Private pilot open to a few commercial real estate firmsHow the pilot works

Built for commercial real estate

Your firm’s brain,
and its AI agents.

AI agents prepare the budget, the exception list, the investor report and the BOV from your own files.
Your people review, change and approve every one.

Your firm’s records, scattered across SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, QuickBooks, Yardi reports, Dropbox, and Google Drive, reach one brain only through each person’s own access. Its AI agents take on the recurring work of roles such as portfolio analyst, exception analyst, property accountant, investment sales analyst, and pipeline coordinator, and any other work the firm repeats. Each piece goes to the person at the firm with the authority to approve it, from the team to a partner, and what they approve is kept for every AI agent to work from.01Your toolsWhere records live02Their accessOnly what each can open03The brainRemembers what you approve04AI agentsWorking in the background05Your firmApproved at the right levelWhat your people approve is kept, and every AI agent works from itSharePointOneDriveOutlookQuickBooksreportsDropboxGoogle DrivePortfolio analystAsset managementException analystAsset managementProperty accountantAccountingInvestment sales analystCapital marketsPipeline coordinatorBrokerageYour ownAny role your firm needsPartnerAsset managerController
  1. 01 Your tools

    Leases in SharePoint, books in QuickBooks, email in Outlook, files in Dropbox or Google Drive, and the Yardi reports your team sends. CRE Brain reads them where they already are.

  2. 02 Their access

    Every read goes through the person asking. If they cannot open something, CRE Brain does not show it to them.

  3. 03 The brain

    It keeps your firm’s rules and reviews useful lessons from your team’s work.

  4. 04 AI agents

    AI agents for any work your firm repeats, working in the background on CRE Brain’s own platform, on a schedule or when something changes.

  5. 05 Your firm

    Work that needs approval goes to the person with the authority to decide. Established guidance can be reused in later work within each person’s current access.

Your team can also reach the brain fromClaudeandChatGPTwith each person’s own access. The AI agents run on CRE Brain’s own platform.

One brain across everything a firm owns, manages, leases or sells: industrial, retail, office, multifamily and single-family rental.

The brain

One brain for your firm’s records and know-how.

Your records sit in SharePoint, inboxes, QuickBooks and Yardi reports, and your best know-how lives in a few people’s heads. The brain reads records within each person’s access and keeps confirmed practices your team can reuse.

  • Everything in one place

    Your files, email and books, read where they already live and brought together as one brain, with Yardi reports added as your team sends them. Nothing to migrate, and each person sees only what they can already open.

  • Know-how your team can reuse

    CRE Brain reviews useful lessons from your team’s work and keeps supported guidance in Company memory. Established guidance can help with later budgets, reports or lease abstracts, within each person’s current access to its sources.

  • Your whole team on AI

    Not only the people who are good with AI. Everyone asks the same brain, in CRE Brain, Claude or ChatGPT, and gets your firm’s answer with its source, under their own permissions.

The people, rules and questions are examples.

AI agents

The recurring work of a role, prepared for you to approve.

Not a chatbot you have to prompt. Each AI agent does a role’s recurring work on its calendar and hands it to your people to review, change and approve.

  • Portfolio analyst

    Asset management

    Budgets that trace every line to its source.

    Rolls each property’s budget forward and explains each month against it, with the file behind every number.

    Budget season
    Rolls each budget forward on your firm’s assumptions
    Month end
    Variance report: NOI against budget, line by line
    Quarter end
    A reforecast for each property

    Ready for your review

    Northgate 2027 budget.xlsxEvery line with its assumption and source

  • Exception analyst

    Asset management

    Everything outside your standards on one list, each time a new rent roll arrives.

    Reads your latest rent roll and reports, and lists what breaks your firm’s standards, worst first.

    Each new rent roll
    Delinquency over 30 days, vacancies and expiring leases
    Every Friday
    Missing charges and spend without approval
    Every Monday
    Cash position by property

    Ready for your review

    Exception list.xlsx12 exceptions, 3 marked red

  • Property accountant

    Accounting

    A month-end package ready for your controller, every entry explained.

    Prepares the close for every property as files your team reviews and posts. It reads your books and never posts to them.

    Every invoice
    Suggests the property and account, and shows why
    Month end
    Accruals, bank reconciliations and the close checklist
    Year end
    CAM reconciliations, each line traced to its lease

    Ready for your review

    September close package.xlsxAccruals and bank recs, 4 items to check

  • Lease administrator

    Asset management

    Every option, expiration and notice date, with the page it came from.

