The CFOs in Budapest already started doing the math. The lease is the first thing to cut.
Most of them haven't said it out loud yet. But the calculation is brutal:
- 1 senior architect + 50 AI agents = output of a 60-person team
- Office space needed: 1 desk (or zero — agents run on servers)
- Lease cost cut: 95%+
- Productivity per dollar: 30–50×
Commercial real estate values are still priced for the old world. They haven't repriced yet for the new one.
The repricing is 24 months, not 10 years
If you own office towers in Budapest, Vienna, Prague — or any tier-2 European city — your tenants are doing this math right now. Some already moved out. The CFOs at the top of every mid-market company are running the same spreadsheet:
“What if we shipped twice as fast with 1/10th the headcount? What would happen to our €40k/month lease?”
The answer makes the lease the first thing to cut. Not the marketing budget, not the cloud bill — the empty floor of the office.
What we build for the new reality
We've been shipping like this for over a year. The pattern works:
- Agentic dev teams — AI agents write the code, senior architects verify every line. No AI slop in production.
- Customer service AI — chat and voice on your own phone number. Not a call center, not 50 agents on three shifts.
- Document RAG — answers from your internal documentation, with citations. No binders, no clerks, no “I'll get back to you next week”.
The companies that adopt this in the next 12 months will have a 5-year head start on the ones still negotiating extra meeting rooms.
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