What is Ackee?
Ackee is an AI-powered real estate search platform for Central Indiana — Carmel, Fishers, Westfield, Noblesville, Zionsville, and the rest of Hamilton County. Instead of toggling filter checkboxes on a map grid, you ask in plain English and Ackee figures out what you actually meant.
A few examples of what you can type — go ahead and try one:
Tap any line and Ackee will run the search for you.
Under the hood Ackee does three things most real estate sites don't:
Reads your query, not your checkboxes
A language model parses what you typed into structured filters — price, beds, baths, school district, lot acres, HOA, plus softer signals like “chefs kitchen” or “walkout basement” that don't fit a dropdown.
Tags every photo
Every listing's photos get scanned by Claude vision — rooms, finishes, style, condition. So “modern kitchens with stainless appliances” actually finds kitchens that look modern, not just listings whose remarks happen to contain those words.
Conversation, not a filter form
Each search is a turn in a chat — refine it (“now only with pools”), pivot it (“different city”), or start over. Threads save locally so you can come back to a prior search.
Behind the platform:
Ackee is built and operated by Sheldon Barnes, a licensed managing broker for Carmel Realty LLC based in Carmel, Indiana. The MLS data feed is the same one used by Zillow, Redfin, and Realtor.com — updated continuously throughout the day. The difference is the wrapper around it. Listings, photos, open houses, and historical sales are surfaced through an AI layer that's tuned for the Central Indiana market specifically.
If you want a traditional brokerage experience — a person on the phone, in-person tours, contracts — that's Carmel Realty. Ackee is the search front-end. Carmel Realty is the brokerage.
Built with Claude (Anthropic) for query parsing and photo vision, Postgres for the listing catalog, and Next.js on Vercel. The chat UI you're looking at right now is the same one you'll use to search.