Voice-Enabled Affordability Stress-Test Agent
Design an autonomous 'Market Advisor' agent using the OpenAI Agents SDK that performs affordability stress tests for different metros. The agent will analyze Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), and Redfin market temperature data (like inventory and price drops). You will integrate ElevenLabs to provide a high-quality, conversational voice interface that allows users to ask questions like 'How much would a 2% interest rate hike impact affordability in Austin?' The agent must identify rental-market anomalies where rent growth exceeds income growth or price drops are spiking unusually. By combining OpenAI's function-calling capabilities with real-world real estate metrics, the agent will simulate 'stress scenarios' (e.g., rising mortgage rates or unemployment) and communicate the impact via natural, synthesized speech. You will focus on building robust tools that fetch CSV data from Zillow and Redfin and calculate the housing cost burden for local residents.
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Design an autonomous 'Market Advisor' agent using the OpenAI Agents SDK that performs affordability stress tests for different metros. The agent will analyze Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI), Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), and Redfin market temperature data (like inventory and price drops). You will integrate ElevenLabs to provide a high-quality, conversational voice interface that allows users to ask questions like 'How much would a 2% interest rate hike impact affordability in Austin?' The agent must identify rental-market anomalies where rent growth exceeds income growth or price drops are spiking unusually. By combining OpenAI's function-calling capabilities with real-world real estate metrics, the agent will simulate 'stress scenarios' (e.g., rising mortgage rates or unemployment) and communicate the impact via natural, synthesized speech. You will focus on building robust tools that fetch CSV data from Zillow and Redfin and calculate the housing cost burden for local residents.
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ElevenLabs Integration
Verifies that the agent successfully sends text to ElevenLabs and receives an audio response.
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Anomaly Detection Precision
Precision of the agent in identifying rental markets with >2 standard deviation growth. • target: 0.9 • range: 0-1
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What you should walk away with
Master the OpenAI Agents SDK for defining autonomous agents with specialized tool-calling logic
Implement ElevenLabs 'Conversational AI' or 'Text-to-Speech' endpoints to create an interactive voice UI
Design data pipelines to parse and aggregate large Redfin 'Data Center' CSV files containing inventory and price drop metrics
Apply statistical anomaly detection (e.g., Z-score or Isolation Forest) to Zillow rental data across different geographies
Build a mortgage payment calculator function that the agent can use to simulate affordability scenarios
Optimize agent prompts for 'expert advisor' persona while ensuring data-driven accuracy
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