ToolsSource: Solid Earth (vendor announcement)
Solid Earth Recursive MLS: listing data in your MLS cloud — AI harness debuts at RESO
Original headline: “Solid Earth Unveils New Recursive™ MLS Platform, Association Software, and Safe AI Tools at RESO” — Solid Earth (vendor announcement), Oct 20, 2026
In an October 20 PRLog release from the RESO Fall Conference in Colorado Springs, Solid Earth announced three connected products: the Recursive MLS platform, an integrated Association Management System (AMS), and Recursive AI. The company says listing data is stored in the MLS’s own cloud account in an open format — with no extra data-access fees and total ownership — versus third-party databases that charge for access and are hard to leave; it claims a custom MLS/member LLM as the industry’s first built exclusively for MLSs to offer members with data protection, plus an MLS-specific AI harness that protects MLS data while letting MLS-approved third-party systems connect (contrasted with data-distribution / MCP approaches that can be prompted to violate MLS rules). Faster listing entry can auto-fill up to 80% of a listing from an address via public records and past sales and catch errors before go-live; Recursive AI for agents offers natural-language multi-MLS search, market reports and draft descriptions while following local MLS rules, hiding private agent notes and never sharing listing data to train outside models; a staff dashboard oversees feeds and member access and can block unauthorized scrapers in one click. CEO Eric Stegemann and VP Marketing Rebecca Pearson are quoted; the release says the products are built, contracts are being signed, with a live RESO demo for attendees and demos via solidearth.com.
Our take (opinion & analysis, not reporting)
For US agents and MLS members: this is an MLS-side platform — you get Recursive MLS / Recursive AI when your MLS adopts it, not a drop-in CRM or personal IDX you can buy tomorrow. If your board is shopping MLS software, ask whether listing data stays in the association’s own cloud in an open format, whether AI search and drafts hide private notes and skip outside training, and how the harness gates third-party connectors versus open MCP-style feeds. Keep your CRM of record for clients and follow-up; treat any MLS AI search/report tools as listing workflow, not a replacement for Follow Up Boss or your transaction file.
Online discussion: no notable public discussion found yet (checked Oct 21, 2026).