In the world of high-stakes car thievery, Memphis Raines was a legend. For his crew, the equation was simple: speed was survival. As he put it:
"Hesitation, sloppy work, and getting bogged down are what get you caught."
Their ability to execute with speed and precision is what allowed them to achieve impossible scale: boosting 50 exotic cars in a single night.
In today's commercial real estate market, the parallels are striking. The game has changed. It’s no longer about finding a deal; it's about having the capacity to analyze the hundreds of opportunities that cross your desk. The new benchmark for success is deal throughput, and just like for Memphis's crew, speed is the engine that drives it.
For decades, however, the CRE industry has faced a frustrating trade-off. You could have speed, or you could have quality, but you couldn't have both. Fast analysis was often shallow and risky. Deep, quality analysis was painstakingly slow.
This elusive combination—speed x quality—seemed unattainable. Until now.
Let's be clear: speed of analysis isn't a vanity metric. It's the fundamental variable that dictates the scale of your operation. When you're bogged down in the minutiae of manual data entry and wrestling with clunky spreadsheets, you're not just slow—you're capped. You can only look at a handful of deals a week, while hundreds more pass you by.
This is where we need to think like a high-performance crew. What if you could accelerate your "speed to no," instantly discarding bad deals to focus on the winners? The impact is staggering. As we've detailed in "Accelerating 'Speed to No'", firms that adopt a high-throughput model see transformative results:
300% more deals analyzed: You’re seeing the entire field, not just the car in front of you.
95% less time per deal analyzed: Go from hours to minutes.
90% less time wasted on manual setup & dead-end deals: This isn't about analyzing less; it's about reallocating your team's valuable time from tedious prep work to the high-value strategic analysis that actually closes deals.
80% less expensive than hiring additional analysts: Scale your capabilities without scaling your overhead.
This isn't just an incremental improvement. This is a complete operational overhaul. This is how you go from boosting one car a night to clearing the entire list.
Every investor is searching for their own "Eleanor"—that one-in-a-million, deal that changes the game. It's that moment when you sift through hundreds of duds and finally see it.
"There she is. The unicorn."
But finding your unicorn requires looking under a lot of hoods. This is where Archer's "BYOM": Bring Your Own Model comes in. It's the high-powered engine that lets you vet every opportunity with lightning speed.
At Archer, we are obsessed with hunting down and eliminating busywork. We constantly seek out the bottlenecks and manual tasks that slow down your workflow, and then we use data, technology, and best practices to automate them. Our mission is to supercharge your process so you can find your Eleanor faster and with more confidence.
We know your underwriting model is your secret sauce. You shouldn't have to abandon it. BYOM allows you to integrate your custom Excel model directly into the Archer platform. Find a property, click "Run Underwrite," and in less than 60 seconds, your proprietary model is returned to you, fully populated. No more manual entry. Just pure, unadulterated speed.
To your competitors still stuck in the old ways, the advantage is so significant, it’s like you’re in a different reality.
"We're in a race, and you're not even on the same track."
High deal throughput, enabled by BYOM, is a smooth, controlled, and powerful operation. When you’re not bogged down by the initial analysis, you unlock the bandwidth for what truly matters:
Deeper Due Diligence: Spend your time on stress-testing assumptions and running multiple scenarios.
Strategic Negotiations: Come to the table better prepared and with more data than the competition.
Building a Robust Pipeline: Proactively source and nurture future opportunities instead of constantly reacting.
The new age of AI and automation is here. The data is abundant, and the opportunities are on the list. The only question is whether you have the engine to keep up. Stop trying to win a street race on a bicycle. It's time to get behind the wheel of a machine built for speed.
The deals are waiting. Are you ready to boost your next opportunity in 60 seconds?