Owners

Built for how homes
are actually sold.

Pikit isn't a tech startup that hired real estate advisors. It's the tool an operator inside the industry built after years of watching leads leak, listings die, and past clients disappear.

Marshall Pickett
Marshall Pickett
Founder & CEO

Marshall is a Top 1% agent at Ivester Jackson Coastal · Christie's International Real Estate, based in Wrightsville Beach, NC. He built Pikit after years of watching the same pattern repeat on every deal — a client would tour a home, love it, ask a question the agent couldn't answer in the moment, and quietly cool off before the follow-up email ever landed.

He wanted a tool that captured the moment inside the home, not after it — one that let every showing become signal, every past client stay reachable, and every builder relationship pay dividends for years. So he built one.

Marshall leads product and go-to-market at Pikit. He still sells homes.

Gunnar Staples
Gunnar Staples
Co-Founder

Gunnar comes from the commerce side of tech. He's managed $100M+ in ad spend across Amazon and Walmart for major CPG brands, and his published research on coordinating Sponsored Ads and DSP was picked up by Amazon and built into Amazon Marketing Cloud.

He runs Texin.ai and Texin Commerce, where he helps consumer brands win in AI search, retail media, and conversion optimization — and built AI Radar, a tool that tracks how brands surface inside ChatGPT and AI search.

At Pikit, Gunnar brings the commerce lens: how e-commerce turned browsing behavior into signal, and how the same playbook applies to a property tour.