Virtual Leasing, Virtual Leasing Assistant, Nurture Boss
The Prime Company

How The Prime Company Balances Human Connection and AI

The Prime Company turned to Nurture Boss to solve the challenge of AI competing with leasing teams. For the Prime Company, Nurture Boss’s Follow-Up Aware capability ensures that leasing agents lead communication during office hours, while AI handles tasks outside of office hours and on weekends. This balance gave their teams control, avoided overwhelming prospects, and built confidence that no lead would slip through the cracks.

The Challenge: Striking the Right Balance Between AI and Human Leasing Teams

The Prime Company manages 3,900 student housing beds and prides itself on trusting the salesmanship and judgment of its leasing teams. However, the company faced a critical challenge: finding an AI leasing assistant and platform that would support rather than compete with onsite teams. The Prime Company’s previous AI provider created confusion by communicating with prospects at the same time as leasing agents did. Without the ability to pause or control when AI stepped in, prospects were often bombarded by both the technology and the human leasing team. This dual communication risked damaging trust with prospective residents and undermining the leasing experience.

The Solution: Nurture Boss’s Follow-Up Aware Capability Puts Leasing Teams First

Nurture Boss solves this challenge with its Virtual Leasing Assistant and Follow-Up Aware feature, giving operators control to pause, adjust timing, or customize the frequency of AI-driven nurturing workflows. For the Prime Company, leasing agents now remain the primary point of contact during business hours, while their AI takes over after hours, on weekends, or whenever teams are unavailable. This approach gave The Prime Company confidence that Nurture Boss understood the negative impact when technology gets in the way of personal connection. Instead, AI became a true safety net, ensuring no prospect or resident went unanswered.

 

Beyond its Virtual Leasing Assistant and Follow Up Aware feature, The Prime Company uses Nurture Boss’s Payments and Delinquency AI capability to handle missed rent collection. This eliminates the need for onsite teams to spend time knocking on doors. The tool delivers consistent, timely, and frequent follow-up to delinquent residents. One of the features Levi values most. As Levi put it, “The collections tool pays for the platform itself.”

“We trust our people, their salesmanship, and their judgment. Nurture Boss gave us the ability to ‘turn AI off’ when our onsite teams needed to be the ones leading the conversation with prospects or residents.”

Levi BaileyDirector of Digital Marketing, The Prime Company

Implementation: Customizable, Responsive, and Human

Nurture Boss tailored the implementation process to fit The Prime Company’s student housing operations, avoiding a one-size-fits-all rollout. Its support has been critical in rebuilding trust in AI among the onsite teams. With quick responses, consistent communication, and the Follow-Up Aware capability, Nurture Boss is steadily winning over teams who had been skeptical after their experience with a previous AI vendor.

“Technology is only as good as the support behind it, and Nurture Boss has built that mindset into every employee that we’ve worked with.”

Levi BaileyDirector of Digital Marketing, The Prime Company

The Results: Smarter Lead Management and Stronger Team Trust

The Prime Company achieved results that went beyond traditional time-saving metrics. With Nurture Boss:

 

  • Leasing teams led the way: Follow-Up Aware empowered onsite teams to engage prospects and residents during office hours, while AI handled after-hours and weekend communication.
  • AI perceptions improved: Responsive support and transparent communication rebuilt trust in The Prime Company’s outlook on AI.
  • Collections strengthened: Improved engagement and automation contributed to more on-time rent payments and a reduction in delinquencies.