Founded 2026
Founders Bart Chmielecki, CEO Seth Mack, CTO

Stead partners with local real estate firms in the world’s densest cities and rebuilds their operations with AI. Its system, Croft, handles every function of a real estate agency, helping firms win more business and spend less time on repetitive work.


Founders

Bart
Chmielecki

CEO

Bart started an international moving business at 15, growing it to 7-figure revenue. At 17 he joined a 200-year-old real estate firm, becoming #1 of 600 agents within 2 years. At 19, he founded his own firm, which ran at 43% EBITDA.

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Seth
Mack

CTO

Seth started coding at 14 and made the Dean’s List in Computer Science at Imperial College London while building infrastructure at hedge fund Balyasny. He turned down OpenAI to build Stead.

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