Bilt's new AI 'Neighborhood Concierge' goes head-to-head with Amazon as the battle for home-based commerce heats up

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• In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady reports on Bilt’s new AI-powered concierge service.
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Good morning. “Housing is the gateway for commerce,” says Ken Chenault. He ought to know. As chairman and CEO of American Express from 2001 to 2018, he transformed the brand from being perceived as a credit card for the elite to a closed-loop network that could help small merchants grow their business and deliver personalized offerings to consumers because it handled both sides of a transaction. “People would say American Express was a card company,” he told me earlier this week. “I would say, ‘We’re not just in the payments business. We’re a service platform, and the card is a form factor.’”