    Abstracts each lease, tracks the dates in it, and lists any lease it could not read in full.

    New lease
    Abstract with term, rent steps, options and page references
    Every month
    Checks rent billed against each lease’s steps
    A year out
    Flags options, expirations and notice dates

    Ready for your review

    Suite 400 lease abstract.pdfTerm, rent steps and options, with pages

  • Acquisitions analyst

    Acquisitions

    Every OM that reaches your inbox, screened against your criteria.

    Screens each new deal against your criteria and the deals your firm has done, and shows its work.

    Every OM
    Pulls the rent roll, T-12 and asking price
    Every deal
    Pass or pursue against your criteria, with the reasons
    Each pursuit
    First-pass underwriting in your own model

    Ready for your review

    Riverside screen.xlsxPursue: 4 reasons, 2 concerns

  • Investor relations associate

    Investor relations

    The quarterly report your investors know, ready for your edits.

    Drafts the report from your property financials and last quarter’s, in your format. Nothing goes to an investor without you.

    Quarter end
    The investor report, in your format
    Each DDQ
    Answers drafted from the ones your firm has given
    Any time
    Answers to investor questions, from the fund’s own figures

    Ready for your review

    Fund II Q3 report.docxDraft, 6 pages

Any role your firm needs

Leasing, construction draws, lender packages, tax, treasury: we build each AI agent with the people who do the work today, on the same brain and the same approvals.

Tell us what to build

Examples. The names, files and figures are made up.

Finished work

Every number shows where it came from.

In budget season the AI portfolio analyst hands back Northgate Plaza’s 2027 budget: every line rolled forward, the assumption and the file behind each number, and the questions it could not settle on its own. Your controller changes what they want, then approves it.

Northgate 2027 budget.xlsxPrepared by the AI portfolio analyst

Northgate Plaza 2027 operating budget, summary
Line2026 forecast2027 budgetChange
Base rentEach lease’s rent steps, except Suite 210 · Rent roll, Sept 2026.xlsxSuite 112 leased from March: the leasing team’s estimate$3,412,000$3,498,600+2.5%
RecoveriesEach tenant’s share under its lease, except Suite 210 · 24 lease abstracts$452,800$468,300+3.4%
Real estate taxesLast year’s bill plus 2% · 2026 tax bill.pdfNo 2027 assessor’s notice yet. Estimated, and asked Aidan Lee, the controllerSee what he said$214,300$218,600+2.0%
InsuranceThe renewal quote · Insurance renewal quote.pdfThe quote is not final$101,500$112,700+11.0%
Repairs and maintenanceAverage of the last three years · Northgate 2026 GL detail.xlsx$132,400$128,000−3.3%
UtilitiesLast year plus 3%, your firm’s rule · Northgate 2026 GL detail.xlsx$88,900$91,600+3.0%
Suite 210 rent and recoveriesHeld: its side letter is not open to Dana RuizWaiting for someone who can open it
Net operating incomeWithout Suite 210 until its side letter is open$3,327,700$3,416,000+2.7%

3 lines to check, 1 held before it goes to your controllerApproveOpen in Excel

An example property; the figures are made up.

Compounding intelligence

What your best people know stays with the firm.

Keep the practices your experts confirm, so later work starts with what your team already knows. People can reuse shared knowledge within their access to the firm’s records.

  1. 01Budget season

    An AI agent asks

    Building Northgate Plaza’s 2027 budget, the AI portfolio analyst finds no assessor’s notice yet, and the files do not say how your firm estimates the tax without one.

    AI portfolio analyst
    There is no 2027 assessor’s notice for Northgate yet. Use last year’s bill plus 2%, or wait for the notice?
  2. 02Once

    Your expert answers once

    Your controller answers and confirms the practice to keep as the firm’s rule.

    Controller
    Remember this practice: use the notice when we have it. Until then, last year’s bill plus 2%, and flag it as an estimate.
  3. 03Every budget after

    It becomes the firm’s rule

    Later budget work starts with the shared practice. Your team reviews the estimate and the records behind it.

    The brain
    Property tax: use the assessor’s notice. Without one, last year’s bill plus 2%, flagged as an estimate.

What that means for your team

  • Start from a draft, not a blank page

    Budgets, close packages and lease abstracts arrive prepared, so your team reviews, changes and approves instead of building from scratch.

  • Keep the practices your team confirms

    Shared practices stay with the firm. Colleagues and AI agents can reuse them within their access to the records behind the work.

  • Trained with your team

    We build each AI agent with the people who do the work, and stay through your first cycle. Your team reviews the decisions and finished files.

