Houston-based Epique Realty has ridden the AI wave to rank among the Inc. 5000’s 10 fastest-growing private companies.

With three-year revenue growth of 23,210 percent, the AI-powered real estate brokerage appears at No. 7 on this year’s Inc. 5000 list. The 2026 list ranks private companies based on percentage revenue growth from 2022 to 2025.

Epique, founded in 2021, also ranks as the No. 1 fastest-growing company in Houston, No. 1 fastest-growing real estate company in the U.S., and No. 2 fastest-growing company in Texas.

Skyrocketing revenues

Between 2022 and 2025, the company’s annual revenue skyrocketed from $391,654 to more than $91.2 million. In 2025, the brokerage closed more than 23,000 deals and surpassed $7 billion in total sales, elevating Epique to the country’s 14th-largest real estate brokerage as measured by volume.

Epique’s network has more than 4,000 agents.

“To debut in the top 10 of the Inc. 5000 is absolute proof that when you relentlessly put agents first, exponential growth takes care of itself,” co-founder and CEO Joshua Miller said in a news release.

“We didn’t achieve this by following the industry playbook; we achieved this by burning it,” Miller added. “By fully funding our agents’ success through free health care, proprietary AI, and world-class leads, we’ve built a company where agents can finally thrive.”

The company’s other co-founders are Chris Miller, chief operating officer and vice president of expansion, and Janice Delci, chief financial officer.

International expansion

The Millers and Delci have guided the company’s rapid expansion.

“Scaling our corporate support team to match [our] hyper-growth while seamlessly expanding across all 50 states and internationally to Canada, Australia, and Mexico takes an incomparable operational infrastructure,” Miller said.

“We have built an enterprise-grade technology ecosystem that allows us to absorb overhead and empower our agents at lightning speed,” he added. “This ranking validates that our disruptive model is working, and it is completely redefining the global industry standard.”

Epique launched its platform in 2023, touting itself as the industry’s first AI-powered brokerage. The startup’s platform provides AI tools for real estate agents to improve their marketing, streamline content creation, and boost engagement with clients and prospects.

Among Epique’s AI tools are:

• ChatGPT for generation of property descriptions
• AI-assisted creation of blog posts and agents’ bios
• Production of Instagram quotes for social media marketing

“When we started Epique, we wanted to build a company that genuinely cared for its agents’ financial and physical well-being,” Delci says. “To see that vision translate into this level of historic record-breaking growth is a beautiful testament to the true power of radical generosity.”

Epique and fellow honorees will be recognized Oct. 14-16 at the 2026 Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala in Dallas.

Other Houston companies in the Inc. 5000

Here are the six other Houston-area companies that claimed spots in the top 250 on the Inc. 5000 list. Each company name is followed by its ranking, headquarters city, and three-year growth rate.

• No. 27 Empact Technologies, 8,275 percent
• No. 60 Action1, 4,512 percent
• No 75 Signs By G, 3,684 percent
• No. 79 The ’Pause Life, 3,469 percent (Galveston)
• No. 110 Turtlebox Audio, 2,576 percent
• No. 178 Dahnani Private Equity Group, 1,904 percent (Stafford)

Other Texas companies

Here’s a breakdown of companies in the Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, and San Antonio areas that made the top 250 on the Inc. 5000. Again, each company name is followed by its ranking, headquarters city, and three-year growth rate.

Austin (10 companies)

• No. 9 Investment Watches, 15,741 percent
• No. 72 Razor Metrics, 3,856 percent
• No. 91 Autonomize AI, 2,921 percent
• No. 102 Choose Your Horizon, 2,719 percent
• No. 132 Wander Staffing, 2,296 percent
• No. 144 Everyday Dose, 2,179 percent
• No. 148 NetRise, 2,118 percent
• No. 163 Nutrabound Labs, 1,999 percent (Bastrop)
• No. 179 Steadily, 1,890 percent
• No. 208 Tiny Health, 1,624 percent

Dallas-Fort Worth (11 companies)

• No. 3 Yantran, 258,740 percent (Allen)
• No. 12 Paek Management Group, 12,520 percent (Irving)
• No. 82 Elite Robotics and Automation, 3,334 percent (Fort Worth)
• No. 133 Outamation, 2,291 percent (Southlake)
• No. 147 Red Creek Solutions, 2,119 percent (Frisco)
• No. 155 JobTread Software, 2,071 percent (Dallas)
• No. 164 DAX Eyewear, 1,977 percent (Nevada)
• No. 186 Optimized Waste Removal, 1,830 percent (Fort Worth)
• No. 204 Freight Flex, 1,642 percent (Denton)
• No. 212 Maverick Power, 1,591 percent (McKinney)
• No. 229 Innovative Life Sciences, 1,494 percent (McKinney)

San Antonio (one company)

• No. 118 Hire With Near, 2,421 percent

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