfolio.

Key moments you’ll watch for:
• The “take-a-photo-of-a-lease” idea that sparked the company
• Why missed clauses can cost hundreds of thousands
• How Propaya cites sources so humans can verify fast
• The product demo: chat with a document, then chat with your whole portfolio

Takeaway: Use technology to automate facts — spend your time winning relationships.

Try Propaya or connect with Reader Wang on LinkedIn. Don’t just listen — act: extract one lease today and reclaim the hours you spend on paperwork.

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