The people and figures are examples. Guidance is kept for your firm and follows each person’s access to its records.

Security and governance

Made for your IT review.

CRE Brain works inside the permissions your firm already has, and keeps a record of what it does. Our written security answers go to your IT team before anything connects.

SOC 2 Type 2 audit in progress with Oneleet. No report has been issued yet.

How we handle your data
Activity
  1. AI portfolio analyst started: Northgate Plaza 2027 budget, for Dana Ruiz
  2. Access checked with Microsoft: Northgate 2026 GL detail.xlsx
  3. Held: Suite 210’s lines: Dana Ruiz cannot open its side letter
  4. Prepared: Northgate 2027 budget: 3 lines to check, 1 held
  5. Approved: Northgate 2027 budget, by Aidan Lee, after two changes
  6. Saved: Northgate 2027 budget, in the firm’s workspace

An example: one budget, as your administrator sees it.

What your IT team can check

  • Each person sees only what they can open

    Access is checked with Microsoft before any file is read.

  • A person approves the work

    A bill goes into your books only after an owner at your firm approves it, and only for companies your firm switched on. CRE Brain never changes or replaces a file you already have.

  • Everything is on the record

    Connections, approvals and workspace changes are logged.

  • Admins get no extra access

    Administrators open only what Microsoft already lets them. Our builders read your files only while your owners allow it, and every read is recorded for them.

  • Your files stay where they are

    Read from your own systems when someone who can open them asks. Never used to train AI models.

  • Each firm is walled off

    Separate, encrypted workspaces, hosted on AWS in the United States.

Questions

What firms ask us first.

Anything else, ask us on the first call.

What does CRE Brain do?

It reads the files and reports each person may access, keeps confirmed practices and supported lessons from your firm’s work, and runs AI agents that prepare budgets, exception lists, investor reports and BOVs for your team to review, change and approve.

Who is it for?

Commercial real estate owners, operators and brokerages: the controllers, asset managers, acquisitions and investor relations teams who live in rent rolls, leases and budgets, and the brokers and analysts who live in comps, offering memorandums and pipelines.

Which systems does it work with?

Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, OneDrive and Outlook), QuickBooks, and the reports your team exports from Yardi, such as the rent roll. Files and email are read from their source when someone asks, so answers use the current version. We go through the rest of your systems on the first call.

We already have Copilot or Claude. What is different?

A chatbot waits for a good prompt and forgets your rules. CRE Brain keeps your firm’s rules and answers, reads only what each person may open, and hands back finished work for a person to approve. Your team can also ask the brain from Claude or ChatGPT.

Our property manager controls Yardi. Does this still work?

Yes. We start from the reports your property manager already sends you, such as the rent roll, and read them as they arrive.

Who can see what?

Each person sees only what Microsoft already lets them open, and access is checked again before any file is read. Administrators get no extra document access. While we build your AI agents, our builders read your files only if your owners allow it, until a date they set, and every read is recorded.

Can we see what the AI agents did?

Yes. Connections, approvals and workspace changes are logged, and your owners can see every read our builders make while they set up your AI agents.

Do the AI agents act on their own?

They prepare the work in the background, on a schedule or when something changes. A bill goes into your books only after an owner at your firm approves it, and only for companies your firm switched on. They save only new files and never change or replace a file you already have.

Is our data used to train AI models?

No. Your content never trains AI models, and every firm’s workspace is kept separate.

Is CRE Brain SOC 2 certified?

Not yet. A SOC 2 Type 2 audit with Oneleet is in progress, and no report has been issued. Your IT team receives our written security review answers before anything connects.

What does it cost?

We price the pilot to the work you want done and go through it on the first call, before anything connects.

How does the private pilot work?

A short call about the work you want off your team’s plate, then your IT team’s security review, then your first AI agent at work, with a person approving what it hands back.

Private pilot

Start with the work that costs you most.

Tell us the work that eats your team’s week. We build the AI agent for it with you, and your people approve what it hands back. Tell us your deadline, such as budget season or quarter end, and we will say plainly whether we can meet it. We take a few commercial real estate firms at a time.

  1. A call about the work that costs your team most: the budget, the exception list, the BOV
  2. Your IT team’s security review, before anything connects
  3. Your first AI agent at work, trained with your team, a person approving what it hands back

Start with a short call

Pick one budget, rent roll, OM or BOV you wish were done for you. On the call we talk through what an AI agent would hand back.

  • Your IT team reviews security first
  • Nothing connects until you approve it
  • Your content never trains AI models